Concealed Waterway Control Box Layout for Shallow Wall Embedding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Concealed showers with push on-off controllers have a high pre-embedded depth and protruding height, making installation labor-intensive and affecting the appearance, while concealed showers with horizontally disposed on-off valve cores face difficulties in fixing and have increased protruding height.
Innovation Solution
A pre-embedded concealed waterway control box with a main body, sealing ring, and housing, featuring a sinking platform that reduces the height of the on-off valve and temperature control valve, allowing for a shallower installation depth and lower protrusion, along with rotationally symmetric water outlet holes for flexible water inlet configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the concealed shower uses a traditional push on-off controller with horizontal valve cores, then the installation is easier and fixing is simpler, but the pre-embedded depth and protruding height increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional horizontal arrangement of valve cores to a vertical arrangement. The temperature control valve and on-off valve are stacked vertically within the control box, with the on-off valve positioned above the temperature control valve. This inversion allows the control box to be shallower while maintaining ease of installation and fixing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a horizontal layout to a vertical layout, utilizing the depth dimension more efficiently. By arranging components vertically along the depth direction rather than horizontally across the width, the protruding height is reduced while keeping the installation process straightforward.
2Reliability
If the concealed shower increases pre-embedded depth to accommodate traditional valve arrangements, then the installation is more stable, but the protruding height increases and affects appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional horizontal arrangement of valve cores to a vertical arrangement. The temperature control valve and on-off valve are stacked vertically within the control box, with the on-off valve positioned above the temperature control valve. This inversion allows the control box to be shallower while maintaining ease of installation and fixing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a nested structure where the on-off valve assembly is positioned within the vertical space above the temperature control valve. The control box housing encloses both valves in a compact vertical arrangement, nesting the components efficiently to reduce the overall protruding height while ensuring stable installation through proper positioning and sealing.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a pre-embedded concealed waterway control box, it comprises a main body, a sealing ring and a housing; the housing is fixedly connected to a side of the main body facing an outer side of a wall by the sealing ring, and the main body, the sealing ring and the housing are disposed in a pre-embedded chamber on the wall. The main body comprises a first sealing surface for installing a temperature control valve and a second sealing surface for installing an on-off valve assembly; the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface are disposed on different planes, and the first sealing surface is disposed on a side of the second sealing surface adjacent to the outer side of the wall along a thickness direction of the main body. The present disclosure provides the pre-embedded concealed waterway control box, an overall height of an on-off valve after an installation can be effectively reduced to achieve a shallower pre-embedded depth and a lower protruding height, so that the product is more beautiful.