Conveyance Receiver for Honeycomb Articles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional conveyance receivers for honeycomb formed articles face challenges in maintaining shape accuracy, releasability, and hygroscopicity, leading to deformation, defects, and uneven water content, which affect the quality of the final product.
Innovation Solution
A conveyance receiver made of cured porous polyurethane resin with specific hardness, porosity, and specific gravity ranges, designed to match the shape of the honeycomb article, ensuring accurate profile and straightness tolerances, and using chemical wood for enhanced processability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the depressed portion of the conveyance receiver is formed to be smaller than the outer periphery size of a honeycomb formed article, then the shape accuracy is improved, but collapse or deformation is caused in the formed article when it is placed on the receiver
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by precisely controlling the dimensions and geometry of the depressed portion to match the outer periphery of the honeycomb formed article. The receiver is designed with a depressed portion that has specific dimensional parameters (depth, width, curvature) that correspond to the article's outer dimensions, allowing optimal contact without excessive compression. This parameter optimization enables both high shape accuracy and prevention of collapse by finding the precise dimensional balance point.
2Strength
If the depressed portion of the conveyance receiver is formed to be larger than the outer periphery size of a honeycomb formed article to form a gap, then the structural integrity is maintained, but deformation is caused by bias of contact pressure and movement upon conveyance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent resolves this contradiction by optimizing the geometric parameters of the depressed portion to eliminate gaps while maintaining structural support. The depressed portion is designed with precise dimensional parameters that match the honeycomb article's outer periphery, ensuring full contact without excessive compression. This parameter optimization provides uniform contact pressure distribution, preventing both gaps and deformation, thereby achieving high shape accuracy while maintaining structural integrity.
3Ease of operation
If a clayey honeycomb formed article having high humidity sticks to the conveyance receiver, then the releasability is improved, but deformation or collapse is caused and water content becomes uneven
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by optimizing the physical and chemical parameters of the receiver material and surface properties. The receiver uses materials with controlled surface energy, porosity, and thermal conductivity parameters that prevent excessive adhesion of high-humidity clayey articles. These parameter optimizations enable easy release without deformation while maintaining uniform water content distribution through controlled evaporation characteristics.
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 solution effectively supports and conveys honeycomb formed articles without deformation, significantly reducing defect incidence and ensuring consistent water content, resulting in high-quality final products with improved processing efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Implementation Method 1
a cured porous polyurethane resin material having a porosity Po of 10%≦Po≦75%
Implementation Method 2
water hardly evaporates from the portion closely adhering to the receiver, while water easily evaporates from the portion in contact with air without adhering to the receiver
Implementation Method 3
a material used for the receiver has conventionally been required to satisfy various conditions such as releasability and hygroscopicity
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a conveyance receiver 1 having a bottom face 6 formed in parallel with the conveyance path to abut against the conveyance path and a support face 7 formed to match a shape of an outer periphery 5 of the honeycomb formed article 4. The support face 7 is made of a cured porous polyurethane resin material having a Shore D hardness Hs of 40≦Hs≦70.