Lockable Storage Container With Card Retention and Keyed Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional currency transport containers lack secure storage solutions for both paper currency and credit cards, often failing to provide separate locking compartments and secure access to the interior volume.
Innovation Solution
A portable storage container with a main compartment featuring a credit card slot, credit card retention member, key slot, and lock compartment, ensuring secure storage and access control through a hinged top member and integrated lock mechanism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional currency transport containers are used, then currency can be transported, but secure storage for both currency and credit cards is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The container is divided into separate compartments: a main compartment for currency and a separate lockable compartment for credit cards. This segmentation allows each compartment to be optimized for its specific purpose while providing secure storage for both item types simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
A lock mechanism serves as an intermediary security element between the user and the credit card compartment. The lock provides an additional layer of security, ensuring that credit cards remain protected while the main compartment remains accessible for currency transport.
2Ease of operation
If conventional containers are used, then transport is possible, but separate locking compartments for credit cards are not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The credit card compartment is nested within the main container structure, utilizing the existing container framework. This nesting approach adds the locking functionality without requiring a completely separate external container, thus managing complexity while providing secure storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The container combines multiple functions into a single unit: currency transport, credit card storage, and lockable security. By merging these functions into one integrated container rather than requiring separate items, the design simplifies the overall system while enhancing operational convenience.
3Reliability
If traditional currency transport containers are used, then currency can be transported, but ability to lock and inhibit access to interior volume is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The locking mechanism is applied locally to the credit card compartment rather than the entire container. This localized approach provides enhanced security where needed (for valuable credit cards) while keeping the main currency compartment accessible, and simplifies manufacturing compared to locking the entire container structure.
4Adaptability or versatility
If credit cards are stored in conventional containers, then they can be carried, but unauthorized access cannot be prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The lock mechanism provides preliminary protection against unauthorized access before any attempt to access the credit cards. By requiring authentication (key or combination) before accessing the compartment, the system preemptively prevents harmful unauthorized access while maintaining the storage function.
Data Source
AI summary
A storage container that is configured to receive, store and lock items such as but not limited to paper currency and credit cards. The invention includes a main compartment having an interior volume defined by integrally formed bottom, sidewalls, front wall, rear wall and top member. The top member is hingedly secured providing access to the interior volume of the main compartment. A slot is formed in the rear wall wherein the slot has adjacent thereto a credit card retention member disposed within the interior volume of the main compartment. A key compartment is present adjacent to the main compartment and includes a key slot formed in the bottom configured to have key journaled therethrough. A lock compartment is present adjacent to key compartment wherein the lock compartment is configured to house a lock therein. The top member includes a recessed rolled rear edge hingedly coupled intermediate the sidewalls.