Coolant Mixing Module With Guide Surface for Uniform Refrigerant Spray
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies face challenges in effectively mixing and spraying compositions with refrigerants, particularly when dealing with compositions having high viscosity, strong adhesion, or low freezing points, leading to issues such as uneven distribution, freezing, and reduced penetration due to inadequate module design.
Innovation Solution
A mixing module with a structure that includes an insertion hole for a refrigerant spray unit, a mixing part with a composition inflow part and a spreading film, and a heat transfer member, which utilizes negative pressure and external air circulation to ensure even mixing and spraying of the composition with refrigerant.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If the composition has high viscosity and strong adhesion, then the composition can maintain its structure and stability, but the composition cannot be uniformly mixed and sprayed with the refrigerant
Solution Approach 1:
A guide member is introduced as an intermediary component between the composition supply and refrigerant spray streams. The guide member includes a guide surface that directs the composition flow and interacts with the refrigerant spray to facilitate mixing. This intermediary structure enables uniform mixing of high-viscosity composition with refrigerant by controlling the flow interaction between the two streams.
Solution Approach 2:
The mixing module implements local quality by providing a dedicated guide surface on the guide member that is specifically designed to interact with the composition flow. The guide surface has specific geometric characteristics (inclination angle, positioning) that create localized flow patterns to ensure uniform mixing in the critical mixing region, while other parts of the module maintain their primary functions.
2Speed
If the composition is sprayed at low temperature to improve penetration, then penetration performance is improved, but the composition may freeze due to the refrigerant
Solution Approach 1:
The module converts the potentially harmful effect of the refrigerant's low temperature into a beneficial cooling effect for the composition. By controlling the mixing process and using the guide member to ensure proper contact between refrigerant and composition, the system achieves the desired cooling for penetration enhancement while preventing freezing through controlled temperature management and rapid delivery.
3Device complexity
If the composition is moved by negative pressure generated by refrigerant spray, then the composition can be delivered without additional pumping, but the composition flow may be unstable
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses the refrigerant spray's own kinetic energy and negative pressure generation to drive the composition flow, eliminating the need for separate pumping mechanisms. The guide member is designed to optimize this self-service approach by directing the composition flow into the refrigerant spray stream, ensuring stable mixing and delivery using the refrigerant's inherent flow characteristics.
4Manufacturing precision
If the composition is sprayed in a spiral form on the refrigerant spray stream, then mixing efficiency is improved, but the module structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The guide member incorporates a curved guide surface that directs the composition flow in a spiral or curved path as it enters the refrigerant spray stream. This curvature in the flow path enhances mixing efficiency by creating vortex-like patterns and increasing contact between composition and refrigerant, while the guide member itself remains a relatively simple single-piece component that does not significantly increase overall module complexity.
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 module enhances the penetration of the composition by maintaining a stable temperature and uniform spraying, preventing freezing, and ensuring even distribution, thereby improving the efficacy of the composition's delivery.
Implementation Method 1
when the refrigerant is sprayed into the mixing part, negative pressure is formed near the composition inflow part due to the movement of the refrigerant, so that the composition stored in the composition storing part flows into the mixing part
Implementation Method 2
a spreading film comprising a first surface in physical contact with the inner side of the mixing part where the composition inflow part is formed
Implementation Method 3
a heat transfer member attached to and detached from the inner side of the mixing part
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
AI summary
In a module mixing and spraying a refrigerant and a composition, the module has a mixing space where a refrigerant spray unit is disposed and an inlet hole is formed, and when the refrigerant is sprayed, a negative pressure is formed in the inlet hole to allow the composition to be introduced, so that the refrigerant and the composition may be sprayed while being mixed together. At this point, in case of spraying the refrigerant and the composition in the mixed state, various problems may occur, and a guide member having various shapes may be disposed in the mixing space in order to solve the various problems.