PHOTO STAND SHEET, PHOTO STAND, AND PRINTER

• US 20190320824A1
• Filed: 10/19/2018
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: KIRIYAMA, Ryohei, YUKAWA, Toshiyasu, TSUTSUMI, Kojiro, HARADA, Katsumi
• Granted Patent: US 10,786,096 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/0633 made of sheet material
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/141 made of sheet material
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2001/0694 comprising means allowing the frame to be supported on a horizontal surface
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/402 Coloured
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/412 Transparent
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/516 mono-axially
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/546 Flexural strength; Flexion stiffness
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/732 Dimensional properties
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2307/75 Printability
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2559/00 Photographic equipment or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 27/06 as the main or only constituent of a layer, which is next to another layer of the same or of a different material next to a layer of a particular substance B32B9/045; next to a bituminous or tarry layer B32B11/046; next to a water setting substance layer B32B13/12; next to a metal layer B32B15/08; next to a glass layer B32B17/10; next to a layer formed of natural mineral fibres or particles B32B19/045; next to a wood layer B32B21/08; next to a cellulosic plastic layer B32B23/08; next to a natural or synthetic rubber layer B32B25/08
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 27/36 comprising polyesters
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 3/04 characterised by at least one layer folded at the edge, e.g. over another layer ; characterised by at least one layer enveloping or enclosing a material
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 3/08 characterised by added members at particular parts layer formed of separate pieces of material which are juxtaposed side-by-side B32B3/14, B32B3/18
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 3/263 characterised by a layer having non-uniform thickness
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 3/266 characterised by an apertured layer, the apertures going through the whole thickness of the layer, e.g. expanded metal, perforated layer, slit layer regular cells B32B3/12
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 3/30 characterised by a layer formed with recesses or projections, e.g. hollows, grooves, protuberances, ribs apertured layer B32B3/266; layer with cavities or internal voids B32B3/26
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 7/12 using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/6523 Cutting
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/6591 characterised by the recording material, e.g. plastic material, OHP, ceramics, tiles, textiles details transferring the toner pattern onto particular materials G03G15/1625
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/6594 : characterised by the format or the thickness, e.g. endless forms

Abstract

In a photo stand sheet, the length of the photo stand sheet in a first direction is smaller than that in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The photo stand sheet includes: a frame part having a window part, the frame part having a rectangular shape in which the length in the first direction is larger than that in the second direction; a stand part that is formed so as to be continuous with the frame part and that stands on a ground after the photo stand sheet is formed into a final shape; and a photo part that is formed so as to be continuous with the stand part, the dimension thereof in the second direction being larger than the dimension of the frame part in the second direction.

Claims

1. A photo stand sheet, the length of the photo stand sheet in a first direction being smaller than that in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the photo stand sheet comprising:

a frame part having a window part, the frame part having a rectangular shape in which the length in the first direction is larger than that in the second direction;

a stand part that is formed so as to be continuous with the frame part and that stands on a ground after the photo stand sheet is formed into a final shape; and

a photo part that is formed so as to be continuous with the stand part, a dimension thereof in the second direction being larger than a dimension of the frame part in the second direction.

2. The photo stand sheet according to claim 1, wherein a relationship 1.01<

A/B<

1.2 is satisfied where the dimension of the photo part in the second direction is A, and the dimension of the frame part in the second direction is B.

3. The photo stand sheet according to claim 1, wherein the photo stand sheet is a bonded sheet in which a front sheet and a back sheet are stacked on one another with an adhesive layer therebetween, the photo stand sheet having a slit provided by cutting halfway therethrough from the front side and the rear side and a plurality of folding portions provided by cutting halfway therethrough from the rear side such that the photo stand sheet can be folded therealong.

4. The photo stand sheet according to claim 3, wherein the slit forms the window part.

5. The photo stand sheet according to claim 3, wherein the photo stand sheet has the slit in the stand part, at a position closer to the photo part than to the frame part, and an insertion portion to be inserted into the slit when the photo stand sheet is formed into a final shape, the insertion portion being formed on the side of the frame part opposite from the stand part.

6. The photo stand sheet according to claim 2, further comprising:

a first folding portion that is provided in the stand part, at a position closer to the photo part than to the frame part, the first folding portion forming a first plane that allows the window part to stand substantially vertically with respect to the ground after the first folding portion is folded, and the photo stand sheet is formed into a final shape; and

a second folding portion that is provided at a position substantially the same distance from the frame part and the photo part, the second folding portion forming a second plane that allows the window part to stand so as to be tilted upward with respect to the ground after the second folding portion is folded, and the photo stand sheet is formed into the final shape.

7. The photo stand sheet according to claim 1, wherein the photo stand sheet has a penetrating perforated tear-off line along which a part of the photo stand sheet can be separated.

8. The photo stand sheet according to claim 7, wherein the photo part has the perforated tear-off line along the area of a photo to be printed.

9. The photo stand sheet according to claim 7, wherein the photo part has slits at both ends.

10. A photo stand comprising:

a frame part having a window part;

a photo part that is held in a concave shape with respect to the window part after the photo stand is formed into a final shape; and

a stand part that allows the photo stand to stand in a free-standing manner with respect to a ground after the photo stand is formed into the final shape,

wherein the photo stand is formed of the foldable photo stand sheet according to claim 1.

11. The photo stand according to claim 10, wherein the frame part has openings through which the photo part communicates with the outside.

12. The photo stand according to claim 11, wherein the openings are provided at the top and bottom of the frame part in the case where the photo part displays a portrait-orientation image to be viewed in a vertical orientation, and

the openings are provided at both sides of the frame part in the case where the photo part displays a landscape-orientation image to be viewed in a horizontal orientation.

13. The photo stand according to claim 11, wherein the openings include:

a first opening that is defined by a first plane having the window part and having a projection at one end and two or more second planes intersecting the first plane, the first opening allowing the window part to stand so as to be tilted upward with respect to the ground in a state in which a base of the first plane having the projection and bases of the second plane are grounded; and

a second opening that allows the window part to stand substantially perpendicularly to the ground in a state in which a base of the first plane having no projection and other bases of the second planes are grounded.

14. The photo stand according to claim 10, wherein the stand part includes a first plane that allows the window part to stand substantially perpendicularly to the ground or a second plane that allows the window part to stand so as to be tilted upward with respect to the ground.

15. A printer that lays out an image on the photo part of the photo stand sheet according to claim 1, the printer comprising:

a storage unit that stores photo information including a photo to be used and the orientation in which the image is arranged at the photo part; and

a layout unit that is operated by an operator to select specified photo information from the storage unit and lays out the photo on the photo part on the basis of the selected photo information,

wherein the layout unit lays out, upon receipt of an instruction from the operator, the image on the photo part as a landscape-orientation image to be viewed in a horizontal orientation, a first portrait-orientation image to be viewed in a vertical orientation in which the window part extends substantially perpendicularly to the ground, or a second portrait-orientation image to be viewed in a vertical orientation in which the window part stands so as to be tilted upward with respect to the ground.

16. The printer according to claim 15, further comprising:

a feeding unit that feeds a bonded sheet in which the photo stand sheet is arranged in a separable manner; and

an image forming unit that prints an image on the photo part.