Translucent Pocket Panel for Visible Card Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing organizing devices for gaming cards, such as bingo and flash cards, lack efficient storage solutions that maintain card visibility and organization, leading to clutter and difficulty in managing used cards.
Innovation Solution
A dual-panel organizing device with translucent pockets on a deformable textile panel, allowing bingo and flash cards to be stored and visible, along with additional translucent pockets for elongated game pieces, facilitating easy observation and storage by folding for compact storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cards are stored in opaque containers, then cards are protected and organized, but cards become invisible and require spreading out for observation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies transparency as a visual property change to the pocket material, allowing it to transition from opaque (protecting but hiding) to translucent (protecting while revealing). This enables cards to remain organized in pockets while being visible through the translucent material, eliminating the need to spread cards out for observation.
2Ease of operation
If cards are spread out for observation, then card visibility is improved, but space management deteriorates and clutter increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent moves card storage from a two-dimensional spread-out arrangement on a surface to a three-dimensional vertical arrangement in stacked panels with multiple pockets per panel. This dimensional transition allows cards to be observed in an organized stack without requiring extensive horizontal surface area, thus improving space management while maintaining visibility through translucent pockets.
3Reliability
If multiple card types are stored separately, then card organization is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the organizing device into distinct panels and pocket types (first pockets for bingo cards, second pockets for flash cards, third pockets for elongated pieces) while maintaining a unified panel-based structure. This segmentation allows different card types to be organized separately in dedicated pockets, yet the overall device remains relatively simple through consistent panel construction and attachment methods.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal panel structure that can accommodate multiple pocket types and card configurations. The standardized panel design with various pocket attachments allows the same basic structure to serve multiple functions - storing bingo cards, flash cards, and elongated pieces - without requiring fundamentally different device designs for each card type.
Data Source
AI summary
A bingo card organizing assembly for storing bingo cards, flash cards or any other type of gaming card includes a first panel a set of first pockets. Each of the first pockets is attached to the first panel to contain a bingo card. Each of the first pockets is comprised of a translucent material to facilitate the bingo cards to be visible through the first pockets. A set of second pockets is each of the second pockets is attached to the first panel to contain a flash card. Each of the second pockets is comprised of a translucent material to facilitate the flash cards to be visible through the second pockets. A pair of third pockets is each coupled to the first panel. A second panel has the first panel being coupled thereto and the second panel lies on a support surface when the first and second panels are unfolded.