Container-attaching system

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing container fastening systems for cleaning agents or disinfectants are inadequate in terms of positionability, particularly in healthcare settings where flexibility and ease of use are crucial for ensuring proper hand hygiene practices.

Innovation Solution

A container fastening system with multiple adjustable holding positions, allowing the container to be securely attached to variously oriented objects such as horizontal, vertical, or inclined surfaces, using a holder designed with flexible fastening areas and a manually operable dosing pump, ensuring the container can be positioned upright or inclined for easy access and use.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a container fastening system is designed with fixed attachment points, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the positionability and adaptability to different surfaces are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovepositionabilityVSAvoidstructure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The holder is equipped with multiple fastening areas (first, second, third fastening areas) that can be selectively used depending on the orientation of the support surface. This dynamic configuration allows the same holder to adapt to horizontal, vertical, or inclined surfaces by choosing the appropriate fastening area, thereby improving positionability without requiring multiple different holders.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The holder is divided into distinct fastening areas with different orientations. Each fastening area is optimized for specific surface orientations (horizontal, vertical, inclined), allowing the system to segment the attachment function across multiple specialized zones rather than using a single generic attachment point.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If the holder is designed with multiple fastening areas for different orientations, then adaptability to various surfaces is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to surfacesVSAvoidnumber of fastening areas
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A single holder design incorporates multiple fastening areas that serve different functions for different surface orientations. The first fastening area is optimized for horizontal surfaces, the second for vertical surfaces, and the third for inclined surfaces. This multi-functional design allows one holder to replace multiple specialized holders, improving adaptability while keeping the overall system compact.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3379987B1Container-attaching system
Publication Date: 2020.12.30 BODE CHEMIE
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AI summary

The invention relates to a container-attaching system (1) for making available a container (2), especially provided with a cleaning or disinfecting product, said system comprising: a holder (4, 41) with a receiving region (5) for receving the container (2), the holder (4, 41) comprising a first attaching region (51), a second attaching region (52) and a third attaching region (53), the first (51), second (52) and third (53) attaching regions comprising wires or rods or plate-type components, and an attaching means (7) for detachably attaching the holder (4, 41) to objects, wherein the attaching means (7) can be fixed to the first attaching region (51) so that it can assume a first holding position, to the second attaching region (52) so that it can assume a second holding position, and to the third attaching region (53) so that it can assume a third holding position.