Watertight Container With Angled Transparent Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing container systems lack integrated solutions for real-time monitoring and image projection capabilities, particularly in ensuring the watertight seal and condition of fluids within containers, which are essential for maintaining fluid integrity and safety.
Innovation Solution
A container system incorporating a transparent display angled non-perpendicularly, a projector for image data projection, and a closure device with sensors, computer memory, and a processor for monitoring fluid conditions and sealing the container opening, utilizing coupling structures like plugs, flanges, or threading, along with networking hardware for communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a transparent display and projector are integrated into the container system, then image projection capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the transparent display, projector, sensors, and processing units into an integrated container system. The display is embedded in the container structure, and the projector is positioned to project images through the transparent display, merging multiple functional components into a unified system that maintains water integrity while providing enhanced functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The container system is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it serves as a watertight container, a display device, a projection system, and a monitoring station. The closure device with integrated sensors and processors provides both sealing and real-time fluid monitoring capabilities, demonstrating multi-functionality that reduces the need for separate dedicated components.
2Reliability
If sensors and processing units are integrated into the closure device, then real-time monitoring capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The closure device integrates multiple sensors (temperature, pressure, fluid level), processing units, and communication modules into a single unified component. This merging of functions allows the closure to simultaneously provide sealing, real-time monitoring, data processing, and wireless communication without requiring separate dedicated devices for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated sensors and processors in the closure device enable the system to autonomously monitor fluid conditions, detect anomalies, and communicate alerts without external intervention. The system self-monitors its own operational status and fluid integrity, reducing the need for external monitoring equipment.
3Ease of operation
If a non-perpendicularly angled transparent display is used, then viewing accessibility is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The display is positioned at a non-perpendicular angle relative to the container's vertical axis, creating an asymmetric configuration that optimizes viewing angles for users. This asymmetric positioning allows the display to be viewed more easily from multiple angles while the projector adjusts its projection angle accordingly to maintain proper image orientation on the tilted display surface.
Data Source
AI summary
One container system includes a transparent display, a projector for providing image data on the display, and a floor defining part of a watertight cavity. The display is non-perpendicularly angled from horizontal and has proximal and distal ends. And a closure device is provided for use with a watertight container. The closure device is configured to selectively seal an opening in the watertight container and includes coupling structure (a plug, a flange, and/or threading) for selectively coupling the closure device to the watertight container to seal the opening. The closure device further includes non-transitory computer memory, at least one sensor, and a processor in data communication with the memory and the at least one sensor.