X-Shaped Elevation Working Platform to Reduce Structure Complexity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing elevation working platforms for tablet computers have complex structures and inconvenient height adjustments, often relying on mechanical springs that complicate the process.
Innovation Solution
A simple elevation working platform design featuring X-shaped elevating components with elastic components and a locking mechanism, allowing for easy height adjustment and weight distribution, utilizing hinging seats and sliding rails for precise control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a mechanical spring or torsion spring is used to provide lifting resilience, then the platform can support weight, but the structure becomes complicated and height adjustment becomes inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the complex mechanical spring or torsion spring mechanism from the system and replaces it with a simpler elastic component integrated into the X-shaped elevating structure. This extraction of the complicated lifting mechanism while retaining the essential weight-support function directly resolves the contradiction between strength and structural complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The elevating mechanism is divided into modular X-shaped components with separate elastic elements integrated into each leg. This segmentation allows the weight-bearing function to be distributed across multiple simple elastic components rather than requiring a single complex spring mechanism, thereby reducing overall structural complexity while maintaining lifting resilience
2Adaptability or versatility
If support rods are used to enable ascending or descending motion, then the platform can adjust height, but the structure becomes complicated and adjustment becomes bothering
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the height adjustment function directly into the X-shaped elevating components themselves, rather than using separate support rods and adjustment mechanisms. The elastic components integrated into the X-structure provide both the lifting force and the adjustment capability, combining multiple functions into a single simplified structure that eliminates the need for separate support rods
Solution Approach 2:
The X-shaped elevating components with integrated elastic elements provide dynamic height adjustment capability, allowing the platform to ascend and descend smoothly through the elastic deformation of the components. This dynamic structure replaces static support rods with movable, self-adjusting elastic elements that provide both support and adjustment functionality
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The platform provides a practical, cost-effective solution with easy height adjustment and enhanced mechanical strength, enabling the elevation working platform to be held at any height with minimal structural complexity.
Implementation Method 1
The elevation working platform comprises an elastic component. A first end of the elastic component is connected between the two endpoints of the first support rod or the second support rod. A second end of the elastic component is connected to the lower support or the second hinging seat slidable relative to the lower support, and the elastic component bears at least a part of the weight of the upper support.
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AI summary
An elevation working platform includes a lower support and an upper support. At least one group of X-type elevation mechanisms is provided between the lower support and the upper support. The elevation working platform further includes an elastic element. A first end of the elastic element is connected between two end points of a first support rod or a second support rod. A second end of the elastic element is connected to the lower support or a second hinging seat capable of sliding relative to the lower support. Using the X-type elevation mechanisms, the front and back positions of the upper support do not change in an elevating process of the upper support, the structure is simple and practical, and the cost is relatively low.