Dispenser Inner Channel Prong Prevents Product Reversion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing product packaging solutions fail to effectively protect contents from environmental exposure and child safety while maintaining consumer convenience, often leading to complex and costly package designs.
Innovation Solution
A dispenser design featuring a body with distinct interior sections, a lid with a lip seal, and a release mechanism that allows for controlled dispensing of products through a one-way inner channel with prongs, ensuring ambient air exclusion and preventing product reversion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a seal is provided for the entire contents of the package to protect from environmental exposure, then product protection is improved, but package design complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The package is divided into two distinct interior sections: a first interior section for storing product and a second interior section for dispensing product. This segmentation allows the seal to be applied only to the first interior section, protecting stored product from environmental exposure while keeping the dispensing section accessible, thereby reducing overall package design complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The dispensing function is extracted from the sealed storage area by creating a separate second interior section that is not sealed. This allows the product to be protected in storage while enabling easy access during dispensing, eliminating the need for complex sealing mechanisms that would otherwise be required for the entire package.
2Ease of operation
If the entire product is exposed when the package is opened, then consumer access is improved, but product protection from environment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The package interior is segmented into a sealed first section and an unsealed second section. When the package is opened, only the second interior section is accessed, allowing consumer access to dispensed product without exposing the entire product inventory in the first interior section to environmental factors.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a protective envelope or wrapper is used, then product protection is improved, but entire product exposure upon opening occurs
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of using a single protective envelope for the entire product, the package uses internal segmentation with a sealed first interior section and an open second interior section. This allows product protection to be maintained for stored items while providing easy accessibility for dispensed items in the second section.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If multiple constraints are managed to meet package requirements, then product protection is improved, but package complexity and expense increase
Solution Approach 1:
The package design uses simple internal segmentation into two sections with a single seal applied to the first interior section. This straightforward approach meets multiple requirements (product protection, controlled access, simplicity) without requiring complex multi-layer constraints or sophisticated mechanisms.
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AI summary
A dispenser for dispensing product that includes a dispenser body having first and second interior sections, a lid, and a release mechanism. Product in the first interior section passes through an opening in the second interior portion and into an inner channel for dispensing. The inner channel includes a prong that prevent product from reverting back to the first interior section. The lid includes a lip that, when the dispenser is closed, creates a seal about the inner channel. When the dispenser is to be opened, the user may activate the release mechanism, which includes an upper portion and an activation portion. The user inwardly presses the release activation portion, which deflects or bends a portion of the inner channel away from the lip. The user may also downwardly press on the release mechanism to release the upper portion from engagement with the lip and the sidewall.