Cellular Moisture Extraction Assembly with Interconnected Cells
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current moisture extraction devices from compressed air are inefficient, with air still containing significant moisture levels, and improving their efficiency through enlargement or expansion leads to increased size, cost, or manufacturing complexity.
Innovation Solution
A moisture extraction assembly comprising a cellular structure formed by unitary bodies with recesses, assembled to create interconnected cells that define complex air flow paths, allowing for efficient moisture collection and separation without significant size or cost increases, featuring fluid passageways and varied cell configurations for enhanced airflow.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional moisture extraction devices are enlarged or expanded to improve efficiency, then moisture extraction efficiency is improved, but device size increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into multiple stacked chambers connected in series, each chamber acting as an independent extraction stage. This segmentation allows the total extraction efficiency to be the product of individual chamber efficiencies, achieving high overall efficiency without requiring a single large chamber, thus improving moisture extraction efficiency while controlling device size.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention transitions from a single large extraction chamber to multiple smaller chambers stacked vertically in series. This dimensional reorganization (from horizontal expansion to vertical stacking) increases the effective extraction surface area and path length without proportionally increasing the device's footprint, thereby improving efficiency while maintaining compact size.
2Reliability
If conventional moisture extraction devices are enlarged or expanded to improve efficiency, then moisture extraction efficiency is improved, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device consists of multiple identical or similar chambers that can be manufactured using the same mold or process repeatedly. This standardization of modular units significantly reduces per-unit manufacturing cost compared to creating a single large complex chamber, while the series connection of multiple units achieves the required high extraction efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses multiple copies of the same chamber design stacked in series. This copying approach allows for economies of scale in manufacturing, as each chamber can be produced independently using identical tooling and processes, reducing overall manufacturing complexity and cost while achieving superior efficiency through the cumulative effect of multiple stages.
3Reliability
If conventional moisture extraction devices are enlarged or expanded to improve efficiency, then moisture extraction efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is segmented into multiple simple chambers connected in series, where each chamber has a straightforward internal structure. This segmentation reduces the complexity of individual components compared to a single large complex chamber, while the series arrangement of multiple simple units achieves high extraction efficiency through cumulative effect.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges multiple simple chamber units into a single integrated device through series connection. Each chamber performs the same basic function but their combination in series creates a more efficient overall system. This modular merging approach maintains simplicity at the component level while achieving high efficiency at the system level, avoiding the complexity of a single large complex design.
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 assembly achieves high moisture extraction efficiency approaching 100% with complex configurations, flexibility in design, and ease of manufacturing, while allowing for cleaning and maintenance, thus overcoming the limitations of existing devices.
Implementation Method 1
moisture extraction assembly for use in removing moisture from compressed air
Implementation Method 2
the air inlet and the air outlet being in fluid communication with respective different cells of the cellular structure to define at least one air flow path, the air flow path extending from the air inlet to the air outlet via a plurality of cells in series
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AI summary
The invention provides a moisture extraction assembly for removing moisture from compressed air. The assembly is formed of two or more unitary bodies which assemble in facing relationship to define a cellular network structure of variously connected cells which collectively define one or more air flow paths extending between at least one inlet and at least one outlet.


