Packaging Box With Baffle Dividing Cavity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wine bottles or other objects can easily collide with each other during transit when packaged in pairs in conventional packaging boxes, leading to damage.
Innovation Solution
A packaging box with a box body and integral cover, featuring at least one baffle inside the cavity formed by bonding adjacent quadrilateral positioning frames, and a foldable extension wall that divides the cavity into sections, providing buffering to prevent collisions between adjacent objects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional packaging boxes are used for pairing objects, then the packaging structure is simple, but the objects can easily collide with each other during transit
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging box is divided into multiple independent compartments by inserting baffles that separate adjacent objects. Each compartment is bounded by the box walls and baffles, creating discrete spaces that prevent objects from colliding with each other during transit while maintaining overall structural simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
Baffles are introduced as intermediary elements between adjacent objects in the packaging box. These baffles act as mediators that physically separate objects and prevent direct contact, thereby eliminating collision risks without requiring complex structural modifications to the box itself.
2Reliability
If baffles and positioning frames are added to prevent collision, then object protection is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The positioning frames and baffles are merged into a single integrated component structure. The positioning frames serve dual functions as both structural supports and as the forming surfaces for the baffles, eliminating the need for separate manufacturing and assembly steps while maintaining effective object protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The baffles are pre-formed as integral parts of the positioning frames during the initial manufacturing process. This preliminary formation of the baffles as part of the positioning frame structure eliminates subsequent assembly operations, simplifying the overall manufacturing process while ensuring proper positioning and protection of objects.
3Loss of energy
If the packaging box uses a compact flat structure for shipping, then shipping cost is reduced, but the box volume is minimized
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging box employs a dynamic structure where the sides of the box can be folded or collapsed inward. This dynamic capability allows the box to transition between a compact flat configuration for economical shipping and a functional three-dimensional configuration for object packaging, optimizing both shipping costs and storage efficiency.
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AI summary
A packaging box includes a box body; a box cover integrally formed with the box body; and at least one baffle arranged inside a cavity of the box body, the at least one baffle divides the cavity of the box body into at least two cavities; the box body is integrally press-formed from a plate provided with a plurality of bending dents; and each of the at least one baffle is formed by bonding of adjacent side walls of two adjacent quadrilateral positioning frames, and an extension wall for positioning the quadrilateral positioning frames is foldable and disposed at each of a first side wall of the box body and a second side wall of the box body.