Portable Women's Field Kit with Segmented Compartments

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Solution Overview

Problem

In male-dominated industries and workplaces, women often face challenges in accessing adequate sanitary facilities and personal care products, leading to insufficient hygiene and wellness support.

Innovation Solution

A portable women's field kit designed to store personal care items, featuring a housing with separate compartments for organization, made from durable materials, and equipped with a locking mechanism and machine-readable code for inventory management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If women work in male-dominated industries and locations, then productivity and economic opportunity are improved, but access to adequate sanitary facilities and personal care products deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveworkforce participationVSAvoidaccess to sanitary facilities

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The field kit is divided into multiple compartments and sections, each dedicated to storing specific personal care items such as feminine hygiene products, sanitary wipes, hand sanitizer, and other wellness items. This segmentation allows women to access specific products quickly without needing to search through a single large container or rely on inadequate shared facilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The field kit serves as an intermediary solution between the worker and inadequate sanitary facilities. By carrying a comprehensive personal care kit, women can perform hygiene tasks at their workspace rather than relying on distant or insufficient restroom facilities, effectively bridging the gap between work location and sanitary infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If personal care items are stored in a portable kit, then accessibility and convenience are improved, but the kit size and weight increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessibility of personal care itemsVSAvoidkit weight

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The kit is designed with different compartments optimized for specific items based on their usage frequency and size requirements. Frequently used items like sanitary wipes and hand sanitizer are placed in easily accessible outer compartments, while less frequently used items are stored in inner compartments. This local optimization of storage quality reduces the need to carry unnecessary items and improves accessibility without proportionally increasing weight.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The field kit is designed to serve multiple functions: storing feminine hygiene products, sanitary wipes, hand sanitizer, and other personal care items. By consolidating these various items into a single multi-functional kit rather than carrying separate containers for each product, the overall weight and bulk are reduced while maintaining comprehensive accessibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If feminine hygiene products are made available in the workplace, then women's personal care needs are met, but privacy and security concerns arise

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepersonal care supportVSAvoidprivacy concerns

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

By extracting personal care items from shared workplace facilities and placing them in the woman's personal field kit, the solution removes the need to visit communal restrooms or storage areas. This extraction of items into private possession eliminates the privacy concerns associated with shared facilities while maintaining full adaptability for meeting personal care needs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS20250031821A1Women's field kits and associated systems and methods

Publication Date: 2025.01.30 MCKINSTRY CO

AI summary

The present technology is generally directed to a women's field kit and a field kit system. In various embodiments, the field kit includes a housing having a first body portion releasably coupled to a second body portion, the first body portion and the second body portion collectively defining an interior space, and a plurality of compartments arranged within the interior space. Each compartment of the plurality of compartments may be dimensioned and configured for receiving and storing a respective personal care item. The first body portion may be configured to at least partially separate from the second body portion to allow access to the interior space. The housing may be devoid of any indicia for indicating presence of at least some of the personal care items placed within the kit.