Sensor Storage Container With Rotatable Ejecting Tool
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sensor storage containers make it difficult to extract a single sensor from a stack due to friction between sensors, causing accidental removal of multiple sensors when trying to retrieve the uppermost one.
Innovation Solution
A sensor storage container with a main body case and a rotatable sensor ejecting tool featuring a sensor adhesive portion that adheres to the uppermost sensor, allowing for its selective extraction by rotating the tool upward, preventing contact with adjacent sensors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If sensors are stacked in a main body case with an inclined bottom portion, then multiple sensors can be stored in a compact space, but it becomes difficult to extract only one sensor from the stack due to friction between sensors
Solution Approach 1:
A sensor extraction tool with an adhesive portion is introduced as an intermediary between the user and the sensor stack. The adhesive portion selectively adheres to the uppermost sensor, enabling individual sensor extraction without friction-induced entanglement with underlying sensors. The tool acts as a mediator that overcomes the friction problem while maintaining compact storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The extraction tool is designed with a segmented structure where the adhesive portion is separable or detachable from the handle. This allows the adhesive portion to be replaced when depleted, and the handle to be reused. The segmentation enables the tool to address the extraction problem while maintaining ease of operation through modular replacement.
2Ease of operation
If a user presses the upper face of the uppermost sensor with a finger to pull it out, then the sensor can be grasped, but the lower sensor is also pressed and accidentally taken out due to friction
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive portion of the extraction tool serves as an intermediary that selectively bonds to the uppermost sensor's upper face, distributing the extraction force evenly across the sensor surface. This prevents the friction-induced dragging of underlying sensors that occurs when fingers directly press and pull, thereby ensuring reliable single-sensor extraction.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive portion changes the interaction parameter between the user's hand and the sensor from direct mechanical contact (prone to friction and slippage) to adhesive bonding (providing controlled, uniform force application). This parameter change enables precise control over which sensor is extracted, improving reliability.
3Reliability
If the sensor ejecting tool is made with an adhesive portion, then selective extraction of one sensor is enabled, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The extraction tool is segmented into a handle and a replaceable adhesive portion. This segmentation simplifies the overall device design by separating the complex adhesive function from the simple handle structure, allowing each component to be optimized independently and reducing overall device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive portion is designed to be disposable and replaceable rather than permanent. This allows the complex adhesive component to be discarded after use while the simple handle is recovered and reused, effectively managing device complexity through selective replacement of wear-prone components.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables the easy and accurate removal of a single sensor from a stack, preventing accidental removal of other sensors and maintaining the integrity of the remaining sensors for measurement.
Implementation Method 1
The sensor adhesive portion is provided with an adhesive face on a side of the sensor adhesive portion facing a bottom face of the main body case
Data Source
AI summary
A sensor storage container includes: a lid configured to cover in an openable and closable manner an opening of an open-topped main body case that stores an elongated plate-like sensor lying flat; and a sensor ejecting tool configured to take the sensor out of the main body case. The sensor ejecting tool is elongated, and includes two ends, one end being linked to one of end sides of an opening portion of the main body case, and the other end being rotatable in a vertical direction between a bottom portion of the main body case and a position above the opening portion. A sensor adhesive portion at the other end of the sensor ejecting tool is provided with an adhesive face on a side of the sensor adhesive portion facing a bottom face of the main body case.