Bag Design Plate with Hook and Loop Attachment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional bags lack the ability to be easily customized to reflect individual tastes and preferences, resulting in a lack of unique designs that fully represent personal identity.

Innovation Solution

A bag design featuring a detachable design plate with a hook and loop system, allowing for interchangeable designs and modules, enabling users to change and stabilize the appearance of the bag according to their preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If bags are produced in large quantities in factories with standardized designs, then manufacturing efficiency and productivity are improved, but the ability to reflect individual personal tastes and preferences deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing efficiencyVSAvoidcustomization capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The bag is divided into a base bag body and separate interchangeable design plates. The design plates can be detached and replaced to change the bag's appearance and functionality. This segmentation allows mass production of the standardized bag body while enabling individual customization through separate design plate components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The design plate serves multiple functions: it provides decorative coverage, enables customization through design changes, and offers functional modifications. The universal design plate can be attached to the bag body and removed as needed, allowing one bag to serve multiple aesthetic and functional purposes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a detachable design plate system is implemented to enable customization, then adaptability and individuality are improved, but device complexity and structural complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign customizationVSAvoidstructural complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The design plate is extracted as a separate, removable component from the bag body. This extraction simplifies the overall structure by allowing the design plate to be manufactured independently and attached only when needed, reducing the complexity of integrating custom designs into the main bag structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The design plate can be stored within or alongside the bag body when not in use, similar to a nested doll configuration. This nesting approach minimizes the space required for the detachable component and simplifies the overall structural arrangement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Ease of operation

If hook and loop members are used to attach the design plate to the bag body, then ease of operation and attachment simplicity are improved, but manufacturing precision and alignment requirements worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveattachment simplicityVSAvoidalignment precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

Hook and loop members serve as an intermediary attachment mechanism between the design plate and bag body. This intermediary component simplifies the attachment process while the loop structure provides inherent alignment guidance, reducing the precision requirements for manual alignment during attachment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

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 bag can be customized to reflect personal taste, provide additional functionality, and maintain a stable design, offering a unique and versatile appearance modification solution.

Implementation Method 1

the first fixed portion and the second fixed portion include a second hook and loop member and a third hook and loop member that are attachable to the first hook and loop member so as to fix the design plate to the bag body in an attachable and detachable manner

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHook and loop mechanism: Mechanical Fastener

Implementation Method 2

the first fixed portion may include first holders on both sides of an opposing surface opposite to a surface on which the second hook and loop member is disposed, and the second fixed portion may include second holders that engage with the first holders on both sides of a surface on which the third hook and loop member is disposed

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMechanical engagement: Mechanical Fastener

Data Source

PatentUS12089710B2Bag provided with design plate
Publication Date: 2024.09.17 KIM HYEONG CHAN
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AI summary

A bag provided with a design plate includes a bag body; a design plate which is formed in a plate material shape to partially cover an outer side of the bag body, and includes a first Velcro member on at least a part of an exposed surface exposed to the outside; a fixed module which includes a first fixed portion fixed to the bag body to be adjacent to one side of the design plate, and a second fixed portion fixed to the bag body to be adjacent to the other side of the design plate; and at least one design module fixed onto the exposed surface in an attachable and detachable manner, in which the first fixed portion and the second fixed portion include a second Velcro member and a third Velcro member that are attachable to the first Velcro member.