Angle-Adjustable Sensing Unit for Inductive Lid Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing inductive lid bodies for containers have a fixed sensing distance, which cannot be adjusted, leading to issues where foreign matters within the detection range keep the lid open unnecessarily, causing user inconvenience and potential contamination.
Innovation Solution
A lid body with an angle-adjustable sensing unit that changes the detection range, allowing the lid to automatically open and close based on user needs, featuring a movable lid member, processing unit, sensing unit, and driving unit, with a positioning mechanism to maintain stability and adjustable detection plane angles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If a fixed sensing distance is used in the inductive lid body, then the lid member can automatically open when an item approaches, but foreign matters within the detection range will keep the lid open unnecessarily
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing unit is made adjustable in angle relative to the main body, allowing the detection range to be dynamically changed according to different needs. This resolves the contradiction by enabling the system to adapt its sensing parameters rather than being fixed, thus maintaining automation while preventing false detection from foreign matters.
2Ease of operation
If the sensing distance is increased to detect items from farther away, then the lid opens earlier, but other foreign matters in the extended detection range will also trigger unnecessary opening
Solution Approach 1:
The angle-adjustable sensing unit allows users to dynamically configure the detection range according to their specific needs. When longer detection distance is needed, the angle can be adjusted to direct the sensing beam away from potential foreign matters, thus maintaining ease of operation while reducing contamination risk from false triggers.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the sensing unit angle is made adjustable, then the detection range can be customized, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing unit's detection parameters (angle and direction) are made changeable through simple adjustment mechanisms. This allows the system to achieve high adaptability with minimal added complexity by changing the orientation parameter of the sensing unit rather than adding multiple separate sensors or complex control systems.
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AI summary
A lid body is provided for being assembled on a barrel body and defining a receiving space with the barrel body, and the lid body includes a main body and an opening and closing system. The main body has an opening for communicating with the receiving space. At least one of sensing unit of the opening and closing system is angle-adjustably disposed on the main body, each said sensing unit and an object to be sensed have a sensing distance therebetween along a sensing direction, a length of the sensing distance projected to a detection plane is defined as a detection range, and the detection range changes according to change of the angle of the sensing unit relative to the main body.