Multipurpose Tool with Rounded Edges for Backpack Insertion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing backpack systems lack a versatile and easy-to-use tool for excursions that can provide storage, protection, and multifunctional uses such as water collection, filtration, and carrying items like firewood or serving as a seat/table, while also ensuring easy insertion and removal without snagging.
Innovation Solution
A multipurpose tool with features like rounded edges, leg storage compartments, leg coupling units, and skids that can be easily inserted into a backpack, creating a storage compartment with rigid walls and providing additional functions like a water container, filtration system, and carrying device, with legs that can be deployed for stability and versatility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Weight of moving object
If a multipurpose tool is inserted into a backpack for transport, then portability and storage capability are improved, but insertion and removal become difficult due to snagging and friction
Solution Approach 1:
The multipurpose tool incorporates rounded edges along its perimeter instead of sharp corners. This curvature modification eliminates snagging points that would otherwise catch on the backpack fabric, enabling smooth insertion and removal while maintaining the tool's structural integrity and protective functions
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the multipurpose tool creates a storage compartment with rigid walls, then item protection is improved, but insertion difficulty increases due to friction
Solution Approach 1:
The rigid-walled multipurpose tool features rounded edges that prevent snagging on backpack materials during insertion. The curved geometry allows the rigid structure to slide smoothly into the backpack compartment while maintaining its protective enclosure for stored items
3Adaptability or versatility
If the multipurpose tool includes multiple functional features, then versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The multipurpose tool integrates multiple functions including storage compartment, water container with filtration system, firewood carrier, fishing device, seat, and table within a single unified structure. This consolidation provides diverse capabilities while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate devices
Solution Approach 2:
The tool combines previously separate functions into one integrated device: the storage compartment serves as both general storage and water container, the lid provides filtration capability, and deployable legs transform it into seating or table functionality, reducing overall system complexity
Data Source
AI summary
A multipurpose tool and storage device is disclosed. In one aspect, the multipurpose tool and storage device can include a container. The container can includes a frontward wall portion, a rearward wall portion, a first sidewall portion, a second sidewall portion, an inner bottom surface of the container, and a plurality of leg storage compartments that are each configured to stow a removable leg of the container, wherein each leg storage compartment of the plurality of leg storage compartments is positioned between a terminating end of the rearward sidewall portion and a terminated end of at least one of the first sidewall portion or the second sidewall portion.