Shower Head Bent Filter Module
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing showerhead devices with pleated filters face challenges in maintaining the filter's shape and ensuring easy replaceability, while also minimizing water pressure loss during filtration.
Innovation Solution
A showerhead device design that incorporates a pleated filter module with a core and outer cage for shape maintenance, housed within a modular structure that allows for easy replacement and uniform water flow paths to reduce pressure loss.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a separate filter is connected to the showerhead handle, then filtration efficiency is improved, but the volume of the showerhead device increases
Solution Approach 1:
The filter module is integrated inside the showerhead device housing, merging the filtration function with the main body. The filter assembly includes a filter element, support structure, and housing components that are combined into a single integrated unit, eliminating the need for a separate external filter connection and reducing overall device volume while maintaining filtration efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The filter module is nested within the showerhead device housing. The filter element is positioned inside a housing cavity, with the support structure and outer cage nested around it. This nested arrangement allows the filtration system to occupy the internal space of the showerhead device without increasing its external dimensions.
2Shape
If the filter is pleated into a cylindrical shape with support members, then the pleated shape is maintained, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is segmented into distinct components: an inner support member, an outer cage, and a housing frame. These segmented components can be manufactured separately and assembled together, simplifying the manufacturing process while effectively maintaining the pleated shape of the filter element through their coordinated support.
Solution Approach 2:
The housing frame acts as an intermediary structure that accommodates the filter module and provides additional support. The housing frame includes features like a retention ring and mounting structure that mediate between the filter element and the showerhead device housing, simplifying the overall assembly while maintaining filter shape.
3Ease of repair
If the filter module is provided as a modular housing with support structures, then the filter shape is maintained and replaceability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The filter assembly is segmented into a removable filter module and a fixed housing structure. The filter module includes the filter element, inner support, and outer cage as separable components that can be removed as a unit from the housing frame. This segmentation enables easy replacement of the filter module without disassembling the entire showerhead device.
Solution Approach 2:
The housing frame includes dynamic features such as a retention ring that can be moved to release the filter module. The mounting structure allows the filter module to be easily inserted and removed, providing dynamic accessibility while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure that does not significantly increase device complexity.
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 effectively maintains the pleated filter's shape, facilitates easy replacement, and minimizes water pressure loss by ensuring uniform water flow paths, enhancing filtration efficiency and user convenience.
Implementation Method 1
a filter continuously pleated inward and outward along a circumferential direction and able to filter water when water flows through the filter in an outside-to-inside direction
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AI summary
Proposed is a showerhead device including a pleated filter. The showerhead device includes a head, a filter module, and a housing frame. The head includes a housing allowing water to enter and having an open portion and a cap coupled to the housing through the open portion of the housing and having a plurality of holes through which water is discharged. The filter module is provided inside the head. The filter module includes a filter continuously pleated inward and outward along a circumferential direction and able to filter water when water flows through the filter in an outside-to-inside direction, a core provided on an inner circumferential surface of the filter and having a plurality of holes in circumferential portions thereof, and an outer cage provided on an outer circumferential surface of the filter and having a plurality of holes in circumferential portions thereof. The housing frame is mounted inside the head while accommodating the filter module therein, and includes an inner support inserted into the core of the filter module, an outer frame surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the outer cage of the filter module and having a plurality of holes formed in a circumferential surface of the outer frame, a first side plate closing one side of the outer frame and one side of