DE202019101836U1 - drinking vessel - Google Patents

Abstract

Drinking vessel having an outer surface, characterized in that on the or around the outer surface around a housing (20) with a rechargeable battery (22) (power bank) and at least one power connector (23) is releasably attached.

Description

The invention relates to a drinking vessel with an outer surface.

The popularity of takeaway drinks like Coffee-To-Go has been steadily increasing in recent years. In most cases, the takeaway drink such as coffee or coke is poured into cardboard or plastic cups, which have the advantage of being inexpensive to manufacture, low in weight and stackable. The emptied paper cup is then disposed of as garbage.

Whether in the pedestrian zones, in the subway or other public means of transport, people with disposable cups in their hand have long been part of the streetscape. The "fast coffee on the go" is popular. According to the German environmental aid land nationwide 320,000 coffee cups per hour in the trash or, which is even worse from an environmental point of view, in the wild. Non-degradable or difficult-to-decompose plastics pollute the environment and are sometimes life-threatening, even to wild animals. In order to reduce the number of disposable cups, environmentalists have long been demanding the introduction of a deposit of € 0.20 per disposable cup. This should help to create an incentive to use returnable containers. Larger food chains therefore go on to offer reusable cups, in particular thermo cups that are reusable as often as desired after emptying and possibly cleaning. Other providers even offer discounts for beverage products, provided that a disposable cup is dispensed with. Meanwhile, drinking vessels (cups) are known, which can be closed liquid-tight with a lid. If such cups are designed as thermo cups, the hot beverage is protected even for a long period before cooling.

For several decades, mobile electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablets or MP3 players have become everyday companions. Mobile phones also serve as data storage, small computers or photographic and cinematographic systems due to extended functions. However, the ever-increasing power consumption of such devices can often be made available only for a short time (depending on the capacity of the integrated accumulator), so that such devices often have to be charged after a short use. In order to extend the limited battery life of mobile electronic devices, additional chargers have been developed, so-called power banks, which serve as additional batteries (secondary batteries) and serve as a bridging power if needed, if no charger is available. Such devices must either be carried separately, as long as Powerbanks are not installed in garments, bags or suitcases. It is known to connect such power banks for recharging via a cable connection with a suitable charging station. Inductive charging devices, such as are known in toothbrushes, may also be used, but assume that the charging station has normalized or widely used connections.

In the DE 20 2018 005 273 U1 a hip belt with a webbing is proposed, which serves as a receiving body for a battery (power bank) and cable guides, such as a USB charging cable. Such hip straps are usually worn on the body, where they are particularly annoying and disturbing on hot summer days.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a reusable drinking container, which has a wider range of uses.

This object is achieved by the drinking vessel according to claim 1. This drinking vessel has on or around the outer surface around a housing with a rechargeable battery (power bank) and at least one power connector. This housing is detachably attached.

The basic idea of the present invention is that the drinking vessel serves as a holder for a power bank, which, for example via a USB connection, can be connected relatively quickly to a mobile device such as a mobile telephone, so that parallel to the use of the drinking vessel also a power connection or energy source is available. To recharge the power bank, a conventional plug-in contact or USB connection to a transformer may be provided to the network, possibly such that both the mobile phone or other mobile consumer and the power bank can be recharged in parallel.

The drinking vessel is for example a cup in cylindrical or truncated cone shape, which is preferably closed with a lid. However, the drinking vessel may also be a resealable commercially available water bottle, on the outer wall of the housing is attached to the secondary accumulator.

Preferably, or as known from conventional drinking cups and / or drinking bottles, the outer surface of the drinking vessel has a substantially cylindrical or conical contour over at least a partial region. If you design the housing for the accumulator tubular, so can the housing frictionally plug. Such a frictional connection can in particular by an elastic inner wall of the annular body of the Housing be provided. A more stable connection can be created, provided that the drinking vessel has on its outside and the housing with the accumulator on its inner wall corresponding threaded portions which are screwed together. The detachable connection of the Sekundärakkumulators of the drinking vessel allows both the combined and the separate use of the drinking vessel and the secondary accumulator.

Preferably, the drinking vessel is a cup or a cup with a lid or a resealable bottle, in particular a thermos flask.

In order to facilitate the manufacture of the housing with the accumulator, but also to be able to optimally adapt a possibly elastic housing, a flexible lithium-ion battery is selected as the accumulator, which, for example, in the WO 1998/035397 A1 is described.

As power connections usual plugs and sockets are used, in particular micro USB connections.

