Patent Application
20250100776
This application is based on and claims the benefit of priority from Chinese Patent Application No. 202322578694.4, filed on Sep. 21, 2023, the entirety of which is incorporated by reference herein.
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of refrigerated storage containers, and particularly to a cold insulation cup.
The storage of breast milk requires a low-temperature refrigeration environment. The common practice is to fill breast milk into a bottle and store it in a refrigerator. However, for nursing women who are traveling, working or unable to breastfeed their infants directly, it becomes difficult to refrigerate the squeezed breast milk, and the squeezed breast milk can only be discarded. In the related art, although some portable refrigerated boxes have been developed, they suffer from poor portability, inconvenience in changing the cold insulation medium, and difficulty in cleaning.
In order to solve at least one of the above technical problems, the present disclosure provides a cold insulation cup, and the following technical solution is used.
The cold insulation cup provided by the present disclosure includes a cup body, an inner container, a first cup cover and a second cup cover, and two ends of the cup body are respectively provided with a cup opening; the inner container is arranged in the cup body, and one end of the inner container is provided with a cup opening; the first cup cover is detachably arranged at the cup opening at one end of the cold insulation cup; the second cup cover is detachably arranged at the cup opening at the other end of the cold insulation cup; wherein, an inner cavity of the inner container forms a first storage region, an outer wall of the inner container and an inner wall of the cup body are spaced apart to form a second storage region, one of the first storage region and the second storage region is used for storing a refrigerated object, and the other one is used for storing a cold insulation medium.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the inner container is detachably arranged in the cup body.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, an outer side wall of the inner container at one end where the cup opening of the inner container is located is in threaded connection with an inner side wall of the cup body.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, an outer peripheral side wall of the inner container is provided with an annular flange for abutting against an end portion of the cup body.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, an outer peripheral side wall of the annular flange is provided with an anti-skid structure, and the anti-skid structure includes anti-skid lines or anti-skid protrusions; and/or, the outer peripheral side wall of the annular flange is set in a polygonal shape, and a side edge of the polygonal shape is set as a straight edge or a concave arc edge.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first cup cover is arranged at the cup opening at one end of the cold insulation cup by threaded connection; and/or, the second cup cover is arranged at the cup opening at the other end of the cold insulation cup by threaded connection.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first cup cover and the second cup cover are respectively connected with side walls of the cup openings at two ends of the cup body; or, the first cup cover is connected with a side wall of the cup opening of the inner container at one end of the cold insulation cup where the cup opening of the inner container is located, and the second cup cover is connected with the side wall of the cup opening of the cup body at the other end of the cold insulation cup.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the side wall of the inner container is provided with a viewing region; and the inner container is made of a transparent material, or the side wall of the inner container is provided with a viewing window.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the side wall of the inner container is provided with a scale.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the cold insulation cup includes a handle, and the handle is connected with the first cup cover or the second cup cover; or the handle is connected with the cup body; or the handle is connected with the inner container.
The embodiments of the present disclosure have at least the following beneficial effects. The first cup cover and the second cup cover are respectively arranged at the two ends of the cold insulation cup and are both capable of being opened, so that articles are conveniently taken out of and placed in the first storage region and the second storage region, and a low-temperature environment is formed in the cold insulation cup by using the cold insulation medium, so that refrigeration, portability and convenient replacement of the cold insulation medium are realized. The present disclosure can be widely applied to the technical field of refrigerated storage containers.
The described and/or additional aspects and advantages in the embodiments of the present disclosure will become apparent and easy to understand with reference to the following drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments shown hereinafter with reference to the drawings are exemplary, and are only used to explain the present disclosure, but cannot be understood as limiting the present disclosure.
Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail hereinafter with reference to the drawings, examples of the embodiments are shown in the drawings, and the same or similar reference numerals throughout the drawings denote the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions. The embodiments described hereinafter with reference to the drawings are exemplary and are only used to explain the present disclosure but cannot be understood as limiting the present disclosure.
In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that the orientation or position relationship indicated by the terms “center”, “middle”, “longitudinal”, “transverse”, “length”, “width”, “thickness”, “up”, “down”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inside”, “outside”, “axial”, “radial”, “circumferential”, and the like is based on the orientation or position relationship shown in the drawings, it is only for the convenience of description of the present disclosure and simplification of the description, and it is not to indicate or imply that the indicated device or element must have a specific orientation, and be constructed and operated in a specific orientation. Therefore, the terms should not be understood as limiting the present disclosure. The features defined by “first” and “second” are used to distinguish feature names, rather than having special meanings. In addition, the features defined by “first” and “second” may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the features. In the description of the present disclosure, unless otherwise specified, the term “multiple” refers to being two or more.
