Automated Media Dispenser Discharge Guide for Wad Accumulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional automated media dispensers poorly accumulate media discharged from the discharging outlet, leading to an unsatisfactory accumulated state.
Innovation Solution
The apparatus includes a main frame with a lower and upper frame, each equipped with media delivery units and elastic members, along with a delivery regulation unit, to convey and regulate media discharge, ensuring controlled accumulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If media are discharged freely through the discharging outlet, then the discharge process is simple and rapid, but the accumulated state of media in the accumulating space is poor
Solution Approach 1:
A guide structure is introduced as an intermediary component between the discharging outlet and the accumulating space. This guide structure directs and organizes the media as they transition from the discharge point to the accumulation area, improving the accumulated state without significantly impeding the discharge speed. The guide acts as a mediator that transforms the chaotic free-fall into an organized deposition process.
2Productivity
If rollers are used to convey media, then media can be transported efficiently, but the media accumulate poorly when falling freely into the accumulating space
Solution Approach 1:
The discharge and accumulation process is segmented into distinct functional zones: a conveyance zone with rollers for efficient transport, a transition zone with the guide structure for organizing media, and an accumulation zone in the accumulating space. This segmentation allows each zone to optimize its specific function - the rollers handle transport efficiency while the guide structure handles accumulation quality, resolving the contradiction between conveyance efficiency and accumulation quality.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the upper frame is always in contact with the lower frame, then the structure is stable, but the delivery regulation unit cannot selectively control media conveyance
Solution Approach 1:
The upper frame is designed with dynamic capability to selectively contact or separate from the lower frame based on operational requirements. During media discharge, the upper frame can separate to allow the delivery regulation unit to control media flow. During non-operational periods, the upper frame contacts the lower frame to provide structural stability. This dynamic positioning resolves the contradiction between structural stability and selective conveyance control.
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 enables efficient and organized accumulation of media as a wad, enhancing user convenience by ensuring media are discharged and collected in a structured manner.
Implementation Method 1
a lower elastic member further provided in an inner space of the lower frame, the lower elastic member supporting the upper plate of the lower frame and providing elastic force so that the lower frame in contact with the upper frame
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to an apparatus for discharging a wad of media in an automated media dispenser. The present invention provides an apparatus for discharging a wad of media in an automated media dispenser, comprising: a main frame 30; a lower frame 61 provided in the main frame 30, the lower frame being provided with a lower media delivery unit 70 for conveying media in one direction; a delivery regulating unit 90 provided in the lower frame 61 to selectively convey the media; an upper frame 32 provided in the main frame 30 in correspondence to an upper side of the lower frame 61 and being selectively in contact with the lower frame 61, the upper frame being provided with an upper media delivery unit 40, the upper media delivery unit cooperating with the lower media delivery unit 70 to convey the media in one direction; and a delivery regulation operating unit 50 provided in the upper frame 32 to selectively operating the delivery regulating unit 90. According to the present invention so configured, there is an advantage in that the media in a wad shape provided to a customer so that a convenience of the user is enhanced.