Modular Processing Platform With Plug-In Interfaces for Multi-Use Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing processing devices require multiple devices for various uses or need significant adaptation for optimal suitability, leading to inefficiencies and high costs.
Innovation Solution
A modular processing device with a built-in unit featuring a mainboard and interchangeable functional modules, allowing adaptation to different applications via plug-in connections and interfaces, including USB, WLAN, Bluetooth, and Ethernet, with a detachable display and control unit for versatile operation across devices like weighing, dosing, and monitoring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate processing devices are used for different applications, then each device can be optimized for its specific function, but the overall system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal processing device with a mainboard that can perform multiple functions through interchangeable functional modules. The mainboard includes standardized interfaces (USB, WLAN, Bluetooth, Ethernet) and receiving interfaces for different functional modules, allowing a single device to replace multiple application-specific devices while maintaining optimized performance for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The processing device is segmented into a mainboard and separate interchangeable functional modules. Each functional module can be independently selected, connected to the mainboard via receiving interfaces, and removed when no longer needed. This segmentation allows the system to maintain only the necessary functions for each specific application, reducing overall complexity while preserving adaptability.
2Device complexity
If a single processing device is used for multiple applications, then device complexity and cost are reduced, but adaptability to specific applications decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The processing device employs dynamic reconfigurability through interchangeable functional modules. The system can adapt its functionality in real-time by connecting or disconnecting specific modules based on the current application requirements. The mainboard's receiving interfaces enable dynamic addition or removal of functional modules, allowing the single device to be optimally suited for different applications as needed.
Solution Approach 2:
Different functional modules provide specialized local quality for specific applications. Each module is designed with specific interfaces and capabilities tailored to particular functions (e.g., weighing, dosing, monitoring). When connected to the mainboard, these modules provide application-specific optimization without requiring the entire device to be designed for that specific function, thus maintaining both simplicity and adaptability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If processing devices are adapted to different uses, then optimal suitability is achieved, but adaptation cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mainboard is designed as a universal platform with standardized interfaces (USB, WLAN, Bluetooth, Ethernet) and universal receiving interfaces that can accept multiple types of functional modules. This universality eliminates the need for expensive custom adaptations for different applications, as the same mainboard can work with various functional modules through plug-and-play connectivity, significantly reducing adaptation costs while maintaining optimal suitability.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a processing apparatus for controlling, measuring and/or regulating, comprising an appliance for installation (1) for output and/or input, an intermediate housing (2), a unit (3) for display and/or operation, and a main board (4) connected to the unit (3) and having a central computer unit, said appliance for installation (1) being provided for use in a device or for a device such as a weighing device, metering device, conveying device, screening device, grinding device, mixing device, filter device, status monitoring device and/or material analysis device, the main board (4) being used as an electronic platform regardless of the use, and having, for each use, a particular combination of interfaces (21) to the device in question. The invention further relates to a processing apparatus (28) for controlling, measuring and/or regulating having such an appliance for installation (1).