Liquid-Permeable Panel Bending Strength for Animal Toilet Disposal
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing animal toilets face challenges with the portability and disposal of feces due to the low rigidity of liquid-permeable members, leading to a risk of feces falling and requiring complex operations.
Innovation Solution
A liquid-permeable panel with a corrugated honeycomb structure and specific bending characteristics, including a 15-degree bending strength and bending shape retention withstand load, is designed to facilitate easy bending and retention, making it detachable and easy to handle during disposal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-generated harmful factors
If a liquid-permeable member with low rigidity is used, then liquid permeability and absorbency are improved, but portability and disposal characteristics deteriorate due to the risk of feces falling
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by controlling the bending strength of the liquid-permeable panel to fall within a specific range (0.2 N to 10 N). This optimized parameter range allows the panel to maintain sufficient rigidity for easy handling and disposal while preserving the necessary liquid permeability and absorbency characteristics.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite materials by combining a liquid-permeable non-woven fabric with a liquid-absorbent sheet in a layered structure. This composite construction enables the panel to simultaneously achieve liquid permeability, absorbency, and enhanced mechanical strength for improved portability and disposal characteristics.
2Reliability
If the bending strength is increased to improve handling, then portability is improved, but the panel becomes too rigid to bend easily
Solution Approach 1:
The patent resolves this contradiction through precise parameter control by setting the bending strength within the optimal range of 0.2 N to 10 N. This parameter optimization ensures the panel has sufficient rigidity for easy handling and disposal while remaining flexible enough to bend easily when needed.
3Reliability
If wrapping operations are implemented to prevent feces falling, then disposal reliability is improved, but operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the disposable principle by designing the liquid-permeable panel as a single-use component that can be easily removed and discarded after use. This eliminates the need for complex wrapping operations to prevent feces falling, as the entire panel with feces can be disposed of together, significantly reducing operation complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the liquid-permeable panel as a separate, removable component from the toilet system. This allows the panel to be easily taken out with feces for disposal without requiring complex wrapping or securing operations, simplifying the disposal process while maintaining reliability.
Data Source
AI summary
A liquid-permeable panel is mounted on a portion of a system toilet for animals, and a 15-degree bending strength defined below the liquid-permeable panel is at least 0.2 N and no greater than 10 N. The 15-degree bending strength is the load that is applied at a velocity of 500 mm/min to the central section of the liquid-permeable panel from the direction perpendicular to a plan view using a round plunger having a diameter of 8 mm, while both sides in the Y-direction in a plan view of the liquid-permeable panel are being supported, that deforms the liquid-permeable panel into the shape of a concavity along the X-direction such that, in a cross section of the concavity, the angle (θ) formed by a horizontal line that contains the bottommost point of the concavity and an oblique line linking the aforementioned bottommost point and either of the aforementioned both sides is 15 degrees.