Modular Holder for Dental Accessories with Segmented Hygienic Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Dental and personal items often face contamination risks due to improper storage, with existing solutions failing to provide a clean, dry, and safe storage environment that adapts to the shape of the items and can be easily expanded or modified according to user needs.
Innovation Solution
A modular holder system with varying structural shapes and securing options, such as a standing base or suction cup, designed to accommodate different personal items like toothbrushes, orthodontic retainers, and jewelry, allowing for customizable and hygienic storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If items are stored in common places like top of wash basin, then accessibility is improved, but contamination risk increases due to humid environment and bacteria
Solution Approach 1:
The holder is divided into multiple independent holding units (first holding unit, second holding unit, third holding unit) that can be selectively assembled. Each unit serves a specific function (toothbrush holder, retainer holder, jewelry holder) and can be attached or removed from the main body independently, allowing users to customize the configuration while maintaining hygienic storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The holder utilizes vertical space by extending upward from the base with multiple holding units arranged at different heights and positions. This three-dimensional arrangement maximizes storage capacity while keeping all items accessible without requiring horizontal surface space, thus maintaining both accessibility and hygiene.
2Ease of manufacture
If a fixed holder design is used, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but adaptability to different user needs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The holder is divided into multiple independent holding units (first holding unit, second holding unit, third holding unit) that can be selectively assembled. Each unit serves a specific function (toothbrush holder, retainer holder, jewelry holder) and can be attached or removed from the main body independently, allowing users to customize the configuration while maintaining hygienic storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The holder is designed with multiple holding units that can serve different functions (toothbrush storage, retainer storage, jewelry storage). The modular design allows a single base structure to support various combinations of holding units, making the product universally applicable to different user needs and item types.
3Manufacturing precision
If holding units have fixed shapes, then manufacturing precision is improved, but adaptability to different item shapes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The holder is divided into multiple independent holding units (first holding unit, second holding unit, third holding unit) that can be selectively assembled. Each unit serves a specific function (toothbrush holder, retainer holder, jewelry holder) and can be attached or removed from the main body independently, allowing users to customize the configuration while maintaining hygienic storage.
Solution Approach 2:
Each holding unit is designed with specific local characteristics suited to its function: the first holding unit has a cap for toothbrushes, the second holding unit has a specific shape for retainers, and the third holding unit is designed for jewelry. This local customization of each unit's shape and structure allows the overall system to accommodate diverse item shapes while maintaining manufacturing precision for each component.
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AI summary
Holders for maintaining personal items such as dental and hygienic products are disclosed. The holders include a series of sections, particularly, holding sections having different geometrical structures related to the different items intended to be hold. In this manner, they may be assembled at the convenience of the user and its holding units may be increased or decreased as well as selected based upon the particular structure of the holding units at the will of the users. The holder may be self-standing when using a disclosed base or alternatively, it may be secured to a commonly used toothbrush supporting base or even be supported via a suction cup over a given surface.