Base Plate Cavities for Hydraulic Component Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cleaning systems for industrially manufactured components require a large footprint and complex piping for hydraulic circuits, making them inefficient in terms of space usage and maintenance accessibility.
Innovation Solution
The cleaning system integrates process chambers and a robot chamber on a common base plate with cavities for process fluids, allowing hydraulic components to be placed proximally and reducing piping length, while maintaining accessibility for maintenance and minimizing floor space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If process chambers are arranged spatially separated with separate hydraulic circuits, then cleaning functionality is improved, but system complexity and piping effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning system is divided into spatially separated process chambers (e.g., washing chamber, drying chamber) each with its own hydraulic circuit. This segmentation allows independent operation and optimization of each cleaning stage while maintaining overall system functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
A common base plate serves multiple functions: structural support for process chambers, housing for hydraulic components, and integration platform for robot chamber. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate mounting structures and simplifies overall system architecture.
2Length of moving object
If hydraulic components are arranged close to process chambers, then piping length is reduced, but maintenance accessibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Hydraulic components are arranged in the vertical dimension on the base plate below process chambers, allowing short vertical piping connections while providing horizontal access space for maintenance. This dimensional arrangement simultaneously achieves compact piping and maintenance accessibility.
3Area of stationary object
If cleaning system footprint is minimized, then space efficiency is improved, but hydraulic circuit complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple hydraulic circuits for different process chambers are merged into a common base plate platform, sharing common mounting space and reducing overall footprint. The integrated arrangement consolidates hydraulic components that would otherwise require separate locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system utilizes vertical stacking of process chambers above the base plate, transitioning from horizontal spread to vertical arrangement. This dimensional change minimizes footprint while maintaining separate hydraulic circuits through vertical integration.
4Area of stationary object
If process chambers are arranged one above another, then floor space is reduced, but thermal decoupling requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Thermal management is extracted as a separate consideration with thermal insulation layers incorporated into the base plate structure. This allows process chambers to be vertically stacked while maintaining thermal independence through the insulating base plate barrier.
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AI summary
In order to keep the base area of a cleaning installation for industrially manufactured components as small as possible, provision is made for the process chambers (4, 5, 23) and the robot chamber (3) of the cleaning installation to be arranged on a base plate (7), wherein the base area (8) of the base plate (7) is larger than the common base area (9) of the process chambers (4, 5, 23) and robot chamber (3), and at least two spatially separate cavities (10, 11, 20) for receiving the process fluids are provided in the base plate (7), wherein the cavities (10, 11, 20) each extend at least partially beneath the process chambers (4, 5, 23) and at least partially outside the common base area (9) of the process chambers (4, 5, 23) and robot chamber (3), and at least one hydraulic component of a hydraulic circuit is arranged on the base plate (7) over at least one cavity (10, 11, 20).