Colored Lid Member for Ink Bottle Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transparent caps for ink bottles are difficult to distinguish by type, leading to potential misattachment and operational challenges when handling multiple ink bottles with different ink colors.
Innovation Solution
A bottle set with a lid member that includes a colored portion matching or contrasting with the ink type, facilitating easy identification and preventing incorrect attachment, and featuring a film that extends outside the nozzle member to notify users of its presence.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a transparent cap is used for ink bottles, then the cap allows visual confirmation of the content, but it becomes difficult to identify the cap type and prevent misattachment among multiple ink bottles
Solution Approach 1:
The lid member incorporates a colored portion with optical transparency that allows light transmission while providing color-coded identification. This local quality modification enables the lid to maintain transparency for visual confirmation of ink level while adding color information for easy identification of ink type, resolving the contradiction between transparency and identifiability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention applies color coding to the lid member by incorporating a colored portion that can be transparent or translucent. Different colors correspond to different ink types, enabling easy visual identification while maintaining the transparency benefit for observing ink levels. This directly addresses the identification problem without sacrificing transparency.
2Illumination intensity
If multiple transparent caps are used for different ink types, then each cap remains visually clear, but the user cannot easily distinguish between different ink types
Solution Approach 1:
The lid member incorporates a colored portion with optical transparency that allows light transmission while providing color-coded identification. This local quality modification enables the lid to maintain transparency for visual confirmation of ink level while adding color information for easy identification of ink type, resolving the contradiction between transparency and identifiability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention applies color coding to the lid member by incorporating a colored portion that can be transparent or translucent. Different colors correspond to different ink types, enabling easy visual identification while maintaining the transparency benefit for observing ink levels. This directly addresses the identification problem without sacrificing transparency.
3Ease of operation
If a colored portion is added to the lid member for identification, then ink type can be easily identified, but the lid member structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the identification function and the sealing function into a single integrated lid member. The colored portion is incorporated directly into the lid structure itself rather than being a separate component, thereby achieving easy identification without increasing overall device complexity. The colored portion and the sealing portion work together as one unified component.
4Device complexity
If the film is contained entirely within the nozzle member, then the structure is compact, but users cannot easily notice the film's presence for removal
Solution Approach 1:
The film is configured to extend outside the nozzle member in advance, creating a preliminary visual indicator that alerts users to the film's presence before they attempt to use the bottle. This preliminary action of extending the film outward serves as a notification mechanism, prompting users to remove the film before ink injection, thereby preventing operational errors.
Data Source
AI summary
When a known lid member was merely applied to a bottle that contains ink, there was room for improvement in terms of the operation of the lid member and the way how to bring attention to the handling thereof.A bottle set is provided that includes: a bottle that includes an ink container that contains ink, and an outflow port through which the ink in the ink container flows out to the outside; and a lid member that is configured to attach to and detach from the bottle, and is configured to cover the outflow port in a state of being attached to the bottle. The lid member includes a colored portion that has optical transparency and is colored with a color corresponding to a type of the ink contained in the ink container in at least a portion of the lid member.