Adaptive Air Suction Port for Floating Dust Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional air suction apparatuses require user operation to guide smoke and lack effectiveness in suctioning dust other than that rising from under the device, particularly failing to improve suction of dust floating inside a room such as pollen and dirt.
Innovation Solution
An air suction apparatus with a variable air suction port that adjusts its shape, size, direction, effective opening area, position, or airflow volume based on dust concentration distribution in the surrounding area, utilizing sensors and controllers to optimize dust collection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the air suction apparatus uses a fixed air suction port configuration, then the device structure is simple, but it cannot effectively guide smoke or adapt to different dust concentration distributions
Solution Approach 1:
The air suction port is designed with variable geometry that can dynamically change its shape, size, direction, effective opening area, position, or airflow volume based on detected dust concentration distributions. This dynamic adjustment capability allows the system to adapt to different dust sources and patterns without requiring multiple fixed configurations or complex mechanical systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes key parameters of the air suction port including its shape, size, direction, effective opening area, position, and airflow volume in response to detected dust concentration distributions. By varying these parameters, the apparatus optimizes its suction performance for different dust scenarios while maintaining a relatively simple underlying structure.
2Extent of automation
If the air suction apparatus requires button operation by user, then the control system is simple, but it cannot automatically adapt to dust generation and requires user knowledge of smoke generation
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates sensors that detect dust concentration distributions in the environment and feed this information back to the control system. Based on this feedback, the air suction port automatically adjusts its configuration to optimize dust capture. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables automatic adaptation without requiring user intervention or knowledge of dust generation patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The air suction apparatus performs self-monitoring and self-adjustment by using its own sensors to detect dust concentrations and automatically modifying its air suction port configuration accordingly. The system serves itself by autonomously responding to environmental conditions without external user input, thereby achieving high automation while keeping the control logic relatively simple.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the air suction apparatus focuses only on dust under the device, then the suction target is specific and simple, but it fails to capture dust floating inside the room such as pollen and dirt
Solution Approach 1:
The variable air suction port system is designed to handle multiple types of dust particles including both heavy particles near the ground and lighter particles floating in the air such as pollen and dirt. By adjusting its shape, size, direction, and airflow volume, the single suction system performs multiple functions that would otherwise require separate dedicated systems, thereby improving overall dust removal efficiency across diverse particle types and locations.
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AI summary
An air suction apparatus includes an air suction port that is variable in an air suction mode including at least one of a shape, a size, a direction, an effective opening area, a position, or an air flow volume of an air suction port and an air suction controller that controls, according to a change in a dust concentration distribution in a periphery of the air suction port, the air suction port to vary at least one of the shape, the size, the direction, the effective opening area, the position, or the air flow volume of the air suction port such that an air suction flow distribution is changed according to the variation of the air suction mode.