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US 9,315,289 B2Granted
Packaging member and packaging method
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsShogo Nakamura, Tomokazu Saito, Atsushi Inoue, Seiji Terazawa, Mizuho Imaruoka, Chiharu Matsui
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Abstract
A packaging member includes a cushioning member that holds a holding part of a to-be-packaged member different from a predetermined part of the to-be-packaged member without coming into contact with the predetermined part of the to-be-packaged member. The cushioning member cushions a shock transmitting to the to-be-packaged member, and the packaging member packages the to-be-packaged member via the cushioning member.
Claims6
A packaging member comprising:
- a cushioning member configured to hold a holding part of a to-be-packaged member different from a predetermined part of the to-be-packaged member without coming into contact with the predetermined part of the to-be-packaged member;
- and
- a wall member configured to stand in a standing direction from a bottom of the cushioning member, wherein
- the cushioning member is configured to cushion a shock transmitting to the to-be-packaged member,
- the packaging member packages the to-be-packaged member via the cushioning member,
- the cushioning member is a hollow member and includes four flat members collectively bounding a hollow space,
- the holding part of the to-be-packaged member is held by the cushioning member in such a manner that a space is provided between the holding part of the to-be-packaged member and a wall of the packaging member,
- the cushioning member has a rectangular shape containing the holding part of the to-be-packaged member by the four flat members, and the adjacent ones of the four flat members intersect to form ridge lines in contact with four wall faces of top, bottom and both side faces of the packaging member, respectively, and
- a flat member amongst the four flat members of the cushioning member includes a to-be-engaged part that engages with the wall member to secure the wall member to the flat member and thereby secure the bottom of the cushioning member,
- wherein the wall member is configured to stand from the bottom of the cushioning member at one end of the wall member in the standing direction, and the other end of the wall member which is another end of the wall member in the standing direction of the wall member is engaged with the to-be-engaged part, and
- wherein one of the wall member and the to-be-engaged part of the flat member is an insert part and the other of the wall member and the to-be-engaged part of the flat member includes a cut portion, and the insert part is inserted into the cut portion to secure the wall member to the flat member and thereby secure the bottom of the cushioning member.
8 more elements
A packaging method of containing and packaging a to-be-packaged member in the inside of a packaging member via a cushioning member, the packaging method comprising:
- providing the cushioning member to hold a holding part of the to-be-packaged member;
- and
- containing the to-be-packaged member in the inside of the packaging member in a state where a predetermined part of the to-be-packaged member different from the holding part of the to-be-packaged member is suspended in the space inside of the packaging member, wherein
- the packaging member comprises the cushioning member and a wall member configured to stand in a standing direction from a bottom of the cushioning member,
- the cushioning member is a hollow member and includes four flat members collectively hounding a hollow space,
- the holding part of the to-be-packaged member is held by the cushioning member in such a manner that a space is provided between the holding part of the to-be-packaged member and a wall of the packaging member,
- the cushioning member has a rectangular shape containing the holding part of the to-be-packaged member by the four flat members, and the adjacent ones of the four flat members intersect to form ridge lines in contact with four wall faces of top, bottom and both side faces of the packaging member, respectively, and
- a flat member amongst the four flat members of the cushioning member includes a to-be-engaged part that engages with the wall member to secure the wall member to the flat member and thereby secure the bottom of the cushioning member,
- wherein the wall member is configured to stand from the bottom of the cushioning member at one end of the wall member in the standing direction, and the other end of the wall member which is another end of the wall member in the standing direction of the wall member is engaged with the to-be-engaged part, and
- wherein one of the wall member and the to-be-engaged part of the flat member is an insert part and the other of the wall member and the to-be-engaged art of the flat member is a cut part, and the insert part is inserted in the cut part to secure the wall member to the flat member and thereby secure the bottom of the cushioning member.
7 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.