Structured Bag Closure With Rigid Ribs For Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional bags lack a structured closure that allows for easy access and visibility of contents, leading to difficulties in finding items due to poor organization and visibility.
Innovation Solution
A bag with a structured closure featuring rigid strengthening ribs arranged on flexible fabric to define an overall shape and create unsupported operative regions, allowing the bag to transition between closed and open states in a predefined fashion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional closed bag design is used, then security and privacy are improved, but visibility and accessibility to contents deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The bag closure is designed to be dynamically reconfigurable between a closed state (providing security) and an open state (providing visibility). The structured closure with flexible panels allows the bag to transition between these states, enabling the user to switch between secure storage and accessible/visible contents as needed.
2Reliability
If a closed bag design is used, then security is improved, but ease of accessing contents deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The closure structure enables easy transition from closed to open state through flexible panels that can be manually manipulated. This dynamic design allows quick opening without complex mechanisms, maintaining security when closed while enabling easy access when opened.
3Ease of operation
If a tote bag with open top is used, then accessibility is improved, but security and privacy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The bag can be configured to provide both open accessibility and closed security by transitioning the closure state. The flexible panels with structured closure allow the bag to function as a secure closed bag when needed and as an accessible open bag when needed, adapting to different usage requirements.
4Volume of stationary object
If a deep bag design is used, then storage capacity is improved, but visibility of contents deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The structured closure with flexible panels can be opened to create a collapsed or folded state that exposes the contents of the deep bag. This dynamic opening mechanism allows the user to access and see contents in a deep bag without the contents being completely obscured, as the closure can be opened to a degree that provides visibility.
Data Source
AI summary
A bag including a flexible bag body and having a structured closure including rigid ribs. The ribs are arranged in a spatial relationship to selectively stiffen and support the bag body in selected areas to define an overall shape of the bag, and to define at least one unsupported operative region of the flexible material that will be highly flexible due to the lack of overlying strengthening ribs, and act as the structured closure. The ribs may be spaced asymmetrically to define a preferred operative region for folding at an intended location. The bag body may define pockets or other internal organizer structure having an open top and the preferred operative region may be defined in vertical alignment with the open top of the organizer to provide easy access to the open top of the organizer. Bags may have any suitable shape and may include one or more structured closures.