Elastic Self-Positioning Pre-Dicing Device for Seed Potatoes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional manual potato dicing for breeding is inefficient, results in uneven cuts, and wastes seed potatoes, lacking effective positioning and integration with intelligent identification systems.
Innovation Solution
An elastic self-positioning pre-dicing device with a V-shaped configuration using flexible conveying belts and springs for dynamic positioning and cutting seed potatoes in half along their long axis, ensuring stability and uniformity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual dicing is used for seed potatoes, then operation simplicity is maintained, but dicing uniformity and efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The V-shaped elastic conveying faces automatically adjust to the size and shape of seed potatoes through elastic deformation,实现 self-positioning without manual intervention. The system serves itself by using the material's own characteristics (size, shape) to determine the positioning state, eliminating the need for manual measurement and positioning while ensuring uniform dicing.
Solution Approach 2:
The elastic conveying faces change their physical state (from relaxed to compressed) based on the size and shape parameters of the seed potatoes. This parameter change allows the system to adapt to different potato varieties automatically, maintaining both operational simplicity and dicing uniformity across different material specifications.
2Device complexity
If manual dicing is used for seed potatoes, then device complexity is minimized, but productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The dicing device is segmented into independent functional modules: V-shaped elastic conveying faces for positioning, cutting mechanism for dicing, and collection system for processed potatoes. This modular segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function efficiently while keeping the overall device relatively simple and easy to maintain.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical operations with an automated mechanical system. The elastic conveying faces automatically position the potatoes, and the cutting mechanism automatically dices them, substituting human labor with a relatively simple automated system that significantly improves productivity without requiring complex control mechanisms.
3Stability of the object's composition
If fixed positioning is used for seed potatoes, then positioning stability is improved, but adaptability to different potato sizes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The V-shaped conveying faces are designed to be elastic rather than rigid, allowing them to dynamically adjust their shape and position based on the size and shape of the seed potatoes. This dynamic characteristic enables the system to maintain stable positioning for each individual potato while adapting to different potato varieties, resolving the contradiction between stability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The use of elastic conveying faces (flexible elements) instead of rigid positioning structures allows the system to adapt to different potato sizes. The flexible material deforms to match the contours of each potato, providing stable positioning contact points that automatically adjust to the specific geometry of the material being processed.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enhances dicing efficiency, reduces waste, and enables seamless integration with intelligent identification systems by ensuring uniform and reliable cuts, adaptable to seed potato size and shape.
Implementation Method 1
elastic self-positioning pre-dicing device, V-shaped self-positioning device comprises a first elastic conveying face and a second elastic conveying face, adaptively adjusts the flexible conveying belts according to the size of the materials
Implementation Method 2
materials are kept in a vertical state when arriving at a bottom end between the two elastic conveying faces with the conveying of the elastic conveying faces
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AI summary
An elastic self-positioning pre-dicing device and method, the device includes a V-shaped self-positioning device, a cutter and a separation device; the V-shaped self-positioning device includes first and second elastic conveying faces which form a V-shaped conveying space, and materials are kept in a vertical state when arriving at a bottom end between the two elastic conveying faces with the conveying of the faces; the cutter is arranged at the bottom end between the two faces to cut the materials in half along a long axis; and the separation device is arranged at the lower part of the cutter and configured to convey the materials cut in half to next stage respectively. This overcomes the defects of low efficiency in manual dicing of seed potatoes and waste of seed potatoes. The half-cut seed potatoes will be conveyed to next intelligent dice identification station to ensure high utilization of seed potato production.