PACKING SYSTEM
A packing system is provided. The packing system includes a box, a partition, and a first article and a second article to be packed. The box has an inner space. The partition is movably disposed within the inner space and divides the inner space into a first space and a second space. The second article is stored in the second space. The first article is partially compressed and contained in the first space. The first article is in contact with the partition to support the partition and absorb a shock and movement of the partition, and therefore reduce the possible damage occurred on the second article.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to a packing system and more particularly, the present invention relates to a packing system utilizing the structure of the packing system for shock absorption.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The packing of the fragile package is an important issue during the shipping process. If the packing is not secured, the package is easily damaged during the shipping and the manufacture cost is increased. For high precision or fragile electronic devices, such as liquid crystal device (LCD), plasma display device, organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, home theater, lamp and so on, it is especially easy to damage the internal circuit structure or other fragile structure, which causes the cost lost of the products.
As a display device packing shown in
With the packing method described above, the protection and the shock absorption rely on the cushions 21, the cushion 22 and the partition 30 filling in the box. Therefore, the thickness and the material of the cushions 21, the cushions 22 and the partition 30 determine the efficiency of the shock absorption effect. In other words, the support base 50 is one of the factors to cause the damage of the display device panel 70. Besides, the structure of the support base 50 includes some springs or other elastic materials, but they can not be utilized as a part of the cushion structure of the integrity packing for shock absorption. Therefore, how to convert the support base 50 from a factor causing damages to the electronic device to a device increasing the efficiency of the shock absorption is the main purpose of the present invention.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONA purpose of the present invention is to provide a packing system with the advantage of economizing the usage of the cushion.
Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a packing system utilizing the structure of the package to provide the shock absorption.
The packing system of the present invention includes a box, a first cushion, a partition, and a first article and a second article to be packed. The box has an internal space and the first cushion is disposed within the internal space. The partition is movably disposed within the internal space and a first space is formed between the partition and the first cushion. The first article is in a less stretching status and stored in the first space. Besides, the first article supports the partition and is movably disposed in the first space. The first cushion is filled in the gap between the first article and the box. The second cushion is disposed in the internal space and the first cushion and the second cushion are disposed in the two sides of the partition. A second space is formed between the second cushion and the partition. The second article is stored in the second space. The second cushion is used to fill in the gap between the electronic device and the box. In the preferred embodiment, the second cushion contacts the partition and covers the electronic device. The first cushion covers the first article and the contacted portion of the partition.
In the preferred embodiment, the first article is a support base. The support base includes a base, a support rod, a connective stand and an elastic member. Two ends of the support rod are respectively opposite to a base end and a sustained end. The base end is connected to the base and the sustained end is movable relative to the base end. The support rod can be in a stretching position, a compressing position, a less stretching position and a less compressing position. The elastic member is respectively connected to the base and the support rod. When the support base is in the stretching position, the deformable value and the elastic strength is the smallest. When the support base is in the compressing position, the relative displacement between the support rod and the base is in the maximum value. When the support base is in the less stretching position and the less compressing position, the relative displacement between the support rod and the base is increasable.
When the support base is stored in the first space of the box, the support base is stretchable in a first direction. The support base is against the partition and provides a force for the partition to absorb the shock of the partition during the shipping. When an external force is applied to the second article, the partition is compressed in the first direction. The external force is transmitted along the first direction from the partition to the support base. The support base is moved from the less stretching position to the less compressing position and absorbs the shock and the displacement. At the moment, the elastic member accumulates an elastic strength and the support base can return to the original position, the less stretching position, by the elastic strength. By the stretch of the support base and the elastic strength of the elastic member, the shock of the second article generated by the external force is reduced.
In the preferred embodiment, an elastic material is disposed between the partition and a first interval of the first cushion. By comparing to the partition and the first cushion, the rigidity coefficiency of the elastic material is small. In other words, when the same external force is used, the resistance of the elastic material is smaller than the resistance of the partition and the first cushion. When the partition is compelled along the first direction, because the rigidity coefficiency of the elastic material is smaller, the elastic material will start to be deformed and compressed before the partition and the first cushion do and provide an enough compressing space for the support base.
