Automobile Pest Extermination Device Using Heated Air Circulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current pest extermination methods for automobiles, such as fumigation, are inefficient and can damage precision machinery, are time-consuming, and require large facilities, making it difficult to effectively treat a large number of vehicles for export, especially due to the challenges posed by invasive species like the brown marmorated stink bug.
Innovation Solution
An automobile high-temperature pest extermination device that uses a circulation fan device and heating member to circulate and distribute heated air within a treatment chamber, allowing for efficient pest extermination without fumigation agents, with the ability to connect multiple chambers in series or parallel to treat multiple vehicles efficiently and manage operations centrally.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If fumigation using chemical agents is performed to exterminate pests, then pest extermination effectiveness is improved, but harmful effects on automobile components and unpleasant odors occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces chemical fumigation with a thermal treatment system using circulation fans and heating members to apply high temperature to exterminate pests. This substitution eliminates chemical agents entirely, achieving pest extermination through physical thermal energy while avoiding all harmful chemical effects on automobile components and air quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of pest extermination from chemical concentration to temperature. By controlling temperature parameters (heating to high temperature and maintaining it), the system achieves effective pest extermination without chemical agents, thereby eliminating the harmful side effects associated with chemical fumigation.
2Reliability
If fumigation treatment is performed to exterminate pests, then pest extermination is achieved, but treatment time increases to several days
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces slow chemical fumigation processes with rapid thermal treatment using circulation fans and heating members. This substitution reduces treatment time from several days to a much shorter duration, as high temperature can be applied immediately and uniformly throughout the chamber, accelerating the pest extermination process significantly.
Solution Approach 2:
The circulation fans continuously circulate heated air throughout the treatment chamber, ensuring continuous and uniform thermal exposure to all pests. This continuous action eliminates the prolonged waiting periods required by chemical fumigation, maintaining effective pest extermination while significantly reducing overall treatment time.
3Quantity of substance
If fumigation treatment is performed on a large number of automobiles, then pest extermination coverage is improved, but facility size and costs increase enormously
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the treatment system into modular components: multiple independent treatment chambers, circulation fans, and heating members. This segmentation allows the facility to treat multiple automobiles simultaneously in separate chambers, increasing throughput without requiring a single enormous facility, thereby reducing overall complexity and cost while maintaining high treatment capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The treatment chambers are designed to accommodate automobiles of various sizes and configurations, providing universal applicability. The circulation fan and heating member system serves multiple functions: heating air, circulating it uniformly, and controlling temperature. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate systems needed, simplifying facility design and reducing costs while enabling treatment of large numbers of diverse vehicles.
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
This method significantly reduces treatment time and costs by ensuring uniform heating and effective pest extermination, while minimizing damage to vehicles and simplifying management, enabling the efficient treatment of a large number of vehicles in various sizes and configurations.
Implementation Method 1
a circulation fan device (30) arranged in the treatment chamber (20), with a suction part (32) facing toward the inside of the treatment chamber (20)
Implementation Method 2
a heating member (40) mounted in a discharge part (33) of the circulation fan device (30)
Implementation Method 3
a rectification member (45) for adjusting a flow direction of the heated air delivered into the chamber via the heating member (40)
Implementation Method 4
by applying, for a predetermined interval, heated air which has been heated to a pest extermination temperature to a to-be-treated automobile (C) housed in a freely accessible manner in the treatment chamber (20)
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AI summary
[OBJECT] To provide an automobile high-temperature pest extermination device which can efficiently exterminate pests by a high-temperature treatment without the use of a fumigation agent. [SOLVING MEANS] A device for applying, for a predetermined interval, heated air which is heated to a pest extermination temperature to a to-be-treated automobile C which is housed in a freely accessible manner in a treatment chamber 20 to exterminate pests inside the automobile includes a circulation fan device 30 arranged in the treatment chamber, a suction part 32 of which is oriented toward the inside of the treatment chamber, a heating member 40 mounted in a discharge part 33 of the circulation fan device, and a rectification member 45 for adjusting the flow direction of the heated air delivered into the chamber via the heating member.