Clothes Treating Apparatus Steam-Driven Solution Spray Without Pump
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Solution Overview
Problem
Clothes treating apparatuses with pumps for spraying functional solutions face issues such as increased costs, noise generation, limited spray range, and nozzle blocking, which hinder uniform treatment and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
The apparatus employs a steam spraying portion and a solution spraying portion with intersecting spraying directions, where the solution spraying portion is positioned within the negative pressure area of the steam spraying portion, eliminating the need for a pump by utilizing pressure differences for solution atomization and distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a pump is used to pump the functional solution into the spray nozzle, then the functional solution can be sprayed onto the clothes, but noise is generated during pump operation
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts and removes the pump component from the spraying system. Instead of using a mechanical pump to deliver the functional solution, the system uses a spray nozzle that can be directly connected to a functional solution container, eliminating the noise-generating pump while maintaining the spraying capability through direct gravity-fed or pressure-driven delivery to the nozzle.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces the mechanical pump system with a non-mechanical or simplified delivery system. The functional solution is delivered to the spray nozzle through alternative means such as gravity flow, container pressure, or integrated reservoir design, substituting the noisy mechanical pumping action with a quieter delivery mechanism.
2Device complexity
If a spray nozzle with narrow spray range is used, then the spray nozzle can be simple in structure, but it causes difficulty in uniformly spraying the solution onto the entire clothes
Solution Approach 1:
The invention divides the spraying function into multiple spray nozzles arranged in an array or pattern. Instead of relying on a single nozzle with wide coverage, multiple nozzles with narrow individual spray ranges work together to collectively cover the entire clothes surface, ensuring uniform distribution while keeping each nozzle structurally simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention transitions from a single-point spray source to a distributed multi-point spray system. By arranging multiple nozzles in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space, the system achieves comprehensive coverage across the clothes surface, transforming the spraying approach from vertical/directional to spatially distributed coverage.
3Manufacturing precision
If the number of spray nozzles is increased to achieve uniform spraying coverage, then the spray range is improved, but fabricating costs increase and nozzle blocking problems occur more frequently
Solution Approach 1:
The invention designs the spray nozzle system where each nozzle serves multiple functions: they provide spray coverage, act as distribution points for the functional solution, and collectively form the complete spraying pattern. This multi-functional design allows fewer nozzles to achieve the same effect that would otherwise require many more specialized nozzles, reducing overall system complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines the functional solution storage and delivery functions into an integrated system where the spray nozzles are directly connected to or incorporated with the functional solution container. This merging eliminates the need for separate complex pumping and delivery mechanisms for each nozzle, reducing the number of components while maintaining uniform spraying coverage.
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 configuration allows for quiet operation, uniform spraying of functional solutions over a wider area, reduces the number of nozzles needed, and prevents nozzle blocking, enhancing treatment efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Implementation Method 1
a steam spraying portion (220) connected to the steam generator (180) to spray the steam generated in the steam generator (180); and a solution spraying portion (230) connected to the solution storing container (190) and having an outlet disposed at a negative pressure area (225) formed by the steam sprayed through the steam spraying portion (220)
Implementation Method 2
eliminating the need for a pump by utilizing pressure differences for solution atomization and distribution
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a clothes treating apparatus, which includes a cabinet (110) having an accommodating space (114) therein, a steam generator (180) generating steam, a solution storing container (190) storing a functional solution for recovering a function of the clothes, and a spray unit (210a) having a steam spraying portion (220) connected to the steam generator (180) to spray the steam, and a solution spraying portion (230) connected to the solution storing container (190) to spray the functional solution, wherein an outlet of the spray unit (210a) is disposed in a negative pressure area formed by the steam sprayed through the steam spraying portion (220) and the functional solution is sprayed through the outlet of the solution spraying portion (230), whereby a pump cannot be needed to thus prevent a generation of noise caused due to an operation of the pump during spraying of the solution, and also uniform spraying of the function solution onto the clothes to be treated can be allowed.