Segmented Medicament Container with Perforated Child-Resistant Cover
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medicament containers, such as blister packages, are not reusable and do not provide a mechanism for easy access while preventing children from opening them, which can lead to issues with product integrity and patient compliance.
Innovation Solution
Design of a container with a surface and a covering featuring perforations and a crease that allows for easy tearing by adults while providing child-resistant access, ensuring each dose can be dispensed securely and reducing the risk of overdosing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a blister package is designed to be tamper-proof and durable, then product protection and integrity are improved, but ease of opening by children deteriorates (becoming more difficult for children to open)
Solution Approach 1:
The blister package is segmented into multiple components: a rigid backing providing structural integrity, a foil layer providing barrier protection, and pre-scored separation lines enabling controlled opening. The package can be separated into individual dose compartments, allowing adults to open one section while maintaining protection of remaining doses.
Solution Approach 2:
Perforations and score lines are pre-formed during manufacturing to guide the opening process. These preliminary structural features enable adults to easily tear along predetermined paths while the overall package structure remains intact and protective until opened.
2Stability of the object's composition
If a container provides barrier protection against humidity and contamination, then product stability is improved, but accessibility by children deteriorates (becoming more difficult for children to open)
Solution Approach 1:
The container uses composite construction with a rigid backing material providing structural stability, a foil barrier layer preventing moisture and contamination ingress, and adhesive bonding between layers. This composite structure maintains product stability while the rigid outer structure becomes difficult for children to manipulate.
Solution Approach 2:
Perforations and tear lines are pre-formed through all layers of the composite structure, allowing adults to easily separate the protective layers along predetermined paths while the composite structure itself remains intact and protective until deliberately opened.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a blister package is opaque to protect light-sensitive medicaments, then protection against radiation is improved, but visibility of the medicament deteriorates (cannot see the medicament through the package)
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging structure provides different optical properties in different locations: the main body is opaque to block light radiation, while specific viewing areas or individual dose compartments can be translucent or transparent to allow visual inspection of the medicament without compromising overall radiation protection.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments are described for a container for storage of a medicament, the container comprising a surface having at least a cavity configured to store at least one dose of the medicament; and a covering disposed over at least the cavity of the surface and comprising at least two adjacent edges and a set of perforations disposed on the covering and spaced apart from the at least two adjacent edges of the covering. A container comprising a sheet of separable units and methods for use are described.