Fixed Window Badge With Removable Indicia Strip

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional badges lack a convenient mechanism for updating or changing the displayed indicia without requiring removal of the top panel, limiting their versatility and customization options.

Innovation Solution

A badge design featuring a base plate with a recessed portion and a removable strip sandwiched between the base plate and a top panel, allowing for easy exchange of indicia without removing the top panel, and incorporating a transparent window panel for viewing the indicia.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the top panel is permanently attached to the base plate, then the badge structure is stable and secure, but the indicia cannot be updated or changed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to update indiciaVSAvoidbadge structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The badge is divided into distinct segments: a base plate, a removable strip containing indicia, and a top panel. The strip is separated from the permanent badge structure, allowing it to be removed and replaced independently while the top panel remains attached to the base plate. This segmentation enables indicia updates without disassembling the entire badge.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The indicia-bearing strip is extracted as a separate, removable component from the badge assembly. The strip can be taken out from between the base plate and top panel and replaced with a new strip containing updated indicia, while the top panel remains in place on the base plate.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Adaptability or versatility

If the strip is permanently fixed between the base plate and top panel, then the badge structure is stable, but the indicia cannot be exchanged

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveindicia exchangeabilityVSAvoidbadge structure stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The strip is pre-positioned between the base plate and top panel during assembly, creating a stable sandwich structure. The strip is inserted into a recessed portion of the base plate that is designed to receive and hold the strip in place, providing preliminary stabilization before final assembly.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The strip acts as an intermediary element between the base plate and top panel. It is held in place by the recessed portion of the base plate and the pressure from the top panel, creating a stable assembly that still allows for strip removal and replacement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If the top panel is removed to change the strip, then the indicia can be updated, but the operation becomes complex and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveindicia update convenienceVSAvoidtime to update indicia

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The strip is extracted as a separate, easily removable component that can be taken out from between the base plate and top panel without removing the top panel itself. This extraction mechanism allows for quick strip replacement and indicia updates.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of removing the top panel to access the strip, the invention inverts the approach by designing the strip to be removable from the front or side of the badge assembly. The strip can be pulled out from between the base plate and top panel through a recessed portion, allowing easy access and replacement without disassembling the badge.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

4Loss of information

If a transparent window panel is added to view the strip, then the indicia are visible, but the badge structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveindicia visibilityVSAvoidbadge structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The transparent window panel is merged with the top panel or integrated into the badge structure as a combined component. The window portion is incorporated into the top panel design, creating a unified structure that provides both structural support and transparent viewing capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The top panel serves multiple functions: it provides structural support for the badge, contains the transparent window portion for viewing the strip, and helps secure the strip in place. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components and simplifies the overall badge structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9552749B2Fixed window badge

Publication Date: 2017.01.24 CONTEMPORARY INC

AI summary

A badge for displaying indicia. The badge includes a base plate that defines a landing area that has a recessed portion. The badge also includes a top panel coupled to the base plate. The top panel defines an at least partially transparent portion. A strip is disposed between the base plate and the top panel and at least partially disposed underneath the at least partially transparent portion such that a portion of the strip is viewable through the at least partially transparent portion. The strip is removable from between the base plate and the top panel without removing the top panel from the base plate.