Waste Tank Technical Compartment Cover Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing waste tank designs for small purification units are aesthetically unpleasing, costly, and complicated to service due to separate control cabinets and difficulties in maintaining a tight technical compartment within the tank, which are prone to humidity and aggressive gases.
Innovation Solution
A waste tank design where the technical compartment is integrated inside the tank with a cover that can be opened to the air without opening the waste compartment, featuring a detachable and divided structure with separate compartments for electric and chemical equipment, ensuring easy access and sealing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a separate control cabinet is used for technical equipment, then the technical equipment is protected from humidity and gases, but the total cost increases and the appearance becomes unaesthetic
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the technical compartment with the waste tank body by integrating the cover of the waste tank as the cover of the technical compartment. This eliminates the need for a separate control cabinet while maintaining protection of technical equipment from humidity and aggressive gases.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the waste tank into functionally separate compartments: a waste liquid compartment and a technical compartment. This segmentation allows independent access to technical equipment while maintaining the integrity and aesthetic appearance of the overall waste tank structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a partition plate is used to divide the waste tank into technical and liquid compartments, then the technical compartment is created, but the structure becomes difficult to produce and seal
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of dividing the waste tank body with a partition plate, the patent inverts the approach by making the cover itself the dividing element. The cover is designed as a dual-function component that simultaneously covers both the waste liquid compartment and the technical compartment, eliminating production and sealing difficulties associated with internal partitions.
3Ease of operation
If the technical compartment is accessed by opening the waste compartment, then access is provided, but the waste compartment must be opened which complicates servicing
Solution Approach 1:
The cover is segmented into functionally distinct sections: a first cover portion for the waste liquid compartment and a second cover portion for the technical compartment. This allows independent opening of the technical compartment for servicing without requiring access to the waste liquid compartment, simplifying maintenance operations.
4Reliability
If the technical compartment is made tight to prevent humidity and gases, then equipment protection is improved, but the complexity of ensuring tightness increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs gasket elements (sealing components) at the interfaces between the cover portions and the tank body to ensure liquid-tight and gas-tight sealing. These sealing elements create reliable barriers against humidity and aggressive gases without requiring complex structural modifications to the tank itself.
Data Source
AI summary
A waste tank comprises a waste compartment for waste liquid and, separated from the waste compartment in a liquidproof manner, a technical compartment (3) for technical equipment. At least part of the technical compartment (3) is arranged inside the body of the waste tank (1). The technical compartment (3) is provided with a cover (6), which is openable to the open air, without the waste compartment having to be opened at the same time.