Wire Cover With Interlocking Restricting Portions
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing wire cover designs face difficulties in assembly convenience due to the lack of a longitudinal rib on one of the cover members, making it challenging to arrange wires properly and prevent detachment.
Innovation Solution
A wire cover design featuring a first and second cover member with wire paths, restricting portions, and escaping spaces, where each member has a bend part with restricting and escaping spaces on the inner angle side, allowing the restricting portions of one member to project towards the other, ensuring the wire is suppressed from lifting and detaching, and enabling assembly by placing the mating cover member on the one with the wire.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If only one cover member has a longitudinal rib, then wire suppression is achieved, but assembly convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The wire suppression function is segmented and distributed to both cover members. Each cover member has its own restricting portion (longitudinal rib) that independently suppresses wires, eliminating the need for one-sided suppression and enabling flexible assembly sequences.
Solution Approach 2:
Both cover members are given identical restricting portions, making each cover member universally capable of wire suppression. This symmetry allows either cover to serve as the base during assembly, improving operational flexibility.
2Ease of operation
If restricting portions are added to both cover members, then assembly convenience improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
While both cover members have restricting portions, the design uses symmetry in a functional sense - both covers are identical in structure, allowing either to be placed first during assembly. This symmetric design simplifies manufacturing and assembly instructions despite the added structural element.
Solution Approach 2:
The wire arrangement is performed preliminarily in one cover member before assembling the second cover member. The restricting portions are pre-formed during molding, eliminating the need for post-assembly modifications or complex adjustment procedures.
3Adaptability or versatility
If escaping spaces are provided in both cover members, then wire arrangement flexibility improves, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Both cover members are designed with identical escaping spaces and restricting portions, creating a symmetric design that simplifies manufacturing. The same mold can be used for both cover members, reducing tooling complexity despite the added features.
Solution Approach 2:
The escaping spaces are segmented and distributed to both cover members, allowing wires to be arranged flexibly in either cover during assembly. This segmentation of the wire path functionality enables adaptability without requiring complex integrated designs.
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AI summary
A wire cover 1 includes a first cover member 2 and a second cover member 3 for covering wires W in a united state. Each of the first and second cover members includes wire paths 12, 13, restricting portions 20, 21 and escaping spaces 22, 23. In the united state, the restricting portions 20, 21 of the first cover member 2 project toward the second cover member 3 and the restricting portions 20, 21 of the second cover member 3 project toward the first cover member 2. The restricting portions 20, 21 of the second cover member 3 are arranged in the escaping spaces 23, 22 of the first cover member 2. The restricting portions 20, 21 of the first cover member are arranged in the escaping spaces 23, 22 of the second cover member.