CAP STRUCTURE AND CONTAINER WITH THE CAP
A cap structure includes a capping body, for covering a container mouth of a container. The capping body includes a base layer, a plurality of protruding members disposed on the base layer, and a sidewall joined to a periphery of the base layer. A liner layer having coupling structures is locked with the protruding members. A space is formed between the base layer and the liner layer.
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1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to a cap structure. More particularly, the present invention relates to a cap structure with multiple functions, such as adapting a radio-frequency identification (RFID) circuit.
2. Description of Related Art
As usually known, cap is used to cover a container. The container usually contains some materials, such as medicine pill or any other objects. The conventional cap basically has a sealing function to air-tightly seal the opening of the container, so that the medicine pills are kept inside without directly contact the humid air, for example. In the actual applications, the cap may have the printed tag to identify the content inside the container. How to tight the cap to the container neck has been well developed. Various mechanical structures have been proposed, such as by screw or gear mechanisms.
When electronic technology is further developed, the cap's function is accordingly updated. For example, RFID tag has been successfully developed to electronically carry some information. In order to identify the content inside the container, the RFID tag is integrated into the cap for replacing the printed tag. For example, the U.S. Pat. No. 7,342,501 has disclosed the cap with the RFID tag. Further, in order to actually seal the opening of the container, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,277,478, the cap can carry the heat-melt adhesive layer, which can be melt by heat and then tightly seal the opening.
However, the cap is still under developing to fit various purposes in use. The cap then can have more functions and be in convenient use.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe invention provides cap structure, which can be easily formed by molding process and the cap can have multiple functions in use.
In an aspect, the invention provides a cap structure including a capping body for covering a container mouth of a container. The capping body includes a base layer, a plurality of protruding members disposed on the base layer, and a sidewall joined to a periphery of the base layer. A liner layer having coupling structures is locked with the protruding members. A space between the base layer and the liner layer is formed for containing an auxiliary object.
In a further aspect, the invention provides a container. The container comprises a containing body having a containing space for containing an object and a container mouth with a mouth ring. A plug can be inserted to the container mouth, wherein the plug has a through hole for air circulation. A capping body, for covering the container mouth by fixing to the mouth ring. The capping body comprises a base layer, a plurality of protruding members disposed on the base layer, a sidewall joined to a periphery of the base layer, and a liner layer having coupling structures in locking with the protruding members. A space between the base layer and the liner layer is formed for adapting a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag for identifying the object, such as a plant.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
In the invention, the present invention proposes a cap structure, which has multiple functions, such as carrying a RFID tag or the desiccant. The RFID tag can be a passive RFID tag operating at different frequency band, for example, the UHF passive RFID tag can be more freely scanned at a long distance. It is helpful to identify the objects contained in containers, which are put together in mix.
Several embodiments are provided for describing the present invention. However, the present invention is not limited to the provided embodiments, and the embodiments can also be properly combined to each other.
It should be also noted that the liner layer 132 can be fixed to the cap 130 with or without being detachable. For one-time locking mechanism, once the liner layer is coupled with the cap 130, the liner layer 132 basically is not detachable except breaking the liner layer, for example. In this situation, the RFID tag is always carried by the cap 130. The liner layer 132 would be possibly broken if the liner layer is detached, according to this one-time use mechanism. In other words, the liner layer 132 is permanently engaged to the cap 130 without being detached for repeat use. However, in other design of multiple-time locking mechanism, the liner layer 132 can be locked to the cap 130 when it is needed. And then, the liner layer 132 can be detached for changing the RFID tag, for example. The cap structure of the cap 130 and liner later 132 can be repeatedly used.
The structure for locking the liner layer to the cap by one-tine locking mechanism has been described. However, when the cap 130 may have addition structure for covering to the container mouth in different mechanism, depending on the actual need in option. If the cap 130 is to tightly cover the container mouth, then several mechanism, such as screwing mechanism, can be taken. However, if it is not necessary to tightly cover the container mouth, as described in
The ribs 140 and hooking members 138 can be formed on the sidewall of the cap 130 at the inner side. The gap between the ribs 140 and the hooking members 138 is to adapt the rim of the container mouth. Each of the hooking members 138 has a sliding surface for easily hooking into the rim of the container mouth. Depending on the actual need of the cap 130, the liner layer 132 may have indent for allowing the ribs 140 to pass through, so that the liner layer 132 can also be guided to the locking positions of the coupling structure 144. In addition, in order to have air circulation, the sidewall of the cap 130 at inner side can have the air circulation channels 146, at which a thinner wall is formed, so that the air can flow through the air circulation channels 146. As a practical application, for example, the air circulation channels 146 are useful for contained live plant or insect, which usually needs water or fresh air in circulation.
