Removable Battery-Powered Lighting Assembly for Insulated Containers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing container systems, such as insulated coolers and toolboxes, often require expensive and difficult-to-repair integrated lighting solutions, with batteries being hard to replace, limiting user convenience and practicality.
Innovation Solution
A container apparatus with removable and battery-powered lighting assemblies that can be easily inserted and removed, featuring elongate recesses at the corners to secure light members, allowing for independent operation and easy maintenance without electrical connection to the container.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If lights are electrically wired to the container itself, then the lighting system is stable and reliable, but it becomes expensive and difficult to repair
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting system is divided into a separate removable assembly that can be independently replaced. The light assembly includes its own battery pack and lighting elements, completely detached from the container's electrical system, allowing users to swap out faulty components without repairing the entire container.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting assembly is extracted from the container structure and made into a standalone unit. It is held in place by recesses and engagement features but remains physically separable, enabling easy removal and replacement of the entire lighting assembly or individual components like batteries and light bulbs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If lights are electrically wired to the container, then the lighting function is integrated, but batteries become difficult to replace
Solution Approach 1:
The battery pack is segmented as a separate replaceable component within the lighting assembly. Users can access and replace batteries by simply removing the old battery from the battery compartment and inserting a new one, without needing to disassemble the container or deal with electrical wiring.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting assembly transitions from a fixed integrated system to a dynamic, reconfigurable unit. The assembly can be removed from the container, carried separately, and reinstalled as needed, providing flexibility in usage scenarios and maintenance operations.
3Ease of repair
If a removable lighting assembly is used, then ease of repair and battery replacement is improved, but the lighting system may become less stable during use
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting assembly fits into specially designed recesses within the container interior, with engagement features that secure it in place. The assembly is nested within the container structure during use, providing stability, yet can be easily extracted when maintenance is needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The engagement mechanism uses asymmetric features such as protrusions on the lighting assembly that fit into corresponding recesses in the container, or vice versa. This asymmetric design provides secure positioning during use while allowing straightforward removal by applying force in the correct direction.
Data Source
AI summary
A container apparatus can include a container and an insert assembly. The insert assembly can include four elongate members. The four elongate members can include light emitting devices for illuminating the interior of the container and/or temperature altering elements for cooling and/or heating the interior of the container. The container can have a rectangular base and a rectangular sidewall extending upwardly from the base. The sidewall can define four corners of the container, and four elongate recesses can be formed in the sidewall proximate the four corners of the sidewall to receive the elongate light members. The recesses can be sized and shaped to conform to the elongate insert members so that the insert members can be releasably retained within the elongate recesses.