Paper-Based Brush Packaging With Hinged Tamper-Proof Cover

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing packaging for brush products often relies heavily on plastic materials, lacking sustainability and tamper-proof features while providing a poor unpacking experience.

Innovation Solution

A paper-based packaging system comprising a tray-like body with a hinged cover wall element and a lid element, featuring tear-open elements to ensure tamper-proof integrity and a pleasant unpacking experience, using materials with minimal plastic content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If plastic material is used for packaging, then packaging strength and sealability are improved, but sustainability and environmental friendliness deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepackaging strengthVSAvoidenvironmental harm
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the material parameter from plastic to paper-based material, transforming the packaging from non-sustainable to sustainable while maintaining protective functions through design optimization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The packaging uses composite paper-based structures with multiple layers and components (tray-like body, lid element, cover wall element) to achieve the protective strength previously provided by single-material plastic packaging

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Object-affected harmful factors

If traditional paper-based packaging is used, then sustainability is improved, but tamper-proof capability and unpacking experience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental harmVSAvoidtamper-proof capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The cover wall element is designed as a hinged component that can rotate between closed and open positions, providing dynamic functionality that enables both tamper-proof sealing and controlled access to the packaged product

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The packaging is divided into multiple functional components (tray-like body, lid element, cover wall element) that work together to provide both sustainability and tamper-proof capabilities through their coordinated structure and movement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Reliability

If a hinged cover wall element is added, then tamper-proof capability and unpacking experience are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetamper-proof capabilityVSAvoidpackaging structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cover wall element is integrated with the tray-like body through a hinge connection, merging the covering function and the opening mechanism into a single unified component rather than separate parts

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The cover wall element serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides tamper-proof sealing when closed, enables pleasant unpacking experience through controlled opening, and maintains structural integrity of the packaging

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

Data Source

PatentEP4631876A1Paper-based packaging for a brush product
Publication Date: 2025.10.15 BRAUN GMBH
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AI summary

The present application is concerned with a paper-based packaging for at least one brush product and optionally at least one brush product accessory, the packaging having a tray-like body for receiving the at least one brush product in at least one receptacle formed by the tray-like body, the tray-like body having a bottom wall and four side walls extending from the bottom wall and an at least partially open top, a lid element covering the at least partially open top of the tray-like body, the lid element having a top wall and four side walls extending from the top wall, a cover wall element is arranged between the lid and the at least partially open top of the tray-like body, the cover wall element covering at least the receptacle, the cover wall element being a hinged cover wall element.