Smart Seal Clamp Camera Triggered Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
In modern societies, elderly and children often mistakenly consume expired or inappropriate food or medicine due to inability to read expiration dates, leading to health risks and potential tragedies.
Innovation Solution
A smart seal clamp equipped with a camera, circuit board, and trigger structure that acquires information about the storage object and user, automatically sealing the packaging bag based on expiration dates and user identity to prevent accidental consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a simple seal clamp is used to store objects, then the storage is economical and simple, but the storage object may be eaten or used by mistake
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the purely mechanical seal clamp with an intelligent system that integrates a camera, processor, and control circuit. The camera captures images of the storage object, the processor analyzes them to identify the object and check expiration dates, and the control circuit automatically triggers the seal structure based on the analysis results, substituting manual mechanical operation with automated optical-electronic-mechanical integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The seal clamp performs self-service by automatically identifying the storage object through camera imaging, analyzing the object information including expiration dates, and autonomously deciding whether to seal without human intervention. The system serves itself by making the sealing decision based on its own analysis of the stored items.
2Extent of automation
If manual sealing is used, then the device is simple to operate, but it requires human intervention and cannot prevent mistakes
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing images of the storage object and analyzing expiration dates before the sealing decision is made. The camera continuously monitors or periodically checks the stored items, and the processor evaluates the information in advance, so that when sealing is needed, the decision has already been made, enabling automatic execution without last-minute human intervention.
3Reliability
If the seal clamp can identify objects and expiration dates, then mistaken consumption is prevented, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The camera serves multiple functions: it captures images of the storage object for identification, reads expiration dates on packaging, and provides visual records for the control circuit to analyze. This single component performs multiple critical tasks, reducing the need for separate sensors or detectors for each function.
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AI summary
A smart seal clamp, smart packaging bag and storage and management method of an object are provided. The smart seal clamp, configured to clamp a packaging bag for containing a storage object, includes: a circuit board, a camera, a seal structure; and at least one trigger structure. The camera is configured to acquire information, the trigger structure is configured to trigger the seal structure to seal the packaging bag, the circuit board includes a camera circuit and a trigger structure circuit; the camera circuit is communicated with the camera and configured to control the camera, the trigger structure circuit is communicated with the trigger structure and configured to control the trigger structure, the trigger structure circuit is further communicated with the camera circuit and configured to control the trigger structure according to the information acquired by the camera.