Multi-Compartment Drug Container With Sequential Breakable Seals

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional drug compounding is time-consuming, prone to contamination, and results in limited shelf life due to manual handling and pre-mixed materials.

Innovation Solution

A multi-compartment container with separate chambers for ingredients, using breakable and permanent seals to maintain isolation until mixing, allowing for efficient compounding and extended shelf life.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional manual drug compounding is used, then flexibility in drug preparation is maintained, but contamination risk increases and shelf life is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontamination riskVSAvoidcompounding system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The container is divided into multiple separate compartments, each holding different drug ingredients in isolation. This segmentation prevents contamination between ingredients while maintaining a relatively simple overall container structure, directly addressing the contradiction between reliability and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If pre-mixed drug materials are used, then compounding speed is improved, but shelf life is reduced due to stability issues

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompounding speedVSAvoidshelf life

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDuration of action of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The drug ingredients are pre-measured and pre-positioned in separate compartments during manufacturing, but remain separated until use. This preliminary action enables rapid compounding when needed while preserving shelf life through continued separation, resolving the contradiction between productivity and duration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If multiple separate containers are used for different ingredients, then contamination is prevented, but handling time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontamination preventionVSAvoidhandling time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple separate containers for different drug ingredients are merged into a single multi-compartment container structure. This combining maintains the contamination prevention benefits of separation while eliminating the handling time penalty of managing multiple separate containers, directly resolving the contradiction between reliability and time loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20260000578A1Multi-compartment container and methods of use thereof

Publication Date: 2026.01.01 ODH IP CORP

AI summary

Provided herein is a container that can include a first chamber operable to receive a first ingredient, a second chamber operable to receive a second ingredient, a third chamber operable to receive a third ingredient, a first breakable seal operable to separate the first chamber and the second chamber, and a second breakable seal operable to separate the second chamber and the third chamber. The first breakable seal can be operable to break such that the first ingredient and the second ingredient are mixed to form a first mixture. The second breakable seal can be operable to break such that the third ingredient and the first mixture are mixed to form a second mixture. The first breakable seal can be operable to break prior to the second breakable seal.