Pharmaceutical Packaging Case with Integrated User Guide Pocket
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Solution Overview
Problem
The current packaging of medicinal products often requires separate suppliers for packaging cases and instructions for use, leading to inefficiencies and risks of mismatching, as these components are typically provided and assembled separately during product packaging.
Innovation Solution
A packaging case design that incorporates an adhesive label for holding a user manual, allowing for the direct insertion and maintenance of instructions during the shaping and packaging process, using a pre-cut cardboard blank with specific fold lines and locking mechanisms to form a parallelepipedic envelope.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If packaging cases and instructions for use are provided by separate suppliers and assembled separately, then the packaging process requires multiple suppliers and separate assembly operations, but this leads to inefficiencies and risks of mismatching between components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the packaging case and instructions for use into a single integrated unit. The instructions are inserted into a pocket formed by fold lines on the case panels during the same manufacturing process that forms the case itself, eliminating the need for separate suppliers and assembly operations while preventing mismatching errors
Solution Approach 2:
The instructions for use are inserted into the case pocket during the case manufacturing process itself, before the case is finalized and shipped. This preliminary insertion ensures the instructions are already in place when the case is completed, streamlining the overall packaging process
2Ease of manufacture
If instructions for use are inserted into the case during manufacturing, then the packaging process is streamlined and matching errors are reduced, but the case structure must accommodate the instructions during shaping and closure
Solution Approach 1:
The case is segmented to include a dedicated pocket structure formed by fold lines on the panels. This segmentation creates a specific receptacle for the instructions that is integrated into the case structure, allowing easy insertion during manufacturing while maintaining case functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The instructions for use are nested within the case structure by placing them in a pocket formed by the case panels. The instructions are contained within the case's own structure rather than being separate, simplifying the overall assembly while accommodating both components
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
This solution streamlines the packaging process by integrating instructions within the case, reducing errors and simplifying the assembly of pharmaceutical product packaging, while ensuring secure closure and easy access to the user manual.
Implementation Method 1
said adhesive label being glued, at least partially, to an internal surface of a main panel of the envelope of the case
Data Source
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AI summary
The case (E) has a parallelepiped envelope including two main panels (11, 18) and two side panels (15, 21). A closing flap (13) and another closing flap are articulated by a fold line perpendicular to longitudinal edges in opposite ends of the main panels. A locking tongue (14) and another locking tongue are articulated by a fold line parallel to the fold line of the closing flaps. An adhesive label (2) for holding a user guide (3) is bonded partially on an inner surface of the main panels of the envelope, where the label includes an insertion opening for the user guide. An independent claim is also included for a pre-cut blank of cardboard material for making the packaging case.