Container for housing optical instruments
AssigneeSuzhou Synta Optical Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorDar-Tson Shen
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Abstract
A container for housing optical instruments is described. The container includes a case having an interior surface shaped to define a container cavity for holding an optical instrument. The interior surface is further shaped to define a plurality of ball-receiving concavities which open into the container cavity. Each ball-receiving concavity is shaped to have an opening at its edge and an interior region. The container also includes a plurality of elastically deformable balls, each ball located in a corresponding ball-receiving concavity and projecting from the interior region of the corresponding ball-receiving concavity through the opening and into the container cavity such that the balls are deformed to accommodate the optical instrument in the container cavity.
Claims10
A method for transporting an optical instrument, the method comprising:
- providing a container for housing an optical instrument, the container comprising an interior surface shaped to define a container cavity, the container cavity sized to accommodate the optical instrument, the interior surface further shaped to define a plurality of ball-receiving concavities which open into the container cavity, each ball-receiving concavity having an opening at an edge between the ball-receiving concavity and the container cavity and an interior region inside the ball-receiving concavity;
- providing a plurality of elastically deformable balls, each ball located in a corresponding one of the ball-receiving concavities and projecting from the interior region of the corresponding one of the ball-receiving concavities through the opening of the corresponding one of the ball-receiving concavities and into the container cavity;
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- inserting the optical instrument into the container concavity and thereby deforming the plurality of balls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.