Storage basket structure and laundry basket

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing storage basket structures have a loose fabric sleeve after assembly, leading to a poor appearance and user experience.

Innovation Solution

A storage basket structure with support rods, a top plate, a base, a fabric sleeve, and an adjusting device that allows for adjusting the distance between the top plate and the base to tighten the fabric sleeve, enhancing its appearance and user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the storage basket structure is assembled by splicing with support rods and frames, then the structure is easy to manufacture and assemble, but the fabric sleeve becomes loose and the appearance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of assemblyVSAvoidappearance
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The support rod is designed with an adjustable length mechanism, transforming from a fixed static structure to a dynamic adjustable one. The user can extend or retract the support rod to precisely adjust the distance between the top plate and base, thereby tightening or loosening the fabric sleeve according to actual needs, resolving the contradiction between easy assembly and good appearance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If the fabric sleeve is left loose after assembly, then the structure maintains flexibility and ease of assembly, but user experience and appearance are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of assemblyVSAvoiduser experience
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The adjustable support rod enables the structure to adapt dynamically. After assembly, users can adjust the support rod length to tighten the fabric sleeve, transforming the structure from a permanently loose state to a tightly fitted state, thereby improving user experience and appearance while preserving the initial ease of assembly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Shape

If the distance between top plate and base is increased to tighten the fabric sleeve, then appearance improves, but the structural complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveappearanceVSAvoidstructural complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ShapeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The support rod is segmented into multiple telescopic sections that can extend and retract relative to each other. This segmentation allows the support rod to achieve variable lengths without requiring completely different structural configurations, thereby tightening the fabric sleeve while keeping the structural complexity manageable through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12359367B1Storage basket structure and laundry basket
Publication Date: 2025.07.15 SHENZHEN YIHONG HOLDING GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

The present application provides a storage basket structure and a laundry basket. The storage basket structure includes support rods, a top plate, a base and a fabric sleeve. The support rods are lifted by an adjusting device, so as to adjust a distance between the top plate and the base. Since a first end opening and a second end opening of the fabric sleeve are connected to the top plate and the base respectively, the fabric sleeve can be better tightened by increasing the distance between the top plate and the base, thereby achieving a better appearance, presenting a premium feel to users and bringing good user experience.