Portable Urination Device Hygiene Mediator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Public toilets often pose hygiene issues, leading to urine splashing and resource wastage, especially for female users who may avoid using them due to unclean conditions, resulting in potential health risks from holding urine for extended periods.
Innovation Solution
A portable urination device with a guiding body, connection units, and optional features like adhesive layers and foldable wings, allowing users to control urine discharge without direct contact with public toilets, ensuring hygiene and ease of use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users use public toilets, then excretion needs are met, but hygiene risks and urine splashing increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a portable urination device as an intermediary between the user and the public toilet environment. The device includes a receiving portion that collects urine directly from the user, a guiding body with guiding portion that directs urine flow, and a discharge portion that releases urine into the toilet. This intermediary system allows users to avoid direct contact with unclean public toilet surfaces while still achieving the excretion function, thereby resolving the contradiction between meeting excretion needs and avoiding hygiene risks.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If users avoid public toilets due to hygiene issues, then hygiene risks are reduced, but urine holding time increases causing health issues
Solution Approach 1:
The portable urination device serves as a mediator that enables users to urinate hygienically without avoiding the act itself. By providing a clean, portable solution that can be used anywhere, the device eliminates the need to choose between hygiene and timely excretion, thus resolving the contradiction between reducing hygiene risks and maintaining appropriate urine holding time.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If users use toilet paper to clean public toilets, then hygiene is improved, but resource wastage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The portable urination device acts as an intermediary that eliminates the need for users to clean public toilet surfaces with toilet paper. By providing a personal, clean receiving portion that contacts only the user, the device removes the necessity of preparing the public toilet environment, thereby resolving the contradiction between improving hygiene conditions and reducing toilet paper consumption.
4Ease of operation
If a portable urination device is designed with simple structure, then ease of operation is improved, but guiding precision may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the portable urination device into distinct functional segments: a receiving portion for collecting urine, a guiding body with guiding portion for directing flow, and a discharge portion for releasing urine. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized for its specific function while maintaining overall simplicity. The guiding portion's structured design ensures accurate urine direction to the toilet, resolving the contradiction between simple structure and guiding precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The guiding portion is designed with curved surfaces that naturally direct urine flow toward the toilet. The curved structure of the guiding body efficiently channels urine from the receiving portion to the discharge portion, achieving accurate guidance through geometric design rather than complex mechanical components, thus maintaining ease of operation while ensuring precision.
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AI summary
A portable urination device comprises a guiding body and two connection units. The guiding body has a guiding portion, a first port and a second port. The guiding portion is formed of two side walls, and the bottom edge of the side wall is of a closed structure. The first port and the second port are oppositely disposed and are respectively located at two ends of the guiding portion. The two connection units are respectively extended between the first port and the second port of the guiding body. The two connection units are used for the user operation, the first port is used for receiving urine of a user, and the urine is discharged from the second port through guiding of the guiding portion, or discharged from the first port after buffering of the guiding portion. The urination device is easily used, and the user is dispense with contacting the public toilet stool.