Fire Display Pressure Control With Cascaded Regulators
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Solution Overview
Problem
Pressure regulation and coordination of multiple fire display devices, such as fire pits and torches, is challenging, and coordinating them with a common fuel source and audio input without lag is inconvenient, often requiring separate fuel sources and tools for each device.
Innovation Solution
A fire display system with a common fuel line connected to a fuel source via a first pressure regulator, where each device is connected via a second pressure regulator, allowing for coordinated pressure regulation and audio synchronization across multiple devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple fire display devices are equipped with separate fuel sources, then each device can operate independently, but it increases the complexity of the system and requires additional tools for each device
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple fuel sources into a single common fuel source that supplies multiple fire display devices through a common fuel line. This reduces system complexity by eliminating the need for separate fuel containers while maintaining operational capability through centralized fuel distribution with individual pressure regulation at each device.
2Device complexity
If a common fuel line is used for multiple fire display devices, then the number of fuel sources is reduced, but pressure regulation becomes challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the pressure regulation function by placing individual pressure regulators at each fire display device along the common fuel line. This allows each device to independently regulate its own pressure from the common fuel source, solving the pressure regulation challenge while maintaining the benefits of a shared fuel system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If fire display devices are coordinated to a common audio input, then synchronized flame effects are achieved, but coordination without lag time is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal control system where all fire display devices share a common audio input interface and control architecture. This allows synchronized flame effects across all devices by processing the same audio signal simultaneously, achieving coordinated response without lag time through unified signal distribution and control.
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
Enables efficient pressure regulation and synchronized flame control across multiple fire display devices, sharing a single fuel source, reducing the need for additional fuel containers and tools, and enhancing entertainment value through coordinated flame responses to audio inputs.
Implementation Method 1
The first pressure regulator provides the gaseous fuel to the common fuel line at a first pressure
Implementation Method 2
the second pressure regulator arranged downstream of the first pressure regulator provides the gaseous fuel to the first fire display device at a second pressure that is lower than the first pressure
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems for a fire device, comprising a common fuel line coupled to a fuel source via a first pressure regulator, wherein the first pressure regulator is configured to provide gaseous fuel from the fuel source to the common fuel line at a first pressure. A first fire display device is coupled to the common fuel line via a second pressure regulator, wherein the second pressure regulator is positioned downstream of the first pressure regulator and provides the gaseous fuel to the first fire display device at a second pressure that is lower than the first pressure.