In the description of the present disclosure, it should be noted that the terms “installation”, “connected” and “connection” should be understood in a broad sense unless otherwise specified and defined. For example, they may be fixed connection, removable connection or integrated connection; may be mechanical connection or electrical connection; and may be direct connection, or indirect connection through an intermediate medium, and may be communication inside two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present disclosure may be understood in a specific case by those of ordinary skills in the art.
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Further, one of the first storage region 201 and the second storage region 110 is used for storing a refrigerated object, and the other one is used for storing a cold insulation medium. The cold insulation medium can form a low-temperature cold storage environment in the cold insulation cup, and the filled cold insulation medium is an ice cube, or a low-temperature water or ice water mixture. With reference to the drawings, in some examples, the first storage region 201 is used for storing the refrigerated object, and the second storage region 110 is used for storing cold insulation medium. Alternatively, in some examples, the second storage region 110 is used for storing the refrigerated object, and the first storage region 201 is used for storing the cold insulation medium.
It can be understood that the cold insulation cup includes a first cup cover 301 and a second cup cover 302, and the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 are respectively arranged at the cup openings at two ends of the cold insulation cup. With reference to the drawings, the first cup cover 301 seals the first storage region 201, and the second cup cover 302 seals the second storage region 110. Further, the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 are detachable at the cup openings at two ends of the cold insulation cup, thus being convenient for disassembly and assembly, and being convenient for loading the refrigerated object and the cold insulation medium into the first storage region 201 and the second storage region 110.
It should be noted that, in practical application, the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 may be the same or different in terms of shape, size, color, material and specific structure, as the case may be.
In an embodiment, the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 are respectively arranged at the cup openings at two ends of the cold insulation cup by threaded connection, thus being convenient for assembly and disassembly, and being convenient for screwing and sealing.
There are at least the following alternative examples about mounting methods of the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 on the cold insulation cup.
In some alternative examples, the first cup cover 301 is arranged at the cup opening at one end of the cold insulation cup by threaded connection, and the second cup cover 302 is arranged at the cup opening at the other end of the cold insulation cup by a detachable snap-fit structure.
In some alternative examples, the first cup cover 301 is arranged at the cup opening at one end of the cold insulation cup by a detachable snap-fit structure, and the second cup cover 302 is arranged at the cup opening at the other end of the cold insulation cup by threaded connection;
In another alternative example, the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 are respectively arranged at the cup openings at two ends of the cold insulation cup by the detachable snap-fit structure.
In an embodiment, the first cup cover 301 is connected with a side wall of the cup opening of the inner container 200 at one end of the cold insulation cup where the cup opening of the inner container 200 is located, and the second cup cover 302 is connected with the side wall of the cup opening of the cup body 100 at the other end of the cold insulation cup.
Further, the first cup cover 301 is in threaded connection with the side wall of the inner container 200, and the second cup cover 302 is in threaded connection with the side wall of the cup body 100. Specifically, an outer peripheral side wall at a bottom portion of the cup body 100 is provided with an external thread, an outer peripheral side wall at a top portion of the inner container 200 is provided with an external thread, and inner peripheral side walls of the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 are both provided with an internal thread.
Taking the first storage region 201 for storing the refrigerated object and the second storage region 110 for storing the cold insulation medium as an example, when in use, the end of the cold insulation cup where the second cup cover 302 is located is oriented upwardly, the second cup cover 302 is opened, and the cold insulation medium is put into the second storage region 110. Then, the second cup cover 302 is closed, the cold insulation cup is turned over to place the cold insulation cup right side up, and the end of the cold insulation cup where the first cup cover 301 is located is oriented upwardly, which means that the cup opening of the inner container 200 is oriented upwardly, and the refrigerated object is placed into the first storage region 201. Finally, the first cup cover 301 is mounted at a top portion of the cold insulation cup.
In an embodiment, a depth of the inner container 200 extending into the cup body 100 is smaller than a depth of the inner cavity of the cup body 100, and a bottom portion of the inner container 200 keeps a distance from the second cup cover 302 at the end portion of the cold insulation cup, so as to avoid the inner container 200 from being in contact with an inner bottom of the second cup cover 302, thus promoting cold insulation.
