Beverage container with illuminable arrangement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional beverage containers with straw or spout lids often experience splashing and spilling of beverages, and lack decorative illuminating features that could enhance their use in social settings.

Innovation Solution

A beverage container with an elevated lid featuring a hollow drinking spout and a detachable illuminable arrangement, including a mounting site at the bottom for an LED lighting unit, which projects lights upwardly and is designed to prevent splashing by guiding the straw upright and allowing direct drinking, while the curved wall refracts and reflects light for decorative purposes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a conventional straw or spout lid is used, then the container allows drinking functionality, but the beverage splashes or spills easily

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedrinking functionalityVSAvoidprevention of splashing and spilling

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The lid is divided into separate functional components: a spout member with drinking opening, a straw opening with separate cover, and a vent hole with independent cover. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized for its specific function while working together to prevent splashing and spilling.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The straw cover and vent hole cover can be positioned in advance to seal their respective openings before drinking occurs. The spout design also allows the user to prepare by positioning the spout correctly before tilting to drink, preventing accidental spills.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Device complexity

If a conventional lid design is used, then the structure is simple, but it lacks decorative illuminating features for social settings

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelid structureVSAvoiddecorative functionality

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The lid integrates multiple functions: drinking through spout, straw drinking with upright positioning, ventilation control, and decorative illumination. The illuminating arrangement with LED lights and curved reflecting surface adds aesthetic functionality without compromising the practical drinking features.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The illuminating arrangement is nested within the lid structure, with the LED light source positioned inside the lid body and the curved reflecting surface integrated into the lid's internal geometry. This nesting allows the decorative feature to be contained within the existing structural envelope.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Ease of operation

If straw is inserted through conventional opening, then drinking with straw is possible, but the straw cannot be retained in upright position

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestraw drinkingVSAvoidstraw upright position

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The straw opening is designed with asymmetric features including an elongated slot shape and an inclined bottom surface that creates a wedge effect. This asymmetric geometry provides mechanical retention for the straw, preventing it from falling sideways while allowing easy insertion and removal.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #4Asymmetry

Solution Approach 2:

The straw cover acts as an intermediary element between the straw and the opening. It provides a guiding surface that helps position the straw correctly and maintains its upright orientation during insertion and removal operations.

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 solution effectively prevents beverage splashing and spilling, while providing a decorative illuminating effect that enhances the container's functionality and aesthetic appeal in social situations.

Implementation Method 1

a curved surrounding wall of a container bottle provides light reflecting and refracting effects to the illuminating lights projected from an illumination device

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectLight reflection: Reflection

Implementation Method 2

a curved surrounding wall of a container bottle provides light reflecting and refracting effects to the illuminating lights projected from an illumination device

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectLight refraction: Refraction

Data Source

PatentUS11712123B1Beverage container with illuminable arrangement

Publication Date: 2023.08.01 JOE DIANA

AI summary

A beverage container includes a container bottle and an elevated container lid. The elevated container lid includes a lid member detachably and coaxially connected to a top end of the container bottle to cover a top opening of the container bottle, and a hollow elevated drinking spout member having a base portion coaxially mounted on the lid member, a mouthpiece portion integrally and coaxially extended from the base portion, and a drinking opening coaxially formed at a top end of the mouthpiece portion, wherein the mouthpiece portion of the elevated drinking spout member has a nipple shape and the drinking opening has a size equal to or slightly larger than a diameter of a straw to be inserted therethrough into the interior cavity until reaching the bottom wall of the container bottle.