A packing system is disclosed in the present invention. In the preferred embodiment, the packing system is used for an electronic device. In the present invention, a display device is used as an example of the electronic device, as shown in
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When the box 100 is impacted or compelled by an external force, the first cushion 220 is moved relative to the partition 300. When the first cushion 220 and the partition 300 are oppositely moved by the compressing force, as shown in
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In the embodiment, the thickness of the partition 300 is adjustable according to the size of the internal space 110 of the box 100 to vary the sizes of the first space 112 and the second space 111. In the preferred embodiment, the partition 300 is made by Styrofoam. In coordinate with the impact resistance level of the second article 700 and the first article 500, the hardness of the partition 300 is adjustable. For example, a high density of the Styrofoam material is used to be the partition 300. Besides, the partition 300 can have multi-layers structure for increasing the ability of absorbing the shock or for any other purposes. As the embodiment shown in
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When the support rod 530 is in the stretched position relative to the base 510, as shown in
Besides, in order to maintain the support rod 530 in the less stretching position instead of bouncing back to the stretching position, the support base 501 includes a constraining member 590. The constraining member 590 circles around the base 510 and the support rod 530 and limits the support rod 530 to stretch to the stretching position. As shown in
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Besides, in the preferred embodiment, the stretching position, the less stretching position and the compressing position of the second article 700 and the support base 501 are arranged in the first direction 410. As shown in
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Besides, in this preferred embodiment, the stretching position, the less compressing position and the compressing position of the second article 700 and the support base 501 are arranged in the first direction 410. When the second article 700 is shaken by an external force, the partition 300 is compressed along the first direction 410. The external force is transmitted from the partition 300 to the support base 501 along the first direction 410. The support base 501 is compressed along the compressing direction to absorb the shaking and the displacement. At the moment, the elastic strength of the elastic member 570 forces the support base 501 to shift back from the compressing position to the original position (the less stretching position). By the compression of the support base 501 and the elastic strength of the elastic member 570, the shock received by the second article 700 from the external force is reduced and the damage of the second article 700 is reduced.
Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described herein, the above description is merely illustrative. Further modification of the invention herein disclosed will occur to those skilled in the respective arts and all such modifications are deemed to be within the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
Claims
1. A packing system used to store a first article, comprising:
- a box having an internal space;
- a first cushion disposed within the internal space; and
- a partition disposed within the internal space, wherein the partition and the first cushion are separated by a first interval and a first space is formed between the first cushion and the partition for containing the first article;
- wherein when an external force compels the box and forces the first cushion and the partition to oppositely move, the box is deformed to reduce the first interval to be a second interval and the second interval is smaller than the first interval.
2. The packing system of claim 1, wherein the rigidity coefficiency of the partition is larger than the rigidity coefficiency of the first cushion.
3. The packing system of claim 1 further comprising an elastic material, wherein the elastic material is disposed in the first interval and is more deformable than the box.
4. The packing system of claim 3, wherein the rigidity coefficiency of the elastic material is smaller than the partition and the first cushion.
5. The packing system of claim 1 further comprising a second cushion, wherein the second cushion is disposed within the internal space opposite to the first cushion, and the second cushion is against the partition, when the external force is applied on the box, the second cushion does not move relative to the partition.
6. A packing system, comprising:
- a box having an internal space;
- a first cushion disposed within the internal space;
- a partition disposed within the internal space, wherein the partition and the first cushion are separated by a first interval and a first space is formed between the first cushion and the partition; and
- a first article stored in the first space and the first article can be in a less stretching status and a less compressing status;
- wherein when the box is not impacted by an external force, the first space is kept in a first height and the first article is in the less stretching status and is stored in the first space; when the external force is applied on the box, the first cushion and the partition are oppositely moved and the box starts to be deformed from closed to the first interval, and the first space is compressed to be a second height and is smaller than the first space, the first article is deformed in the less compressing status.
7. The packing system of claim 6, wherein the rigidity coefficiency of the partition is larger than the rigidity coefficiency of the first cushion.
8. The packing system of claim 6 further comprising an elastic material, wherein the elastic material is disposed in the first interval and is more deformable than the box.
9. The packing system of claim 6, wherein the rigidity coefficiency of the elastic material is smaller than the partition and the first cushion.