In the case that the first storage region 201 stores the refrigerated object and the second storage region 110 stores the cold insulation medium, the cold insulation cup is turned over to place the end of the cold insulation cup where the second cup cover 302 is located downwardly and place the end of the cold insulation cup where the first cup cover 301 is located upwardly, so that the cold insulation medium in the second storage region 110 can be filled between a bottom portion of the inner container 200 and an inner bottom of the second cup cover 302.
It should be noted that, in the case that the first storage region 201 stores the cold insulation medium and the second storage region 110 stores the refrigerated object, the inner container 200 extends into the second storage region 110, so that the cold insulation medium can conduct coldness in a middle portion of the second storage region 110. Further, a distance is provided between the bottom portion of the inner container 200 and the inner bottom of the second cup cover 302, so that a volume of the second storage region 110 is increased as much as possible on the premise of ensuring sufficient conduction of coldness.
In an embodiment, the inner container 200 is detachably arranged in the cup body 100, so that the inner container 200 can be conveniently put into the cup body 100 or the inner container 200 can be conveniently taken out of the cup body 100. When in use, after the second storage region 110 is filled with the cold insulation medium or the refrigerated object and the cold insulation cup is placed right side up, the inner container 200 may be taken out of the cup body 100, and after the inner container 200 is filled with the refrigerated object or the cold insulation medium, the inner container 200 is put into the cup body 100, and then the first cup cover 301 is mounted.
Specifically, an outer side wall at one end where the cup opening of the inner container 200 is located is in threaded connection with an inner side wall of the cup body 100. It can be understood that the outer peripheral side wall of the inner container 200 is provided with an external thread, and the inner peripheral side wall at the top portion of the cup body 100 is provided with an internal thread. As an alternative solution, the inner container 200 and the cup body 100 may be fixed by the detachable snap-fit structure.
Further, the outer peripheral side wall of the inner container 200 is provided with an annular flange 210 for abutting against an end portion of the cup body 100, and a diameter of a circumscribed circle or an inscribed circle where the annular flange 210 is located is greater than an inner diameter of the cup body 100, so as to limit a depth of the inner container 200 extending into the cup body 100, thus realizing positioning between the inner container 200 and the cup body 100. In some examples, the diameter of the circumscribed circle or the inscribed circle where the annular flange 210 is located may be greater than or equal to a diameter of an outer peripheral side wall of the cup opening at the upper end of the cup body 100.
In some examples, with reference to the drawings, on the outer peripheral side wall of the inner container 200, an upper side of the annular flange 210 is provided with an external thread for connecting the first cup cover 301, and a lower side of the annular flange 210 is provided with an external thread for connecting the cup body 100.
It can be understood that a user can rotate the inner container 200 by applying a force at the annular flange 210 to assemble the inner container 200 with the cup body 100 or disassemble the inner container from the cup body. In some examples, an outer peripheral side wall of the annular flange 210 is provided with an anti-skid structure, and the anti-skid structure has raised and recessed patterns to increase friction, so that the user can conveniently apply the force at the annular flange 210 by his/her hand to rotate the inner container 200. Specifically, the anti-skid structure is set as anti-skid lines or anti-skid protrusions.
In some examples, the outer peripheral side wall of the annular flange 210 is set in a polygonal shape, the polygonal shape is a regular polygonal shape, and a side edge of the polygonal shape is set as a straight edge or a concave arc edge. Further, the anti-skid structure is arranged on the side edge of the polygonal shape.
In some alternative examples, the annular flange 210 is not provided with the anti-skid structure, while the outer peripheral side wall of the annular flange 210 is set in the polygonal shape, and the side edge of the polygonal shape is set as the straight edge or the concave arc edge, so that the user can also conveniently apply the force to rotate the inner container 200.
In an embodiment, the cold insulation cup includes a handle 400, and the handle 400 is connected with the first cup cover 301, thus being convenient to carry and handle. With reference to the drawings, two ends of the handle 400 are respectively connected with the outer peripheral side wall of the first cup cover 301.
Further, the handle 400 is rotatable, so that the handle 400 swings upwardly to an upright state or swings downwardly. Specifically, two ends of the handle 400 are rotatably connected with the first cup cover 301.
As for the handle 400, there are at least the following alternative examples.
In some alternative examples, the handle 400 is connected with the second cup cover 302. Specifically, two ends of the handle 400 are respectively connected with an outer peripheral side wall of the second cup cover 302. Further, two ends of the handle 400 are rotatably connected with the second cup cover 302.
In some alternative examples, the handle 400 is connected with the cup body 100. Specifically, two ends of the handle 400 are respectively connected with an outer peripheral side wall of the cup body 100. Further, two ends of the handle 400 are rotatably connected with the cup body 100.
