Removable Container Clip With Mateable Fasteners

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing containers are often not removable, requiring them to be emptied to accommodate different types of materials, which is inefficient and inconvenient.

Innovation Solution

A container design featuring a clip with a downwardly extending arm and a clip aperture that allows for removability by mating with a pair of fasteners, enabling secure attachment to various substrates or devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If containers are made non-removable for secure attachment, then attachment reliability is improved, but adaptability deteriorates as containers cannot be exchanged for different materials

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveattachment reliabilityVSAvoidcontainer exchangeability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The attachment system is divided into separate components: a removable container and a fixed substrate with mateable fasteners. The container includes a clip with a first fastener that can engage with a second fastener on the substrate, allowing the container to be attached and detached as needed. This segmentation enables both reliable attachment when connected and easy exchange when detached.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The attachment system transitions from a static permanent attachment to a dynamic removable attachment. The mateable fasteners enable the container to be easily attached to and removed from the substrate, allowing the system to adapt between secured and exchangeable states based on operational needs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If containers are made permanently attached to substrate, then ease of operation is improved by eliminating attachment steps, but adaptability deteriorates as containers cannot be removed for exchange

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveattachment operationVSAvoidcontainer removability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The attachment mechanism is segmented into discrete mateable fasteners that can be quickly engaged and disengaged. The clip assembly with its fastener provides a simple interface that requires minimal operational steps for attachment while maintaining the capability for easy removal and exchange.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Device complexity

If a simple clip structure is used for attachment, then device complexity is reduced, but attachment reliability deteriorates without additional fastening mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveclip structure complexityVSAvoidattachment reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The clip structure is merged with a mateable fastener system. The clip provides the basic attachment geometry while the integrated fastener (first of the pair) engages with the corresponding second fastener on the substrate, creating a combined structure that maintains simplicity while significantly improving attachment reliability through the interlocking fastener mechanism.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20240108120A1Container

Publication Date: 2024.04.04 HOME EQUITY RENOVATIONS & DESIGN INC

AI summary

A container including a clip attached at a clip first end to the container body and having a downwardly extending clip arm terminating in a clip second end for securing the container to a substrate disposed between the downwardly extending clip arm and the container body. In particular embodiments, the clip arm can include a clip aperture configured as the first of a pair of mateable fastener removably mateable to a second of the pair of mateable fasteners to removably affix the container to another surface or device.