Blood Processing Apparatus User Interface Cinematic Coupling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing blood processing apparatuses with mobile user interfaces are complex and costly, as they are mounted on structures separate from the cabinet, leading to potential interference with blood tubing and increased complexity, and do not effectively enhance accessibility without risking interference with other components.
Innovation Solution
A blood processing apparatus with a user interface that is cinematically coupled to the cabinet, allowing movement along a predetermined path while maintaining the cabinet's structural integrity, ensuring accessibility without interfering with other components, using articulated parallelograms and a rotating base to guide the user interface through fixed positions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user interface is mounted on a structure separate from the cabinet to enable mobility, then accessibility is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the user interface mounting structure directly into the cabinet body, eliminating separate support structures. The interface is coupled to the cabinet through integrated mounting brackets and guide rails that are part of the cabinet assembly, thereby reducing overall device complexity while maintaining mobility functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The cabinet structure is designed to serve multiple functions: it provides structural support, houses internal components, and incorporates the mobile user interface mounting system. The guide rails and mounting brackets serve both as structural elements and as mechanisms for interface mobility, reducing the need for separate dedicated components.
2Ease of operation
If the user interface is made fully mobile without constraints, then accessibility is improved, but interference with blood tubing and other components increases
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface is designed with controlled mobility through guide rails and stop mechanisms. It can be dynamically adjusted to different positions (e.g., extended outward for accessibility, retracted for compactness) but is constrained within a predetermined path that avoids interference with blood tubing and other critical components.
Solution Approach 2:
Guide rails and mounting brackets act as intermediary elements between the user interface and the cabinet. These intermediaries constrain the movement path of the interface, ensuring it follows a predetermined trajectory that provides accessibility while avoiding interference with blood tubing and other components.
3Ease of operation
If the user interface is mounted on a separate mobile structure, then accessibility is improved, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating the mounting brackets, guide rails, and interface assembly into a single manufactured unit or closely coupled subsystem, the patent reduces the number of separate components that need to be produced and assembled. This integration lowers manufacturing complexity and cost while maintaining the mobile interface functionality.
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AI summary
The invention relates to blood processing apparatus comprising a cabinet (2) defining at least an interior housing (6) and presenting an aperture (6a) for allowing access from outside into said housing. The apparatus has a user interface (13) mounted in a movable manner on the cabinet between at least a first position, where the user interface is adjacent to the cabinet in correspondence of said aperture, and a second position, where the user interface is spaced apart from the aperture and opens the access to said housing.