Telescopic Multi-Layer Drink Container Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional drink containers fail to effectively maintain beverage temperatures at desired levels, whether cool or warm, during outdoor activities, as they lack adaptive temperature control mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
Multi-layered drink containers featuring an inner liquid-container and an outer shell in a telescopic relation, with optional sleeves and caps, allowing for adjustable temperature retention through resilient deformation and vacuum-assisted assembly, enabling better insulation and temperature management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If conventional single-layer drink containers are used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the temperature retention capability is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a telescopic nested structure where an inner liquid container is placed within an outer shell, both made of resiliently deformable material. The inner container can be compressed to fit through the outer shell's restrictive portion during assembly, then expands to its full volume inside the outer shell, creating a multi-layered insulated structure that maintains beverage temperatures without requiring complex manufacturing processes
Solution Approach 2:
The container is divided into distinct functional segments: an inner liquid container for holding the beverage, an outer shell providing structural support and insulation, and an intermediate space between them that can be filled with insulating material. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized for its specific function while maintaining overall simplicity
2Ease of operation
If resiliently deformable restrictive portions are used in the inner liquid container, then the outer shell can be positioned in telescopic relation, but the assembly process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The inner liquid container is pre-designed with a resiliently deformable restrictive portion that can be compressed to a reduced cross-sectional area to fit through the outer shell's restrictive portion during assembly. After positioning, the inner container automatically returns to its expanded state, providing a simple one-way assembly mechanism without requiring complex tools or procedures
Solution Approach 2:
The cross-sectional area of the inner liquid container's restrictive portion changes dynamically during assembly - it is compressed to a smaller area to pass through the outer shell's restrictive portion, then expands back to its original larger area inside the outer shell. This parameter change enables easy assembly while maintaining the telescopic relation between layers
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The multi-layered design effectively maintains beverage temperatures by allowing for telescopic assembly and deformation, enhancing insulation and user control over drink temperature, thus addressing the temperature retention issues of conventional containers.
Implementation Method 1
reducing the resiliently deformable restrictive-portion of the inner liquid-container... returning the resiliently deformable restrictive-portion to its original shape
Implementation Method 2
the reducing includes applying a vacuum to an internal volume of the inner liquid-container
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AI summary
Multi-layered drink-containers including an inner liquid-container and an outer shell in an at least partially overlapping, telescopic relation relative to the inner-liquid-container and methods of assembling the same. In some examples of multi-layered drink-containers, the inner liquid-container includes a lower portion having an outer cross-sectional area, an orthogonal projection of which at least partially overlaps an orthogonal projection of an inner cross-sectional area of an upper portion of the outer shell. Some examples of methods of assembling multi-layered drink-containers include reducing a resiliently deformable restrictive-portion of an inner liquid-container, positioning an outer shell in an at least partially overlapping, telescopic relation relative to the inner liquid-container, and returning the resiliently deformable restrictive-portion to a neutral, un-deformed and un-reduced state. In some methods, the reducing includes applying a vacuum to the internal volume of the inner liquid-container.