Pie-Piece Roll-Up Multi-Compartment Container Design

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional individual containers are often bulky and difficult to package and transport due to fixed compartment positions, limiting their versatility and efficiency in modern applications.

Innovation Solution

The development of pie-piece shaped individual containers and caps that can be connected via projections and recesses, allowing them to be rolled together to form a complete multi-compartment container with a removable cap, enabling flexible configuration and easy separation of contents.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If traditional individual containers maintain fixed compartment positions, then structural stability is improved, but portability and packaging efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidportability and packaging efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The container is divided into multiple individual compartments that can be separated from each other. Each compartment is an independent unit that can be individually handled, stored, and transported. This segmentation allows the compartments to be flexible in configuration while maintaining structural integrity when needed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The container design transitions from fixed to dynamic configuration. The compartments can be connected or separated based on usage requirements, allowing the container to adapt between a unified stable structure and individual portable units. This dynamic capability resolves the contradiction between structural stability and portability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Stability of the object's composition

If traditional individual containers maintain fixed compartment positions, then structural stability is improved, but versatility deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidversatility

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

By dividing the container into separable compartments, the system gains versatility in how it can be used - compartments can be distributed differently, stored separately, or accessed independently while maintaining structural stability when connected.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The container design serves multiple functions: it can operate as a unified multi-compartment container or as separate individual containers. This multi-functionality increases versatility without compromising the structural stability of either configuration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Stability of the object's composition

If multi-compartment containers keep compartments at fixed positions, then structural stability is improved, but packaging efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidpackaging efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The separable compartment design allows for more efficient packaging arrangements. Individual compartments can be compactly packaged in various configurations, reducing wasted space compared to fixed multi-compartment containers that require larger protective packaging envelopes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Device complexity

If traditional containers allow all contents to mix in a single compartment, then device simplicity is improved, but content separation capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice simplicityVSAvoidcontent separation capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The container is divided into multiple separate compartments that can be individually sealed and stored. This segmentation provides content separation capability while maintaining relative simplicity in the design of each individual compartment unit.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10807765B2Multi-compartment roll-up container and cap

Publication Date: 2020.10.20 PHEIR HIRSHOL H

AI summary

Container/cap structures include pie-piece shaped individual containers shaped to fit together, and pie-piece shaped individual caps that are attachable to each of the individual containers. Each of the individual containers is connected to at least one of the other container by connections, and these connections between the individual containers permit the individual containers to be rolled together to form a complete multi-compartment container. Each of the individual caps includes a projection and a recess positioned to join corresponding projections and recesses of adjacent individual caps. The projection and recess of the individual caps connect the individual caps together to form a complete cap when the individual containers are rolled together. The complete cap is capable of being unscrewed from the complete container to simultaneously separate all of the individual caps that form the complete cap from all of the individual containers that form the complete multi-compartment container.