Stable Container Holder for Conveyor Sushi
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Solution Overview
Problem
In conveyor belt sushi restaurants, containers holding soft foods or beverages tend to be unstable, leading to a high likelihood of toppling when customers remove them from the conveyance path, potentially causing spills and accidents.
Innovation Solution
A holder design featuring a body with a bottom wall and an upward extending side wall, combined with a lid body that can open and close, positions the container at a specific angle to prevent tilting, using an expanding portion and locking mechanism to secure the lid in place, ensuring stability and easy access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If the container is made deep to hold soft food or beverage, then the container capacity is improved, but the container stability deteriorates causing it to topple easily
Solution Approach 1:
The holder body serves as an intermediary between the conveyor path and the deep container. It provides a stable base and positioning structure that prevents the deep container from toppling during conveyance and customer handling, while still allowing the container to maintain its deep shape for adequate capacity.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the holder structure is designed to prevent container toppling, then the container stability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The holder is segmented into distinct functional parts: a holder body for stable positioning, a lid body for protection and opening/closing functionality, and specific structural features like the bottom wall and side walls. This segmentation allows each part to perform its function efficiently without overcomplicating the overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of making the container itself stable through complex design, the invention inverts the approach by making the holder structure stable and simple, while the container can remain a simple deep shape. The stability function is transferred from the container to the holder.
3Ease of operation
If the lid body is designed to open and close for customer access, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability of containment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lid body is designed to be placed on and removed from the holder body in advance. The opening and closing mechanism is prepared beforehand to allow quick access when needed, while maintaining containment when closed. The structural design ensures that when the lid is closed, it provides reliable containment.
Data Source
AI summary
A holder houses a container of a fluid to be conveyed. The holder has a holder body having a bottom wall and a first side wall extending upward from a peripheral edge of the bottom wall, and a lid body having a top surface and a second side wall extending downward from a peripheral edge of the top surface. The lid body opens and closes an upper opening defined by an upper end of the first side wall. In a state where the container is housed in the holder, the upper end of the first side wall and a lower end of the second side wall are positioned below an upper end of the container, the top surface or the second side wall is in contact with the container or has a gap with the container such that the container is suppressed to tilt at a particular angle or more.