Filter Assembly With Universal Connection Base For Parallel Cartridges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional filter assemblies are limited in flexibility and efficiency, as they typically require additional expensive adaptations to increase filtration capacity, and they occupy more space due to the need for multiple specialized filter cartridges.
Innovation Solution
A filter assembly with a connection base that matches the dimensions of standard filter cartridges, allowing for interchangeable fluid connections between a single cartridge or multiple cartridges and a function port, enabling increased filtration capacity without additional technical measures and supporting a compact design.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a single filter cartridge is used at a function port, then the device complexity is low, but the filtration capacity is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The filter assembly is segmented into a connection base and multiple filter cartridges. The connection base contains a supply channel that branches into multiple discharge channels, each connected to a separate filter cartridge. This segmentation allows multiple filtration units to operate independently while being managed through a single connection interface, thereby increasing total filtration capacity without proportionally increasing connection complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection base is designed with a universal interface that can connect to a single function port while supporting multiple filter cartridges. The supply channel and discharge channel structure enables the connection base to serve multiple functions: receiving fluid from a single source, distributing it to multiple filters, and collecting filtered fluid from all cartridges through unified discharge channels.
2Productivity
If multiple specialized filter cartridges are used to increase filtration capacity, then the filtration capacity increases, but the device complexity and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple filter cartridges are arranged in a compact configuration around a central connection base. The discharge channels are nested within the connection base structure, and the cartridges are positioned to utilize the radial space efficiently. This nested arrangement allows multiple filtration units to occupy minimal space while maintaining full functionality, effectively increasing filtration capacity without proportionally increasing the overall volume.
3Productivity
If additional expensive technical adaptations are made to increase filtration capacity, then the filtration capacity increases, but the manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The connection base is designed as a universal adapter that interfaces with standard function ports using conventional connection structures. This universal design eliminates the need for specialized adaptations when installing multiple filter cartridges, as the same connection base can accommodate different numbers and types of cartridges while maintaining compatibility with existing single-port systems, thereby reducing manufacturing costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The discharge channel structure in the connection base replicates the functional characteristics of standard filter cartridge connections. By copying the proven connection geometry and flow path design from single-cartridge filters, the invention avoids the need for expensive custom-engineered connections, allowing multiple cartridges to be integrated using standardized, cost-effective designs.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This solution provides enhanced flexibility and efficiency in filtering fluids by allowing multiple cartridges to be connected to a single port, increasing filtration capacity without the need for specialized cartridges, and facilitating easy installation and maintenance while maintaining a compact form factor.
Implementation Method 1
The base inlet is fluidly connected to supply channels to conduct the fluid (e.g., fuel) from the function port to cartridge inlets of at least two filter cartridges
Implementation Method 2
The base outlet is fluidly connected to discharge channels to conduct the filtered fluid from the cartridge outlets of the filter cartridges to the base outlet
Implementation Method 3
at least two filter cartridges (12) with cartridge inlets (22) and cartridge outlets (28)
Data Source
AI summary
A filter assembly for fluidic connection at a function port includes a connection base having a base inlet and a base outlet, the base inlet being fluidly connected to supply channels for supplying a fluid to cartridge inlets of at least two filter cartridges, and the base outlet being fluidly connected to discharge channels to discharge the fluid from cartridge outlets of the filter cartridges. The connection base with the base inlet and the base outlet has a fluidic connection structure corresponding to the filter cartridge with the cartridge inlet and the cartridge outlet such that the connection base or a filter cartridge is fluidly connected at the function port.