Retractable Beverage Can Handle for Compact Secure Grip
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing beverage can handles, particularly those with a 'D' shape, are cumbersome due to their size, making storage and transport inefficient.
Innovation Solution
A beverage can handle with retractable upper and lower arms that can be extended and locked into place using a trigger mechanism, allowing for compact storage and easy attachment to a beverage can, featuring nested segments for stability and a groove system to prevent slippage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If known D-shaped beverage can handles are made one-piece and sized to match beverage can height, then they provide adequate support and grip space, but storage and transport become cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The handle is divided into multiple segments including a body portion and one or more arms that can be folded relative to the body. This segmentation allows the handle to be compact when folded for storage while maintaining full extension capability when in use, resolving the contradiction between support reliability and storage volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The handle incorporates movable arms that can transition between folded and extended positions, making the handle dynamic rather than static. This allows the handle to adapt its size - compact during storage and fully extended during use - thereby resolving the contradiction between small storage volume and adequate support capability.
2Volume of moving object
If D-shaped handles are made compact for easy storage, then portability improves, but they may not provide sufficient grip space or support
Solution Approach 1:
The handle features arms that can be extended from a folded compact position to an extended operational position. When extended, the arms provide adequate grip space and support, while when folded, the handle maintains a compact size for easy portability, thus resolving the contradiction between compact size and ease of operation.
3Reliability
If the handle uses a trigger mechanism with nested segments for secure attachment, then reliability of grip improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The trigger mechanism is designed to be actuated by the user's existing gripping motion itself. When the user grasps the handle, their natural finger movement actuates the trigger, which automatically causes the arms to extend and lock onto the beverage can. This self-service design provides secure attachment without requiring separate complex mechanisms, resolving the contradiction between attachment reliability and device complexity.
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AI summary
A beverage can handle includes a first arm having a first end and a second end. The first end includes a protrusion for supporting a first lip of a beverage can. The protrusion is shaped for inhibiting slippage of the first lip of the beverage can off of the protrusion. The beverage can handle also includes a second arm that is slideably coupled to the first arm and extendable from a storage position to an extended position relative to the first end of the first arm. The second arm has a first end and a second end. The first end includes a groove for releasably mating with a second lip of the beverage can when in the extended position. The groove is shaped for inhibiting slippage of the second lip of the beverage can out of the groove when the second arm is in the extended position.