Storage Container Lip Apertures for Secure Lid Locking and Drainage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing storage containers face issues with lid security, as securing devices like cords or straps can shift, become misaligned, and loosen over time, leading to unauthorized access and potential damage or theft of contents.

Innovation Solution

A storage container design with a lid featuring water pass-through features, including apertures that restrict liquid entry and are configured to receive a locking device, ensuring the lid remains secured to the body.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If cords or straps are used to secure the lid to the body, then the lid can be secured to the body, but the securing devices may shift, become misaligned, and loosen over time

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelid securityVSAvoidsecuring device alignment

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The securing system is divided into separate functional elements: the lid lip aperture and body lip aperture are distinct features that receive and accommodate the locking device. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently - the apertures provide stable positioning while the locking device provides secure engagement, resolving the alignment and reliability contradiction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The lid lip aperture and body lip aperture act as intermediary structures that mediate between the lid and body. These apertures provide a stable interface for the locking device, preventing shifting and misalignment while maintaining secure engagement. The apertures serve as the mediating structure that resolves the contradiction between secure attachment and stable alignment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the lid is secured tightly to the body, then unauthorized access is prevented, but water or other liquids may accumulate and damage contents

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelid securityVSAvoidliquid damage

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The lid lip aperture and body lip aperture are designed with specific local qualities - they are sized and positioned to serve dual functions. The apertures are configured to accommodate locking devices for security while simultaneously allowing water passage. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction between secure closure and water drainage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The lid lip aperture and body lip aperture are multi-functional features that simultaneously provide security and drainage functions. By designing these apertures to accommodate locking devices while allowing water passage, the structure achieves both lid security and liquid drainage, resolving the contradiction between preventing unauthorized access and preventing liquid damage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250333218A1Storage container

Publication Date: 2025.10.30 NICKOLAS BRANDS LLC

AI summary

Implementations claimed and described herein provide a storage container. The storage container comprising a body including a plurality of sidewalls, a body lip surrounding a periphery of the plurality of sidewalls, and a body lip aperture formed in the body lip. The storage container further comprises a lid configured to cover an opening into an interior of the body. The lid including a lid surface, a lid lip surrounding a periphery of the lid surface, and a lid lip aperture formed in the lid lip. The lid lip aperture and the body lip aperture are configured to receive a locking device. The lid lip aperture is smaller than the body lip aperture.