Wiper Blade Adapter Packaging Using a Folded User Guide

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional packaging solutions for items like wiper blade adapters are inefficient in terms of material and cost, generate excessive waste, and lack sustainability, as they often require separate user guides and additional packaging elements made of non-renewable materials.

Innovation Solution

A packaging apparatus where the user guide, configured as an assembly guide, serves as the packaging element, primarily made from fibrous materials, offering a sustainable and resource-conserving solution by eliminating the need for additional packaging and using renewable resources, and allowing for flexible packaging of items of varying shapes and sizes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If separate packaging elements and user guides are used, then item protection and information provision are ensured, but material consumption and waste increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveitem protectionVSAvoidmaterial consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the user guide and packaging element into a single integrated structure. The user guide is folded and configured to surround and protect the item, eliminating the need for separate packaging materials while maintaining both protective and informational functions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated user guide serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides assembly instructions, protects the item during transport, and acts as the packaging structure itself. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If additional packaging elements are used, then item security during transport is improved, but cost and device complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveitem securityVSAvoidpackaging structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The packaging structure and user guide are merged into one component. The user guide is folded and configured to surround the item, providing security during transport without requiring additional packaging elements or complex assembly structures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Reliability

If conventional packaging materials are used, then item protection is ensured, but environmental sustainability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveitem protectionVSAvoidenvironmental impact

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the protective function from separate packaging materials and integrates it into the user guide itself. By folding and configuring the user guide to surround the item, it provides protection without requiring additional non-renewable packaging materials.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

4Loss of information

If separate user guides and packaging are used, then information provision and item protection are ensured, but material efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveassembly instructionsVSAvoidmaterial efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The user guide and packaging functions are merged into a single integrated component. The user guide is folded and configured to surround and protect the item, eliminating the need for separate packaging materials while maintaining both protective and informational functions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12012277B2Packaging apparatus, packaging, product, and method for packaging an item

Publication Date: 2024.06.18 ROBERT BOSCH GMBH

AI summary

A packaging apparatus (10a; 10b), in particular a wiper blade packaging apparatus, for packaging at least one item (12a, 26a, 30a, 34a), in particular at least one wiper blade adapter (14a, 28a, 32a, 36a), with a packaging element (16a; 16b) for accommodating the at least one item (12a, 26a, 30a, 34a). It is proposed that the packaging element (16a; 16b) be configured as a user guide (18a).