Vessel Rack Bulge for Vortex Agitation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current agitation methods for round-bottom vessels require complex and time-consuming operations, leading to inefficient liquid agitation and potential precipitation of fine particles, which can affect analysis results, especially when measuring multiple vessels simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A vessel rack with a holder and support structure featuring through-holes and supporting holes with a bulge, allowing for efficient vortex formation during agitation, combined with a rocking unit for efficient liquid agitation and a fine particle measurement apparatus that includes a detector and sampler for automated sampling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple vessels are set for measurement, then measurement capacity is improved, but operation complexity increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple vessel agitation functions into a single integrated rack structure. The rack simultaneously holds multiple round-bottom vessels and provides agitation support for all vessels through its designed support holes with bulges, eliminating the need for separate agitation operations for each vessel and significantly reducing operational complexity while maintaining high measurement capacity
2Measurement precision
If agitation time is extended to prevent particle precipitation, then measurement accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rack structure is designed with support holes having bulges at their bottoms before the agitation process begins. This preliminary structural configuration ensures that when agitation occurs, vortices are automatically formed in each vessel, creating effective mixing action that prevents particle precipitation quickly, thereby achieving accurate measurement results without requiring extended agitation time
3Device complexity
If conventional agitation method is used, then equipment simplicity is maintained, but agitation efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality modification by incorporating bulges at the bottoms of the support holes in specific locations where vessels are held. This localized structural feature creates vortex flow patterns during agitation, significantly improving agitation efficiency in those specific areas without complicating the overall rack structure, thus maintaining equipment simplicity while enhancing agitation efficiency
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 solution enables efficient agitation of multiple round-bottom vessels simultaneously, reducing operator burden and improving measurement accuracy by preventing particle precipitation and simplifying experimental steps.
Implementation Method 1
the bottoms of the supporting holes each having a bulge such that liquid in the round-bottom vessels forms a vortex at a time of agitation of the liquid
Data Source
AI summary
The present technology provides a technology that liquid in round-bottom vessels is efficiently agitated. There is provided a vessel rack at least including a holder having a plurality of through-holes into which round-bottom vessels each having a closed-bottom tube shape are inserted, and a support having a plurality of supporting holes that are arranged facing to the through-holes and support bottoms of the round-bottom vessels, the bottoms of the supporting holes each having a bulge such that liquid in the round-bottom vessels forms a vortex at a time of agitation of the liquid. Also, there is provided an agitator of agitating liquid in round-bottom vessels at least including the vessel rack, a mounting unit that mounts the vessel rack, and a rocking unit that rocks the mounting unit, and the like.