Folding Cooler Box with Reusable Insulating Insert for Chilled Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current packaging boxes for chilled food deliveries often suffer from inadequate cooling functions, leading to food deterioration and increased resource waste due to inefficient insulation and incomplete cooling, especially with longer delivery distances and times.
Innovation Solution
A folding packaging cooler box with a double cooling structure, featuring a cooling reinforcing portion that forms a hexahedron shape with the box portion, providing enhanced insulation and easy adhesive components for automated cleaning and portability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a packaging box has an insulating member attached therein to deliver chilled food, then the cooling function is improved, but the resource waste for packaging increases exponentially
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging box is divided into separate components: a reusable box body and a detachable insulating member. This segmentation allows the insulating member to be removed and reused across multiple packaging cycles, reducing the need to dispose of entire packaged units and thereby decreasing resource waste while maintaining cooling functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The insulating member is designed to be recoverable and reusable rather than disposable. After use, the insulating member can be recovered, cleaned, and reused in subsequent packaging operations, transforming a single-use resource into a multi-use component that reduces overall resource consumption and waste.
2Productivity
If the delivery distance or time increases, then the demand for chilled food delivery increases, but the cooling function becomes insufficient leading to food deterioration
Solution Approach 1:
The insulating member utilizes composite material structures with multiple layers or combinations of insulating materials that provide superior thermal resistance. This composite construction enables the packaging to maintain effective cooling over extended delivery distances and times, supporting increased productivity without compromising food safety.
3Ease of repair
If a packaging box is designed for automated cleaning, then the ease of maintenance is improved, but the structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging box is segmented into removable components, particularly the insulating member, which can be detached and placed in an automated cleaning system independently. This segmentation allows the cleaning system to access and clean internal surfaces effectively without requiring the entire box structure to be complex or disassemblable, balancing ease of maintenance with structural simplicity.
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 double cooling structure maximizes cooling efficiency, minimizes thermal losses, facilitates automated cleaning, and allows for easy portability, effectively maintaining chilled food quality over longer delivery times while reducing waste by replacing disposable boxes.
Implementation Method 1
a cooling reinforcing portion configured to be inserted to the inside of the box and to form a hexahedron shape together with the box portion
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a folding packaging cooler box convertible from a box mode to an unfolding mode or vice versa, comprising: a box portion having a bottom portion, sidewall portions and joint portions configured to connect with one another and to form a single plane in the unfolding mode; and a cooling reinforcing portion configured to be inserted to the inside of the box and to form a hexahedron shape together with said box portion when said box portion is converted into the box mode, wherein said cooling reinforcing portion comprises a reinforcing bottom portion configured to form a lower surface and to face the bottom portion of the said box portion upon conversion into the box mode; reinforcing sidewall portions configured to connect with the said reinforcing bottom portion and to face the sidewall portions of said box portion; and reinforcing joint portions configured to join said reinforcing sidewall portions, to be folded to face itself and to be in close contact with the reinforcing sidewall portions, upon conversion into the box mode, and wherein said reinforcing bottom portion, said reinforcing sidewall portions and reinforcing joint portions form a single plane in the unfolding mode.