Oral Care Tool Container With Pivotable Walls for Easy Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional containers for oral care tools, such as interdental cleaning tools, are either cumbersome for consumers to use or costly and time-consuming to manufacture and load, failing to provide an efficient method for accessing individual tools.
Innovation Solution
A container design featuring a first and second portion with pivotable side walls, allowing the container to transition between closed and open positions, enabling easy access to and removal of oral care tools while retaining the connecting portion within the first cavity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional simple containers are used, then manufacturing cost is low, but consumer ease of use deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The container incorporates movable side walls that can transition between closed and open positions, allowing the container to dynamically adapt between secure storage and easy access states. This dynamic mechanism enables simple tool extraction without requiring complex manual manipulation, resolving the contradiction between simple construction and ease of use.
2Ease of operation
If containers with consumer-friendly features are designed, then ease of operation improves, but manufacturing cost and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The container is divided into a body and a movable side wall component, allowing the access mechanism to be achieved through simple structural segmentation rather than complex integrated features. This segmentation enables easy tool extraction while maintaining manufacturing simplicity, as the movable wall can be constructed from basic geometric shapes without requiring expensive molds or assembly processes.
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AI summary
A container for storing a set of oral care tools in which multiple oral care tools are removably connected to connecting portion. The container includes a first portion that defines a first cavity configured to receive and capture the connecting portion therein and a second portion including first and second side walls defining a second cavity in which the oral care tools are stored. At least one of the first or second side walls can be pivoted to an open position to allow a consumer to access and separate an oral care tool from the connecting portion while the connecting portion is retained within the first cavity.