Detachable Applicator Cushion Compact Container

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional compact containers require the lid to be opened for using or changing cosmetics, causing inconvenience and inefficiency.

Innovation Solution

A cushion compact container design featuring a detachable cosmetic storage unit that can be separated downward from the container body without opening the cover, and a cosmetic applicator unit integrated into the cover, allowing for application without hand contact and easy access for changing cosmetics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the lid is opened to use the brush, then the brush can be used, but the lid needs to be always opened which causes inconvenience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrush usabilityVSAvoidtime for opening lid
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The compact container is divided into separate functional modules: the container body, the lid, the cosmetic storage unit, and the cosmetic applicator unit. The cosmetic applicator unit can be detached from the container body and used independently, allowing brush usage without opening the lid or removing the cosmetic storage unit.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The cosmetic applicator unit is extracted as a separate detachable component from the container body. This allows the applicator to be removed and used independently while the cosmetic storage unit remains sealed in the container body, eliminating the need to open the lid for brush usage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Adaptability or versatility

If the cover is opened to change or supplement cosmetic, then cosmetic can be changed, but the cover needs to be necessarily opened which causes inconvenience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecosmetic replacementVSAvoidcosmetic change convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The compact container is segmented into a container body and a detachable cosmetic storage unit. The cosmetic storage unit can be removed from the container body without opening the lid, allowing cosmetic replacement while keeping the main container closed and protected.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Device complexity

If the cosmetic applicator unit is integrated into the container body, then structure is simple, but the applicator cannot be separated without opening the cover

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructure simplicityVSAvoidapplicator separation
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The cosmetic applicator unit is segmented as a separate detachable module that can be removed from the container body independently of the lid. This maintains structural simplicity while enabling easy separation and independent use of the applicator.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The cosmetic applicator unit is designed with dynamic detachability, allowing it to be easily separated from the container body when needed and reattached when not in use. This provides operational flexibility without complicating the overall structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10477939B2Cushion compact container
Publication Date: 2019.11.19 FS KOREA INDUSTRIES INC
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AI summary

Disclosed is a cushion compact container. The present invention provides a cushion compact container including: a container main body provided with a container body and a cover openably and closably coupled to the container body; a cosmetic storage unit coupled to the container body and storing a cosmetic; and a cosmetic applicator unit which is coupled to a region of the cover which is opposite to the cosmetic storage unit, and allows a user to apply the cosmetic stored in the cosmetic storage unit so that the user spreads the cosmetic onto the user's face or the like without using hand, in which the cosmetic applicator unit is separated from the container body without opening the cover, and the cosmetic storage unit is coupled to the container body to be detachable downward from the container body in a state in which the cover is coupled to the container body.