Condom Packaging With Integrated Grippers and Perforated Opening Line
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional condom packaging is inconvenient to open, compromising hygiene and airtightness, and the production process is complex due to issues with sealing and foreign body connections, leading to potential damage and lubricant leakage.
Innovation Solution
A condom packaging design with four hook-shaped holders in the corners and side grippers entirely within the covering, featuring a straight or zigzagged opening line, ensures airtight sealing and simplified production by eliminating external connections, allowing for uniform tension and easy opening without direct finger contact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional packing opening means (groove, tear line) are used, then the packing can be opened, but the opening process is long and inconvenient, compromising hygiene
Solution Approach 1:
The opening line is pre-formed as a straight or zigzagged perforated line across the covering, allowing immediate tearing without searching for opening means. The perforations are created during manufacturing, enabling the user to simply pull the edges apart along the pre-defined line, eliminating the time-consuming search and trial-and-error opening process of traditional designs.
2Ease of operation
If traditional packing with external grippers is used, then opening is possible, but airtightness is compromised due to junction points where grippers connect to covering
Solution Approach 1:
The gripper function is extracted from external attachment and integrated directly into the covering structure. The straight opening line with perforations serves dual purposes: it provides the opening function traditionally performed by external grippers, and simultaneously maintains continuous airtight sealing by eliminating separate gripper connection points that would compromise the seal.
Solution Approach 2:
The opening line and airtight sealing functions are merged into a single integrated structure. The straight or zigzagged perforated line runs continuously across the covering, combining the tear-line opening mechanism with the sealing barrier, eliminating the need for separate gripper components that would create junction points and potential leakage paths.
3Ease of manufacture
If traditional packing production process is used, then packing can be manufactured, but the process is time-consuming and complicated due to arranging opening means and providing airtightness
Solution Approach 1:
The opening line perforations are created during the manufacturing process itself, before final assembly. This preliminary formation of the opening line eliminates subsequent steps for attaching separate gripper components and aligning opening mechanisms, streamlining the production process and increasing manufacturing efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
The present, invention relates to a device of packing for barrier contraceptives, including condoms. The packing for a condom that contains covering, with, four hook-shaped holders placed within by corners, a condom is located in a fixed position, the side grippers are connected with the holders, the covering has an opening line at the center of the condom and located parallel to the side grippers capable to divide the covering into two parts when opening the covering via this line, herein, the side grippers are fully placed into the covering with its edges sealed to each other by the entire perimeter of the covering, with outlining its external contour within the plane where the side grippers with holders are placed, herein the covering is made of materials allowing tactile action by hand fingers onto the contours of side grippers ends, free of holders, and/or the part of the covering edges over side grippers repeats the pattern, the pattern that was preliminarily put onto the surface of free ends of the side grippers. Technical result: the airtightness of packing is improved with its production technology simplified.