Packaging material and method of transporting honeycomb structured body

• US 8,047,377 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2007
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Makino, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pickett; J. Gregory
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chu; King M
• Application Number:
  US11/762,928
• Publication Number:
  US 20080160249A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,601 Days
• Field of Search: 206/557, 206/561, 206/562, 206/563, 206/564, 206/565, 206/505, 206/506, 206/507, 206/509, 206/588, 206/589, 206/593, 206/594, 428/116, 229/407, 534/56
• US Class Current: 206/589
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2301/20 made of plastic material
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 71/70 Trays provided with projections or recesses in order to assemble multiple articles, e.g. intermediate elements for stacking
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 71/72 formed by folding one or more blanks, the articles being inserted in openings in a wall
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/113 of a shape specially adapted to accommodate contents B65D81/053 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24149 Honeycomb-like

Abstract

A packaging material of the present invention, which comprises a plate member, packages an object to be packaged by sandwiching the object, and the plate member is provided with an installation portion for the object to be packaged as well as a reinforcing portion.

Claims

1. A method of transporting a honeycomb structured body by housing the honeycomb structured body packaged with a packaging material in a box member, and then transporting said box member, wherein

said packaging material, which is formed by molding a plastic sheet, packages the honeycomb structured body by sandwiching the honeycomb structured body,

said plastic sheet is provided with an installation portion for the honeycomb structured body, and provided as well with a reinforcing portion,

said reinforcing portion is a groove portion in said plastic sheet and crosses and intersects with another reinforcing portion that is another groove portion in said plastic sheet,

the crossing and the intersecting occurs at a location other than at a retention location of the honeycomb structured body,

a peripheral side face of the packaging material is formed by bending the plastic sheet downward, and

a plurality of grooves are formed on the peripheral side face,

wherein irregularities of about 1 mm or more are formed on said installation portion.

2. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 1, wherein irregularities having a surface roughness Ra of about 0.1 μ

m or more are formed on said installation portion.

3. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 1, wherein the shape of said installation portion is a truncated cone shape.

4. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 1, wherein said installation portion is formed by forming a bottomed hole in said plastic sheet.

5. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 4, wherein an installation area for the honeycomb structured body in said bottomed hole is smaller than an opening area of said bottomed hole.

6. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 4, wherein said bottomed hole has such a shape that, when the honeycomb structured body is placed therein, a gap is formed between the bottomed hole and the honeycomb structured body.

7. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 4, wherein a raised bottom portion to hold the end face of the honeycomb structured body is formed on the bottom face of said bottomed hole.

13. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 1, wherein said installation portion is formed so that a diameter of an upper face of the installation portion is made shorter than a diameter of the end face of the honeycomb structured body.

14. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 1, wherein said plastic sheet comprises polypropylene, polyethylene, or polyethylene terephthalate.

8. A method of transporting a honeycomb structured body by housing the honeycomb structured body packaged with a packaging material in a box member, and then transporting said box member, wherein

said packaging material, which is formed by molding a plastic sheet, is a packaging material for packaging the honeycomb structured body by sandwiching the honeycomb structured body;

said plastic sheet is provided with a reinforcing portion, said reinforcing portion is a groove portion in said plastic sheet and crosses and intersects with another reinforcing portion that is another groove portion in said plastic sheet, the crossing and intersecting occurs at a location other than at a retention location of the honeycomb structured body;

the plastic sheet is provided with an installation portion for said honeycomb structured body comprising a bottomed hole; and

the bottomed hole has such a shape that, when the honeycomb structured body is placed therein, a gap is formed between the bottomed hole and the honeycomb structured body such that a peripheral portion of an end face of the honeycomb structured body does not contact the installation portion,

wherein irregularities of about 1 mm or more are formed on said installation portion.

9. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 8, wherein irregularities having a surface roughness Ra of about 0.1 μ

m or more are formed on said installation portion.

10. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 8, wherein the shape of said installation portion is a truncated cone shape.

11. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 8, wherein an installation area for the honeycomb structured body in said bottomed hole is smaller than an opening area of said bottomed hole.

12. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 8, wherein a raised bottom portion to hold the end face of the honeycomb structured body is formed on the bottom face of said bottomed hole.

15. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 8, wherein said installation portion is formed that a diameter of an upper face of the installation portion is made shorter than a diameter of the end face of the honeycomb structured body.

16. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 8, wherein said plastic sheet comprises polypropylene, polyethylene, or polyethylene terephthalate.

17. The method of transporting a honeycomb structured body according to claim 8, wherein said plastic sheet is provided with a reinforcing portion, and wherein said reinforcing portion and the portion other than the reinforcing portion are formed by different materials.