Positionable container sleeve
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Solution Overview
Problem
Fluid containers often lack a secure and convenient place during physical exercise, leading to potential spills, damage, or trip hazards when placed on surfaces like exercise machines.
Innovation Solution
A magnetic container sleeve with a body, attachment element, and cover that exerts a magnetic pull force and frictional force to securely hold fluid containers on surfaces, preventing spills and damage, and featuring a strap and adjuster for easy handling and secure attachment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a magnetic attachment element is used to hold the container, then the container can be securely attached to surfaces, but the magnetic element may be exposed and pose safety or aesthetic issues
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment element is nested within a recess in the body of the sleeve, with a cover positioned over the recess to enclose the attachment element. This nesting approach hides the magnetic element while maintaining its attachment function, resolving the contradiction between secure attachment and safety/aesthetics.
Solution Approach 2:
A cover acts as an intermediary component between the magnetic attachment element and the external environment. The cover encloses the magnetic element, preventing direct exposure while allowing the magnetic force to transmit through the cover material to maintain attachment security.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the cover encloses the attachment element, then safety and aesthetics are improved, but the structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sleeve is segmented into distinct functional components: a body with a recess, an attachment element within the recess, and a cover positioned over the recess. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function while keeping the overall design relatively simple and modular.
3Stability of the object's composition
If friction coefficient is increased to prevent slipping, then container stability is improved, but the cover material selection becomes more constrained
Solution Approach 1:
The coefficient of friction is changed as a key parameter of the cover material selection. By specifying that the cover material must have a coefficient of friction greater than the ratio of combined weight to magnetic pull force, the design transforms a complex material selection problem into a quantifiable parameter specification that can be met by various suitable 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 sleeve effectively secures fluid containers on various surfaces, preventing spills and damage, while allowing easy handling and secure attachment, addressing the need for a convenient and safe solution during exercise.
Implementation Method 1
An attachment element is coupled to the body. The attachment element exerts a magnetic pull force.
Implementation Method 2
The cover has a coefficient of friction that is at least the ratio of the combined weight divided by the magnetic pull force.
Data Source
AI summary
A container sleeve is disclosed which include a body configured to hold a container. The body contains an attachment element that is concealed behind a cover, and is suitable for temporarily, but securely attaching the sleeve, container, and the container's contents to a vertical surface. The body and the cover over the attachment element have different coefficients of friction, optimized for their roles of gripping vertical surfaces, and human hands, respectively.