Remotely Actuated Volumetric Pump for High Viscosity Products
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing volumetric batching devices for high viscosity products and two-component mixtures face issues with accuracy, reliability, and flexibility due to motor integration, leading to potential seepage and cumbersome configurations, limiting their practicality for field use.
Innovation Solution
A remotely actuated volumetric batching pump with a pump having progressive recesses and a flexible rotary shaft, allowing precise control and seal, connected to a control motor via a flexible rotary shaft, ensuring high accuracy and reliability with minimal wear and flexibility in operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If control motors are integrated directly in the batching device, then actuation control is achieved, but protection against product seepage becomes difficult and device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The batching device is divided into separate functional modules: the volumetric pump unit handling the product and the control motor unit handling actuation. These modules are connected through a flexible rotary shaft, allowing independent protection and optimization of each component. The pump unit can be fully sealed against product seepage while the motor unit remains outside the product containment zone.
Solution Approach 2:
A flexible rotary shaft serves as an intermediary element between the control motor and the volumetric pump. This intermediary transmits rotational motion while allowing the motor to be positioned away from the product handling zone, eliminating the need for complex sealed integrations and enabling simpler protection measures.
2Ease of operation
If control motors are integrated in the batching device, then actuation is achieved, but the device becomes encumbrant and less practical for field use
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the control system from the batching device, the patent creates a compact pump unit suitable for field deployment. The control motor and its complex electrical connections are separated into a stationary control station, leaving only the essential volumetric pump at the delivery point, thereby improving portability and ease of operation.
3Manufacturing precision
If traditional volumetric batching devices are used, then batching accuracy is maintained, but flexibility for field use is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates the precision volumetric pumping function from the control and motor functions, creating a compact, self-contained pump unit that maintains batching accuracy while becoming portable enough for field use. The segmented design allows the pump to be positioned at the delivery point while control functions remain stationary.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible rotary shaft acts as a mediator that transmits precise rotational control from the stationary motor to the portable pump, maintaining batching accuracy while enabling field deployment. This intermediary allows the pump to be compact and mobile without sacrificing control precision.
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 solution provides a highly accurate, reliable, and flexible system for delivering high viscosity products and two-component mixtures, ensuring precise volumetric delivery and continuous operation with reduced risk of seepage, enabling practical use beyond traditional batching stations.
Implementation Method 1
The internal rotor 15 is connected to the appendix 17 through a suitable connection appendix 17, which is in turn connected to the other end of the flexible rotary shaft 11
Implementation Method 2
the internal rotor 15 being shaped as worm screw with progressive recesses whose relative rotation with respect to the stator 13 generates a translation movement of the product therein
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AI summary
A batching/delivering system (101) is described, in particular for delivering and batching high viscosity products, comprising at least one managing and actuating device (103), the managing and actuating device (103) comprising at least one control motor (105), and at least one remotely-actuated volumetric batching pump (1), for delivering and batching high viscosity products. The remotely- actuated volumetric batching pump (1) comprising at least one sucking, volumetrically batching and delivering element (3) having a first duct (5) for sucking the product to be batched, at least one volumetric batching device (7) of the product, and at least one second duct (9) for exiting the product batched by the device (7). The device (7) being operatively connected to at least one control motor of an operation of the device (7) by interposing at least one flexible rotary shaft (11).