Wave-Shaped Partition Insect Breeding Device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing insect breeding devices provide a poor breeding environment, leading to increased death rates and higher time and energy costs due to their simple structure and functionality.
Innovation Solution
A management and distribution device for insect breeding that integrates storage, feeding, and faeces management, featuring wave-shaped partition plates, a feeding trough drawer with separate feedstuff areas, a hinge door with magnetic closure, and ventilation openings, which improves the breeding environment and reduces insect density and mortality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a simple breeding cage structure is used, then manufacturing cost is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but the breeding environment quality deteriorates and insect mortality increases
Solution Approach 1:
The breeding device is divided into multiple functional modules: breeding chamber, feeding drawer, waste collection tray, and partition plates. Each module independently performs its function, allowing simple manufacturing of individual components while achieving complex breeding environment control when assembled together.
Solution Approach 2:
The breeding device integrates multiple functions into a single unit: feeding (feeding drawer), waste management (collection tray with drainage), insect containment (breeding chamber with partitions), and environmental control (ventilation holes). This multi-functionality improves breeding environment quality without requiring multiple separate devices.
2Device complexity
If a simple breeding cage structure is used, then device complexity is reduced, but time and energy cost of breeding increases due to poor breeding environment
Solution Approach 1:
Feeding and waste management functions are merged into a single accessible drawer unit. The feeding drawer simultaneously provides food delivery and waste collection capabilities, reducing the number of separate operations and time required for breeding management tasks.
Solution Approach 2:
The drainage holes in the waste collection tray enable automatic waste removal through gravity-driven drainage. Insect waste falls through the partitions and drains automatically without manual intervention, reducing the time and energy required for cleaning and maintenance.
3Reliability
If partition plates are added to improve breeding environment and reduce insect density, then device complexity increases, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The partition plates are designed with wave-shaped curved surfaces instead of flat planes. This curvature provides climbing surfaces for insects while maintaining structural simplicity. The wave shape is formed through a single molding process, avoiding complex assembly while achieving the dual function of separation and insect locomotion assistance.
4Reliability
If integrated feeding and waste management system is implemented, then breeding environment is improved and mortality reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The waste collection tray is nested within the breeding chamber structure, with the feeding drawer sliding into the main body. The drainage system is integrated into the tray bottom. This nested arrangement achieves integrated feeding and waste management functions while minimizing the overall device footprint and reducing the number of external components.
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 device enhances the breeding environment, decreases insect mortality, and reduces the time and energy required for breeding by efficiently distributing feedstuff and managing faeces, while preventing escape and facilitating easy cleaning.
Implementation Method 1
the hinge door cooperates the second magnets on the inner wall of the main body, the hinge door is automatically closed through a magnetic attraction principle
Data Source
AI summary
A management and distribution device for insect breeding includes a main body, an upper cover, and a lower cover. The upper cover is clamped to a top portion of the main body, and the lower cover is clamped to a lower end of the main body. Three partition plates for insects to climb are clamped in an inner portion of the main body, and the three partition plates are wave-shaped. A notch is defined at a lower middle portion of each of the three partition plates, a plurality of through holes for insect faeces to pass through are defined on a bottom of the main body, an insertion opening is defined at a lower end of an outer wall of the main body, and a hinge door is rotatably disposed at the lower end of the outer wall of the main body.