Compact Docking Station Design for Low-Rise Embedded Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current docking stations for self-moving cleaning apparatuses are inconvenient to use and lack adaptability, as they require significant vertical space for consumable replacement and cannot be installed in low-rise spaces.
Innovation Solution
A docking station with a reduced height of less than 350 mm, featuring an integrated box that is movable between two positions, allowing for consumable replacement without the need to remove the station from embedded spaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the docking station is placed in an embedded mode with traditional design, then it provides dust collection and cleaning functions, but it requires significant vertical space for consumable replacement and cannot be installed in low-rise spaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a traditional vertical stacking arrangement to a horizontal side-by-side arrangement of functional spaces (dust collection space, dirty-water storage space, cleaning agent storage space). This dimensional change allows the docking station to fit in low-rise spaces while maintaining all necessary functions, directly resolving the contradiction between adaptability and height.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated box is designed to be movable between a first position (inside the accommodating chamber) and a second position (outside the accommodating chamber). This dynamic design enables consumable replacement without removing the docking station from embedded spaces, improving both adaptability and ease of operation while maintaining a compact height.
2Ease of operation
If the docking station is placed in an embedded mode with traditional design, then it provides dust collection and cleaning functions, but it requires removal from embedded space for consumable replacement
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated box is designed to be movable between a first position (inside the accommodating chamber) and a second position (outside the accommodating chamber). This dynamic design enables consumable replacement without removing the docking station from embedded spaces, improving both adaptability and ease of operation while maintaining a compact height.
3Device complexity
If the functional spaces are arranged vertically above the docking chamber, then the docking station structure is simplified, but the height increases making it unsuitable for low-rise spaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a traditional vertical stacking arrangement to a horizontal side-by-side arrangement of functional spaces (dust collection space, dirty-water storage space, cleaning agent storage space). This dimensional change allows the docking station to fit in low-rise spaces while maintaining all necessary functions, directly resolving the contradiction between adaptability and height.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a docking station and a cleaning system, where the docking station includes: at least one accommodating chamber, and a docking chamber for docking of a self-moving cleaning apparatus; and a height of the docking station is less than 350 mm. The docking station in the embodiments of the present disclosure has a smaller height and can be placed in a low space, improving adaptability of the docking station. Moreover, the integrated box is movable, and if the integrated box is placed in an embedded mode, replacement of consumables is realized by moving the integrated box, without the need to move the docking station out of the embedded space, thereby making the replacement of consumables to be more convenient.