Packaging Bag Inner Surface Charge Retains Fine Particles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional excrement treatment materials experience fine particles being released outside the packaging bag due to collisions during transportation, leading to inconvenience and contamination.

Innovation Solution

A packaging bag with an inner surface charge amount greater than the outer surface charge amount is used to attract and retain fine particles, preventing their release when grains are removed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If multiple grains are housed collectively in one packaging bag for convenient transportation and storage, then transportation and storage convenience is improved, but fine particles are generated through grain collisions and accumulate in the packaging bag, leading to release outside the bag when grains are removed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransportation and storage convenienceVSAvoidfine particle release
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary substance (electrified packaging bag material) that mediates between the grains and the packaging bag. The electrified inner surface acts as a mediator that actively captures and holds fine particles, preventing their release when grains are removed. This resolves the contradiction by adding a mediating element that addresses the fine particle issue without changing the collective housing approach.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the physical parameter of the packaging bag by electrifying its inner surface, creating a charged surface that can attract and hold fine particles through electrostatic forces. This parameter change (electrification) allows the packaging bag to actively retain fine particles while maintaining the convenience of collective grain housing, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and prevention of fine particle release.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Quantity of substance

If grains are housed in a packaging bag, then storage efficiency is improved, but grain collisions during transportation cause peeling and fine particle generation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage efficiencyVSAvoidgrain material loss
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the harmful effect of grain collisions (which generate fine particles) into a beneficial outcome. By electrifying the packaging bag's inner surface, the fine particles that would normally be harmful contaminants are instead captured and retained on the charged surface. This transforms the collision-induced fine particle generation from a loss problem into a controlled phenomenon where particles are harmlessly held on the packaging bag interior.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution effectively keeps fine particles within the packaging bag, enhancing transportation and handling safety by minimizing external leakage and contamination.

Implementation Method 1

a charge amount of an inner surface of the packaging bag is larger than a charge amount of an outer surface of the packaging bag

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectrostatic force: Electrostatics

Data Source

PatentUS20240140694A1Excrement treatment material and method for manufacturing the same
Publication Date: 2024.05.02 DAIKI CO LTD
  • US20240140694A1 patent drawing
  • US20240140694A1 patent drawing

AI summary

An excrement treatment material includes a plurality of grains, and a packaging bag. The plurality of grains are grains for treating excrement. The plurality of grains are housed in the packaging bag. A charge amount of an inner surface of the packaging bag is larger than a charge amount of an outer surface of the packaging bag.