PACKAGING BODY FOR HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE

• US 20090288976A1
• Filed: 07/29/2009
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NGK Insulators Limited
• Original Assignee: NGK Insulators Limited
• Inventors: SHIRAKI, Koji, HOSOI, Toru
• Application Number:
  US12/511,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20090288976A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/386
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 21/0224 Auxiliary removable stacking elements other than covers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 71/0096 the dimensions of the supports corresponding to the periphery of the load, e.g. pallets
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/113 of a shape specially adapted to accommodate contents B65D81/053 takes precedence

Abstract

A packaging body for a honeycomb structure including two trays formed with a pocket having a shape complementary to an end face portion of a honeycomb structure and a shallow box-like tray pack surrounding from the outside and containing the one on the side of a lower end face portion of the honeycomb structure of the two trays, the packaging body for a honeycomb structure enables a lateral access from a side (side face) so that a robot arm and hand can easily put in or take out the honeycomb structure.

Claims

1-11. -11. (canceled)

12. A packaging body for a honeycomb structure, being a package body for packaging a honeycomb structure having a columnar shape, comprising:

at least two trays having a plate shape and in which a pocket having a cylindrical shape or an elliptic cylindrical shape is formed; and

a shallow box-like tray pack that surrounds from the outside and contains at least one tray of the at least two trays.

13. The packaging body for a honeycomb structure according to claim 12, wherein said tray pack can contain a plurality of said trays.

14. The packaging body for a honeycomb structure according to claim 12, wherein said tray pack is a formed body which material is paper.

15. The packaging body for a honeycomb structure according to claim 12, wherein at one face or at both faces of said tray having a plate shape, there is formed a plurality of said pockets.

16. The packaging body for a honeycomb structure according to claim 12, wherein said tray is a formed body which main material is any of polypropylene, polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, vinyl chloride, iron and aluminum.

17. A packaging body for a honeycomb structure, being a package body for packaging a honeycomb structure having a columnar shape, comprising:

at least three trays having a plate shape and in which a pocket having a cylindrical shape or an elliptic cylindrical shape is formed at one face or at both faces,

wherein a tray having said pocket at one face is disposed in the uppermost layer and in the lowermost layer, and a tray having said pocket at both faces is disposed at an intermediate portion.

18. The packaging body for a honeycomb structure according to claim 17, further comprising

a pallet to be in contact with one face of at least one tray of said trays,

wherein the pallet and said one tray are brought in engagement by having a mode in which:

(a) there is provided at said pallet a plurality of concave parts or convex parts and there is provided at said one tray a plurality of convex parts or concave parts, and the concave parts and the convex parts of said pallet are loosely fit to the convex parts and the concave parts of said one tray, or

(b) there is provided in said pallet and said one tray a plurality of concave parts as well as there is provided a plurality of joining members, and the joining members are loosely fit to the concave parts that are formed in said pallet and said one tray.

19. The packaging body for a honeycomb structure according to claim 17, wherein the two trays of said trays are brought in engagement by having a mode in which;

(1) there is formed a plurality of concave parts in one tray of the two trays and there is provided at the other tray a plurality of convex parts, and the concave parts of said one tray and the convex parts of said other tray are brought in a loose fit, or

(2) there is provided in each of the two trays a plurality of concave parts as well as there is provided a plurality of joining members, and the joining members are loosely fit to said concave parts formed in each of the two trays.

20. The packaging body for a honeycomb structure according to claim 17, wherein at one face or at both faces of said tray having a plate shape, there is formed a plurality of said pockets.

21. The packaging body for a honeycomb structure according to claim 17, wherein said tray is a formed body which main material is any of polypropylene, polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, vinyl chloride, iron and aluminum.

22. A packaging body for a honeycomb structure acting to package a honeycomb structure, being a packaging body for packaging a honeycomb structure having a columnar shape, comprising:

at least two trays having a plate shape and in which a pocket having a shape complementary to an end face portion of said honeycomb structure is formed at one face,

wherein an end face portion of said honeycomb structure is fit in said each pocket of two trays of at least two trays, and a honeycomb structure is packaged; and

wherein said two trays are brought in engagement by having a mode in which;

(x) there is formed a plurality of concave parts in one tray of the two trays and there is provided at the other tray a plurality of convex parts, and the concave parts of said one tray and the convex parts of said other tray are brought in a loose fit;

or

(y) there is provided in each of the two trays a plurality of concave parts as well as there is provided a plurality of joining members, and the joining members are loosely fit to said concave parts formed in each of the two trays.

23. A packaging body for a honeycomb structure acting to package a honeycomb structure according to claim 22, further comprising a protective member surrounding said honeycomb structure and said tray to which an end face portion of the honeycomb structure is fit from the side of said honeycomb structure.

24. A packaging body for a honeycomb structure acting to package a honeycomb structure according to claim 23, wherein said protective member has a plate shape or a film shape.