Modular Laboratory Disposal System with Adapters
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current laboratory devices lack a simple, cost-effective, and flexible solution for safe disposal of hazardous substances, particularly liquid chemicals, across various laboratory setups.
Innovation Solution
A modular distribution system with a bushing, adapter, and distributor allows for the connection and combination of media lines of different diameters, enabling safe disposal through either a collection vessel or media lines, and includes features like hose and funnel adapters for adaptability and electrostatic discharge prevention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a dedicated disposal system with fixed drainage grooves and sinks is implemented, then safe handling of hazardous substances is improved, but adaptability to different laboratory setups and working conditions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The disposal system is divided into separate functional modules: a base unit with opening, removable adapters (hose adapter, funnel adapter), and collection container. This segmentation allows different adapter configurations to be attached to the same base, providing adaptability while maintaining safe disposal functionality through the standardized base design.
Solution Approach 2:
The base unit with opening serves multiple functions by accepting different types of adapters (hose adapter for direct hose connection, funnel adapter for funnel attachment). This universal base design enables the same disposal system to handle different working conditions and laboratory setups without requiring multiple dedicated systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a modular distribution system with multiple adapters and distributors is implemented, then adaptability to different working conditions is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments functionality into a simple base unit and interchangeable adapters. Instead of one complex integrated system, the segmentation into removable components (base, adapters, collection container) reduces overall complexity while maintaining adaptability through modular reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter can be easily removed and replaced depending on working conditions. This allows the system to discard the current adapter configuration and recover the base unit for a new configuration, simplifying the approach to adaptability rather than requiring permanent complex multi-functionality.
3Ease of operation
If standardized components with receptacles and connecting flanges are used, then ease of assembly and disassembly is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The base unit with standardized opening and the adapter with matching receptacle and connecting flange create a universal connection system. This universality simplifies assembly and disassembly operations while the standardized design actually reduces manufacturing complexity through repetition of the same component specifications.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables flexible and safe disposal of hazardous liquids by allowing adaptation to different working conditions with standardized components, ensuring efficient handling of varying liquid quantities and viscosities while preventing electrostatic charges.
Implementation Method 1
the at least one media line is designed to be electrically conductive in order in this way, on the one hand, to be able to prevent electrostatic charges
Data Source
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a laboratory device equipped with at least one base (3, 5) having at least one opening (4) and at least one collection container (1). The collection container (1) is connected to the opening (4) via one or more media lines (6, 7). According to the invention, at least one adapter (9, 10; 5) is provided for the optional attachment of a collection vessel (11) or at least one media line (12) in the area of the opening (4). In this context, the adapter (9, 10; 5) functions as a basic component of such a modular distribution system (8; 9, 10; 13).