Vacuum Insulation Plate Edge Folding and Taping Automation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing manual process for preparing vacuum heat-insulating plates is inefficient and costly due to the need for manual straightening, folding, and adhering of packaging bags, which can lead to thermal bridges and reduced thermal performance.

Innovation Solution

A processing apparatus that includes a conveying mechanism, edge-pulling mechanisms, edge-folding mechanisms, and adhesive tape machines, which work together to automatically straighten, fold, and adhere packaging bags on vacuum heat-insulating plates, improving efficiency and reducing manual labor.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual straightening, folding, and adhering of packaging bags is performed, then the packaging bag can be processed, but the process consumes large amounts of manpower and is low in efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoidmanual operation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The packaging bag automatically straightens itself through the guide groove structure during the vacuum packaging process, eliminating the need for manual straightening operations. The bag is guided through the groove from the sealing area toward the cutting area, and the groove's geometry causes the bag to self-align and straighten as it moves through the system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical operations with an automated mechanical system consisting of the guide groove, vacuum sealing mechanism, and cutting device. The guide groove acts as a mechanical guide that automatically positions and straightens the packaging bag without human intervention, substituting the manual straightening process with a passive mechanical guiding structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Manufacturing precision

If the packaging bag is not completely straightened, then manual processing is simpler, but a relatively large gap between spliced plates will be caused and thermal bridges will be formed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepackaging bag straightnessVSAvoidprocessing simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The guide groove serves as an intermediary structure between the vacuum sealing mechanism and the cutting device. It mediates the packaging bag's transition from a sealed state to a straightened state by providing a geometric path that guides and straightens the bag as it moves through the system, ensuring precise positioning without complex additional mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The guide groove performs the straightening action preliminarily during the vacuum sealing process itself, before the cutting operation. As the packaging bag is sealed and then moves through the guide groove toward the cutting area, it is automatically straightened in advance, ensuring that by the time it reaches the cutting position, it is already properly aligned and ready for precise cutting without requiring separate straightening steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250153404A1Processing apparatus for vacuum heat-insulating plate, aerogel-modified polyurethane foam thermal insulation plate, and preparation method therefor
Publication Date: 2025.05.15 CHONGQING ZAISHENG TECH CORP
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AI summary

A processing apparatus for a vacuum heat-insulating plate, an aerogel-modified polyurethane foam thermal insulation plate, and a preparation method therefor are disclosed. The processing apparatus includes a first frame, a conveying mechanism disposed on the first frame, two edge-pulling mechanisms arranged as mirror images on the two sides of the conveying mechanism, two adhesive tape machines arranged as mirror images on the two sides of the conveying mechanism, and an edge-folding mechanism disposed above the conveying mechanism. The edge-pulling mechanisms, the edge-folding mechanism, and the adhesive tape machines are sequentially arranged along the conveying direction of the conveying mechanism. The aerogel-modified polyurethane foam thermal insulation plate of the present invention includes a polyurethane foam core and at least one thermal insulation pack, the polyurethane foam wraps the thermal insulation pack, and the volume ratio of the thermal insulation pack in the thermal insulation plate is 10%-90%.