Accommodating body, buffering material, method for manufacturing buffering material, and buffering material manufacturing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11565498-B2
Application number	US-202117151712-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 19, 2021
Priority date	Jan 21, 2020
Publication date	Jan 31, 2023
Grant date	Jan 31, 2023

Abstract

An accommodating body includes: a first accommodating body that has a first bottom portion; and a first buffering material that has a first pressure receiving surface coming into contact with an accommodated article accommodated in the first accommodating body and that has at least one first sheet-shaped web that contains fibers and a bonding material that bonds the fibers, and in which in the first sheet-shaped web, the fibers are oriented in a plane direction of the first sheet-shaped web, and the first buffering material is used in an orientation with which an end surface of the first sheet-shaped web serves as the first pressure receiving surface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An accommodating body comprising:
a first accommodating body that has a first bottom portion; and
a first buffering material that has a first pressure receiving surface coming into contact with an accommodated article accommodated in the first accommodating body and that includes a first end portion of at least one first sheet-shaped web, the at least one first sheet-web containing fibers and a bonding material that bonds the fibers and including a pair of surfaces with side surfaces therebetween, each of the pair of surfaces extending along a plane direction, the side surfaces each having a thickness that is smaller than all dimensions of each of the pair of surfaces in the plane direction in the at least one first sheet-shaped web, the first end portion being a portion cut from the at least one first sheet-shaped web so as to include a cut surface cut from the at least one first sheet-shaped web and include a part of the side surfaces of the at least one first sheet-shaped web, wherein
in the at least one first sheet-shaped web, the fibers being oriented in the plane direction of the at least one first sheet-shaped web, and
the first end portion being disposed on the first bottom portion and oriented such that the cut surface serves as the first pressure receiving surface.

2. The accommodating body according to claim 1 , wherein
the first buffering material is a laminate which has a plurality of first sheet-shaped webs, each of which is the at least one first sheet-shaped web, and in which the plurality of first sheet-shaped webs are laminated in a thickness direction,
the first end portion is a portion cut from the laminate so as to include the cut surface cut from the laminate and include the part of side surfaces of the plurality of first sheet-shaped webs.

3. The accommodating body according to claim 1 , wherein
the first buffering material has a positioning portion that positions the accommodated article.

4. The accommodating body according to claim 1 , wherein
the first accommodating body has a partitioning portion that partitions inside of the first accommodating body, and
the first buffering material has a support portion that supports the partitioning portion.

5. The accommodating body according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second accommodating body that has a second bottom portion and accommodates the first accommodating body; and
a second buffering material that comes into contact with the first accommodating body accommodated in the second accommodating body.

6. The accommodating body according to claim 5 , wherein
the second buffering material has a second pressure receiving surface coming into contact with the first accommodating body and includes a second end portion of at least one second sheet-shaped web, the at least one second sheet-web contains fibers and a bonding material that bonds the fibers and includes a pair of surfaces with side surfaces therebetween, the second end portion is a portion cut from the second sheet-shaped web so as to include a cut surface cut from the second sheet-shaped web and include a part of the side surfaces of the second sheet-shaped web, and
the second end portion is oriented such that the cut surface serves as the second pressure receiving surface.

7. The accommodating body according to claim 5 , wherein
the second accommodating body has a side wall that is provided to stand from the second bottom portion, and
the second buffering material is disposed at one of the second bottom portion and the side wall, or disposed at both of the second bottom portion and the side wall.

8. The accommodating body according to claim 5 , wherein
the second accommodating body has a lid body, and
the second buffering material is disposed at the lid body.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Ota Tsukasa
• Takano Hidehiro
• Yoshioka Satomi

Classifications

• B32B2250/20

  All layers being fibrous or filamentary · CPC title

• B65D81/1075

  deformable to accommodate contents · CPC title

• B32B5/022

  Non-woven fabric · CPC title

• B65D65/44

  Applications of resilient shock-absorbing materials, e.g. foamed plastics material, honeycomb material · CPC title

• B32B5/26 Primary

  another layer {next to it} also being fibrous or filamentary {(relative arrangement of fibres or filaments of different layers B32B5/12)} · CPC title