Chopsticks holder structure
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional chopsticks holders are too large for shorter shrine chopsticks, causing them to sink or create an unsightly table layout, making it inconvenient to pick up the chopsticks.
Innovation Solution
A chopsticks holder structure with a hollow body, featuring a placement portion and a pick-up portion, where the pick-up portion is lower than the placement portion, allowing for reduced overall size and easier finger access to pick up the chopsticks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a large chopsticks holder is used for shrine chopsticks, then the chopsticks can be held securely, but the holder becomes too large for common cuisine chopsticks, causing them to sink and creating an unsightly table layout
Solution Approach 1:
The chopsticks holder is divided into two distinct functional portions: a placement portion for storing chopsticks and a pick-up portion for easy retrieval. This segmentation allows the holder to accommodate different chopstick lengths appropriately while maintaining a compact overall size suitable for common cuisine settings.
Solution Approach 2:
Different portions of the holder have different height characteristics - the placement portion has greater height for secure storage, while the pick-up portion has reduced height for easy access. This local differentiation in quality allows the holder to perform multiple functions within a compact size.
2Reliability
If a deep chopsticks holder is used, then chopsticks are held securely, but fingers cannot easily access the chopsticks for pickup
Solution Approach 1:
The holder is segmented into a placement portion with greater height for secure retention and a pick-up portion with reduced height for easy finger access. This segmentation simultaneously achieves both secure holding and easy retrieval of chopsticks.
Solution Approach 2:
The pick-up portion acts as an intermediary structure that bridges the gap between the deep placement portion and the user's fingers. It provides a reduced-height access point that allows easy pickup while maintaining the secure retention capability of the deeper placement portion.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a large chopsticks holder is used, then it can accommodate various chopstick types, but the table layout becomes inharmonious and inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the holder into placement and pick-up portions with different heights, the design achieves versatility in accommodating different chopstick types while maintaining a compact overall footprint that harmonizes with table layouts for common cuisine settings.
Data Source
AI summary
A chopsticks holder structure includes a chopsticks holder body, a placement portion and a pick-up portion. The chopsticks holder body includes a top portion and a bottom portion. The placement portion is laterally arranged at the top portion of the chopsticks holder body. The pick-up portion is longitudinally arranged at the top portion of the chopsticks holder body and is in communication with the placement portion, and a height of the pick-up portion is lower than that of the placement portion. Thus, the overall size of the chopsticks holder structure can be reduced, the chopsticks are placed at the placement portion during use, and the design that the height of the pick-up portion is lower than that of the placement portion allows fingers to easily pick up the chopsticks for use from the pick-up portion, achieving convenience for use.