Glow Stick Carrier with Substance Container

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Solution Overview

Problem

Glow sticks lack versatility and marketability as standalone products, as they do not effectively integrate with other substances or products, limiting their practical and decorative uses.

Innovation Solution

A glow stick carrier apparatus that combines an openable container with a glow stick, allowing for the attachment and dispensing of various substances, and optionally incorporating a phosphor of different wavelengths to create unique fluorescent colors, enhancing the product's utility and appeal.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If glow sticks are used as standalone products, then they provide simple light emission, but they lack versatility and marketability

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveversatilityVSAvoidproduct integration

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines a glow stick with a container for various substances (liquor, paint, candy, cosmetics, etc.) into an integrated apparatus. The container is attached to the glow stick body, creating a unified product that provides both light emission and substance storage/dispensing functions, thereby resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The glow stick apparatus is designed to serve multiple functions: light emission from the chemiluminescent reaction and substance storage/dispensing from the attached container. This multi-functionality approach allows a single product to replace multiple separate items, enhancing versatility while maintaining manageable complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a container is attached to the glow stick, then versatility is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct integrationVSAvoidattachment mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The apparatus is divided into distinct segments: the glow stick body containing the chemiluminescent chemicals and the separate attachable container. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while simplifying the attachment mechanism, as the components can be connected through simple interfaces rather than integrated into a single complex structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The container is designed to be attached to the glow stick body in a nested configuration, where the container surrounds or is surrounded by the glow stick. This nesting arrangement simplifies the attachment mechanism by utilizing the existing cylindrical geometry of both components, reducing the need for complex fastening systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Illumination intensity

If phosphors of different wavelengths are incorporated, then visual appeal is enhanced, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefluorescent color varietyVSAvoidphosphor integration

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

Different phosphors with different wavelengths are incorporated into specific regions or layers within the container or glow stick structure. This local quality approach allows for varied fluorescent colors to be achieved by placing different phosphor materials in different locations, rather than requiring a complex homogeneous mixture, thereby simplifying the manufacturing process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

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 solution enhances the marketability and practicality of glow sticks by enabling them to be used in conjunction with other products, such as candies, liquor, or cosmetics, and creates visually appealing effects through different fluorescent colors, expanding their applications in various settings.

Implementation Method 1

Glow sticks depend on a chemical process known as chemiluminescence to produce their light. In chemiluminescence, a chemical reaction causes a release of energy. Electrons in the chemicals become excited and rise to a higher energy level. When the electrons drop back to their normal levels, they produce energy in the form of light.

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectChemiluminescence: Chemiluminescence