Deformable Adapter for Cordless Vacuum Cleaner Accessory Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless electric brooms face difficulties in connecting accessories or flexible tubes due to non-standardized tube cross-sections and shapes, making it impractical to use them in narrow environments or for tasks like pet grooming, as manufacturers design their products with unique dimensions and shapes, preventing the use of standard hoses.
Innovation Solution
An adapter device with a hollow tubular body made of deformable material, featuring a cylindrical first end and a conical second end with multiple taper sections, allowing for flexible adaptation to various shapes and sizes, and equipped with radial sealing rings to maintain suction efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If wireless electric brooms are designed without standardized connections to allow freedom in design, then ease of manufacture and design flexibility are improved, but ease of operation for various tasks is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter serves as a mediator that preserves the vacuum cleaner's design freedom while enabling task versatility. It connects to the vacuum cleaner's unique tube configuration without requiring the vacuum cleaner to be modified, and simultaneously provides standardized interfaces for various accessories, thus maintaining design flexibility while achieving ease of operation for different tasks
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter enables dynamic adaptability by allowing the vacuum cleaner to switch between different accessories and configurations based on task requirements. Users can easily attach and detach different accessories through the standardized interface, making the system adaptable to various cleaning tasks while maintaining the vacuum cleaner's original design
2Reliability
If vacuum cleaners use non-standard tube cross-sections to prevent production of non-original parts, then anti-counterfeiting and originality protection are improved, but adaptability to standard hoses and accessories is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter acts as an intermediary that preserves the vacuum cleaner's proprietary connection interface for originality protection while providing access to standard accessories. The first portion of the adapter maintains the unique connection geometry that prevents direct compatibility with non-original parts, while the second portion provides standardized interfaces, thus protecting originality while enabling hose compatibility through the intermediary adapter
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables the connection of accessories or hoses to wireless electric brooms, enhancing their usability in tight spaces and ensuring hygienic and efficient operation by maintaining suction efficiency and allowing for easy detachment and cleaning.
Implementation Method 1
a hollow tubular body made of deformable material with elastic return
Data Source
AI summary
It is disclosed an adapter device for a vacuum cleaner comprising a hollow tubular body comprising a first end configured to engage a part of the vacuum cleaner and a second end configured to engage an accessory or a flexible tube, wherein the hollow tubular body is at least partially of a deformable material with elastic return and comprises a ring protruding radially outwards from the external surface of the tubular body. The adapter device could comprise a plurality of rings protruding radially outwards from the external surface of the tubular body. The rings of the plurality of rings could have an increasing diameter.