Card Storage Box Covering Clamping Plate Limiting Groove

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing card storage solutions fail to effectively prevent cards from falling off over time due to reduced holding and restricting effects, leading to user inconvenience and card loss.

Innovation Solution

A card storage box design featuring a closed cover body with a clamping plate and limiting groove mechanism, combined with a magnet and card pushing member, allows for secure card storage and easy retrieval, using rotating and spring-loaded components for convenient operation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a cover body is provided to prevent cards from falling off, then card security is improved, but card retrieval convenience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecard securityVSAvoidcard retrieval convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The clamping plate is designed to be movable between a clamping position (where it engages with the limiting groove to secure the cover body) and a released position (where it disengages to allow cover body movement). This dynamic mechanism enables the system to switch between secure storage and convenient retrieval states, resolving the contradiction between card security and retrieval convenience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If the holding and restricting effect is reduced after long-term use or damage, then device durability worsens, but card accessibility improves

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecard accessibilityVSAvoiddevice durability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The card pushing member is designed to automatically push cards outward when the cover body moves to the opened position, eliminating the need for manual card extraction. This self-service mechanism ensures consistent card accessibility regardless of the holding effect degradation over time, maintaining ease of operation while the durable clamping mechanism continues to provide reliable security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

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 design prevents card loss by securely locking the cover body over the opening, allowing easy insertion and retrieval of cards, enhancing user experience through secure storage and intuitive operation.

Implementation Method 1

a magnet is arranged on the side wall of the housing

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMagnetism: Magnetism

Implementation Method 2

The cover body is connected to the housing through a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft is sleeved with a first reset torsion spring

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectTorsion spring: Torsion Spring

Data Source

PatentUS12122587B1Card storage box
Publication Date: 2024.10.22 YU SAN HON
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AI summary

A card storage box is disclosed. The card storage box includes a housing having a cavity, where the housing is provided with an opening at a top, a clamping plate is slidably connected to a side wall of the housing and partially extends out of the opening, a card pushing member is rotatably connected to the housing and positioned at a bottom of the cavity. The card storage box further includes a cover body, where the cover body is rotatably connected to the housing, and the cover body can cover the opening. A limiting groove is provided in an inner wall of the cover body, when the cover body covers the housing, the clamping plate is clamped with the limiting groove, and the clamping plate abuts against a groove wall of the limiting groove to limit a rotation of the cover body.