Multi-Container Holder with Vibration Damping and Thermal Insulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing beverage holders for automotive vehicles typically only accommodate a single container and fail to effectively reduce vibration and maintain beverage coolness, especially in recreational vehicles like snowmobiles and motorboats that experience substantial vibrations.
Innovation Solution
A container holder designed to hold multiple cylindrical containers, featuring a base and cover with scalloped inner surfaces, an insert filled with fluid for temperature regulation, and made from flexible insulating material like polyurethane foam to reduce vibration transmission and maintain container coolness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a single beverage holder is used in conventional vehicles, then it can hold one container, but it cannot effectively reduce vibration or maintain beverage coolness in recreational vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The holder divides the interior space into multiple compartments using partition walls, with each compartment containing a beverage container. This segmentation allows each container to be independently secured and isolated from vibrations, improving overall beverage stability while reducing the harmful effects of vibration transmission across all containers
Solution Approach 2:
The holder incorporates vibration-damping materials and cushioning structures in advance within its construction. These pre-installed damping elements absorb and reduce vibrations before they can significantly affect the beverages, providing beforehand protection against the harmful effects of vehicle motion
2Quantity of substance
If multiple beverage containers are held without insulation, then quantity is increased, but beverages cannot maintain coolness in temperature fluctuating environments
Solution Approach 1:
The holder is constructed from composite materials including insulating materials that provide thermal isolation. This composite structure allows the holder to accommodate multiple containers while maintaining their coolness by blocking external heat transfer, thus preserving beverage temperature even when multiple containers are stored together
Solution Approach 2:
The holder features a nested structure with an outer housing and an inner container-holding compartment separated by insulating material. This nested arrangement allows multiple containers to be held within the insulated space, maintaining their coolness while increasing the quantity of beverages that can be transported
3Device complexity
If containers are held without individual securing, then device complexity is reduced, but containers cannot remain stable during vehicle vibration
Solution Approach 1:
The holder uses partition walls to divide the interior space into separate compartments, with each compartment designed to hold one container. This segmentation provides individual securing for each container without requiring complex mechanical fastening systems, maintaining container stability while keeping the overall device structure relatively simple
Solution Approach 2:
The holder incorporates flexible vibration-damping materials and thin film-like cushioning layers within its structure. These flexible elements conform to the containers and provide gentle securing forces that stabilize container position during vibration, achieving effective securing with minimal structural complexity
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The holder efficiently secures and cools multiple beverage containers by isolating them from environmental vibrations and temperatures, keeping them cooler and more stable in vehicles subjected to substantial vibrations and temperature fluctuations.
Implementation Method 1
made from flexible insulating material like polyurethane foam to reduce vibration transmission
Implementation Method 2
made from flexible insulating material like polyurethane foam to reduce vibration transmission and maintain container coolness
Implementation Method 3
an insert filled with fluid for temperature regulation
Data Source
AI summary
A container holder for holding multiple cylindrical containers. The container holder includes a base, a cover and an insert. The base and the cover each have (a) two opposing equal size vertical side walls, (b) two opposing equal size vertical end walls, and (c) a bottom portion connected to lower ends of the side and end walls. The base and cover have substantially equal length and width so that the cover can be placed on the base to form an assembled container holder with a substantially rectangular cuboid outer surface. The assembled container holder defines an interior space having a height approximately equal to the height of the containers. The interior space of the assembled container holder is capable of accommodating multiple cans with the cans in an upright orientation. The hold insert may contain a freezable liquid for placement between the containers to keep beverages in the containers cool.