Packing Implement with Falling Parts for Impact Buffering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional packaging structures for notebook computers using a combination of a baseboard and flexible film lack a buffer space between the baseboard and the casing, leading to a high risk of impact damage during transportation, especially when the casing is dropped.
Innovation Solution
A packaging implement with a baseboard that includes falling and rising parts, where the falling parts are bent downward and the rising parts are folded upward, creating a natural buffer space between the baseboard and the casing, and the holding sheet is tensioned to securely hold the article, providing additional support and protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a baseboard and flexible film are used for packaging, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but impact protection is insufficient because no buffer space exists between the baseboard and casing
Solution Approach 1:
The baseboard is designed with falling parts that extend in a direction perpendicular to the board surface, creating buffer space in the vertical dimension. This dimensional extension allows the baseboard to absorb impact forces without requiring complex additional components, maintaining ease of manufacture while significantly improving impact protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The falling parts are pre-formed as buffer structures before packaging the article. These parts are positioned in advance to create cushioning space between the baseboard and the casing, ensuring that impact forces are absorbed beforehand during transportation, thus protecting the article without requiring complex assembly.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the baseboard is made larger to create buffer space, then impact protection improves, but the device complexity increases and assembly time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The baseboard is segmented into functional regions: a board surface for supporting the article and falling parts for cushioning. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function efficiently, creating buffer space without requiring the entire baseboard to be larger or more complex. The falling parts are integrated as distinct segments that can be easily assembled.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the holding sheet is tightly stretched to prevent article slipping, then article stability improves, but the article may slip on the board surface when thin and heavy
Solution Approach 1:
The falling parts serve as an intermediary structure between the baseboard and the article. They provide a cushioning layer that prevents direct contact and sliding between the article and the baseboard surface. This intermediary structure allows the holding sheet to be tightly stretched for stability while preventing the article from slipping during transportation.
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 forms a buffer space to absorb impacts, securely holds the article without slipping, and allows for efficient stacking and use as a spacer for multiple tiers, enhancing protection and stability during transportation.
Implementation Method 1
a stretchable sheet 7 made of a resin having a specific modulus of elasticity
Implementation Method 2
both falling parts 11 are bent downward along lines for bend 14a
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AI summary
To provide a packing implement for goods transportation that facilitates packing in the transportation of the goods and is a combination of a baseboard and a holding sheet. The baseboard is a rectangular board for supporting an article to be transported at a fixed position, and has rising parts, falling parts and shape retaining parts. The rising parts are folded back upward from both end edges of a short side of the baseboard, the falling parts are folded back downward from both side edges of a long side of the baseboard, respectively, the falling part is constituted by a leg part orthogonal to the baseboard and a bottom part which is bent parallel with the baseboard, and a buffer space corresponding to a rising height of the leg part of the falling part is formed by the leg part bent so as to be orthogonal to the baseboard and the bottom part bent parallel with the baseboard. The shape retaining part is a corner part of the baseboard left between an end edge of the rising part and an end edge of the falling part. The shape retaining part is continued to the ring part and the falling part, is folded back parallel with the rising part when the end edge of the falling part is bent to a lower surface side of the baseboard, and is erected to hold the falling part bent when the rising part is folded back upward. The holding sheet is bridged over a surface of the baseboard and attached to both the falling parts, covers a surface of the article on the baseboard, is tensed by bend of the falling part, and presses and fixes the article to the baseboard.