Luggage Security Device with Porous Shell for Pressure Relief

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing security measures fail to effectively mitigate the destructive impact of explosive devices in luggage, particularly fragmentation bombs, which pose significant risks to people and infrastructure due to uncontrolled detonation and dispersal of metal and glass splinters.

Innovation Solution

A security device with a base body and cover part forming a receiving space, featuring openings for pressure wave escape and made of ballistic fabric, designed to surround luggage with explosive devices, allowing controlled detonation while preventing splinter penetration, using Kevlar threads and stabilizing means for reinforcement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If the securing device is made completely impermeable to contain all explosive fragments, then splinter protection is improved, but pressure wave escape is blocked causing increased internal pressure and potential device failure

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesplinter protectionVSAvoidinternal pressure
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSStress or pressure

Solution Approach 1:

The securing device incorporates a porous structure that allows the pressure wave to escape through the material matrix while the interconnected pores are sized and configured to block splinters. This resolves the contradiction by making the device partially permeable to gases while maintaining splinter containment capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #31Porous materials

Solution Approach 2:

The securing device is divided into multiple zones with different permeability characteristics. Some regions have higher porosity for pressure relief while other regions maintain denser structure for splinter containment, allowing simultaneous pressure wave escape and splinter protection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Object-affected harmful factors

If the securing device is made fully impermeable to maximize splinter containment, then fragment bomb protection is improved, but the device complexity increases due to need for pressure relief mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefragment bomb protectionVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The porous structure inherently provides both splinter containment and pressure relief functions through its material architecture alone, eliminating the need for separate mechanical pressure relief mechanisms and reducing overall device complexity while maintaining effective fragment bomb protection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #31Porous materials

Solution Approach 2:

The securing device utilizes a flexible porous shell that can expand and contract to accommodate pressure changes while maintaining its splinter-blocking function, simplifying the structure compared to rigid impermeable containers that would require complex pressure management systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

3Stress or pressure

If the securing device allows pressure wave escape through openings, then internal pressure is reduced, but splinter protection is compromised due to potential penetration through openings

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinternal pressureVSAvoidsplinter penetration risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Stress or pressureVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The porous material allows pressure wave escape through its interconnected pore structure while the pore sizes are configured to be smaller than splinter dimensions, enabling pressure relief without creating penetration pathways for fragments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #31Porous materials

Solution Approach 2:

The securing device employs composite materials combining different porous structures or layers with complementary pore size distributions, where outer layers block splinters while inner layers facilitate pressure release, achieving both functions simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

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 reduces the environmental and human impact of explosive device detonation by allowing pressure waves to escape while containing splinters, enabling controlled detonation and minimizing damage.

Implementation Method 1

ballistic fabric...made of ballistic fabric...using Kevlar threads

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFiber deformation: Deformation

Implementation Method 2

Kevlar threads and stabilizing means for reinforcement

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFriction: Friction

Implementation Method 3

a number of openings, so that a pressure wave, which occurs when the explosive device explodes, can escape at least in part

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPressure wave: Shock Wave

Data Source

PatentEP3370033B1Safety means for mitigating the explosive force of explosives in luggage articles
Publication Date: 2019.12.04 KRAUSSER NORBERT
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AI summary

A securing device (1), in particular for luggage (2), for attenuating the explosive force of explosive devices (5) located in the luggage (2), wherein the securing device (1) has a base body (10) which has at least one side part (11, 12, 13, 14) and a cover part (15) adjoining the side part (11, 12, 13, 14), wherein a receiving space (20) for receiving the luggage (2) can be formed by the side part (11, 12, 13, 14) and the cover part (15). According to the invention, a tab (21) is attached to at least one side part (11, 12, 13, 14) of the base body (10) and the base body (10) has several openings (18) so that a pressure wave which arises from an explosion of the explosive device (5) can at least partially escape.