Biomaterial Container with Detachable Storage Unit

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing containers for biomaterials in biotechnology and medical industries face challenges in ensuring correct correspondence between recognition units and storage units, leading to potential errors in data tracking and analysis, especially during large-scale production and calibration processes.

Innovation Solution

A container design featuring a base material with concave portions, integrated recognition units (such as RFID or barcodes) for identifying the base material, and a storage unit for storing information on biomaterials, ensuring accurate correspondence between the recognition and storage units, which can be wirelessly communicated or visually verified.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If storage units are integrated into blood pack containers, then information tracking capability is improved, but the containers become susceptible to heating damage and cannot be properly disposed of

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation tracking capabilityVSAvoidheating damage

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the container into a blood pack container and a separate storage unit. The storage unit is detachably attached to the blood pack container, allowing the storage unit to be removed before heating processes. This segmentation protects the information storage function from heating damage while maintaining the container's usability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If recognition units and storage units are integrated into the base material, then data tracking reliability is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases during large-scale production

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata tracking reliabilityVSAvoidmanufacturing complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent incorporates recognition units (such as barcodes or RFID tags) and storage units into the base material during the manufacturing process. This preliminary integration ensures that the recognition and storage units are correctly positioned and associated with the base material before the container is used, thereby ensuring data tracking reliability while streamlining the manufacturing process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If storage units are made detachable, then ease of operation is improved, but correspondence accuracy between recognition units and storage units may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of operationVSAvoidcorrespondence accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent incorporates recognition units (such as barcodes or RFID tags) on both the base material and the storage unit that enable verification of correspondence. This feedback mechanism allows operators to confirm that the storage unit is correctly attached to the base material, ensuring correspondence accuracy while maintaining the detachable design for ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11554376B2Container and calibration standard plate

Publication Date: 2023.01.17 RICOH CO LTD

AI summary

Provided is a container (10) including a base material (1) including a plurality of concave portions (2); a recognition unit (3) disposed on the base material and configured to recognize the base material; and a storage unit (4) disposed in a position other than a measurement region of the base material and configured to store information on biomaterials contained in the plurality of concave portions, wherein the recognition unit and the storage unit are allowed to correspond to each other.