Home appliance device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Home appliance devices, particularly chillers, face challenges in maintaining stability and durability during insulation foaming processes, which affects their flexibility and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a self-supporting functional housing with reinforcement features, such as honeycomb or rib-shaped elements, and attachment elements that encompass the housing circumferentially, to enhance mechanical stability and ease of assembly, while also improving sealing and manufacturing efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a functional housing is used during insulation foaming, then the housing structure is simplified and manufacturing efficiency is improved, but the housing may deform under foam pressure
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is divided into a functional housing and a separate reinforcement feature that can be integrally formed or separately attached. This segmentation allows the functional housing to maintain its simple, manufacturable form while the reinforcement feature provides the necessary structural support during foaming.
Solution Approach 2:
The housing system combines the functional housing material with reinforcement features made of high-strength material. This composite structure provides both the manufacturing advantages of the functional housing and the dimensional stability of the reinforcement feature during the foaming process.
2Stability of the object's composition
If reinforcement features are added to maintain housing shape, then shape stability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The reinforcement feature is designed to be integrally formable with the functional housing in a single molding process. This merging of functions allows the reinforcement structures to be created as part of the standard housing manufacturing process, avoiding additional assembly steps and reducing overall device complexity.
3Reliability
If attachment elements are used to secure the housing, then sealing and stability are improved, but assembly complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment elements are integrally formed with the functional housing as a single piece. This merging eliminates separate attachment components and simplifies the assembly process, while still providing the necessary sealing and stability functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment elements are designed to automatically engage with the insulation-receiving chamber structure during assembly. This self-service design allows the housing to secure itself without requiring additional fastening operations or complex assembly procedures.
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AI summary
For the purpose of increasing flexibility a home appliance device, in particular a home chiller appliance device, is proposed. The novel device includes at least one functional housing, which is arranged at least largely within an insulation-receiving chamber and defines at least one receiving space for receiving at least one functional unit; and at least one attachment element which at least partly encompasses the functional housing in an assembled state.