Wet sheet storage container

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing wet sheet storage containers face difficulties in lid installation due to either excessive idling or poor installation properties, depending on the thread height design, which affects the fitting and rotation of the lid body.

Innovation Solution

The design incorporates male thread parts on the container body with a higher tip end height than the base end, a shorter tip end length compared to the base end, and an inclined part, ensuring a height ratio of 0.7 < b/a < 1.0 and a length ratio of 1.0 < d/c < 5.0, to improve installation properties while minimizing idling during rotation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the height of the thread part is designed to be high to prevent idling during rotation, then the lid body is stable during installation, but the installation property deteriorates and the lid body is difficult to fit

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestability during rotationVSAvoidinstallation property
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The thread part is segmented into two distinct sections: a base end part with greater height for preventing idling during rotation, and a tip end part with smaller height for facilitating easy installation. This segmentation allows each part to fulfill its specific function optimally without compromising the other.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different heights are assigned to different parts of the thread structure. The base end part has a larger height to provide stability during rotation, while the tip end part has a smaller height to enable easy installation. This local differentiation of quality resolves the contradiction between stability and ease of installation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of operation

If the height of the thread part is designed to be low to improve installation property, then the lid body is easy to fit, but the lid body is liable to idle during rotation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinstallation propertyVSAvoidstability during rotation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The thread part is divided into a base end part with smaller height for easy installation and a tip end part with greater height to prevent idling during rotation. This segmentation enables the structure to achieve both ease of installation and rotational stability simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The thread structure employs local quality differentiation where the base end part has reduced height to facilitate installation, while the tip end part has increased height to prevent idling during rotation, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If the thread part has uniform height, then the structure is simple, but it cannot simultaneously achieve good installation property and prevent idling

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvethread structure simplicityVSAvoidperformance during rotation and installation
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of a uniform thread structure, the invention segments the thread part into a base end part and a tip end part with different heights. This segmentation increases structural complexity but enables the simultaneous achievement of good installation properties and prevention of idling during rotation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The thread structure transitions from uniform height to locally differentiated heights, where the base end part and tip end part have different dimensions optimized for their respective functions. This local quality variation resolves the contradiction between structural simplicity and functional performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3521197B1Wet sheet storage container
Publication Date: 2020.05.13 DAIO PAPER CORP
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AI summary

[Problem] To provide a wet sheet storage container for which installability from above a lid body can be improved during manufacturing while restricting idle rotation of the lid body during installation when rotating the lid body. [Solution] A plurality of male thread parts (12) for screwing the lid body (20) in the circumferential direction are formed on the outer circumferential surface of an upper end part of a container body (10), and a plurality of female thread parts (26) for threadedly engaging with the male thread parts (12) are formed on the inner circumferential surface of the lid body (20). Furthermore, the male thread parts (12) are each provided with a base end part (121) formed on the upstream side in the rotation direction of the lid body (20) during installation of the lid body (20), and a tip end part (122) formed on the downstream side in the rotation direction of the lid body (20), and the male thread parts (12) are formed such that the height of the tip end part (122) is greater than the height of the base end part (121).