Cigarette Pack Sticker with Alignment Guide for Warning Label Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions for cigarette packs fail to effectively cover warning images and texts on both sides without exposing them, leading to potential loss or accidental exposure.
Innovation Solution
A sticker member with a rectangular shape and adhesive material, featuring an attachment position guide on release paper to facilitate precise attachment to the cigarette pack, ensuring coverage of warning images and texts on both sides without distinguishing between front and rear sides.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a sticker is applied to cover warning images on cigarette packs, then the warning images are effectively covered, but it becomes difficult to precisely attach the sticker to cover both front and rear sides without exposing the warnings
Solution Approach 1:
The release paper includes pre-formed attachment position guides (folding guides and cutting portions) that enable the user to pre-align and precisely attach the sticker to the cigarette pack before final application. This preliminary alignment action ensures the sticker covers both front and rear sides accurately without exposing warning images.
Solution Approach 2:
The release paper serves as an intermediary carrier that holds the sticker in a precise position during attachment. The attachment position guides on the release paper act as a mediator between the sticker and the cigarette pack, enabling accurate positioning and alignment during the application process.
2Manufacturing precision
If the sticker design is made complex to ensure precise coverage, then coverage accuracy improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment position guide is segmented into distinct functional elements: folding guides that create alignment references and cutting portions that define attachment boundaries. This segmentation allows complex positioning functionality to be achieved through simple, modular structural elements rather than a monolithic complex design.
3Manufacturing precision
If manual differentiation between front and rear sides is required for sticker attachment, then attachment precision can be maintained, but ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment position guide features asymmetric folding guides and cutting portions that are specifically configured to work with the asymmetric structure of the cigarette pack (front side with cover, rear side without cover). This asymmetric design enables automatic differentiation of front and rear sides during attachment, eliminating the need for manual identification while maintaining precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The sticker system performs self-alignment through the attachment position guides on the release paper. The folding guides and cutting portions automatically guide the sticker to the correct position on the cigarette pack without requiring the user to manually differentiate between front and rear sides, making the operation self-servicing and convenient.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The sticker member provides secure and precise coverage of warning images and texts on both sides of the cigarette pack, preventing exposure and allowing for easy attachment without manual differentiation between sides, while also enabling artistic or advertising use.
Implementation Method 1
an adhesive material applied on the rear side of the cigarette pack sticker
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a sticker member for a graphic and text health warning labels on the front and back sides of a cigarette pack at the same time, the sticker member comprising: a rectangular cigarette pack sticker which is attached to the top surface of a cigarette pack and attached to a portion from the top surface up to at least a part of each of the front and back sides of the cigarette pack; an adhesive material formed on the back side of the cigarette pack sticker; and a release paper which protects the adhesive material and has an attachment position guide formed at the central portion thereof and opened by a user so as to guide the top surface of the cigarette pack to the attachment position on the back side of the cigarette pack sticker.