Liquid Vessel Segmented Engagement Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Large-sized liquid vessels in prefabricated form face challenges in preventing liquid from flowing out or leaking due to gaps between assembled members, making them difficult to configure effectively.
Innovation Solution
A liquid vessel design featuring three engageable portions with narrow spaces that prevent liquid leakage by ensuring the spaces do not communicate with each other, even under deformation or installation errors, allowing for a large-sized prefabricated configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If a large-sized liquid vessel is configured in a prefabricated form with multiple assembled members, then the vessel can be manufactured and assembled in sections, but gaps between the assembled members cause liquid to flow out or leak
Solution Approach 1:
The large-sized liquid vessel is divided into multiple members (first member, second member, third member) that can be assembled together to form the complete vessel. This segmentation allows the vessel to be manufactured and transported in manageable sections while still achieving a large overall capacity when assembled.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces engageable portions with narrow spaces as intermediary structures between the first, second, and third members. These narrow spaces act as seals that prevent liquid leakage at the joints between members, effectively mediating the connection to ensure both structural assembly and liquid containment.
2Ease of operation
If gaps are formed between assembled members to allow for assembly tolerance, then the members can be easily assembled, but liquid can flow through these gaps
Solution Approach 1:
The engageable portions are designed with specific local characteristics - narrow spaces with precise dimensional properties that differ from the main body of the members. These localized features are specifically engineered to prevent liquid passage while maintaining the overall assembly tolerance of the structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The narrow spaces within the engageable portions serve as intermediary barriers that block liquid flow paths. These intermediary structures are positioned at critical junction points between members to prevent liquid from exploiting gaps for leakage while allowing the members to be assembled with reasonable tolerance.
3Volume of moving object
If the vessel is assembled from multiple members to achieve large size, then the vessel capacity increases, but the complexity of preventing leakage through all joints increases
Solution Approach 1:
The engageable portions with narrow spaces are designed as universal sealing joints that can be replicated at multiple connection points between different members. This multi-functional design allows the same joint structure to serve both structural connection and liquid sealing purposes at all interfaces between first, second, and third members.
Solution Approach 2:
The vessel is segmented into discrete members with standardized engageable portions at their interfaces. This segmentation strategy allows the complexity of sealing to be distributed across multiple identical or similar joint designs rather than requiring unique complex sealing solutions for each connection, simplifying the overall system.
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AI summary
A liquid vessel for holding a liquid is provided. The liquid vessel comprises at least a first member, a second member and a third member; and a first engageable portion and a second engageable portion being configured such that the first member and the second member are brought into contact with each other to be engaged, and a third engageable portion being configured such that the third member is brought into contact with the first member and the second member in a direction intersecting an engagement direction of the first member and the second member to be engaged with the first member and the second member. The first engageable portion and the second engageable portion ensure a degree of freedom in the engagement direction of the first and second engageable portions, and the third engageable portion ensures a degree of freedom in the engagement direction intersecting to the engagement direction of the first and second engageable portions.