Beverage Holder Rotating Member Rear Entry Stability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional beverage container holding devices in vehicles face challenges such as difficulty in placing the container due to visibility issues and the risk of the container moving or flying out during vehicle travel, especially when the device is designed for top or rear entry.

Innovation Solution

A beverage container holding device with a U-shaped receiving portion and rotating members that allow easy insertion from the rear, featuring a rear contact surface and a front contact surface making an obtuse angle with the center, which restricts reverse rotation and stabilizes the container, preventing it from moving or flying out.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the receiving portion is designed with a larger size to easily receive the beverage container, then the ease of operation is improved, but the beverage container may move within the holding portion due to increased gap

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of placing beverage containerVSAvoidstability of beverage container

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs rotating members that can dynamically adjust their position between a protruding state (when no container is present) and a retracted state (when container is inserted). This dynamic adjustment allows the structure to adapt to different conditions, providing both easy access and secure holding without requiring a fixed, complex design

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If the beverage container is received from the top of the holding portion, then the ease of operation is improved, but the visibility of the holding portion position is reduced making it difficult to place the container accurately

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of placing beverage containerVSAvoidvisibility of holding portion position

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the conventional approach by allowing beverage container insertion from the rear side of the holding portion rather than from the top. This inversion makes the holding portion position more visible and accessible, eliminating the visibility problem while maintaining ease of operation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentUS11358506B2Device for holding beverage container and console box

Publication Date: 2022.06.14 MORIROKU

AI summary

A beverage container holding device includes a first rotating member supported by a holder main body such that the first rotating member can swing horizontally. The first rotating member includes a first shaft member supported by the holder main body and extending in an up-and-down direction, and a first main body supported by the first shaft member such that the first main body can be present in a receiving portion and retract from the receiving portion. The first main body includes a front contact surface portion having a contact portion, which the beverage container received in the receiving portion can contact. The front contact surface portion makes, at least at the contact portion, an obtuse angle with an imaginary line extending from a center of the first shaft member to the contact portion.