Container Reinforcing Structures Eliminate Suction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current containers with reinforcing structures to reduce thickness suffer from suction effects when stacked and unstacked, requiring significant clearance and limiting space efficiency, and lack uniform impact resistance across their surfaces.
Innovation Solution
The container features independent reinforcing structures extending along multiple axes, eliminating suction effects by creating air passages and enhancing impact resistance through a synergistic configuration that reinforces the entire surface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Weight of stationary object
If continuous reinforcing structures forming a grid are used to reduce wall thickness, then the container becomes lighter and thinner, but suction effects occur between stacked containers making unstacking difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The continuous grid reinforcing structures are segmented into independent discrete reinforcing elements spaced apart from each other. This segmentation creates gaps between the reinforcing structures that allow air to pass through, eliminating the suction effect that occurs when containers are stacked and unstacked, while still providing adequate structural reinforcement to reduce wall thickness and weight.
2Loss of substance
If continuous reinforcing structures are used to reduce wall thickness, then material usage is reduced, but significant clearance must be left between containers for unstacking
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the reinforcing structures into discrete spaced-apart elements rather than continuous grids, air passages are created between the reinforcing elements. This allows containers to be stacked closely together without requiring significant clearance for unstacking, reducing the vertical stacking distance while maintaining material efficiency.
3Ease of manufacture
If reinforcing structures extend along single axis, then manufacturing is simpler, but impact resistance is not uniform across the container surface
Solution Approach 1:
The reinforcing structures are configured with asymmetric orientations, extending along multiple different axes rather than a single axis. This asymmetric multi-axis configuration provides uniform impact resistance across the entire container surface in multiple directions, while the discrete spaced-apart design maintains manufacturing simplicity through modular production of individual reinforcing elements.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration facilitates easier unstacking without clearance, reduces vertical stacking distance, and provides improved impact resistance across the entire surface, while also reducing material weight and thickness.
Implementation Method 1
The discontinuous configuration of the independent reinforcing structures spaced from each other on the wall makes it possible to form air passages between the adjacent reinforcing structures, which makes it possible to eliminate the suction effect when a container is unstacked from another container.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a container (1) comprising a body (2) extending along a longitudinal axis (X), the body (2) having a first, closed end portion (20) comprising a bottom (22), and a second, open end portion (24) intended to receive a closure element, the body (2) having a wall (3) on which are arranged a plurality of independent reinforcing structures (4) spaced apart from one another, each of the reinforcing structures (4) extending along at least two different axes.