Welding Protector With Movable Auxiliary Shield for Compact Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Welding protectors face challenges in storage and mobility due to their complex structures and diverse components, making it difficult to efficiently protect the welder's body and facilitate easy operation, storage, and adjustment.
Innovation Solution
A welding protector design featuring a main body with a darkening section and an auxiliary shield that is linearly and rotationally movable, allowing for adjustable overlap and easy storage, constructed from materials like metal or plastic with recesses and protrusions for secure coupling, enhancing protection and usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a welding protector includes multiple components (main body, auxiliary shield, darkening section) to provide comprehensive protection, then protection capability is improved, but device complexity increases making storage and mobility difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The welding protector is divided into a main body and a separable auxiliary shield. The auxiliary shield can be detached from the main body through a coupling structure, allowing the protector to be stored in a compact form while providing comprehensive protection when assembled. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by enabling comprehensive protection during use while simplifying storage when components are separated.
Solution Approach 2:
The auxiliary shield is designed to be coupled to the main body through a coupling structure with recesses and protrusions, creating a nested configuration when assembled. The auxiliary shield can be stored within or attached to the main body structure, allowing comprehensive protection capability while maintaining compact storage. This nesting approach resolves the contradiction between protection capability and device complexity.
2Reliability
If the auxiliary shield is made fixed to provide stable protection, then protection reliability is improved, but ease of operation and storage capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling structure between the auxiliary shield and main body enables dynamic adjustment. The auxiliary shield can be attached or detached as needed, providing stable protection when assembled while allowing easy adjustment and storage when separated. This dynamic design resolves the contradiction by enabling both stable protection and operational flexibility through the same coupling mechanism.
3Ease of operation
If the protector components are designed to be easily assembled and disassembled for storage, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability of connection may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling structure is segmented into complementary recesses and protrusions that provide both easy assembly through simple insertion and reliable connection through geometric interlocking. The recess in one component receives the protrusion of the other, creating an easy-to-assemble yet stable connection that resolves the contradiction between assembly ease and connection reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The nested coupling structure with recesses and protrusions provides both easy assembly through straightforward insertion and reliable connection through the interlocking geometry. The protrusion fits into the recess, creating a stable connection that is easy to assemble and disassemble, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and connection stability.
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AI summary
This application relates to a protector for welding. In one aspect, the protector includes a main body configured to protect a face of a welder and a darkening section located on a front surface portion of the main body. The protector may also include an auxiliary shield that is arranged adjacent to one edge of a main body and includes a main surface portion extending in a direction away from the main body.