Foldable Wallet Kit With Sealable Containers For Personal Items

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current portable kits lack the ability to allow users to personalize their contents, failing to accommodate sentimental or personal items that provide comfort and specific uses tailored to individual needs.

Innovation Solution

A portable kit comprising a foldable wallet with stabilizing fasteners, sealable containers, a pricking device, and instructions, enabling users to customize the contents with personal items such as memorabilia, blood samples, or other personal items, using various fastening mechanisms and materials like synthetic or leather wallets and glass vials.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a portable kit is designed with fixed pre-selected contents, then the kit structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the user cannot personalize the contents to accommodate sentimental or personal items

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidkit structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The kit is divided into separate modular components: a wallet structure, multiple sealable containers, a pricking device, and a closable pocket. Each component can be independently selected, assembled, and customized by the user, enabling personalization without requiring a completely custom-designed kit structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The wallet structure serves multiple functions: it holds sealable containers for liquid samples, stores a pricking device for blood collection, contains a closable pocket for documentation, and provides stabilizing fasteners for securing contents. This multi-functional design allows one base structure to support various personalization configurations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple components are included in the portable kit for personalization, then the user can customize contents, but the device complexity and number of parts increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent customizationVSAvoidassembly process
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The wallet is pre-equipped with stabilizing fasteners and a closable pocket during manufacturing. Users then perform preliminary assembly by attaching sealable containers to the fasteners and placing personal items in the pocket, simplifying the overall assembly process while enabling customization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If sealable containers are made from glass for durability and sample preservation, then sample storage reliability is improved, but the risk of breakage and handling difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesample preservationVSAvoidbreakage risk
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The sealable containers are designed with flexible material composition and soft sealing mechanisms that maintain sample preservation capabilities while reducing brittleness and breakage risk compared to traditional glass containers. The flexible material allows for more resilient handling.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The wallet structure provides cushioning and protection for the sealable containers through its foldable design and stabilizing fasteners that secure containers in place, preventing breakage during transport while maintaining sample preservation integrity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

4Strength

If the wallet is made from durable synthetic material or leather for protection, then the kit durability is improved, but the flexibility and ease of folding may be reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewallet durabilityVSAvoidfolding flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The wallet utilizes flexible synthetic materials or treated leather that combine durability with foldability. These materials can withstand repeated folding while maintaining structural integrity and protection for contents, resolving the contradiction between strength and flexibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS7926661B2Self-contained, portable kit for carrying personal items
Publication Date: 2011.04.19 BEEMAN WILLIAM
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AI summary

A self-contained portable kit that provides the convenience and ability to easily carry various items of personal value, sentimental value or necessity that bring comfort to the user of the kit, or other items for a variety of uses that are specific and personal to the user. The kit contains a closable, folding wallet having a plurality of sealable containers and a pricking device removably fastened to an inner surface of the wallet for storing a variety of items or substances. A closable pocket is coupled to another inner surface of the wallet for storing a variety of items. A method for producing the self-contained portable kit is also provided.