Composite Hose with Embedded Wire and Magnets for Pool Cleaner
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hoses used with automatic swimming pool cleaners do not effectively generate electricity or utilize radiation for heating or sanitization, leading to undesirable wear and limited functionality.
Innovation Solution
The hoses are designed to generate electricity through pulsation using embedded wires and magnets, and to react to UV or IR radiation for sanitization, with the option to use generated electricity for heating, thereby increasing flexibility and improving performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If hoses are made thinner to improve flexibility, then flexibility is improved, but the hose walls become weaker and more prone to collapse under reduced pressure
Solution Approach 1:
The hose incorporates a composite structure combining flexible material with embedded wire reinforcement and magnetic particles. The wire provides structural strength to prevent collapse, while the flexible material maintains hose flexibility. This composite approach resolves the contradiction between thin-wall flexibility and structural strength.
Solution Approach 2:
The hose applies reinforcement locally through embedded wires positioned strategically within the hose wall. Rather than uniformly thickening the entire hose, the reinforcement is concentrated in specific areas where structural support is needed, maintaining overall flexibility while preventing collapse at critical points.
2Strength
If hoses are made stiffer to prevent collapse under pressure, then structural strength is improved, but the hose loses flexibility and becomes harder to maneuver
Solution Approach 1:
The hose uses a composite structure where flexible material is combined with discrete wire reinforcement elements. The flexible material provides maneuverability while the embedded wires provide structural support, allowing the hose to bend and flex without collapsing under pressure.
Solution Approach 2:
The hose structure is designed to be dynamic rather than rigid. The embedded wires allow the hose to flex and change shape during operation while maintaining structural integrity. The magnetic particles embedded in the hose wall further enhance flexibility while providing reinforcement.
3Productivity
If hoses are subjected to repeated compression and extension from water interruption, then water flow control is improved, but the hose experiences increased wear and failure
Solution Approach 1:
The hose incorporates wire reinforcement and magnetic particles within the flexible material to create a composite structure that can withstand repeated compression and extension cycles. The wire provides tensile strength during expansion while the flexible material allows compression, significantly improving durability compared to conventional single-material hoses.
Solution Approach 2:
The embedded wire reinforcement acts as a pre-established structural support system that cushions the hose wall against the stresses of repeated compression and extension. This reinforcement is built into the hose structure before use, preventing wear and failure that would occur in unreinforced hoses subjected to the same cyclic loading.
4Device complexity
If conventional hoses are used without electricity generation capability, then simplicity is maintained, but no electricity is generated from hose pulsation
Solution Approach 1:
The hose generates its own electricity from the mechanical energy of its natural pulsation during operation. The embedded wire and magnetic particles create a generator system that converts the hose's cyclic compression and extension into electrical energy, allowing the hose to serve both its transport function and power generation function simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The hose utilizes its periodic pulsation - the natural cyclic compression and extension that occurs during water interruption operation - to generate electricity. The embedded wire and magnetic particles are positioned to maximize energy generation during each pulsation cycle, converting the rhythmic mechanical motion into electrical energy.
5Ease of manufacture
If hoses lack radiation reaction capability, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but no sanitization or heating function is provided
Solution Approach 1:
The hose incorporates materials that react to radiation - such as UV-reactive polymers or infrared-absorbing particles - within the flexible material matrix. These radiation-reactive components provide sanitization and heating functions while being integrated into the existing hose manufacturing process, maintaining relative manufacturing simplicity while adding versatile functionality.
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 enables the generation of electricity from hose pulsation, sanitization of pool water using radiation, and heating of hoses, reducing wear and enhancing operational efficiency and water quality.
Implementation Method 1
electricity may be generated from pulsation of a hose employed with a suction-type, water-interruption style of APC. This cyclic motion of the hose may be used to produce electricity by, for instance, placing wires in or on the hose and magnets around the hose. As the magnets pass over the (moving) wire in the hose, electricity may be generated in conventional ways.
Implementation Method 2
Hoses are manufactured, coated, or otherwise created to include one or more chemicals reactive to light or ultraviolet (UV) or infrared (IR) radiation. The UV or IR radiation may function to sanitize (or otherwise improve one or more characteristics of) pool or spa water either passing through the hoses or adjacent thereto.
Implementation Method 3
Embedding wires in a hose or cable allows electrical current to be sent through the hose or cable, generating heat through resistance of the wires to the current. This generated heat tends to increase flexibility of the associated hose or cable, especially in colder water.
Data Source
AI summary
Creating and utilizing electricity and radiation via actions of hoses is detailed. Likewise described is using electricity to heat the hoses and radiation to sanitize fluid such as water of a pool or spa. Electricity may be generated by pulsation of the hoses when employed together with a water-interruption type of automatic pool cleaner, for example. Hoses alternatively or additionally may include chemicals or materials reactive to light or other radiation.