10. The packing system of claim 6, wherein the first article includes a support base being stretchable and compressible in a first direction and against the partition, the support base includes:
- a base;
- a support rod, wherein the support rod includes a base end and a sustained end, and the base end is connected to the base and the sustained end is movable relative to the base end;
- a connective stand connected to the sustained end of the support rod, wherein the connective stand is used to connect to an object; and
- an elastic member connected to the base and the support rod, wherein the support rod is located between a compressed position and a stretched position in a less compressed position, the elastic member provides an elastic force to drive the support rod to stretch to the stretched position, one of the base and the connective stand is against the partition.
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16. The packing system of claim 10 further comprising a constraining member, wherein the constraining member circles around the base and the support rod in the less compressed position to restrict the first article to stretch from the less stretching status to a stretching status.
17. The packing system of claim 6 further comprising a second cushion, wherein the partition is disposed between the second cushion and the first cushion, and a second space is formed between the second cushion and the partition.
18. A packing system, comprising:
- a box having an internal space;
- a first cushion disposed within the internal space;
- a partition disposed within the internal space, wherein the partition and the first cushion are separated by a first interval, and a first space is formed between the partition and the first cushion for containing the first article;
- a first article stored in the first space and the first article being against the partition; and
- a constraining member, the constraining member circling around the first article and restricting the first article to stretch from a less stretching status to a stretching status;
- wherein when an external force compels the first article, the partition is moved relative to the box and forces the first article to move from the less stretching status to a less compressing status.
19. The packing system of claim 18, wherein the partition and the first cushion are connected together.
20. The packing system of claim 18, wherein the less stretching status is the lowest height of the first article.
21. The packing system of claim 18, wherein the first cushion and the partition are separated by a interval, and a first space is formed between the first cushion and the partition and the first article is stored in the first space; wherein when the box is not impacted by an external force, the first space is kept in a first height and the first article is kept in the less stretching status and stored in the first space; when the box is impacted by the external force, the first cushion and the partition are partially and oppositely moved and the box starts to be deformed from closed to the first interval and the first space is contracted to be a second height and the second space is smaller than the first space and the first article is deformed to be contracted and stored within the first space.
22. The packing system of claim 18 further comprising an elastic material, wherein the elastic material is disposed between the partition and the first cushion and the elastic material is more deformable than the box.
23. The packing system of claim 18, wherein the rigidity coefficiency of the elastic material is smaller than the partition and the first cushion.
24. The packing system of claim 18, wherein the first article includes a support base and the support base is stretched and compressed in a first direction and against the partition, the support base comprises:
- a base;
- a support rod, wherein the support rod includes a base end and a sustained end and the base end is connected to the base and the sustained end is movable relative to the base end;
- a connective stand connected to the sustained end of the support rod, wherein the connective stand is used to connect an object; and
- an elastic member connected to the base and the support rod, wherein the support rod is located in a less compressed position between a compressed position and a stretched position, the elastic member provides an elastic force to drive the support rod to stretch to the stretched position, one of the base and the connective stand is against the partition;
- wherein the constraining member circles around the base and the support rod in the less compressed position.
25. The packing system of claim 24, wherein the sustained end is rotatable around the base end.
26. The packing system of claim 25, wherein the elastic member includes a straight spring disposed along the support rod.
27. The packing system of claim 25, wherein the elastic member includes a distorted spring disposed in the base end of the support rod.
28. The packing system of claim 24, wherein the support rod and the base are sleeved together along the axial direction of the support rod.
29. The packing system of claim 28, wherein the elastic member includes a reel spring disposed along the support rod.
30. The packing system of claim 18 further comprising a second cushion, and the partition is disposed between the second cushion and the first cushion and a second space is formed between the second cushion and the partition.
Type: Application
Filed: Jun 28, 2007
Publication Date: Jan 3, 2008
Applicant: BENQ CORPORATION (Gueishan Township)
Inventors: Li-Tien Tseng (Bade City), Chun-Jung Tsuo (Lujhu Township), Ting-Hui Chih (Hualien City)
Application Number: 11/770,468
International Classification: B65D 81/02 (20060101);