PACKAGING TRAY

• US 20200130915A1
• Filed: 04/23/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: NAKAZONO, TSUGIO, YAMAGUCHI, MASARU
• Application Number:
  US16/606,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20200130915A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 21/0233 Nestable containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2585/6835 audio-visual devices
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/042 the inner container being of polygonal cross-section formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks, e.g. carton
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/058 Protectors contacting five surfaces of the packaged article, e.g. five-sided end protectors
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/30 for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/48 for glass sheets

Abstract

A panel holding portion of a packaging tray according to an aspect of the present invention includes a holding recess, a panel supporting portion, a supporting foot, a panel pressing portion, and a tray supporting portion. In a state in which a display panel is held in the holding recess, a top tier tray is stacked above the packaging tray, and a bottom tier tray is stacked below the packaging tray, the supporting foot includes a first contact surface that is in contact with the tray supporting portion of the bottom tier tray, the panel pressing portion includes a second contact surface that is in contact with the display panel held in the bottom tier tray, and the tray supporting portion includes a third contact surface that is in contact with the first contact surface of the top tier tray.

Claims

1. A packaging tray that is capable of holding at least one display panel and that is stackable in a plurality of tiers, comprising:

at least one panel holding portion,

wherein the panel holding portion includes

a holding recess that holds the display panel,

a panel supporting portion that protrudes to a position above a bottom plate of the holding recess and that comes into contact with a lower surface of the display panel to support the display panel,

a supporting foot protruding to a position below the bottom plate of the holding recess,

a panel pressing portion provided in the supporting foot, and

a tray supporting portion provided on an upper surface side of the supporting foot, and

wherein, in a state in which the display panel is held in the holding recess, a top tier tray having a shape of the packaging tray is stacked above the packaging tray, and a bottom tier tray having the shape of the packaging tray is stacked below the packaging tray,

the supporting foot includes a first contact surface that is in contact with the tray supporting portion of the bottom tier tray,

the panel pressing portion includes a second contact surface that is in contact with the display panel held in the bottom tier tray, and

the tray supporting portion includes a third contact surface that is in contact with the first contact surface of the top tier tray.

2. The packaging tray according to claim 1,

wherein the panel supporting portion is disposed at a position where the panel supporting portion comes into contact with a peripheral portion of the display panel from below, and

wherein the panel pressing portion is disposed at a position where the panel pressing portion comes into contact with the peripheral portion of the display panel from above.

3. The packaging tray according to claim 2, wherein the second contact surface is provided so as to incline with respect to the first contact surface and comes into contact with an upper corner of the peripheral portion of the display panel.

4. The packaging tray according to claim 2,

wherein the panel pressing portion further includes a first step portion provided between the first contact surface and the second contact surface, and

wherein the second contact surface comes into contact with an upper surface of the peripheral portion of the display panel.

5. The packaging tray according to claim 4,

wherein the supporting foot further includes a side wall surface rising from the second contact surface toward the panel supporting portion, and

wherein a junction of the second contact surface and the side wall surface is rounded into a curved surface.

6. The packaging tray according to claim 4, wherein the panel pressing portion further includes a noncontact surface that is continuous from the second contact surface and that does not come into contact with the display panel and a second step portion that is provided between the second contact surface and the noncontact surface.

7. The packaging tray according to claim 1,

wherein a shape of the supporting foot as seen in a normal direction of the bottom plate is a rectangle, and

wherein corners of the rectangle that is the shape of the supporting foot are rounded into curved surfaces.

8. The packaging tray according to claim 1, wherein an outer dimension of an upper side of the tray supporting portion is relatively large, and an outer dimension of a lower side of the tray supporting portion is relatively small.