Endoscope Cleaning Apparatus Bottle Positioning Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing endoscope cleaning/disinfecting apparatuses face challenges in efficiently and effectively handling chemical disinfectant bottles, particularly in ensuring the chemical solution is properly discharged and preventing residual liquids from leaking or dripping during bottle replacement.
Innovation Solution
The apparatus features a bottle insertion passage with a movable tray and push-up mechanism that aligns the chemical bottle to face upward initially, allowing for easy unsealing and discharge of the solution, and then reorients it to face downward for gravity-assisted discharge, ensuring efficient solution use and minimizing residual leakage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the chemical bottle is set with the discharge section facing upward for easy unsealing, then the unsealing operation becomes simple, but residual liquid may leak or drip during bottle replacement
Solution Approach 1:
The bottle set section is designed to be movable back and forth along the bottle insertion passage, allowing dynamic repositioning of the chemical bottle between an upper positioning state (for unsealing) and a lower positioning state (for preventing leakage). This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction by changing the bottle's position rather than its orientation.
Solution Approach 2:
The push-up section performs preliminary action by pushing the chemical bottle upward before the unsealing operation, ensuring the discharge section is in the correct upper position. This preliminary positioning prevents residual liquid leakage while maintaining ease of unsealing.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the bottle set section moves freely during bottle replacement, then operation flexibility is improved, but linear movement control is lost causing improper positioning
Solution Approach 1:
The guide section serves multiple functions: it guides the bottle set section to move linearly along the bottle insertion passage, prevents deviation during movement, and ensures accurate positioning at both upper and lower positions. This multi-functional design maintains operation flexibility while achieving precise positioning.
3Productivity
If the chemical bottle is discharged completely using gravity assistance, then solution discharge efficiency is improved, but the bottle must be reoriented during replacement causing potential leakage
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the bottle position between upper (for gravity-assisted discharge) and lower (for leakage prevention during replacement) positions. This dynamic repositioning allows complete discharge efficiency while preventing leakage during bottle replacement operations.
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 configuration ensures complete discharge of the chemical solution during use and prevents residual liquids from leaking or dripping during bottle replacement, enhancing the efficiency and hygiene of the endoscope cleaning process while maintaining the apparatus's internal integrity.
Implementation Method 1
a second push-up section placed in the bottle set section for transferring force to the chemical bottle to push up a first end portion of the chemical bottle so that the chemical discharge port faces downward in the gravity direction, the force being received upon collision with the first push-up section
Implementation Method 2
reorients it to face downward for gravity-assisted discharge, ensuring efficient solution use and minimizing residual leakage
Data Source
AI summary
A chemical bottle is inclined by a bottle push-up mechanism, and a chemical solution is gravitationally injected into a chemical tank from a chemical supply tube line. When a chemical tray is drawn out after completion of chemical injection, the bottle push-up mechanism returns to a planar initial state. In connection with this, the chemical bottle returns to an original set position in which the chemical bottle is in a horizontal state or a plug section faces upward with respect to a gravity direction. This prevents the chemical solution remaining in the chemical bottle from flowing to an outside by gravity.