Packaging Container with Coupling Device for Tool Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing packaging containers for elongate tools like drill bits and milling cutters are not designed for efficient storage and handling in a collective manner, often leading to loss and inconvenience when multiple tools are stored together.
Innovation Solution
A packaging container equipped with an external coupling device that allows for detachable connection with other identical containers, enabling them to be connected in a row for secure storage and easy handling, featuring a sliding connection and locking mechanism to prevent accidental tool detachment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple packaging containers are stored separately in receptacles, then individual tool protection is achieved, but storage efficiency and handling convenience deteriorate leading to loss and inconvenience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual packaging containers into a single collective packaging unit by providing a common base with multiple receptacles. Each receptacle maintains individual tool protection while the shared base enables unified storage and handling, resolving the contradiction between individual protection and storage efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The base structure serves multiple functions: it provides individual receptacles for tool protection, acts as a collective holder for multiple tools, enables unified storage, and facilitates easy handling through a single unit. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making the packaging system both protective and efficient.
2Ease of operation
If packaging containers are stored separately, then individual access is simple, but handling convenience and storage organization worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging system is segmented into individual receptacles within a unified base. Each receptacle can be accessed individually while remaining part of the collective unit, enabling simple individual access while maintaining organized storage and reduced handling complexity through the integrated base structure.
3Reliability
If tools are placed in separate receptacles, then tool security is improved, but storage space utilization and handling efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple individual packaging containers are merged into a single collective unit with a shared base and multiple receptacles. This merging maintains tool security through individual receptacle protection while significantly improving storage space utilization by consolidating what would otherwise be multiple separate containers into one compact unit.
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AI summary
A packaging container for an elongate object has a base and a protective sleeve to be pushed in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the protective sleeve onto the base. The protective sleeve can be secured at the base. The base has a receptacle for an end of an elongate object and the protective sleeve covers an elongate object received in the receptacle. The packaging container has a primary part of a first external coupling device and the primary part is detachably connectable to a secondary part of a second external coupling device that is provided on a further packaging container.