In some alternative examples, the handle 400 is connected with the inner container 200. Specifically, a part of the outer peripheral side wall of the inner container 200 is exposed to a side surface of the cold insulation cup, and two ends of the handle 400 are respectively connected with the exposed outer peripheral side wall of the inner container 200. Further, two ends of the handle 400 are rotatably connected with the inner container 200. Alternatively, the handle 400 may also be connected with the annular flange 210.
As for detachable mounting of the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302, there are at least the following alternative embodiments.
In an alternative embodiment, the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 are respectively connected with side walls of the cup openings at two ends of the cup body 100. Specifically, outer peripheral side walls at two ends of the cup body 100 are respectively provided with an external thread, and inner peripheral side walls of the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 are respectively provided with an internal thread.
It can be understood that, in this case, the first cup cover 301 covers the cup opening of the inner container 200, and the side wall of the inner container 200 can avoid obstructing the connection between the first cup cover 301 and the cup body 100. Specifically, in the case that the outer peripheral side wall of the inner container 200 is provided with the annular flange 210, the diameter of the circumscribed circle where the annular flange 210 is located is smaller than or equal to the diameter of the outer peripheral side wall of the cup opening at the upper end of the cup body 100.
In some embodiments, the inner container 200 and the cup body 100 are not designed to be in threaded connection, and the inner container 200 is pressed in the cup body 100 by the first cup cover 301. Specifically, the first cup cover 301 and the cup body 100 are in threaded connection, and the screwed first cup cover 301 presses an end portion of the inner container 200 or the first cup cover 301 presses the annular flange 210, so that the inner container 200 is fixedly mounted in the cup body 100.
In some examples, an inner bottom of the first cup covers 301 abuts against the end portion of the inner container 200. Alternatively, an inner peripheral side wall of the first cup cover 301 is provided with a protruding pressing and fixing structure, the pressing and fixing structure presses the inner container 200, and further, the pressing and fixing structure is set as an annular structure or a plurality of protruding structures distributed at intervals along a circumference. Alternatively, the pressing and fixing structure may be arranged at the inner bottom of the first cup cover 301.
In other examples, the inner bottom of the first cup cover 301 or a first pressing and fixing structure in the first cup cover 301 may press the annular flange 210.
In another alternative embodiment, the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 are both mounted at the cup openings in a snap-fit form. Specifically, the first cup cover 301 is hinged to the side wall of the inner container 200 or the side wall of the cup body 100, and the second cup cover 302 is hinged to the side wall of the cup body 100, so that the first cup cover 301 and the second cup cover 302 are opened and closed at the cup openings at two ends of the cold insulation cup, and locked in the snap-fit form.
In an embodiment, the side wall of the inner container 200 is provided with a viewing region, allowing for observing the refrigerated object. In the case that the refrigerated object is liquid such as breast milk, a liquid level in the inner container 200 may be conveniently observed.
Specifically, the inner container 200 is made of a transparent material, thus forming the transparent inner container 200. In some alternative examples, the inner container 200 is made of a non-transparent material, the side wall of the inner container 200 is provided with a viewing window, and the viewing window extends along a height direction of the inner container 200.
In some examples, the side wall of the inner container 200 is provided with a scale, so as to accurately obtain a volume of the refrigerated object.
In an embodiment, the side wall of the cup body 100 is provided with an interlayer, enhancing the thermal insulation effect of the cooling cup. Further, the interlayer is set as a vacuum interlayer, or a heat insulation material is arranged in the interlayer.
In the descriptions of the specification, the descriptions with reference to the terms “an embodiment”, “some instances”, “some embodiments”, “illustrative embodiment,” “example”, “specific example” or “some examples”, and the like refer to that specific features, structures, materials, or characteristics described with reference to the embodiments or examples are included in at least one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. In the specification, the schematic representation of the above terms does not necessarily mean the same embodiment or example. Moreover, the specific features, structures, materials or characteristics described may be combined in any one or more embodiments or examples in a suitable manner.
The embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail with reference to the drawings above, but the present disclosure is not limited to the above embodiments, and various changes may also be made within the knowledge scope of those of ordinary skills in the art without departing from the purpose of the present disclosure.
In the descriptions of the present disclosure, if “,” appears in the patent name, it means the relationship of “and” instead of “or”. For example, when the patent name is “an A, B”, it indicates that the content required to be protected by the present disclosure is the technical solution with the title of A and the technical solution with the title of B.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 202322578694.4 | Sep 2023 | CN | national |
