Atomizing generator and clothes treatment apparatus comprising the atomizing generator
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing atomizing generators in clothes treatment apparatuses have low integration levels, leading to reduced production efficiency and yield due to separate mounting and coupling of the atomizing generator and circuit board, which complicates assembly and increases the risk of electrical failures from damp-heat air flowback during drying cycles.
Innovation Solution
An atomizing generator with a housing divided into an atomizing cavity and a mounting cavity by a partition plate, where the atomizing element is housed in the atomizing cavity and the controller is in the mounting cavity, connected via a control wire, with additional features like a communicating cavity and valve mechanism to prevent damp-heat air flowback and improve safety and assembly efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If the atomizing generator and circuit board are mounted separately and coupled through signal wires, then the structure is simplified, but the production efficiency and yield are greatly reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The circuit board is integrated into the housing of the atomizing generator, merging the atomizing generator and circuit board into a single integrated unit. This eliminates the need for separate mounting and coupling through signal wires, thereby simplifying the assembly process and greatly improving production efficiency and yield while maintaining manageable structural complexity.
2Device complexity
If the controller is integrated with the atomizing element in the same cavity, then the integration level is improved, but the reliability is reduced due to damp-heat air flowback during drying cycles
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is divided into two separate cavities: the atomizing cavity containing the atomizing element and the mounting cavity containing the controller. This segmentation isolates the electrical components from damp-heat air flowback during drying cycles, maintaining reliability while achieving functional integration through the controlled communication between cavities.
3Reliability
If the housing is divided into separate cavities for atomizing element and controller, then the reliability is improved by preventing damp-heat air flowback, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is segmented into an atomizing cavity and a mounting cavity separated by a partition plate, with a controlled communication passage between them. This segmentation prevents damp-heat air flowback from reaching the controller, thereby improving reliability. The partition plate with integrated communication passage minimizes the increase in structural complexity while achieving effective isolation.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The improved integration and safety features enhance assembly efficiency, increase production yield, and prevent electrical failures by isolating the atomizing cavity from the communicating cavity, allowing for effective mist discharge and heat dissipation, thus ensuring safer and more reliable operation of the washing machine.
Implementation Method 1
the atomizing element is an ultrasonic atomizing film
Implementation Method 2
a fan is provided between the air inlet and the controller, an air indrawing opening of the fan is arranged corresponding to the air inlet, an air exhaust opening of the fan is arranged to face the partition plate
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AI summary
An atomizing generator which includes a housing provided with an atomizing cavity therein, an atomizing element capable of atomizing a liquid is provided in the atomizing cavity, an air inlet, a liquid inlet, and a mist outlet which are communicated with the atomizing cavity are provided on the housing, and a communicating cavity which is independent of the atomizing cavity is formed in the housing. The atomizing cavity is communicated with the communicating cavity through a first communication hole, the mist outlet is communicated with the communicating cavity through a second communication hole, a valve mechanism is further provided in the communicating cavity, and the valve mechanism is configured to be capable of sealing the first communication hole and/or the second communication hole.