Swimming Pool Pump Water-Cooling Channels for Motor Heat Dissipation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing swimming pool water pumps face challenges in heat dissipation performance during high-power operation due to limited heat exchange areas and inadequate water circulation, leading to inefficient cooling and potential motor failure.

Innovation Solution

A water pump design featuring a partition plate with through holes, an annular partition, and a return pipe system that creates high and low pressure chambers, allowing water to circulate through multiple channels to directly flush and cool the motor, ensuring timely water replacement and efficient heat dissipation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If water cooling method uses a small part of circulating water to impact the motor through an interstice between the impeller and volute, then the structure is simple, but the heat exchange area is small and heat dissipation is insufficient during high-power operation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecooling structureVSAvoidheat dissipation performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The motor chamber is divided into multiple cooling zones through the annular partition, creating separate flow channels that increase the heat exchange area. The partition plate with through holes segments the water flow path, allowing water to cool different portions of the motor systematically rather than relying on a single impact point.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The cooling approach transitions from a single-point impact cooling method to a multi-dimensional flow channel system. Water flows through multiple paths including the annular partition channel and return pipe channel, utilizing three-dimensional space within the motor chamber to maximize heat exchange surface area.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Device complexity

If circulating water cannot flow out in time and be supplemented with new circulating water, then the water circulation system is simple, but heat cannot be dissipated in time during high-power operation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewater circulation systemVSAvoidheat dissipation timing
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The return pipe establishes a continuous water circulation pathway that constantly replenishes cool water to the motor chamber and continuously removes heated water. This ensures uninterrupted heat dissipation during high-power operation, maintaining effective cooling throughout the operating cycle.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The return pipe acts as an intermediary component that facilitates the exchange between the motor chamber and the water intake container. It mediates the removal of heated water and the introduction of fresh cooling water, ensuring timely heat dissipation without complicating the overall system architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Volume of stationary object

If water cooling channel area is small, then the device structure is compact, but the heat exchange efficiency is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemotor chamber volumeVSAvoidheat exchange efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Volume of stationary objectVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The annular partition and return pipe are nested within the motor chamber, utilizing the existing space efficiently. The cooling flow channels are formed by nesting the annular partition between the motor and the motor chamber wall, maximizing heat exchange area without increasing the overall motor chamber volume.

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

The design enhances heat dissipation performance, reduces noise, and ensures reliable operation by maintaining a stable cooling water circulation, preventing motor failure and improving energy efficiency.

Implementation Method 1

a high pressure chamber is formed between the impeller and the partition plate under the action of the rotation of the impeller, and the swimming pool water flows to the motor chamber through the through holes of the partition plate under the action of high pressure

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPressure difference: Pressure Gradient

Implementation Method 2

the swimming pool water flows into the flow channel formed by the outer wall of the main body of the motor and the annular partition through the through holes, flushing the outer wall of the main body of the motor to achieve cooling

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHeat transfer: Convection

Data Source

PatentEP4491879B1Water pump for swimming pool
Publication Date: 2026.04.29 AQUAGEM MFG LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a water pump for a swimming pool, which achieves water cooling by constructing water circulating flow channels inside the water pump for the swimming pool. Due to the arrangement of a low pressure chamber and a high pressure chamber which are formed between a water intake container and a pump chamber, in combination with the water circulating flow channels formed by through holes of a partition plate, an annular partition, a motor casing, an inner wall of a motor chamber, and a first return pipe, a part of swimming pool water entering the water pump is enabled to flow from the water intake container into a pump body under different water pressure differences and the action of an impeller so as to directly flush and cool an outer wall of a motor; and the water can flow back to the water intake container.