Modular Breast Pump Assembly With Detachable Ventilation Tube
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing breast pumps suffer from poor compatibility between the fixed seat and breast pump cover, leading to poor user experience due to their integral or separately used structures that cannot be easily connected or disassembled.
Innovation Solution
A breast pump design featuring a detachable base and breast pump assembly connected via a ventilation tube, allowing for both combined and separate states, with components like insertion posts, positioning grooves, and connecting grooves for enhanced compatibility and user convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the fixed seat and breast pump cover are designed as an integral structure, then the device has simple structure, but it cannot be disassembled and used separately, resulting in poor adaptability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the breast pump into separate modular components: a fixed seat, a breast pump cover, and a ventilation tube. The fixed seat and breast pump cover are no longer integral but can be disassembled and reassembled. The ventilation tube can be detached to allow separate use of the breast pump cover, enabling adaptability while maintaining reasonable structural complexity through standardized connection interfaces.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the fixed seat and breast pump cover are used separately, then adaptability is improved, but they cannot be installed and connected together, resulting in poor compatibility
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a ventilation tube as an intermediary component that facilitates connection between the fixed seat and breast pump cover. The ventilation tube includes connection interfaces that match with corresponding interfaces on the fixed seat and breast pump cover, enabling reliable assembly. This intermediary structure ensures that separate components can be properly installed and connected together, improving both adaptability and connection reliability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the ventilation tube is always connected, then the pneumatic pump can continuously provide negative pressure, but the breast pump assembly cannot be detached for separate use
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the ventilation tube connection as a dynamic, changeable configuration. The ventilation tube can be connected to both the fixed seat and breast pump assembly when needed for pumping operations, or detached when the breast pump assembly needs to be used separately. This dynamic connection capability allows the system to adapt between continuous pumping mode and separate usage mode, balancing usage flexibility with pumping efficiency.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design provides high compatibility and improved user experience by enabling flexible use scenarios, stable support, and hands-free operation, enhancing the pumping efficiency and convenience for breastfeeding women.
Implementation Method 1
The pneumatic pump in the fixed seat can provide negative pressure for the breast pump, so that the breast pump can suck the milk in the mammary gland
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AI summary
A breast pump relating to the technical filed of breast pumps is provided, comprising a base, a breast pump assembly and a ventilation tube. The base includes a housing and a pneumatic pump, and the pneumatic pump is arranged in the housing. The breast pump assembly is used for pumping the milk of the mammary gland, and is detachably connected to the housing. When the breast pump assembly is separated from the housing, the ventilation tube is connected to the pneumatic pump and the breast pump assembly, so that the pneumatic pump forms a negative pressure on the breast pump assembly. The breast pump assembly is connected to the housing when the ventilation tube is disconnected from the pneumatic pump and the breast pump assembly. The base included in the above breast pump assembly is detachably connected to the breast pump assembly. When it needs to be used separately, the base and the breast pump assembly is disassembled and separated first, and then the ventilation tube is connected to the pneumatic pump and the breast pump assembly. When it is not required to be used separately, the ventilation tube is disassembled and the breast pump assembly can be connected to the base. The breast pump has strong compatibility, can meet the various needs of users, and has a good user experience.