I guess I should not have been, but it I found myself surprised at discovering new ideas using this design decomposition process. I approached it with trepidation and the fear that all the good ideas had already been taken, but I got some good ones.
Design Concepts:
A picture may speak a thousand words, but I'd like to say a few words about my designs:
A: A typical oven light solution to have more light in the oven.
B: Light is more often needed on the roof of the oven. This snake light can shine from any angle
C: Installing a column in the oven demands difficult measurements to be made in confined spaces. It would make sense to install devices on the end of the column on the bench outside the oven, and then click them into place.
A: A typical oven light solution to have more light in the oven.
B: Light is more often needed on the roof of the oven. This snake light can shine from any angle
C: Installing a column in the oven demands difficult measurements to be made in confined spaces. It would make sense to install devices on the end of the column on the bench outside the oven, and then click them into place.
D: When one works on the oven the door often gets in the way. This design lets the door slide away and disappear.
E: With the current design there is very little space to tighten nuts. There might not be enough space to swing an ordinary open-ended wrench. This finger disk wrench design would work in confined spaces.
F; When connecting to an external mass spectrometer it is often necessary to thread the column through the oven wall. More often than not the column end snags in the glass wool isolation before it gets through, and you can't see what you're doing because the door is in the way. This guide can assist with threading columns through oven walls.
F; When connecting to an external mass spectrometer it is often necessary to thread the column through the oven wall. More often than not the column end snags in the glass wool isolation before it gets through, and you can't see what you're doing because the door is in the way. This guide can assist with threading columns through oven walls.
G: When installing a column on can't always see where the column should go. This light source puts a light at the end of the tunnel to aim for.
H: These nuts change temperature when they're hot, warning the user.
H: These nuts change temperature when they're hot, warning the user.
I: In a more sophisticated design, the instrument's temperature measurements is combined with a motion detector to warn the the operator when he/she brings her hand near a hot component.
J: In this design the inlet, column, and detector are mounted on the door, creating ample working space.