Pipe tower and base station

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing deployment of base stations on ground surface with separate cabinets for equipment, power supply, and heat dissipation systems occupies significant space, affecting aesthetics and being prone to theft.

Innovation Solution

Integration of a tube tower with a compartmentalized structure that includes a sealing room for base station components and a heat dissipation apparatus, featuring internal and external air ducts and heat exchangers, allowing for efficient heat transfer and eliminating the need for external cabinets.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If a cabinet is separately deployed around a tube tower to mount equipment and power supply, then the equipment can be properly accommodated, but the external space is occupied and aesthetics are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveequipment accommodationVSAvoidexternal space occupation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the previously separate cabinet structure with the tube tower by integrating the equipment accommodation space inside the tower's accommodation compartment. The compartment door with sealing and ventilation features provides secure access while the tower wall itself becomes the enclosure, eliminating the need for external cabinets and reducing ground space occupation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The equipment, power supply, and heat dissipation apparatus are nested within the tube tower's internal accommodation space. The compartment door system with air intake and exhaust vents is nested within the tower structure, allowing functional integration without external attachments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Ease of manufacture

If a cabinet is separately deployed around a tube tower, then equipment mounting is straightforward, but the structure becomes complex and security risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveequipment mountingVSAvoidstructural complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple functions (equipment mounting, power supply placement, heat dissipation, and security enclosure) into a single integrated tube tower structure. The compartment door system provides both security and ventilation functions, reducing the number of separate components needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Temperature

If heat dissipation system is externally disposed, then cooling function is provided, but space is occupied and aesthetics are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat dissipation functionVSAvoidexternal space occupation
Core Design Contradiction:
TemperatureVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The heat dissipation apparatus is merged with the tube tower structure by installing it within the accommodation compartment. The apparatus uses the compartment door's air intake vent to draw in cooling air and the air exhaust vent to discharge heated air, utilizing the tower's existing ventilation openings for heat dissipation without external components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The heat dissipation apparatus is nested within the internal accommodation space of the tube tower, with its air intake and exhaust paths integrated into the compartment door system. This nesting eliminates the need for external heat dissipation structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

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

This solution saves space, enhances aesthetics, reduces theft risks, and improves heat dissipation efficiency by integrating the base station and heat dissipation within the tube tower, while maintaining a compact and secure design.

Implementation Method 1

the first heat exchanger is disposed on a side wall of the sealing room and includes a first internal air duct and a first external air duct... transfer heat of the air flow to an outside of the sealing room through the first internal air duct

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHeat exchange: Heat Exchanger

Implementation Method 2

The first power portion is configured to: form, in the sealing room, an air flow that circularly flows... The external power portion and the first power portion perform heat dissipation inside and outside the sealing room

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAir flow circulation: Convection

Data Source

PatentEP3715562B1Pipe tower and base station
Publication Date: 2022.03.09 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The present utility model provides a base station and a tube tower, including a tower wall, an accommodation space and a heat dissipation apparatus that are defined by the tower wall, where a compartment door including an air intake vent and an air exhaust vent is disposed on the tower wall, the accommodation space includes an accommodation compartment, and the accommodation compartment includes a sealing room and a ventilation room located above the sealing room, the compartment door closes the accommodation compartment, the air exhaust vent is in communication with the ventilation room, and the air intake vent is located outside the accommodation compartment; the heat dissipation apparatus includes an external power portion, a first power portion, and a first heat exchanger, where the first power portion is located at the top of the sealing room, the first heat exchanger is disposed on a side wall of the sealing room and includes a first internal air duct and a first external air duct isolated from the first internal air duct, the external power portion is located in the ventilation room and in communication with one end of the first external air duct, and the other end of the first external air duct is in communication with the air intake vent; and the first power portion is configured to: form, in the sealing room, an air flow that circularly flows, and transfer heat of the air flow to an outside of the sealing room through the first internal air duct.