Movable-Wall Filling Device for Flexible Filling and Compact Transport

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Solution Overview

Problem

Funnel-shaped filling devices require dimensions that make transportation difficult due to their oblique walls, limiting mobility and spatial flexibility.

Innovation Solution

A filling device with movable elements, such as folding walls, actuators, and hydraulic cylinders, allowing for adjustable dimensions and positions to facilitate both filling and transport.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a funnel-shaped filling device is used to enable filling from the side, then filling flexibility is improved, but transportability deteriorates due to increased dimensions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefilling flexibilityVSAvoidtransport dimensions

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLength of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The filling device employs movable walls that can be positioned in different orientations. During filling operation, the walls are arranged to form a funnel shape for side filling. During transport, the walls can be repositioned to a more compact configuration, reducing the overall dimensions of the device and improving transportability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The filling device is divided into multiple movable walls rather than a single fixed structure. These segmented walls can be independently positioned and adjusted between operational and transport configurations, allowing the device to adapt its geometry for different purposes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Device complexity

If fixed dimensions are used for the filling device, then structural simplicity is maintained, but spatial flexibility deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural simplicityVSAvoidspatial flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The device transitions from a static fixed-dimension structure to a dynamic configuration where walls can move between different positions. This allows the same structural components to provide both simplicity in their resting state and spatial flexibility when activated, balancing structural simplicity with adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20250230026A1Filling device and device

Publication Date: 2025.07.17 KOMPTECH

AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a filling device for filling matter into a device, wherein the filling device comprises a movable element or a plurality of movable elements.