Showerhead Fluid Concentrator Centrifugal Mixing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing showerheads face challenges in effectively and efficiently distributing water due to limited water supplies and water conservancy efforts, making it difficult to achieve forceful and effective shower spray patterns.
Innovation Solution
The showerhead design incorporates a housing with a perforate partition and nozzle body, featuring a fluid inlet and outlet, with a baffle and peripheral fluid passages that communicate with a mixing cavity, allowing water to be mixed, compressed, and ejected with centrifugal force, creating a spinning whirlpool effect for efficient water distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of substance
If water supply is limited to conserve water, then water conservation is improved, but shower spray force and effectiveness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the physical parameters of water delivery by implementing a multi-stage compression system that increases water pressure and velocity. The compression chamber compresses water to high pressure, then the nozzle converts this to high velocity spray, allowing limited water to deliver maximum force and coverage area.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs hydraulic principles through the compression chamber and nozzle system. Water is compressed in a closed chamber (hydraulic compression) then forced through a restricted nozzle opening, creating high-velocity jets that maximize spray force from minimal water input.
2Area of stationary object
If water is dispersed through multiple small holes, then water distribution coverage is improved, but clogging risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the water stream into multiple jets through the nozzle array, creating widespread coverage. However, each nozzle is designed with larger openings compared to traditional showerheads, reducing clogging risk while maintaining segmentation benefits for coverage area.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different local qualities to the nozzle structure - the nozzle openings are larger and strategically positioned to optimize flow patterns. The compression chamber provides uniform pressure distribution to all nozzles, ensuring reliable operation while maintaining good coverage.
3Force
If water pressure is increased to improve spray effectiveness, then shower spray force is improved, but water consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent maintains continuous high-pressure compression of water in the compression chamber, ensuring that every drop of water receives maximum compression before being delivered through the nozzles. This continuous compression action maximizes the effectiveness of each unit of water consumed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies excessive compression to the water in the compression chamber, compressing water to pressures higher than typical shower systems. This over-compression ensures that even with reduced water flow, the spray maintains high force and effectiveness.
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
This design enhances water distribution by creating a vigorous and efficient shower spray pattern while conserving water, reducing steam and fog production, and minimizing clogging risks, providing a warmer shower experience with larger water droplets.
Implementation Method 1
dispersing the water through at least one peripheral fluid passage and into the at least one inwardly extending peripheral passage; mixing the water in the mixing cavity; compressing the mixed water through an upstream portion of the nozzle body and ejecting the mixed water from the nozzle body via the fluid outlet
Implementation Method 2
compressing the mixed water through an upstream portion of the nozzle body and ejecting the mixed water from the nozzle body via the fluid outlet
Data Source
AI summary
A showerhead is provided having a housing, a perforate partition and a nozzle body. The housing has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The perforate partition is provided in the housing between the inlet and the outlet and has at least one peripheral fluid passage communicating with the fluid inlet. Each peripheral fluid passage communicates at a downstream end with an inwardly extending peripheral slot, and each slot communicates at a downstream end with a mixing cavity. The nozzle body is carried by the housing downstream of the mixing cavity and has a compression port at an upstream end and an outlet port at a downstream end in fluid communication with the compression port.