Container Detachable Sealed Straw Assembly for Pressure-Resistant Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing beverage containers lack a secure and user-friendly mechanism for selectively closing and opening a straw to prevent spillage while allowing consumption, especially under varying pressure conditions.
Innovation Solution
A detachable sealed straw assembly with positioning beads, a spout, and an elastomeric seal that rotates between open and closed positions, ensuring a secure fit and allowing fluid flow or seal, featuring guiding grooves and channels for easy installation and removal, and a handle for manual operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a detachable sealed straw assembly with positioning beads and elastomeric seal is used, then the reliability of preventing spillage under pressure variations is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The straw assembly is divided into separate functional components: positioning beads for securing, elastomeric seal for sealing, spout body for fluid flow, and handle for operation. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function optimally while maintaining overall reliability without excessive complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The positioning beads are nested within the spout body, and the elastomeric seal is integrated into the straw assembly structure. This nesting reduces the number of separate parts while maintaining the complex functionality needed for reliable leak-proof performance under pressure variations.
2Ease of operation
If guiding grooves and channels are added for easy installation and removal, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guiding grooves and channels are designed to automatically guide the straw assembly into the correct position during installation and provide alignment during removal. This self-guiding feature eliminates the need for complex alignment mechanisms or additional adjustment steps, improving ease of operation without proportionally increasing complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the detachable sealed straw is configured to rotate between open and closed positions, then the adaptability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The straw assembly is designed to rotate dynamically between open and closed positions around a rotating axis. This dynamic configuration allows the same component to serve multiple functions (drinking and sealing) without requiring separate fixed structures, improving adaptability while keeping the rotating mechanism simple through the use of frictional engagement and positioning beads.
4Reliability
If positioning beads with axial compression force greater than normal compression force are used, then the reliability of securing the straw is improved, but the ease of operation for removal decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The positioning beads provide strong axial compression force during normal use to secure the straw reliably. During removal, the user applies periodic rotational motion combined with pulling force, which temporarily overcomes the compression force of the positioning beads, allowing removal while maintaining strong securing during normal operation.
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
The solution provides a leak-proof and user-friendly mechanism that prevents spillage under normal handling and pressure variations, ensuring secure attachment and easy cleaning, while maintaining airflow and fluid communication.
Implementation Method 1
an elastomeric seal tightly assembled within the lid assembly, forming a seal when the detachable straw assembly is rotated into the sealed position
Implementation Method 2
the detachable sealed straw has the handle and the resiliently pivoting positioning beads being configured to pivot within the concave joint of the rotating axis of the lid assembly
Data Source
AI summary
A container with detachable suction straw is disclosed, including a container and a lid assembly covering the container. The lid assembly comprises walls defining a recess, guiding grooves that facilitate assembly and easy removal of the detachable sealed straw, a rotating axis concave joint, and guiding grooves where the detachable sealed straw and the elastomeric seal are housed. The detachable sealed straw contains positioning balls and a spout, the spout is designed to have a body that rotates on the concave surface of the rotating axis joint of the lid assembly, a passage for the flow of contents within the container, a spout lead-in portion, a blind hole for assembling the positioning balls, and a handle. The elastomeric seal fits tightly into the lid assembly.