Clamp and rail quick mounting system
OwnerChon Weng Lei, Pou Ut Chan +2inventors
InventorsChon Weng Lei, Pou Ut Chan, Pou Hei Chan, Wai Teng Sin
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Abstract
A quick mounting assembly for quickly mounting and dismounting a payload to an object, such as a robotic vehicle. The quick mounting assembly includes a clamp and a rail. The clamp includes a base plate, an upper jaw, a lower jaw, and a wedge. The wedge can be sandwiched between the upper jaw and the lower jaw, wherein the upper jaw and the lower jaw interlock with the base plate. A fastener passing through the upper jaw, the lower jaw, and the wedge can secure the upper jaw and the lower jaw to the base plate. The upper jaw and the lower jaw can clamp the rail. The clamp can be coupled to the payload and the rail can be coupled to the object for quickly mounting the payload to the object.
Claims12
A quick mounting assembly comprising:
- a clamp, the clamp comprising:
- a base plate comprising:
- a base that has a front face and a rear face, the base being configured to mount to a payload;
- and
- a dovetail protrusion disposed on a middle of the front face of the base, the dovetail protrusion, relative to the front face of the base, forms an upper valley and a lower valley, the upper valley being formed at an acute angle, the dovetail protrusion having a traversing channel passing through a middle thereof;
- an upper jaw;
- a lower jaw, each of the upper jaw and the lower jaw having a tooth;
- and
- a wedge, the wedge having a protrusion on its narrow rear end configured to slidably fit into the traversing channel;
- a rail, the rail having a proximal end and a distal end, a top of the rail having an upper groove near the proximal end of the rail and extending transversely, a bottom of the rail having a lower groove near the proximal end of the rail and extends transversely;
- and
- a fastener;
- wherein each of the upper jaw, the lower jaw, and the wedge has concentric apertures through which the fastener can pass through for securing the upper jaw and the lower jaw to the base plate, wherein tightening of the fastener bring the upper jaw and the lower jaw closer towards each other, wherein tightening of the fastener secures the clamp to the rail;
- wherein, the tooth of the upper jaw is configured to engage with the upper groove in the rail and the tooth of the lower jaw is configured to engage with the lower groove in the rail for securing the clamp to the rail;
- wherein each of the upper jaw and the lower jaw has an end-sloped protrusion configured to slidably fit into the upper valley and the lower valley respectively for interlocking the upper jaw and the lower jaw to the base plate;
- wherein each of the upper jaw and the lower jaw have a mid-sloped protrusion, the mid-sloped protrusion has a flat and sloped surface, wherein the end-sloped protrusion and the mid-sloped protrusion face in substantially the same direction.
A method for quickly mounting a payload to an object, the method comprising:
- providing a quick mounting assembly comprising:
- a clamp, the clamp comprising:
- a base plate, comprising:
- a base that has a front face and a rear face, the base being configured to mount to the payload;
- and
- a dovetail protrusion disposed on a middle of the front face of the base, the dovetail protrusion, relative to the front face of the base, forms an upper valley and a lower valley, the upper valley being formed at an acute angle, the dovetail protrusion having a traversing channel passing through a middle thereof;
- an upper jaw;
- a lower jaw, each of the upper jaw and the lower jaw having a tooth;
- a wedge, the wedge having a protrusion on its narrow rear end configured to slidably fit into the traversing channel;
- a rail, the rail having a proximal end and a distal end, a top of the rail having an upper groove near the proximal end of the rail and extending transversely, a bottom of the rail having a lower groove near the proximal end of the rail and extends transversely;
- and
- a fastener;
- wherein each of the upper jaw, the lower jaw, and the wedge has concentric apertures through which the fastener can pass through for securing the upper jaw and the lower jaw to the base plate, the wedge sandwiched between the upper jaw and the lower jaw, wherein tightening of the fastener brings the upper jaw and the lower jaw closer towards each other, wherein tightening of the fastener secures the clamp to the rail;
- wherein, the tooth of the upper jaw is configured to engage with the upper groove in the rail and the tooth of the lower jaw is configured to engage with the lower groove in the rail for securing the clamp to the rail;
- positioning the rail between the upper jaw and the lower jaw;
- and
- tightening the fastener.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.