Rotatable Display Metering Console for Gardening
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing metering consoles have fixed displays that hinder user access and lead to improper readings due to restricted movement and orientation, particularly when used with gardening devices like spray guns and sprinklers.
Innovation Solution
A metering console with a rotatable display mounted between the housing on both sides, allowing it to rotate along a central axis, enabling easy adjustment and alignment for improved visual access, and including a rotatable structure for the battery and electronics to facilitate unison rotation with the display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the display is fixed relative to the housing, then the manufacturing and assembly are simple, but the user access and visual reading become difficult when the metering console is fixed with gardening devices
Solution Approach 1:
The display is made rotatable relative to the housing through a rotation mechanism, allowing it to dynamically change its orientation. This enables the display to adapt to different user viewing angles and positions, resolving the contradiction between fixed simple mounting and flexible user access.
Solution Approach 2:
The display assembly is segmented into a rotatable component that can independently rotate relative to the housing. This segmentation allows the display to be positioned independently from the housing orientation, improving user access without complicating the overall device structure.
2Ease of operation
If the display is mounted with a fixed collar or hose clamp, then the mounting is simple, but the rotational movement of the display with respect to the connector is constrained
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting mechanism is designed with rotational freedom, allowing the display to rotate independently of the housing. This dynamic capability enables the display to be oriented for optimal visual access while maintaining a relatively simple mounting structure.
3Ease of operation
If the display rotates along with the connector when assembled with the gun, then the assembly is simple, but the visual access to the display is restricted due to restricted movement
Solution Approach 1:
The display rotation function is segmented from the connector rotation function. The display can rotate independently on its mounting axis while the connector rotates on its mounting axis. This segmentation allows the display to maintain optimal orientation for visual access regardless of connector position or housing orientation.
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AI summary
A metering console (100) includes a housing (110) adapted to allow flow of a liquid (F) therethrough. The housing (110) is adapted to attach with one or more gardening devices (132, 152). The metering console (100) includes a display (170) associated with the housing (110). The metering console (100) is characterized in that the display (170) is rotatably engaged with the housing (110) of the metering console (100) such that the display (170) rotates along a central axis (A -A') of the housing (110).