Water-Floating Body Assembly with Recessed Plates for Stable Buoyancy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing floating bodies on water tend to rotate and drift due to poor stability, are difficult to assemble, and have a large volume, leading to transportation and storage challenges, with cylindrical floats being costly and lumpy foam offering low structural strength and assembly issues.
Innovation Solution
A floating body design comprising a bottom plate, cover plate, and end covers with specific sidewalls and coupling grooves, allowing for easy assembly, reduced volume, and enhanced structural strength, featuring waterproof pads and ribs for stability and sealing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single cylindrical float is disposed on water, then the structure is simple, but the floating stability is poor and the float tends to rotate and drift
Solution Approach 1:
The float is divided into multiple functional parts: a bottom plate with recessed portions, a cover plate with corresponding protrusions, and multiple cylindrical floats arranged in specific patterns. This segmentation allows each component to perform its function while maintaining overall stability, resolving the contradiction between structural simplicity and floating stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The bottom plate features asymmetric recessed portions with different dimensions and positions, and the cylindrical floats are arranged asymmetrically relative to the center. This asymmetric design creates balanced buoyancy distribution that prevents rotation and drift, improving floating stability without excessive complexity.
2Stability of the object's composition
If multiple cylindrical floats are assembled, then the floating stability is improved, but the assembly is inconvenient and the assembling stability is not good
Solution Approach 1:
The float structure is segmented into a bottom plate, cover plate, and cylindrical floats that can be assembled separately and then easily connected. The recessed portions and protrusions act as guide features that simplify the assembly process, making it convenient to assemble multiple floats while maintaining stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The recessed portions in the bottom plate and corresponding protrusions on the cover plate serve as intermediary connection features. These intermediaries facilitate easy alignment and connection of the cylindrical floats to the frame, improving both assembly convenience and assembling stability.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the cylindrical floats are assembled with the outer frame, then the floating stability is improved, but the assembly is difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The float structure is pre-segmented into modular components (bottom plate, cover plate, cylindrical floats) that can be independently manufactured and then quickly assembled. This segmentation enables parallel manufacturing and reduces on-site assembly time while maintaining assembling stability through the recessed-protrusion connection mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The bottom plate and cover plate are pre-formed with recessed portions and protrusions during manufacturing. This preliminary action of pre-forming connection features eliminates the need for complex field assembly operations, reducing assembly time while ensuring stable connection between the floats and outer frame.
4Strength
If the floating body is designed as a single integrated unit, then the structural strength is enhanced, but the volume is large and disadvantageous to loading and transportation
Solution Approach 1:
The float is segmented into multiple components (bottom plate, cover plate, cylindrical floats, end covers) that can be collapsed or nested together when not in use. This segmentation reduces the transportation volume significantly while maintaining structural strength through the interlocking recessed-protrusion design that ensures proper alignment and connection during assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The cylindrical floats and other components are designed to nest within each other or against the bottom plate and cover plate when collapsed. This nesting arrangement minimizes the overall volume for transportation and storage while preserving the structural integrity and strength of each component through their interlocking design features.
5Ease of manufacture
If blow molding is used to produce floating bodies, then the manufacturing is simple, but the manufacturing cost is high and the volume is large
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of producing a single large floating body through blow molding, the invention segments the float into multiple components (bottom plate, cover plate, cylindrical floats, end covers) that can be manufactured separately using simpler, more cost-effective processes. This segmentation reduces material consumption and allows for more efficient production while maintaining manufacturing simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the manufacturing parameters and methods from large-scale blow molding to smaller-scale component fabrication using materials like HDPE, PP, or PVC. This parameter change enables more efficient material utilization, reduces overall material consumption, and lowers manufacturing costs while maintaining ease of production through standardized component manufacturing.
6Ease of manufacture
If lumpy foam is used to produce floating bodies, then the manufacturing cost is reduced, but the structural strength is low and assembly is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The float is segmented into rigid components (bottom plate, cover plate, cylindrical floats, end covers) made from materials with appropriate structural strength. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured with sufficient strength using cost-effective methods, avoiding the need for weak lumpy foam while maintaining low manufacturing costs through efficient material selection and production processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the material parameters from weak lumpy foam to stronger, more assembly-friendly materials such as HDPE, PP, or PVC sheets and plates. This parameter change maintains cost-effectiveness while significantly improving structural strength and assembly characteristics, allowing for easy connection through the recessed-protrusion mechanism.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design provides enhanced floating stability, reduced volume for easier transportation, and improved assembly convenience, with increased structural strength and reduced sway, while maintaining buoyancy and stability on water surfaces.
Implementation Method 1
A plurality of vertical hollow cylindrical floats is disposed below the frame, and the frame and objects on top of the frame can float on water through the floats
Data Source
AI summary
A water floating body device has a bottom plate with two adjacent concave portions; a cover plate; two end covers, and a downwards-concave joint groove. Each concave portion of the bottom plate has a bottom wall, inner side wall slanting obliquely inwards, and an outer side wall slanting obliquely outwards. The cover plate has two upper extension walls. The joint groove has a bottom wall, and obliquely inward-slanting side walls arranged on two side edges of the joint groove's bottom wall. The top edges of the joint groove's side walls have upper transverse walls connected to the cover plate's upper extension walls. The end covers are sheet-shaped bodies, and can seal two end positions after the cover plate and the bottom plate are combined. In this way, the present invention can have better floating stability, structural strength and volume reduction effect.