According to a further embodiment of the invention, a display for the charging and battery state is arranged on the housing for the accumulator, so that at any time the residual capacity of the power bank can be seen.

Finally, according to a further embodiment of the invention, the housing in addition to the accumulator also additionally have a data storage unit. Large amounts of data that would otherwise block the memory of the mobile phone, in particular photographs or films, can be outsourced in this way into the additional data storage unit.

• 1 einen Trinkbecher in einer perspektivischen Ansicht,
• 2 denselben Trinkbecher nach 1 in einer Schnittansicht,
• 3 eine Trinkflasche in einer perspektivischen Ansicht,
• 4 dieselbe Trinkflasche nach 3 in einer Schnittansicht,
• 5 eine weitere Trinkflasche in einer Seitenansicht,
• 6 eine Schnittansicht durch eine Trinkflasche nach 5 und
• 7 eine Detailansicht F nach 6.

Embodiment of the invention are illustrated in the drawings. Show it:

• 1 a drinking cup in a perspective view,
• 2 after the same cup 1 in a sectional view,
• 3 a drinking bottle in a perspective view,
• 4 the same bottle after 3 in a sectional view,
• 5 another drinking bottle in a side view,
• 6 a sectional view through a bottle after 5 and
• 7 a detailed view F to 6 ,

The drinking vessel after 1 and 2 consists of a double-walled cup at its upper edge 11 a thread profile 12 is provided in a corresponding internal thread 21 the tubular housing 20 engages and for Schraubfestigung this case 20 serves. In this housing is a secondary accumulator 22 embedded, via appropriate connections with a power connection 23 connected to loading and unloading conductive. The housing 20 may possibly be provided with an additional data memory.

The housing 20 can - depending on the height of the accumulator - only extend over a partial height of the cup (here about about 2/3 of the total height) or over the full height of the cup 10 so that this is completely off the case 20 is wrapped. Will the accumulator 22 not needed, the housing can 20 be unscrewed. However, the drinking vessel may alternatively consist of a conically shaped cup whose diameter widens upwards. Instead of the screw thread 12 . 21 can also be readily selected a frictional connection, preferably such that the cup on its outer periphery and / or the annular housing 20 has at its upper edge an elastic ring portion, a secure fixing of the housing 20 on the drinking vessel 10 allows.

However, the present invention can be according to 3 to 6 also on conventional bottles 13 use. In this case, the housing owns 20 at least on a part of its inside an elastic Ausstaffierung eg in the form of a torus 24 that allows the housing 20 frictionally engaged with the bottle 13 connect to. The condition is that the elastic inner wall or parts thereof in the diameter of the outer diameter of the bottle 13 are adjusted.

At the in 5 illustrated embodiment of a drinking bottle is the clamping connection, with which the housing 20 at the bottle 13 is fixed, solved. The annular housing 20 has an internal thread at the upper edge 21 that corresponds to the external thread 12 a ring body 25 is trained. The clamping profile is an annular body 26 That's how you look in detail 7 it can be seen sealing between the ring body 25 , the bottle 13 and the housing 20 comes to rest, which a frictional clamping of the housing 20 allows, so the secondary accumulator 22 is liquid-tight shielded to the outside.

The energy extraction from serving as a power bank accumulator 22 can be done either via a cable connector or inductively. Inductive connections are waterproof. For temporary fixation of a charging connection between the housing of the accumulator 22 and an end user such as a mobile phone may use a permanent magnet contact.

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Cited patent literature

• DE 202018005273 U1 [0005]
• WO 1998/035397 A1 [0012]

Claims (7)

Drinking vessel having an outer surface, characterized in that on the or around the outer surface around a housing (20) with a rechargeable battery (22) (power bank) and at least one power connector (23) is releasably attached. Drinking vessel after Claim 1 , characterized in that the outer surface is at least over a partial area substantially cylindrical or substantially conical and that the housing (20) for the accumulator (22) is tubular and frictionally mounted on the portion or screwed thereto. Drinking vessel after Claim 1 or 2 , characterized in that the drinking vessel is a cup or a cup (10) with a lid or a resealable bottle (13), preferably a thermos flask. Drinking vessel after one of the Claims 1 to 3 , characterized in that the accumulator (22) is a flexible lithium-ion battery. Drinking vessel after one of the Claims 1 to 4 , characterized in that the power connections (23) are micro-USB ports. Drinking vessel after one of the Claims 1 to 5 , characterized in that on the housing (20) for the accumulator (22) a display for the charging and battery state is arranged. Drinking vessel after one of the Claims 1 to 6 , characterized in that the housing (20) next to the accumulator (22) still has a data storage unit.

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