Battery Fog Generator Thermal Insulation Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing battery-powered fog generators with instantaneous heating are bulky, expensive, and complex to produce due to their numerous components, making them costly and inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A compact battery-powered fog generator with reduced components, utilizing a support structure, lead batteries, a pump, a heat exchanger with thermal insulation, and an electronic board for efficient heating and control, along with a hydraulic connection element to manage fog fluid effectively.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional battery-powered fog generators use multiple separate components for heating and insulation, then the device provides adequate thermal protection, but the device becomes bulky, heavy, and complex to produce

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvethermal protectionVSAvoidnumber of components

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the heat exchanger and thermal insulation into a single integrated unit. The insulation material is directly applied to the heat exchanger, forming one component assembly rather than separate parts. This reduces the total number of components while maintaining adequate thermal protection, directly resolving the contradiction between reliability and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated heat exchanger-insulation unit serves multiple functions simultaneously: it heats the fog fluid while providing thermal insulation, protects internal components from heat, and reduces overall device complexity. This multi-functional design allows one component to fulfill what previously required multiple separate components, addressing both thermal protection and reduced complexity requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If traditional fog generators use numerous expensive components, then the device provides robust functionality, but the production cost increases and manufacturing becomes lengthy

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefunctional robustnessVSAvoidproduction simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

By merging the heat exchanger and insulation into one unit, the patent reduces the number of parts that need to be manufactured, assembled, and quality-checked. This integration simplifies the production process while maintaining the functional robustness of both heating and insulation capabilities in a single reliable component.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs a simpler, more cost-effective design that reduces reliance on expensive components. The integrated heat exchanger-insulation unit uses straightforward materials and construction methods, making the device cheaper to produce and easier to manufacture while maintaining adequate functionality for anti-theft purposes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

3Productivity

If the heat exchanger generates high heat to produce dense fog, then the fog generation effectiveness increases, but the heat may damage internal components of the generator

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefog generation efficiencyVSAvoidheat damage to components

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The thermal insulation acts as an intermediary between the heat exchanger and internal components. It absorbs and blocks the heat generated by the heat exchanger, preventing it from reaching and damaging sensitive internal components like the battery and electronic controls, while allowing the heat exchanger to operate at high temperatures for effective fog generation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies thermal insulation specifically to the heat exchanger where high heat is generated, rather than insulating the entire device. This localized approach provides heat protection where it is most needed to prevent component damage, while allowing other parts of the device to remain thermally manageable for optimal fog generation efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

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

The solution results in a lightweight, efficient, and cost-effective fog generator that is simpler to produce and operates optimally with enhanced thermal protection and reduced heat damage to internal components.

Implementation Method 1

the heat exchanger 12 which transforms the fog fluid into fog

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectJoule heating: Joule Heating

Implementation Method 2

at least one hermetic or non-hermetic insulation device 7, contained in the structure 1 and designed to contain and thermally insulate at least one heat exchanger 12

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectThermal insulation: Thermal Insulation

Data Source

PatentUS20250020438A1Battery-operated fog generator with instantaneous heating

Publication Date: 2025.01.16 UR FOG

AI summary

A battery-operated fog generator with instantaneous heating is described, comprising a support and containment structure (1) containing: at least one power supply battery (3); at least one container (5) of fog fluid; at least one pump (11) designed to pump the fog fluid out of the container (5); at least one electronic board (9) for controlling, feeding and heating the generator components; and at least one hermetic or non-hermetic thermal insulation device (7) designed to contain and isolate at least one heat exchanger (12) inside which the fog fluid passes before its firing outside the generator.