Period-Coded Glass Containers with Traceable Material Composition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for authenticating and tracking glass containers lack effective means to uniquely identify the production time period and manufacturing facility, making it difficult to prevent counterfeiting and ensure proper delivery.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a traceable material composition with specific tracer elements into glass containers, which can be analyzed using a portable x-ray analyzer to cross-reference with a schedule, allowing identification of the production time period and manufacturing facility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional glass container composition methods are used, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but authentication and tracking capability is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the chemical composition parameters of the glass container by incorporating traceable materials with specific oxide compositions (e.g., bismuth oxide, zinc oxide, boron oxide) in controlled amounts. These parameter changes enable unique identification of production time periods and facilities while maintaining the fundamental glass structure and properties.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite glass material by combining traditional glass constituents (silica, soda lime) with traceable material compositions. This composite approach allows the glass to retain its inherent properties while gaining authentication capabilities through the traceable components.
2Loss of information
If traceable material composition is incorporated into glass containers, then production time period and facility identification is enabled, but manufacturing process complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The traceable material composition is incorporated into the glass batch materials before the melting process. This preliminary action ensures that the traceable materials are uniformly distributed throughout the final glass product without requiring additional steps during or after manufacturing, thus maintaining ease of manufacture while achieving production traceability.
3Reliability
If current authentication methods are used, then delivery tracking is limited, but counterfeiting prevention is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical or visual authentication methods with spectroscopic analysis. By using techniques such as X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy or inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the traceable material composition can be detected and analyzed to verify authenticity, making counterfeiting difficult while maintaining ease of detection.
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
Enables accurate and non-destructive identification of the production time period and facility, enhancing authentication and anti-counterfeiting efforts while maintaining the intrinsic properties of the glass.
Implementation Method 1
analyzing a glass container for material composition; identifying at least one of constituents of or amounts of materials in the material composition
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for producing period-coded glass containers is disclosed. One method comprises producing a glass container from a traceable material composition associated with a predetermined time period, manufacturing facility, and/or time of container manufacture, where the glass container is configured to be analyzed for the traceable material composition, and at least one of constituents of or amounts of materials in the traceable material composition is configured to be identified and cross-referenced to a cross-reference schedule for identifying the time period, manufacturing facility, and/or time of container manufacture in which the glass container was produced.