Reusable transport packaging
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAaron Roger Cox, ZhenDe Fu, Lei R Li
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Abstract
Transportation packaging may be used to ship or transport a product, such as an electronic device. The transportation packaging may be reused subsequent to the transport of the product by removing a shape defined by a pattern included on the transportation packaging, assembling or altering a portion of the removed pattern, and engaging the assembled pattern with the product. In a particular embodiment, the assembled pattern may provide a usability surface for at least one peripheral device to be used with the electronic device.
Claims5
A method of providing the reuse of transportation packaging configured to contain an electronic device by providing for the engagement of the transportation packaging with the electronic device comprising:
- removing a pattern from at least one surface of transportation packaging used in the transport of an electronic device;
- assembling the pattern, the assembled pattern comprising a first portion configured to engage with a first side of the electronic device and a second portion configured to engage with a second side of the electronic device;
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- engaging the assembled pattern with the electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.