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Solution Overview
Problem
Standard gas regulators for outdoor grilling appliances often fail to provide sufficient gas flow to high-pressure burners, especially when internal cylinder pressure varies significantly with temperature, limiting the ability to achieve desired cooking temperatures and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of an extension pipe with a built-in orifice that connects the regulator to the burner, increasing the gas flow rate by reducing the internal diameter of the orifice, allowing for higher pressure and flow delivery to high-pressure burners.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a standard regulator is used to control gas pressure, then the gas pressure is reduced to a lower level for safe use, but the gas flow rate becomes insufficient for high-pressure burners
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into two separate regulators: a first regulator that reduces high cylinder pressure to an intermediate pressure level, and a second regulator that further reduces it to the final low pressure for the burner. This segmentation allows each regulator to operate within optimal pressure ranges, maintaining safety while enabling higher flow rates to high-pressure burners.
Solution Approach 2:
An intermediate pressure stage is introduced between the high-pressure cylinder and the low-pressure burner requirement. The first regulator acts as an intermediary, creating a middle pressure level that enables the second regulator to deliver adequate flow to high-pressure burners while maintaining safe final pressure levels.
2Reliability
If the regulator reduces pressure to 1/2 psi for standard burners, then safety is improved, but the BTU output is insufficient for high-pressure burner applications
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides dynamic pressure control with two adjustable regulators, allowing the user to independently set the intermediate pressure and final pressure levels. This dynamic adjustment capability enables optimization of BTU output for high-pressure burners while maintaining safe pressure reduction throughout the system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the pressure parameters through a two-stage reduction process. The first regulator changes pressure from high cylinder pressure (300-40 psi) to an intermediate level, and the second regulator changes it again to the final low pressure (1/2 psi). This parameter transformation enables both high BTU output and safety.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration enables higher BTU output, improving flame control, burning efficiency, and temperature range, allowing for cooking temperatures between 14,000 to 17,000 BTU, enhancing the performance of high-pressure burners with lower pressure regulators.
Implementation Method 1
The extension pipe has a built-in orifice, the pipe connects the regulator at a first end and to a burner at a second end. The inset orifice provides several advantages over current regulators on the market.
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AI summary
A regulator assembly is disclosed. The regulator assembly can include a regulator having a gas inlet and a gas outlet. The regulator assembly can also include an extension pipe having a proximal end and a distal end. The regulator assemble can also include an orifice disposed in the extension pipe for modification of the gas flow.