Telescopic Faucet Spout With Pivoting Spray Head for Splash Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional faucets have fixed heights and stationary spray heads, leading to issues such as fluid splashing, limited user access, and restricted mobility, which affect user comfort and safety.
Innovation Solution
The development of height adjustable faucets with rotatably flexible spray heads that can be automatically or manually actuated between positions, and spray heads that can rotate in multiple directions, allowing for customizable positioning and improved user control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the faucet height is increased to accommodate tall users, then user accessibility is improved, but fluid splashing increases due to greater distance between spray head and sink basin
Solution Approach 1:
The faucet spout tube is designed with telescopic capability, allowing it to dynamically adjust its length between extended and retracted positions. This dynamic adjustment enables the faucet to adapt its height based on operational needs - extended for user accessibility and retracted to reduce splashing, thus resolving the contradiction between these two requirements
2Object-generated harmful factors
If the faucet height is decreased to reduce splashing, then fluid control is improved, but user access becomes limited for tall individuals
Solution Approach 1:
The telescopic spout tube provides dynamic height adjustment, allowing the faucet to be lowered to reduce splashing and raised to improve user access. This dynamic capability enables the system to resolve the contradiction by adapting to different operational scenarios rather than being fixed at a single height
3Ease of manufacture
If the spray head is made stationary to simplify structure, then manufacturing is easier, but user control and mobility are restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The spray head is designed with rotational capability, allowing it to dynamically change its angular position around the spout tube axis. This dynamic rotation enables the spray head to be directed toward different areas of the sink basin, significantly improving user control and mobility while maintaining relatively simple manufacturing through standardized rotational joints
4Ease of operation
If the spray head is made rotatable to improve user control, then user comfort and safety are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotational joint mechanism allows the spray head to rotate freely around the spout tube axis with minimal mechanical complexity. This simple rotational degree of freedom provides significant improvement in user comfort and safety by enabling the spray head to reach multiple positions in the sink basin without requiring complex multi-axis mechanisms
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AI summary
A faucet including a bottom support, a spout body coupled to the bottom support, the spout body having an internal opening extending from a top surface to a bottom surface of the spout body, a spout tube extending upward from the spout body. The spout tube can be received at least partially within the spout body. The faucet further includes a rotatably flexible spray head having a first spray head tube coupled to a second spray head tube via a pivot element. The pivot element enables rotation of the second spray head tube relative to the first spray head tube to provide movement of the spray head in multiple directions. The first spray head tube generally remains stationary during rotation of the second spray head tube. The faucet can actuate between a lowered position and one or more raised positions, without external intervention.