Modular Fluid Valve With Preset Settings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional toilet valve systems face challenges in providing accurate and precise flush volume control, requiring complex adjustments and maintenance, leading to increased replacement and repair costs, and potential degradation of toilet performance.
Innovation Solution
A modular and replaceable fluid control assembly with preset settings that control fluid flow behavior, allowing for maintenance-free operation throughout the product life, including a dual-flush actuator and variably closeable diverter valve, enabling easy replacement and adjustment without altering factory settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional fill valves and flush valves are used with adjustable settings, then fluid flow control can be customized, but device complexity and maintenance requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The valve system is divided into modular components: a permanent body with integrated settings and replaceable fluid control assemblies. This segmentation allows the complex adjustment mechanisms to be contained within standardized modules, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining customization capability through assembly selection.
Solution Approach 2:
The fluid control assemblies are designed as replaceable, maintenance-oriented components with limited service life. When these assemblies wear or fail, they are replaced rather than repaired, simplifying the maintenance model while allowing the permanent body to retain precise, long-lasting settings.
2Measurement precision
If adjustable settings are provided for fluid tank settings, then fluid flow precision can be improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to user expertise requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The optimal fluid flow settings are pre-determined and integrated into the permanent valve body during manufacturing. This preliminary action eliminates the need for end-users to perform complex adjustments, while still achieving precise fluid flow control through the factory-optimized configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-configuration through the modular assembly design. The permanent body contains built-in settings that automatically establish correct fluid flow parameters when the fluid control assembly is installed, eliminating the need for user expertise in adjustment while maintaining precision.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple trim versions are carried for replacement valves, then adaptability to different configurations is improved, but manufacturing and inventory costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The permanent valve body is designed with universal mounting interfaces and integrated settings that work with multiple types of fluid control assemblies. This universality allows a single body design to support various configurations, reducing the need for manufacturers to produce and inventory multiple specialized trim versions.
4Adaptability or versatility
If factory settings are altered during replacement, then adaptability to new conditions is improved, but reliability of original performance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The correct factory settings are pre-established in the permanent body during manufacturing. This preliminary configuration ensures that original performance is maintained upon installation, while the modular assembly design still allows for future adaptability through assembly replacement rather than setting alteration.
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AI summary
The system includes a fluid valve with a modular and/or replaceable fluid control assembly that requires maintenance over a product life of the fluid valve. The modular and/or replaceable fluid control assembly includes at least one portion including a setting or presetting configured and arranged to control fluid flow behavior in the fluid valve. The setting or presetting is useable to control fluid flow in the modular and/or replaceable fluid control assembly after an upgrade or replacement of at least a portion of the modular and/or replaceable fluid control assembly. Further, the setting or presetting enables the modular and/or replaceable fluid control assembly to retain the fluid flow behavior following one or more upgrades or replacements of one or more portions of the modular and/or replaceable fluid control assembly.