Supporting base of drinking container
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional drinking container packaging inefficiencies arise from separate packaging of supporting bases, leading to random placement and ineffective space savings when stacked with bowls.
Innovation Solution
A supporting base design with a connecting portion, top portion, and bottom portion, featuring a coupling portion and positioning portion, allowing secure engagement with both the bottom and top of drinking containers to facilitate paired packaging and space-efficient storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If supporting bases are packaged separately from bowls, then each component can be individually protected, but packaging space efficiency deteriorates due to random placement and inability to stack multiple bases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple supporting bases into a single integrated structure where multiple bases are stacked and fixed together as one unit. This combining approach allows multiple bases to occupy the same packaging space efficiently while maintaining individual protection through the integrated design, resolving the contradiction between component protection and packaging space efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested structure where multiple supporting bases are stacked one inside another, with each base positioned within the structure of the base below it. This nesting arrangement maximizes space utilization in the packaging while keeping each base protected within the nested configuration, effectively addressing the space efficiency problem
2Volume of stationary object
If multiple supporting bases are stacked together in packaging, then space efficiency improves, but positioning stability deteriorates because bases are not structured to be positioned with respect to one another
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing specific positioning structures at particular locations on the supporting bases. The top end of each base is equipped with a positioning structure that locally enhances stability, while the bottom end has corresponding engagement features. This localized structural differentiation ensures stable stacking and positioning of multiple bases within the packaging
3Productivity
If supporting bases are designed with positioning structures for stacking, then packaging efficiency improves, but device complexity increases due to additional structural components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universality by designing the positioning structures to serve multiple functions: they provide stacking stability, enable secure engagement between bases, and facilitate easy identification of correct stacking orientation. This multi-functionality approach improves packaging efficiency without requiring separate dedicated components for each function, thereby limiting the increase in overall structural complexity
Data Source
AI summary
A supporting base of a drinking container is connectable with a bowl, wherein the bowl has an opening and an outer periphery circumferentially provided with an annular groove adjacent to the bottom side of the bowl. The supporting base includes a connecting portion, whose top and bottom ends are provided with a top portion and a bottom portion respectively. The top portion includes a coupling portion for coupling with the annular groove of the bowl. The bottom portion can be placed flat on a flat surface and has a bottom side concavely provided with an upwardly extending receiving room. The receiving room includes a positioning portion configured to press against and thereby secure in position the rim of the opening of the bowl.