Egg-Shaped Pipe Joints With Circular Ends for Step-Free Flow
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing egg-shaped pipes face challenges in efficient connection and disconnection, leading to leakage, reduced water-tightness, and decreased strength, while requiring specialized techniques and increasing installation costs due to non-standardized cross-sectional structures.
Innovation Solution
Integrally molding a circular tubular joining portion at both ends of an egg-shaped tubular body, allowing connection using conventional circular pipe connection devices, ensuring continuous flow path holes without step differences and enhancing structural integrity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If egg-shaped pipes are connected using specialized egg-shaped connection devices, then connection is achieved, but device complexity increases and installation efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by enabling egg-shaped pipes to use standard circular pipe connection devices. The connection structure is designed with a circular outer shape that is compatible with conventional circular pipe fittings, eliminating the need for specialized egg-shaped connection devices while maintaining connection reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the pipe structure into an egg-shaped main body and a circular connection end. This segmentation allows the connection portion to be designed with a circular cross-section that interfaces with standard circular connection devices, while the main body retains the egg-shaped cross-section for optimal fluid flow
2Productivity
If egg-shaped pipes are connected using conventional circular pipe connection devices, then installation efficiency improves, but step differences in flow path holes occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing different cross-sectional shapes at different locations of the pipe. The connection end has a circular cross-section for compatibility with standard devices, while the main body has an egg-shaped cross-section. This localized differentiation ensures both installation efficiency and flow path alignment precision
3Productivity
If multiple egg-shaped pipes are connected in sequence, then transport capacity increases, but twisting and tilting phenomena occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables egg-shaped pipes to be connected using standard circular pipe connection devices, which provides stable and reliable connection geometry. This universality ensures that when multiple pipes are connected in sequence, the standardized connection interface prevents twisting and tilting phenomena, maintaining alignment stability while increasing transport capacity
4Ease of manufacture
If egg-shaped pipes are manufactured with standardized cross-sectional structures, then manufacturing efficiency improves, but adaptability to different installation requirements decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by standardizing only the connection end geometry while allowing variation in the main body dimensions. The connection end maintains a standardized circular cross-section for efficient manufacturing and consistent interface, while the egg-shaped main body can be manufactured in different sizes to meet various installation requirements
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AI summary
Provided is an egg-shaped pipe that is easy to connect and disconnect and is directed to providing an egg-shaped pipe that is easy to connect and disconnect, ensuring that step differences do not occur in a flow path hole during connection (joining) of the egg-shaped pipe, thereby facilitating the smooth flow of fluid and sediment without any residue of sediment in the flow path hole. The present invention is configured such that a joining portion made of a circular tubular body is integrally molded at both ends of a main body portion, which is made of an egg-shaped tubular body. Through the joining portion made of the circular tubular body, a plurality of egg-shaped pipes is connected (joined), and the configuration ensures that no step differences occur between the flow path hole of one egg-shaped pipe and the flow path hole of another egg-shaped pipe connected thereto.