Modular Aerator Tool with Multi-Joint Handle
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional aerators require separate tools for different styles and specifications of water outlet equipment, leading to high costs and inconvenience for professionals and non-professionals alike.
Innovation Solution
A modular aerator accessory with a handle and multiple connecting joints, each connected to sockets of varying diameters, featuring different fastening portions such as engaging teeth, tangent planes, and fastening grooves, allowing for versatile fitting onto various aerators.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate tools are provided for each style and specification of aerator, then the aerator can be precisely installed on specific water outlet equipment, but the number of tools required increases, leading to high cost and inconvenience
Solution Approach 1:
The tool handle is designed with multiple connecting joints of different diameters, allowing a single tool to fit various aerator types and specifications. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for multiple separate tools, directly resolving the contradiction between adaptability and device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The tool is divided into a handle with multiple connecting joints of different diameters. This segmentation allows each joint to be used for specific aerator sizes while maintaining a unified tool structure, enabling one tool to serve multiple functions without increasing overall complexity
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple specialized tools are purchased for different aerator specifications, then installation precision is improved, but the cost and inconvenience for both professionals and non-professionals increases
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating multiple connecting joints with different diameters into one handle, the tool maintains precise fit for various aerator specifications while simplifying the user experience. Users no longer need to select from multiple specialized tools, directly improving ease of operation without sacrificing installation precision
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple specialized tools into a single unified tool handle with various connecting joints. This merging approach preserves the precision fitting capability of individual specialized tools while eliminating the complexity of tool selection and management for users
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AI summary
An aerator accessory has a handle having a main body and a plurality of connecting joints surrounding the main body, a top end and a bottom of each connecting joint respectively connected to a socket with different diameters. Each socket has an opening end and an inner sidewall, and one opening end of at least one of the sockets has a first fastening portion with a plurality of engaging teeth disposed evenly around the opening end. One inner sidewall of at least one of the sockets has a second fastening portion with two opposite parallel tangent planes. One inner sidewall of at least another socket has a third fastening portion comprising at least two fastening grooves on the inner sidewall.