Window Sash Assembly Device with Adjustable Conveyor and Thrust Plates
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing methods for assembling window sashes with integrated insulating glass panes are labor-intensive and prone to quality deficiencies, leading to high personnel costs and inconsistent results.
Innovation Solution
A device featuring a horizontal conveyor system with adjustable support elements, thrust plates, and suction devices that allows for precise alignment and secure adhesion of glass plates to a frame, enabling machine-based assembly and reducing reliance on manual labor, while accommodating varying frame and glass sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual assembly methods are used for window sashes with insulating glass panes, then flexibility in handling different formats is maintained, but personnel costs increase and quality consistency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The assembly device is divided into separate functional modules: a conveyor system for transporting frames and glass plates, support elements for positioning, thrust plates for pressing, and suction devices for holding. Each module performs a specific function, allowing the system to handle different formats while maintaining automation and quality consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The device incorporates adjustable support elements and displaceable thrust plates that can be repositioned according to the dimensions of the frame and glass plates. This dynamic adjustability enables the automated system to accommodate varying formats without sacrificing productivity or quality consistency.
2Manufacturing precision
If machine-based assembly is implemented, then quality consistency and productivity improve, but the initial device complexity and investment increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention replaces manual mechanical assembly operations with an automated system combining conveyor technology, pneumatic suction devices, and mechanically actuated thrust plates. This substitution ensures precise and repeatable assembly while reducing dependence on human skill and labor.
Solution Approach 2:
Suction devices and thrust plates serve as intermediary elements between the automated control system and the glass plates/frames. These intermediaries enable precise positioning and pressing operations, ensuring high assembly precision while keeping the overall device structure manageable.
3Adaptability or versatility
If adjustable support elements are used to accommodate varying formats, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The support elements and thrust plates are designed with multi-functionality, serving both positioning and pressing functions. They can be adjusted to accommodate different formats of frames and glass plates, making the device versatile without requiring entirely separate mechanisms for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The device allows preliminary adjustment of support elements and thrust plates to the required positions before the actual assembly operation begins. This preliminary action enables the system to be configured for specific formats, reducing complexity during the assembly process itself while maintaining high adaptability.
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AI summary
A device for assembling a window sash having an integrated insulating glass pane. The window sash has a frame made from a plastic hollow profile section. On the inner face thereof, the frame has two webs parallel to each other which are adhesively secured to two glass panes that are held spaced apart by the two webs. The device has a horizontal conveyor, which is provided to be vertically adjustable, on an underframe.