Flexible Adapter Hose Assembly for Stable Multi-Shape Channel Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing main pipelines are easily washed away by water or gas pressure due to lack of fixation, and they can only accommodate channels of fixed shapes, limiting their versatility.
Innovation Solution
An adapter assembly with an adapter pipeline that is more flexible than the main pipeline, integrally connected to it, provides an elastic resetting force to secure the main pipeline to liquid or gas channels, allowing it to accommodate channels of varying shapes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the main pipeline is directly arranged on liquid or gas channels in a sleeving manner without fixing devices, then the installation is simple, but the pipeline is easily washed away by water pressure or gas pressure during use
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter pipeline is made of flexible elastic material that can deform and wrap around the liquid/gas channel, creating friction and elastic resetting force to prevent washaway while maintaining simple installation
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter pipeline acts as an intermediary component between the main pipeline and the liquid/gas channel, providing both connection and fixation functions through its elastic properties and wrapping structure
2Device complexity
If the main pipeline is designed to sleeve fixed-shaped channels, then the structure is simple, but it cannot accommodate channels with different shapes
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter pipeline uses flexible elastic material that can conform to different channel shapes through deformation, enabling the same structure to adapt to various geometries without increasing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter pipeline changes its physical parameters (shape, size) through elastic deformation to match different channel configurations, maintaining structural simplicity while achieving versatility
3Adaptability or versatility
If the adapter pipeline is made highly flexible to accommodate different shapes, then the adaptability improves, but the connection stability may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible elastic material of the adapter pipeline generates elastic resetting force when deformed, which creates friction and pressing force against the channel surface, ensuring stable connection while maintaining adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter pipeline wraps around the channel in a curved configuration, utilizing elastic recovery to maintain continuous contact and stable connection across different channel geometries
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
The adapter assembly stabilizes the main pipeline's connection, preventing washaway and ensuring secure sealing, while accommodating channels of different shapes and sizes, reducing leakage risks.
Implementation Method 1
an elastic resetting force generated when the adapter pipeline is stretched fixes the main pipeline to the liquid channel or gas channel
Implementation Method 2
an elastic resetting force generated when the adapter pipeline is stretched causes an inner surface of the adapter pipeline to push and press against an outer surface of the liquid channel or gas channel, so that the inner surface of the adapter pipeline pushes and seals the outer surface of the liquid channel or gas channel
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AI summary
An adapter assembly relates to the technical field of adapter hoses. The adapter assembly includes a main pipeline and an adapter pipeline. The main pipeline configured to circulate gas or liquid. The adapter pipeline is provided with a near end and a far end opposite to the near end of the adapter pipeline. The near end of the adapter pipeline and the main pipeline are integrally formed. The far end of the adapter pipeline is configured to be connected to a liquid channel or a gas channel. After the adoption of the above technical solutions, an adapter pipeline is arranged on the main pipeline, and the other end of the adapter pipeline sleeves a liquid channel or gas channel. So that the main pipeline is not easily washed away by the water pressure or gas pressure, which can be applicable to gas channels or liquid channels in different shapes.