Removable Bonding Strip for Cuvette Handling Package
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cuvette packaging methods are costly, generate excessive plastic waste, and fail to ensure cuvettes remain dust-free and scratch-free during handling and transport, leading to potential contamination and incorrect measurement results.
Innovation Solution
A cuvette handling package using a removable bonding strip that extends over the top surface of the cuvettes, binding them together during transport and easily removable for loading, minimizing packaging material and preventing dust and impurities from entering the reaction vessels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a box package is used to protect cuvettes during transport, then cuvettes are protected from damage, but packaging costs increase and plastic waste is generated
Solution Approach 1:
The protective function is extracted from the traditional box package and transferred to the bonding strip that binds cuvettes together. The bonding strip serves as both the binding element and the protective cover, eliminating the need for separate box packaging while maintaining cuvette protection during transport and storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The bonding strip is designed to be easily removable and disposable. After use, the bonding strip can be discarded without requiring complex recycling processes, reducing packaging waste management complexity while still providing necessary protection during the critical handling period.
2Ease of manufacture
If a thin material is used for the package box to reduce costs, then packaging costs decrease, but the box becomes easily bent and twisted making handling difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The structural support function is extracted from the box and transferred to the bonding strip and cuvette arrangement system. The bonding strip provides sufficient structural integrity for handling without requiring a rigid box, allowing the use of lighter, more cost-effective packaging materials.
3Ease of operation
If cuvettes are handled manually during loading, then loading flexibility is improved, but fingerprints and scratches occur on cuvettes
Solution Approach 1:
The bonding strip serves as an intermediary that enables automated or remote handling of cuvettes. By providing a common handling interface, the bonding strip allows cuvettes to be manipulated as a group without direct contact with individual cuvette surfaces, preventing fingerprints and scratches while maintaining loading flexibility.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If cuvettes are bound tightly during transport, then dust protection is improved, but removal difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bonding strip incorporates dynamic characteristics with varying bond strengths at different locations and orientations. The bonding is strong enough to protect cuvettes during transport but designed to break easily in specific directions during loading, enabling dust protection during transport while maintaining ease of removal during operation.
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AI summary
Automatic analyzers, in which the liquids to be analyzed are in so-called reaction vessels, simultaneously acting as optical high-quality cuvettes (10), are used in laboratories for analyzing various liquid This publication discloses a handling package for cuvettes. According to the invention a removable bonding strip (100) is fastened on the row of cuvettes, the strip binding the row of cuvettes during transport and being easily removable when the cuvettes are loaded into the instrument. The cuvettes (5) are loaded into the instrument by supporting the package in its place from the brackets located in the ends of the cuvettes so that the strip (100) can be pulled off the supported package of cuvettes.