Refrigerated Product Dispenser Venting for Compressor Heat Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing apparatuses for dispensing refrigerated products face challenges in effectively controlling the temperature inside the base body, leading to reduced compressor performance and increased energy consumption, with known solutions failing to provide a suitable cooling mechanism for actuation members.
Innovation Solution
The apparatus incorporates a ventilation member with a hot airflow outlet on the base body's front panel, which expels hot air from lower openings, maintaining a low inner temperature and improving compressor efficiency while reducing energy consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If the base body is designed to contain the compressor and motor members, then the apparatus structure is compact and integrated, but the temperature inside the base body rises leading to reduced compressor performance and increased energy consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The base body is segmented into an inner chamber for housing the compressor and motor members, and an outer shell forming a ventilation passage. This segmentation allows hot air to be channeled through the ventilation passage for dissipation, preventing heat accumulation in the base body and maintaining lower operating temperatures for the compressor, thereby reducing energy consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
A ventilation passage acts as an intermediary channel between the inner chamber and the external environment. This passage allows hot air generated by the compressor and motor members to be efficiently conducted outward and dissipated, serving as a thermal mediator that prevents heat buildup and maintains optimal operating temperature, thus reducing energy consumption.
2Reliability
If the base body contains the compressor and motor members, then the apparatus structure is compact, but the temperature rise reduces compressor performance and endurance
Solution Approach 1:
The base body is divided into an inner chamber for component housing and an outer shell with integrated ventilation passages. This segmentation creates dedicated thermal management pathways that continuously expel hot air from the compressor and motor members, maintaining lower operating temperatures that enhance compressor reliability and endurance.
Solution Approach 2:
The ventilation passage serves as a thermal intermediary that facilitates heat transfer from the inner chamber components to the external environment. By providing this dedicated thermal pathway, the system maintains lower operating temperatures for the compressor, thereby improving its endurance and reliability without compromising the compact integrated structure.
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
This solution ensures effective cooling of actuation members, enhancing compressor performance, reducing energy consumption, and maintaining the tub dry, thereby improving the apparatus's endurance and operational efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
a ventilation member suitable to produce a hot airflow which comes out from lower openings
Data Source
AI summary
The apparatus for dispensing refrigerated products includes at least one containment tank (2) mounted above a base body (6) and suitable to contain the product to be dispensed. Inside the tank (2) a mixing device suitable to perform the continuous circulation of the product inside the tank (2) and a cooling device for cooling the product are arranged. A dispensing device (3) for the product, placed at the front zone of the containment tank (2) is provided with a tap (4) which can be operated by an external lever member (5). The base body (6) carries frontally applied a ventilation member (10) suitable to produce a hot airflow which comes out from lower openings (13).