Product Packaging Sleeve With Pull-Open Lid For Seamless Unfolding Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing product packaging solutions do not effectively showcase products in a visually appealing manner during transition from a closed to an open state, lacking seamless unfolding mechanisms and secure product display features.

Innovation Solution

A product packaging design featuring a sleeve with a lid that can be pulled open in a single straight motion, utilizing a continuous sheet of material to form a self-contained product display with hinging mechanisms, allowing the product to unfold into a larger presentation state, and including buffers and a secure closure system to hold the product in place.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Shape

If traditional packaging opening mechanisms are used, then the packaging can be opened, but the product display cannot seamlessly unfold into a larger presentation state

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepresentation state footprintVSAvoidunfolding mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
ShapeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The packaging is divided into distinct functional segments: a sleeve for containment, a product display for showcasing, and a lid for opening. The continuous sheet of material is segmented into portions that form different structural elements (lid, base, member) through folding, allowing each segment to serve its specific function while maintaining overall integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The product display is nested within the sleeve in the closed state, with the lid covering the opening. When opened, the product display unfolds from this nested configuration into a larger presentation state, effectively transitioning from a compact contained form to an expanded display form without requiring separate packaging and display components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple components are used to form the product display, then the display functionality is improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct display functionalityVSAvoidmanufacturing process
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The continuous sheet of material serves multiple functions: it forms the lid, the base, the connecting member, and provides hinging functionality all from a single piece. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate components that would need to be manufactured and assembled individually, simplifying the manufacturing process while maintaining versatile product display functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple functional elements (lid, base, member, hinge) are merged into a single continuous sheet of material. The folding portions and hinging portions are integrated into one piece, combining what would traditionally be separate components into a unified structure that is both manufacturable and functionally versatile.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of operation

If the product display is extracted from the sleeve, then the product can be showcased, but additional stands or support structures are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduct handlingVSAvoidsupport structures
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The product display is designed to be self-supporting through the integrated base and connecting member structure formed from the continuous sheet. When extracted from the sleeve, the display maintains its own structural integrity and positioning capabilities without requiring external stands or support structures. The base provides stable support and the member connects the lid and base in a configuration that naturally showcases the product.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10513370B1Product packaging
Publication Date: 2019.12.24 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

A product packaging includes: a sleeve forming a first opening to an interior; and a product display configured to be contained within the interior when the product packaging is in a closed state, the product display including a lid that is configured to close the first opening in the closed state, and to begin, upon the lid being pulled, extraction of the product display from the sleeve into a presentation state.