Hernia Repair Packaging with Recessed Tracks and Retention Knobs

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Solution Overview

Problem

Surgical meshes used for hernia repair often become tangled or damaged during transport, storage, or removal from packaging, which complicates their proper orientation and usage.

Innovation Solution

A packaging member designed for hernia repair devices, featuring a central portion to receive the surgical mesh, recessed track sections for grasping members, and knobs to retain them, along with indicia for orientation and finger-receiving portions for easy removal, maintains the mesh's sterility and prevents tangling.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If surgical mesh is packaged without specialized restraint structures, then packaging simplicity is maintained, but the mesh becomes tangled or disorientated during transport and storage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemesh integrityVSAvoidpackaging structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The packaging member is divided into distinct functional zones: a central portion for receiving the surgical mesh, recessed track sections for grasping members, and knob structures for retention. This segmentation allows each zone to perform its specific function independently, preventing mesh tangling while maintaining packaging manageability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The packaging member is pre-configured with recessed track sections and knobs that automatically restrain the grasping members and surgical mesh upon insertion. This preliminary arrangement prevents tangling and disorientation during transport without requiring additional active components or complex mechanisms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If grasping members are freely positioned in packaging, then packaging simplicity is maintained, but proper orientation and removal of surgical mesh is complicated

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemesh removalVSAvoidpackaging structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The recessed track sections serve as intermediary structures that guide and position the grasping members during packaging insertion and retrieval. The knobs act as mediators that secure the grasping members in predetermined positions, facilitating easy orientation and removal while maintaining packaging simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The packaging member's recessed track sections and knobs automatically guide and restrain the grasping members without requiring external intervention or complex mechanisms. The structure self-configures to maintain proper mesh orientation and facilitate easy removal during surgical procedures

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If surgical mesh is transported without protective restraint, then transport simplicity is maintained, but mesh becomes damaged or disorientated

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemesh orientationVSAvoidpackaging structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The packaging member provides localized protection through specifically designed recessed track sections and knob structures positioned at critical areas where grasping members and surgical mesh are most vulnerable to tangling or damage during transport and storage

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10159555B2Packaging for a hernia repair device

Publication Date: 2018.12.25 SOFRADIM PRODUCTION SAS

AI summary

A packaging member for a hernia repair device including a surgical mesh and at least one grasping member. The packaging member includes a central portion configured to receive the surgical mesh, at least one recessed track section configured to receive the at least one grasping member, and a knob extending into the at least one recessed track section. The knob is configured to retain the at least one grasping member within the at least one recessed track section.