Slim range hood
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Solution Overview
Problem
Slim range hoods require diverse air passage assemblies to match different product sizes and appearances, leading to high development investments, low standardization, and prolonged development cycles, which hinder the expansion of product series and iterative upgrades.
Innovation Solution
A slim range hood design featuring a detachable air guide cover that matches the volute, allowing for various product structure sizes and air outlets, enabling high standardization, reduced development investment, and a shorter development cycle by using the same core components for different products.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different air passage assemblies are designed for different product sizes and appearances, then product diversity and adaptability are improved, but device complexity and development investment increase
Solution Approach 1:
The air passage assembly is divided into modular components: a universal volute and detachable air guide covers. This segmentation allows the core volute to remain standardized while only the air guide covers need to vary for different product configurations, reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
A single standardized volute design serves multiple product variants by combining with different air guide covers. This universal core component approach allows one volute to support diverse product sizes and appearances, eliminating the need for completely different air passage assemblies for each product variant.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple customized air passage assemblies are developed for different products, then product-specific performance is improved, but development time and investment increase
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized volute is designed and validated in advance as a universal core component. This preliminary action allows subsequent product variants to be developed quickly by simply selecting and attaching appropriate pre-designed air guide covers, rather than designing complete air passage assemblies from scratch for each product.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple product-specific air guide cover designs are merged with a single standardized volute. This combining approach allows different air guide covers to be integrated with the same core component, enabling rapid product iteration without repeating the entire air passage assembly development process.
3Productivity
If standardized core components are used across different products, then development efficiency and standardization are improved, but adaptability to different product configurations may be limited
Solution Approach 1:
The air guide covers are designed as detachable and interchangeable components that can be dynamically selected and attached to the standardized volute based on specific product configuration requirements. This dynamic adaptability allows the same core volute to serve multiple configurations without compromising either standardization or flexibility.
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 facilitates the expansion of product series and iterative upgrades by providing high standardization, reducing development costs and time, while accommodating diverse product needs with a single core component.
Implementation Method 1
The air guide cover is detachably mounted at an air outlet of the first air outlet part and is configured to guide an air flow sucked in by the fan assembly to the internal circulation air outlet
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments provide a slim range hood, including: a box body having an internal circulation air outlet; and a fan assembly arranged in the box body and including a volute and an air guide cover. The volute includes an air inlet part and a first air outlet part connected to an air outlet of the air inlet part. The air guide cover is detachably mounted at an air outlet of the first air outlet part and is configured to guide an air flow sucked in by the fan assembly to the internal circulation air outlet. With the slim range hood, a design of matching the volute with different air guide covers is realized by mounting the detachable air guide cover at the first air outlet part, different product structure sizes and air outlets of different sizes are satisfied, and different types of products have the same core component.