Rotating Pocket Storage With Magnetic Sealing Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing portable storage solutions for small objects like supplements and vitamins lack sufficient portability, discretion, protection against moisture and contamination, and often fail to organize multiple objects effectively, with unreliable sealing mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A storage apparatus with a base and a removably adjoined cover, featuring a circular pattern of pockets and a magnetic coupling system, allowing for rotatable access and secure attachment, with optional compressible gaskets for environmental protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Weight of moving object
If a portable storage solution is designed to be compact and portable, then ease of carrying is improved, but security and protection against moisture and contamination deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The storage apparatus features a cover that nests over the base, creating a protective enclosure for the pockets containing small objects. The cover with aperture allows access while maintaining protection, effectively nesting the storage compartments within a protective shell that safeguards against moisture and contamination while remaining portable.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs gaskets or sealing elements between the cover and base that create flexible seals. These thin film-like sealing components provide moisture and contamination protection while allowing the compact, portable structure to maintain its protective function during movement and handling.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple objects are stored together, then organization is improved, but access to individual objects becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The storage apparatus is segmented into multiple discrete pockets arranged in a circular pattern on the base. Each pocket can hold individual small objects, and the cover with its aperture can be rotated to align with specific pockets, allowing users to access individual objects without disturbing others. This segmentation enables both multi-object storage and selective access.
Solution Approach 2:
The cover is designed to rotate relative to the base, dynamically changing which aperture aligns with which pocket. This rotational capability allows the user to easily access different individual objects by simply rotating the cover to the desired position, making the system adaptable to different access needs while maintaining organized multi-object storage.
3Reliability
If a secure sealing mechanism is implemented, then protection is improved, but ease of opening and accessing objects deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The aperture in the cover serves as an intermediary access point that allows objects to be retrieved without fully opening or compromising the seal between the cover and base. Users can rotate the cover to align the aperture with a pocket and access objects through this opening while the gasket maintains the protective seal around the perimeter, thus providing both security and ease of access.
4Ease of operation
If a rotatable cover with aperture is used, then selective access is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cover serves multiple functions: it protects the pockets when closed, provides selective access through rotation to align the aperture with specific pockets, and works with the gasket sealing system. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, allowing selective access without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Provides compact, secure, and organized storage with environmental protection, enabling easy access and modular transport of multiple containers.
Implementation Method 1
a magnetic coupling system for securely attaching the cover to the base
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a storage apparatus to secure and provide access to objects. The apparatus includes a base with pockets and a cover removably adjoined to the base. The cover has an aperture. In an accessing condition, the cover rotates to align the aperture with a desired pocket to allow access to the object for the user.