Mobile Phone Case Sidewall Storage With Secure Slot Covers

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing mobile phone cases lack storage functionality on their side walls, making it inconvenient to carry small objects like card needles and aromatherapy blocks, which are easy to lose.

Innovation Solution

A mobile phone case design featuring storage slots on the side walls, with detachable covers and buffer spaces for secure object storage, including aromatherapy slots for fragrance diffusion and magnetic suction for attachment to external devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If storage slots are added to the side wall of the mobile phone case, then the storage functionality is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage functionalityVSAvoidcase structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile phone case is divided into functional zones: the accommodating chamber for the mobile phone and separate storage slots on the side wall for small objects. This segmentation allows independent storage compartments without compromising the overall case structure, resolving the contradiction by adding functionality through structural division.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The storage slots are integrated into the side wall of the accommodating chamber, with the second opening communicating to the accommodating chamber. This nested arrangement allows the storage function to be embedded within the existing case structure, adding versatility while minimizing increases in device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Reliability

If a cover body is added to the storage slot, then the security of stored objects is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveobject securityVSAvoidcase structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cover body is designed to be detachably arranged at the second opening, allowing it to be mounted or removed as needed. This dynamic design provides security when the cover is attached while avoiding permanent structural complexity, resolving the contradiction between reliability and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The cover body is pre-configured with clamping slots and connecting portions that engage with corresponding features on the case body. This preliminary design of attachment mechanisms ensures secure coverage without requiring complex assembly structures, balancing security needs with structural simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20260032189A1Mobile phone case
Publication Date: 2026.01.29 SHENZHEN SODI INNOVATION TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A mobile phone case includes a case body. An accommodating chamber configured to place a mobile phone is provided on the case body. At least one side of the accommodating chamber is a first opening. At least one storage slot configured to store an object is provided on a side wall of the accommodating chamber of the case body. In this way, a user can store a small object, such as a card needle, pills, and an aromatherapy block, through the storage slot, so as to provide a storage space for the user to carry small-sized objects when the user goes out, to solve the problems that a small object is inconvenient to store and easy to lose.