Vape Pen Cover With Flexible Protuberances And Pocket Clip
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Solution Overview
Problem
Vaporizing pens lack a versatile cover that fits various sized mouthpieces and provides discreet carrying, maintaining the mouthpiece upright to prevent product leakage and exposure to pathogens, while also disguising the device as a writing pen for legal and social considerations.
Innovation Solution
A cylindrical cover with a pocket clip and flexible protuberances made from rubberlike material, designed to fit different mouthpiece sizes, ensuring secure attachment and maintaining the mouthpiece upright, with a vent opening to prevent airlock and an adhesive for secure placement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a cover is designed to fit various sized mouthpieces, then versatility is improved, but the fit and security may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The cover incorporates a circumferential insert with flexible protuberances that can locally adapt to different mouthpiece diameters. The insert material and protuberance design allow the cover to maintain a secure fit while accommodating various mouthpiece sizes, resolving the contradiction between versatility and secure fit.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible protuberances on the insert can dynamically adjust their position and pressure to match different mouthpiece dimensions. This dynamic adaptation allows the cover to securely fit various sized mouthpieces without compromising the fit or security.
2Loss of substance
If the mouthpiece is kept upright to prevent leakage, then product retention is improved, but the device becomes more visible and identifiable as a vape pen
Solution Approach 1:
The cover is designed to resemble a writing pen cap in appearance, creating a visual copy that masks the true identity of the vape pen. When carried upright in a pocket with the cover in place, the device assumes the appearance of a writing pen, reducing visibility and legal/social risk while maintaining proper orientation for product retention.
Solution Approach 2:
The cover acts as an intermediary element between the vape pen and the external environment. It provides the visual disguise of a writing pen cap while allowing the mouthpiece to remain upright for proper function, mediating between the need for discretion and the need for correct device orientation.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the cover is made to look like a writing pen cap for disguise, then discretion is improved, but functionality and user recognition are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The cover is segmented into functional zones: the main body provides the writing pen cap appearance for discretion, while the open end and insert provide functional access to the mouthpiece. This segmentation allows the cover to simultaneously achieve disguise and maintain user recognition of the device's true purpose.
Solution Approach 2:
Different parts of the cover have different properties: the exterior surface is designed for visual disguise as a writing pen cap, while the interior insert with protuberances provides functional engagement with the mouthpiece. This local differentiation allows the cover to fulfill both discretionary and functional requirements.
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AI summary
A cover for a vape pen has a cylindrical body having a closed and an open end, a length substantially shorter than a vape pen to be covered, an outside diameter, and an inside diameter greater than an outside diameter and dimensions of a mouthpiece of the vape pen to be covered, a pocket clip affixed to the outside diameter, aligned in a direction of the length of the cylindrical body, and directed such that in use the closed end of the cylindrical body is uppermost, and an insert affixed to the inside diameter of the cylindrical body, around a circumference of the inside diameter, the insert presenting a plurality of flexible protuberances each of a length less than a radius of the cylindrical body, with each directed radially inward from the inside diameter of the cylindrical body.