ARTICLE SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND ARTICLE ATTACHMENT KIT

• US 20090205784A1
• Filed: 01/31/2007
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company (3M Company)
• Original Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company (3M Company)
• Inventors: Mizuno, Eiji, Sudo, Yasuo .
• Granted Patent: US 8,241,720 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 156/391
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/175 Stretch releasing adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: C09J 2301/124 the adhesive layer being present on both sides of the carrier, e.g. double-sided adhesive tape
• CPC Class Codes: C09J 2301/308 the adhesive tape or sheet losing adhesive strength when being stretched, e.g. stretch adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: C09J 2421/00 Presence of unspecified rubber
• CPC Class Codes: C09J 2433/00 Presence of (meth)acrylic polymer
• CPC Class Codes: C09J 7/381 based on macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions involving only carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/14 Layer or component removable to expose adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/28 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component and having an adhesive outermost layer

Abstract

To provide an article support structure used when attaching an article to an adherend with a stretch-releasable adhesive tape in which components and the like do not fly off when releasing the adhesive tape from the adherend, the double-sided adhesive tape does not tear, and damage to high-sensitivity adherends can be effectively suppressed. An article support structure comprises a base plate which can be removably attached to an article, and a double-sided adhesive tape intervening between the base plate and an adherend, and having a stretch tenable base material and an adhesive layer. The base plate has a project ion-shaped gripping member, and at least one pair of spacer members disposed on both sides thereof which can form a gap between the surface of the adherend and the bottom surface of the base plate, and is configured so that the position of the gripping member and the position of the spacer members at least partly overlap in the length direction of the “double-sided adhesive tape.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. An article support structure used for attaching an article through a stretch-releasable double-sided adhesive tape to an adherend, comprising:

a base plate which can be removably attached to the article or accessory member thereof,

wherein the base plate comprises a projection-shaped gripping member on the surface opposite to the surface facing the adherend, and at least one pair of spacer members provided on both sides thereof, which can form a gap less than the thickness of the double-sided adhesive tape when adhered in place, and greater than the thickness of the double-sided adhesive tape when released, between the surface of the adherend and the bottom surface of the base plate, when the double-sided adhesive tape is stretch-released; and

the position of the gripping member and the position of the spacer members at least partly overlap in the length direction of the double-sided adhesive tape.

11. The article support structure according to claim 10, wherein the spacer members comprise rectangular members extending in the length direction of the base plate.

12. The article support structure according to claim 10, wherein the spacer members comprise leg-shaped members attached to the base plate.

13. An article attachment kit comprising:

an article support structure according to claim 10; and

a stretch-releasable double-sided adhesive tape comprising a stretchable base material and an adhesive layer provided on both sides of the base material.

14. The article attachment kit according to claim 13, wherein the adhesive layer of the double-sided adhesive tape comprises a rubber adhesive having added thereto a tackifier or an acrylic adhesive either incorporating or not incorporating a tackifier.

15. The article attachment kit according to claim 13, wherein the double-sided adhesive tape is provided with a pull-tab not having the adhesive layer at a stretch-release start end part thereof.

16. The article attachment kit according to claim 10, wherein the double-sided adhesive tape does not have the adhesive layer on an adherend side of the base material, at the end part opposite the stretch-release start end part to form a single-sided adhesive tape in this region.

17. An article attachment kit, comprising:

the article support structure according to claim 10; and

an article comprising a hook for hanging an article.

18. An article attachment kit, comprising:

the article support structure according to claim 10;

the article or accessory member thereof, and

a stretch-releasable double-sided adhesive tape comprising a stretchable base material and an adhesive layer provided on both sides of the base material.