Refrigeration cycle device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing refrigeration cycle devices are production-intensive and lack compactness, requiring multiple parts and complex connections.
Innovation Solution
A refrigeration cycle device with a monolithic body featuring integrated interfaces, such as recesses or threads, for connecting components and lines, allowing for simplified manufacturing and assembly, with a focus on mass distribution to dampen external stimuli and include additional interfaces for medium flow, enhancing connectivity and compactness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate parts and complex connections are used, then connectivity and functionality are achieved, but manufacturing complexity and assembly time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate refrigeration cycle components and connection lines into a single monolithic body produced by primary forming. This integration eliminates the need for multiple separate parts and complex assembly operations, directly resolving the contradiction by maintaining connectivity while dramatically reducing manufacturing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The monolithic body serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a structural component, a conduit for refrigerant flow, and an integrated assembly for multiple refrigeration cycle components. This multi-functionality approach allows the single body to replace what would traditionally require multiple separate parts, reducing manufacturing complexity while maintaining full connectivity
2Reliability
If multiple separate parts are used, then functionality is achieved, but assembly time and production intensity increase
Solution Approach 1:
By combining multiple refrigeration cycle components and connection lines into one monolithic body, the patent eliminates sequential assembly operations. The single primary forming process replaces what would otherwise require multiple assembly steps, directly reducing assembly time while maintaining all necessary functionalities through the integrated design
3Adaptability or versatility
If interfaces are provided on separate sandwich plates, then connectivity is achieved, but manufacturing steps and parts quantity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the interface functionality directly into the monolithic body through primary forming, eliminating the need for separate sandwich plates with interfaces. This consolidation reduces the total number of parts and simplifies manufacturing by incorporating interface features into the single main component rather than requiring additional separate components
Solution Approach 2:
The monolithic body includes specifically designed recesses or protrusions that segment the interface functionality into distinct, easily connectable features. This segmentation of the interface design within the unified body allows for simple, standardized connections without requiring separate sandwich plate components, improving ease of manufacture while maintaining connectivity
4Ease of manufacture
If a monolithic body is used, then manufacturing simplicity and compactness are improved, but damping of external stimuli may be insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by strategically distributing mass within the monolithic body, creating regions of higher density or structural reinforcement at specific locations. This localized mass distribution enhances damping of external stimuli at critical points while maintaining the overall simplicity of the monolithic manufacturing approach
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution results in a more efficient, compact, and easier-to-manufacture refrigeration cycle device with reduced assembly errors, improved connectivity, and enhanced durability through mass distribution and integrated interfaces, suitable for applications like heat pumps and air conditioning systems.
Implementation Method 1
In order to ensure that external dynamic excitations acting on the body (in particular, for example, by a compressor) are damped as well as possible by the body, it is particularly preferably provided that a mass of the body is a multiple, preferably at least 3 times, preferably 8 times, particularly preferably 10 times, greater than a mass of all other refrigeration circuit components not belonging to the body
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AI summary
The invention relates to a refrigeration circuit device comprising several refrigeration circuit components (1) and several refrigeration circuit lines (2) connecting the refrigeration circuit components (1) to one another, wherein at least a part of at least one refrigeration circuit component (1) and at least one refrigeration circuit line (2) are formed in a monolithic body (3) produced by primary forming, wherein the body (3) has an interface (4) for external connection of one of the remaining refrigeration circuit components (1) or one of the remaining refrigeration circuit lines (2), the interface being connected within the body (3) to at least a part of the at least one refrigeration circuit component (1) or to the at least one refrigeration circuit line (2). According to the invention, an additional interface is provided on the body for a further medium flowing through the refrigeration circuit component.