Filter Insert Frame With Axial Seal And Height Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing filter devices lack variability in using different filter elements and media, limiting their adaptability to various environmental conditions and specific requirements such as moisture resistance and flame resistance.
Innovation Solution
A filter insert design featuring a frame with axial seals and height profiles on contact surfaces, allowing for the use of different bracing elements and filter media, enabling the same housing design to accommodate various filter elements with specific properties, ensuring only filter elements with certain characteristics are used for defined purposes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If the same housing design is used for various filter elements, then device complexity is reduced and manufacturing cost decreases, but the ability to ensure only filter elements with specific properties are used is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing different height profiles on specific contact surfaces of the frame (first and second contact surfaces) while keeping the overall housing design uniform. These localized geometric variations in the contact surfaces enable compatibility control for different filter elements without requiring complete redesign of the housing structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame is segmented into multiple contact surfaces (first and second contact surfaces) with different height profiles, allowing independent optimization of each surface for specific filter element requirements while maintaining a unified housing design.
2Adaptability or versatility
If different bracing elements are used for various filter elements, then adaptability to different environmental conditions is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The frame design with multiple contact surfaces having different height profiles serves multiple functions: it provides structural support, enables compatibility control for different filter elements, and allows adaptation to various environmental conditions. This universal design reduces the need for completely different bracing elements for different applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows dynamic selection and configuration of bracing elements based on specific application requirements. The height profiles on contact surfaces enable flexible adaptation to different filter element geometries and performance requirements without requiring a completely different structural design.
3Adaptability or versatility
If height profiles are added to contact surfaces, then control over filter element properties is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent controls filter element properties by varying geometric parameters (height profiles) on contact surfaces. These parameter changes are implemented in a systematic way that maintains manufacturability, allowing precision control without excessive manufacturing complexity.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a filter insert, comprising a. a filter element, having an end surface on the inlet side and an end surface on the outlet side disposed at a distance therefrom in the main flow direction, b. a frame running along the lateral surfaces of the filter element and being connected to the filter element, wherein the frame supports an axial seal, the sealing direction of which is aligned in or opposite to the main flow direction, wherein the seal can be brought into contact with a sealing surface of a filter housing in the sealing direction, the inlet side of the filter insert thus being detachable from the outlet side in a sealing manner, wherein the frame comprises a first and a second contact surface on two opposite lateral surfaces of the filter insert for clamping the filter element by means of a first and a second clamping element. The contact surfaces are aligned substantially opposite the sealing direction, wherein the contact surfaces each comprise an individual height profile running along the lateral surfaces.