Tap Cartridge Cable Routing for Electronic Handles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing taps with electronic functions lack a reliable and stress-free method for routing cables that supply data and power to manual moving actuation handles, leading to tangling, clamping, and deterioration of connections during user interaction.

Innovation Solution

A tap cartridge with a cable routing system featuring spiral cable accumulation spaces within the cartridge, allowing for controlled cable length adjustment and secure connection to the handle, preventing tangling and stress on the cable during manual actuation movements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a direct cable routing is used from the cartridge to the handle, then the cable length is minimized and the routing is simplified, but the cable becomes vulnerable to tangling, clamping, and deterioration during handle movement

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecable routing complexityVSAvoidcable connection reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The cable routing system incorporates a spiral accumulation space that dynamically adapts to handle movement. As the handle moves, the cable can wind or unwind within the spiral space, providing dynamic compensation for position changes while maintaining connection integrity and preventing cable damage

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The cable is nested within a dedicated spiral accumulation space inside the cartridge body. This nested structure allows the cable to be contained and organized in a compact manner while providing sufficient length for handle movement without external tangling

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Adaptability or versatility

If additional cable length is provided for handle movement, then the cable can accommodate position variations, but the cable may become tangled or clamped without proper routing structure

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecable length adaptabilityVSAvoidcable tangling and clamping

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The spiral accumulation space provides a dynamic routing structure that adapts to cable length requirements during handle movement. The spiral geometry allows the cable to expand and contract in a controlled manner, preventing tangling while accommodating position variations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The spiral accumulation space acts as an intermediary structure between the fixed cartridge body and the moving handle. It mediates the cable's transition from a fixed to a moving state, preventing direct contact with external surfaces that could cause clamping or tangling

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If the cable is tightly secured to maintain connection stability, then connection reliability improves, but the cable cannot accommodate handle movement without stress

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecable connection stabilityVSAvoidcable stress resistance

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The routing system transitions from a static to a dynamic configuration. The cable is secured at fixed points but allowed to move freely within the spiral accumulation space, maintaining connection stability while accommodating movement-induced length variations without stress

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11221086B2Tap cartridge with cable routing for manual moving actuation handle and tap with electronic handle that contains said tap cartridge

Publication Date: 2022.01.11 SEDAL SL

AI summary

The present invention relates to a tap cartridge that includes a routing of a cable that may transmit data and/or supply electricity, for a tap handle or lever with electronic functions, and which also relates to the tap containing said cartridge with the routing system, wherein the configuration of a parameter of the fluid supplied is performed by rotation of said handle or lever, all thanks to a positioning through the inner cartridge and of an extra accumulation of cable in a space of the cartridge prior to the connection of the lever.