Modular Dehumidifier Base Design to Reduce Production Complexity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dehumidifying devices require redesigning to meet varying dehumidification performance requirements, leading to increased production complexity and potential oversizing when maximum performance is specified for all types, resulting in inefficient production control.
Innovation Solution
A modular dehumidifying device design featuring a base with defined inlet and outlet channels and interchangeable dehumidifiers, allowing for easy adjustment of dehumidification performance by connecting additional modules to meet user-specific requirements without necessitating extensive redesign.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the dehumidifying device is designed with fixed size to meet specific dehumidification performance requirements, then the dehumidification performance is optimized for that specific requirement, but a variety of dehumidification performance requirements results in an increase in types of dehumidifying devices and increased production control efforts
Solution Approach 1:
The dehumidifying device is segmented into a standardized base and interchangeable dehumidifier modules. The base includes standardized inlet and outlet channels that can accommodate different modules. This segmentation allows the same base to support multiple dehumidification performance levels by simply changing the module, thereby reducing the number of device types and simplifying production control while maintaining optimized performance for each specific application.
2Ease of manufacture
If the maximum dehumidification performance is given to all types of dehumidifying devices, then the efforts for production control are reduced, but the dehumidifying devices may be oversized unnecessarily
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables dynamic configuration where the dehumidifier module size is adjusted according to the actual dehumidification requirements. Instead of all devices being statically oversized to meet maximum requirements, users can select or attach appropriately sized modules to the standardized base, ensuring each device is optimally sized for its specific application while maintaining ease of manufacture through standardized interfaces.
3Manufacturing precision
If the dehumidifying device size is determined to meet required dehumidification performance, then the dehumidification performance requirement is satisfied, but if there is a change in the required dehumidification performance, the designer has to redesign the dehumidifying device
Solution Approach 1:
The base is designed with universal inlet and outlet channels that can accommodate multiple types of dehumidifier modules with different performance characteristics. This universality allows the same base to serve multiple functions by simply changing the attached module, enabling the system to adapt to changing dehumidification performance requirements without redesigning the entire device, thus maintaining both performance optimization and design flexibility.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables flexible and efficient production of dehumidifying devices with varying performance levels, reducing production complexity and preventing unnecessary oversizing, while maintaining high dehumidification efficiency and compact design.
Implementation Method 1
a first dehumidifier (11) having a first inlet (12a) in communication with the inlet channel (221, 222) and a first outlet (12b) in communication with the outlet channel (231, 232), the first dehumidifier (11) dehumidifying the first air between the first inlet (12a) and the first outlet (12b) to generate the second air
Data Source
AI summary
The present application discloses a dehumidifying device including a base configured to define an inlet channel for first air flow, and an outlet channel for second air flow less humid than the first; and a first dehumidifier including a first inlet and outlet in communication with the inlet and outlet channel, and configured to dehumidify the first air between the first inlet and the first outlet to generate the second air. The base includes a first base portion configured to define first inlet and outlet regions for the first and second air flows; and a second base portion configured to define second inlet and outlet regions in communication with the first inlet and outlet regions. The first and second inlet regions form at least a part of the inlet channel. The first and second outlet regions form at least a part of the outlet channel.