Infant Formula Container Lid with Reflective Compartment Bottom
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for a container for infant formula that is safe, convenient, and enhances the quality perception while providing clear information and tools in a way that is both safe and convenient, while adhering to regulations and maintaining a good visual appearance throughout production, handling, and use.
Innovation Solution
The container features a body with a transparent and translucent lid, along with a light-reflective surface on the bottom or side walls, allowing for high visibility of objects inside the compartment without full visibility, ensuring safety and convenience while meeting regulatory standards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the lid is made opaque to ensure safety and security perception, then safety perception is improved, but visibility of contents and tools deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lid is designed with differentiated local properties: a first portion is opaque for security perception, while a second portion is transparent to allow visibility of the compartment and its contents. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction by providing both safety perception and information visibility in different areas of the same component.
2Loss of information
If the lid is made transparent to improve visibility of contents, then visibility is improved, but safety perception and security deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lid is designed with differentiated local properties: a first portion is opaque for security perception, while a second portion is transparent to allow visibility of the compartment and its contents. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction by providing both safety perception and information visibility in different areas of the same component.
3Ease of operation
If all information and tools are fully visible to ensure convenience, then convenience is improved, but safety and security perception deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lid is designed with differentiated local properties: a first portion is opaque for security perception, while a second portion is transparent to allow visibility of the compartment and its contents. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction by providing both safety perception and information visibility in different areas of the same component.
4Ease of operation
If the container provides clear visibility of tools and information, then convenience is improved, but visual appearance and quality perception deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lid is designed with differentiated local properties: a first portion is opaque for security perception, while a second portion is transparent to allow visibility of the compartment and its contents. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction by providing both safety perception and information visibility in different areas of the same component.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The container provides enhanced visibility of contents, reassures users of safety, and maintains a high-quality appearance by utilizing the transparent and translucent parts of the lid, along with a light-reflective surface, which improves illumination and perception of safety and quality.
Implementation Method 1
The lid has part transparent to visible light and optionally a translucent part
Implementation Method 2
at least one of the bottom or side wall has a light-reflective surface in regard to the visible light
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AI summary
An infant formula container is provided with a particular lid having transparent, translucent and non-transparent/translucent parts. The container has a compartment intended to receive an object. The compartment has a bottom wall having a light reflective surface. The container of the invention provides for enhanced visibility through the lid such as to render the object in the compartment identifiable but not fully visible.