Juice extraction module for juice
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing juice extraction modules suffer from issues such as dregs leaking into the juice, increased weight and volume due to complex driving transmission paths, and inefficient crushing of raw materials like celery and water celery, leading to degraded juice texture and extraction efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A juice extraction module with a hollow dregs blocking part that protrudes from the juice extraction mesh, a rotating brush, and a simplified driving transmission assembly, along with a screw cavity and elastic support parts to prevent dregs leakage and enhance crushing efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the lower end of the screw passes through the juice extraction mesh to be inserted into the housing, then the screw can be positioned and secured, but dregs are leaked to the housing through a gap between the screw and the juice extraction mesh to degrade a texture of food
Solution Approach 1:
A sealing member is introduced as an intermediary component between the screw and the juice extraction mesh. This sealing member fills the gap that would otherwise allow dregs to leak, while not interfering with the screw's positioning function. The sealing member acts as a mediator that simultaneously addresses both the positioning reliability and the dregs leakage prevention.
2Reliability
If a through hole packing is used to prevent juice from flowing into the driving body, then airtightness is maintained, but the upper end of the packing adheres over the whole of the lower space of the screw to increase friction area, hindering rotation and increasing driving load
Solution Approach 1:
The sealing structure is modified to have different properties in different regions. The sealing member is designed to provide airtightness at the interface between the housing and the driving body, while having a reduced friction area with the screw. This local differentiation allows the packing to maintain its sealing function without excessively increasing friction and hindering screw rotation.
3Ease of operation
If a complex driving transmission path with multiple shaft members and gears is used to rotate the rotating brush part, then the rotating brush can be driven, but spaces and areas are additionally required to increase total volume and weight of the apparatus
Solution Approach 1:
The driving transmission path is simplified by merging functions and reducing the number of components. Instead of using multiple shaft members and gears, the invention uses a more direct transmission mechanism that achieves the same rotating brush drive function with fewer parts. This consolidation reduces the space required and decreases the overall weight of the apparatus while maintaining the ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is a juice extraction module for juice capable of fundamentally blocking the introduction of dregs which degrade a texture of food when being mixed with the juice and certainly maintaining airtightness. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a dregs blocking part which isolates between a bottom surface of a juice extraction mesh and a bottom of the container maintains airtightness to fundamentally block the introduction of dregs into the juice, thereby improving a texture of food.