Integrated Milk Bowl Layout for Compact Concealed Breast Pumps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing breast pumps are scattered in components, occupy large space, and are complex, leading to high costs, poor portability, and difficulty in quantity production.
Innovation Solution
A milk bowl for a breast pump with an integrated tee joint and bowl body, a detachable pumping nozzle, and a compact design that includes a milk storage cavity, milk outlet, and negative pressure port, along with a main unit that forms a hemispherical surface with the bowl body, facilitating integration and space-saving.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If breast pump components are integrated to reduce space, then portability improves, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the bowl body and tee joint into a single integrated component, eliminating the need for separate assembly of these parts. The tee joint is formed as an integral part of the bowl body, reducing the number of components from multiple scattered parts to a unified structure, thereby reducing overall volume while managing manufacturing complexity through design integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated bowl body-tee joint structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: it contains the milk storage cavity, provides the milk outlet, and incorporates the tee joint for connecting pumping components. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed, achieving space reduction without proportionally increasing manufacturing complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If breast pump components are scattered to improve functionality, then adaptability improves, but space occupation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pumping nozzle is designed to detachably connect to the front end of the integrated bowl body, allowing the nozzle to be nested within or attached to the bowl structure when not in use. This nesting approach maintains adaptability by allowing the nozzle to be attached or removed as needed, while minimizing space occupation when the components are combined.
Solution Approach 2:
The pumping nozzle is designed as a detachable component that can be separated from the integrated bowl body when needed. This segmentation maintains adaptability by allowing the nozzle to be independently replaced or adjusted, while the integrated bowl body-tee joint structure minimizes overall volume when components are assembled together.
3Ease of manufacture
If breast pump structure is simplified to reduce cost, then manufacturing ease improves, but portability may worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated bowl body-tee joint structure reduces the number of separate parts that need to be manufactured and assembled, simplifying the manufacturing process and reducing costs. The integration eliminates the need for separate manufacturing of the bowl body and tee joint, thereby improving ease of manufacture while the compact integrated design simultaneously improves portability.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a milk bowl for a breast pump and the breast pump, aiming to solve the problems that components of a breast pump in the prior art are relatively scattered and the breast pump occupies a relatively large space. The milk bowl includes a bowl body, a milk storage cavity and a tee joint are disposed in the bowl body, a milk outlet is provided at a front end of the milk storage cavity, and the tee joint is located in the milk storage cavity; three ports of the tee joint are a milk pumping port, a milk flowing port and a negative pressure port respectively, the negative pressure port of the tee joint and the bowl body are integrated, and the negative pressure port of the tee joint is in communication with the outside. The breast pump includes the above milk bowl for a breast pump and a main unit; the main unit includes a shell; the main unit is disposed in a space formed by a rear side of a semicircular mounting plate and an upper side of an upper panel of the bowl body, and the shell of the main unit and the bowl body together form a hemispherical surface. The tee joint and the bowl body are integrated, thus saving space, reducing a volume, achieving a high degree of integration, and implementing a simple, efficient and low-cost solution for a concealed breast pump.