Frozen food catching device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Eating frozen foods on a stick or cone often results in messy leakage due to melting, which can stain hands and clothing, especially affecting young children.
Innovation Solution
A frozen food catching device is designed to be removably connected to a frozen food handle, featuring a food catching base with ridges and channels to collect melted food, surrounded by walls to prevent spillage, and an insulation layer to maintain temperature.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If frozen food is served on a stick or cone, then it is convenient to hold and eat, but the melting frozen food causes leakage and stains hands and clothing
Solution Approach 1:
A catching device is introduced as an intermediary component between the frozen food and the consumer's hands. This device includes a base that receives the frozen food item and walls that contain the melted food, preventing it from reaching the hands while still allowing convenient holding and eating.
Solution Approach 2:
The catching device is segmented into distinct functional components: a base for receiving the frozen food, walls for containing the melted food, and an insulation layer for temperature maintenance. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function effectively.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If walls are added to prevent melted food from moving away, then leakage is prevented, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The walls of the catching device can be formed as a flexible or semi-rigid structure that is simple in form but effective in function. The walls extend upward from the base to contain the melted food, providing leakage prevention without requiring complex mechanical components.
3Temperature
If an insulation layer is added to maintain temperature, then frozen food temperature is maintained, but device complexity and material requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The catching device incorporates an insulation layer as a composite material component between the base and the external environment. This layer, made of insulating material, thermally isolates the frozen food from ambient heat while being simple in structure and easy to integrate into the device.
4Object-generated harmful factors
If ridges and channels are added to the base, then melted food collection is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The ridges and channels on the base can be formed using simple curved or angled surfaces that are easy to manufacture. The ridges radiate outward from the center where the handle is inserted, and the channels follow simple geometric paths to collect and contain the melted food.
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 device effectively prevents leakage and keeps hands and clothing clean by containing melted frozen food, while the insulation layer helps maintain the frozen food's temperature.
Implementation Method 1
an insulation layer disposed on at least a portion of the food catching base and each of the plurality of walls to prevent a decrease in a temperature level on an outer surface of the food catching base and each of the plurality of walls in response to a decrease in a temperature level of an inner surface
Data Source
AI summary
A frozen food catching device removably connected to at least a portion of a handle of a frozen food, the frozen food catching device including a food catching base to receive the frozen food that has melted, a plurality of walls disposed on at least a portion of a perimeter of the food catching base to prevent the frozen food from moving away from the food catching base, and a handle receiving aperture disposed at a center of the food catching base to receive the handle therethrough.