Smart Fish Feeder with Parallel Tubes and Weighing
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Automatic fish feed devices have limited feeding distance and lack weighing functionality, leading to inefficient fish feed distribution and inaccurate feeding amounts.
Innovation Solution
A smart agricultural automatic feeding device with a weighing part, separating part, delivery part, and air supply part, which expands the feeding distance and allows for accurate weighing and distribution of fish feed through a system of delivery tubes and pressurized air supply.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If automatic feeding device is used, then feeding operation is simplified and labor cost is reduced, but feeding distance is limited and feed distribution is concentrated
Solution Approach 1:
The feeding device divides the feed distribution system into multiple delivery tubes arranged in parallel, each extending to different locations. This segmentation allows feed to be distributed across multiple areas simultaneously, effectively increasing the feeding distance and coverage area while maintaining automated operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The device transitions from single-point feed delivery to multi-point distribution by arranging delivery tubes in parallel across different spatial dimensions. This dimensional expansion enables feed to reach multiple locations at once, solving the limited feeding distance problem while preserving automated feeding benefits.
2Productivity
If automatic feeding device is used, then feeding efficiency is improved, but weighing function is missing and feed amount accuracy is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The automatic feeding device integrates multiple functions including weighing, storage, separation, and delivery into a single system. The weighing component is incorporated into the feed storage mechanism, allowing the device to both measure feed amount accurately and automate the feeding process, thereby achieving both high productivity and measurement precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The weighing function is merged with the feed storage and delivery system. The weighing component is combined with the feed hopper and delivery mechanism, creating an integrated system that performs both accurate measurement and automated feeding operations simultaneously, eliminating the need for separate weighing equipment.
3Device complexity
If feed is distributed in concentrated area, then delivery complexity is reduced, but fish eating efficiency is poor and feed waste increases
Solution Approach 1:
The delivery system is segmented into multiple parallel delivery tubes that distribute feed to different locations. This segmentation spreads feed across a larger area, preventing concentration in one spot, reducing feed waste, and improving fish feeding efficiency while maintaining relatively simple device structure.
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 device ensures even fish feed distribution over a larger area, reduces waste, and allows for precise measurement of fish feed, improving feeding efficiency and effectiveness.
Implementation Method 1
The air supply part is connected to the plurality of delivery tubes through a pressurized part, and the pressurized part is in transmission connection with the separating part
Data Source
AI summary
A smart agricultural automatic feeding device includes a feeding box, a weighing part is disposed in the feeding box and connected with a top of the feeding box; a separating part is disposed below the weighing part and rotatably connected to an inner wall of the feeding box, a feed end of the separating part is connected with a discharge end of weighing part; a delivery part is disposed below the separating part and includes delivery tubes arranged in parallel, the delivery tubes are fixed to the inner wall of the feeding box, feed ends of the delivery tubes are connected to the discharge end of the separating part and configured to be arranged correspondingly to a fish pond; an air supply part is disposed outside the feeding box and connected to the delivery tubes through a pressurized part, the pressurized part is in transmission connection with the separating part.