Modular Base for Pumping Devices with Integrated Tubular Elements
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing pumping device installations require lengthy and labor-intensive connections to hydraulic systems, often necessitating long connectors and multiple maintenance operations, which can disrupt system functionality and prolong installation times, especially when multiple devices are needed.
Innovation Solution
A modular base system with integrated tubular elements and quick connection mechanisms, such as U-shaped forks and comb-like locking elements, allows flexible connection of intake and delivery ports to hydraulic systems, enabling rapid assembly and maintenance without the need for extensive hardware like flanges and screws.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional connection methods with flanges, screws and bolts are used, then the connection is secure and reliable, but the installation time is prolonged and the operations are labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The base is divided into modular components including a base body, connection elements, and mounting elements that can be independently assembled. This segmentation allows for quick assembly and disassembly without requiring extensive fastening operations, thereby reducing installation time while maintaining connection reliability through precise modular interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection elements and mounting elements are pre-configured and integrated into the base structure during manufacturing. This preliminary action eliminates the need for on-site assembly of complex fastening systems, allowing for rapid installation while ensuring reliable connections through factory-prepared interfaces.
2Adaptability or versatility
If long connectors and multiple connecting means are used to connect system ports to device ports, then the connection flexibility is improved, but the space occupation increases and installation complexity is prolonged
Solution Approach 1:
The base incorporates universal mounting elements and connection interfaces that can accommodate various system configurations and port positions. These multi-functional elements provide connection flexibility for different installation scenarios while maintaining a compact structure that reduces space occupation and simplifies installation procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple connection and mounting functions are merged into integrated base components. The base body combines support, positioning, and connection functions in a single structure, eliminating the need for separate long connectors and multiple connecting means, thereby reducing installation complexity while maintaining flexibility.
3Productivity
If multiple pumping devices are installed to ensure design flow-rates and head, then the system performance is improved, but the installation time and maintenance operations are significantly prolonged
Solution Approach 1:
Each pumping device is provided with its own modular base with integrated connection and mounting elements. This segmentation allows multiple devices to be independently installed and maintained without interfering with each other, significantly reducing the time required for installation and maintenance operations while achieving the required system flow-rate through parallel configuration.
4Ease of repair
If the pumping device must be taken to support service for repair, then the repair expertise is ensured, but the system functionality is interrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The base is designed as a removable module that can be easily detached from the pumping device. This extraction capability allows the base with integrated components to be quickly removed and replaced on-site, enabling maintenance operations without interrupting system functionality for extended periods while still allowing access to support service when needed.
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AI summary
A base (10, 110) for pumping devices (12, 112), the base (10, 110) comprising at least one module (11, 111) with which it is possible to mate one pumping device (12, 112), the module (11, 111) comprising an intake connector (13, 113) and a delivery connector (14, 114) in order to connect respectively the intake and the delivery of the pumping device (12, 112) respectively to a first tubular element (18, 118) and to a second tubular element (19, 119) to which they are essentially perpendicular, the two tubular elements, the first one (18, 118) and the second one (19, 119), passing through the base (10, 110) from a first lateral face thereof (20, 120) to an opposite second lateral face (21, 121) thereof, from which they face outward in order to be connected, selectively at either face, to a hydraulic system.