As can be understood, the liner layer is locked to the cap to adapt the RFID tag, for example. The RFID tag can be easily adhered to the liner layer, for example. The liner layer can also be constantly locked to the cap or detachably locked to the cap. If it is necessary, the air circulation channel can also be formed while the cap is semi-tightly covering the container mouth by hooking, for example.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing descriptions, it is intended that the present invention covers modifications and variations of this invention if they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
Claims
1. A cap structure, comprising:
- a capping body for covering a container mouth of a container, the capping body comprising: a base layer; a plurality of protruding members, disposed on the base layer; and a sidewall, joined to a periphery of the base layer; and
- a liner layer, having coupling structures to in locking with the protruding members,
- wherein a space is formed between the base layer and the liner layer.
2. The cap structure of claim 1, wherein each of the protruding members is a pole and each of the coupling structures of the liner layer has intersectional cutting lines for allowing the pole to penetrate and fix thereon, wherein the liner layer is in one-time locking to the capping body without being detached out.
3. The cap structure of claim 2, wherein the intersectional cutting lines further comprises an opening at an intersection point.
4. The cap structure of claim 2, wherein the liner layer has an indent region to increase a volume of the space between the base layer and the liner layer.
5. The cap structure of claim 1, wherein at least an object is contained in the space between the base layer and the liner layer.
6. The cap structure of claim 5, wherein the object comprises radio frequency identification (RFID) tag or desiccant.
7. The cap structure of claim 1, wherein
- each of the protruding members comprises: a sectional circle wall; and a protruding locking ring on the sectional circle wall; and
- each of the coupling structures of the liner layer comprises: an indent periphery; and an anchor wall at the indent periphery and the anchor wall is lower in height than the protruding locking ring,
- wherein when the coupling structure is locked with the protruding members, the anchor wall is engaged to the sectional circle wall and the protruding locking ring blocks the anchor wall so as to hold the liner layer.
8. The cap structure of claim 7, wherein the liner layer has an indent region to increase a volume of the space between the base layer and the liner layer.
9. The cap structure of claim 1, wherein the sidewall comprises:
- a plurality of ribs perpendicular to the base layer and extending from the base layer to a rim of the sidewall at a first position; and
- a plurality of inward hooking members distributed at the rim of the sidewall, wherein a hooking top is at a second position, so that the container mouth is fit between the ribs and the inward hooking members.
10. The cap structure of claim 9, wherein the sidewall further comprises a plurality of air conducting channels, so that the capping body does not air-tightly seal the container mouth.
11. The cap structure of claim 9, wherein the liner layer has a plurality of peripheral concave regions to allow the ribs to pass.
12. The cap structure of claim 9, wherein the liner layer has a hand-operationable protrusion at a side facing to the container.
13. The cap structure of claim 12, wherein the hand-operationable protrusion is a cross protrusion with an indent central region.
14. A container, comprising:
- a containing body, having a containing space for containing an object and a container mouth with a mouth ring;
- a plug, when in assembly, inserted to the container mouth, wherein the plug has a through hole for air circulation;
- a capping body, for covering the container mouth by fixing to the mouth ring, wherein the capping body comprises: a base layer; a plurality of protruding members, disposed on the base layer; a sidewall, joined to a periphery of the base layer; and a liner layer, having coupling structures in locking with the protruding members, wherein a space between the base layer and the liner layer is formed for adapting at least a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag for identifying the object.
15. The container of claim 14, wherein each of the protruding members is a pole and each of the coupling structures of the liner layer has intersectional cutting lines for allowing the pole to penetrate and fix thereon.
16. The container of claim 14, wherein the liner layer has an indent region to adapt the RFID tag.
17. The container of claim 14, wherein
- each of the protruding members comprises: a sectional circle wall; and a protruding locking ring on the sectional circle wall; and
- each of the coupling structures of the liner layer comprises: an indent periphery; and an anchor wall at the indent periphery and the anchor wall is lower in height than the protruding locking ring,
- wherein when the coupling structure is locked with the protruding members, the anchor wall is engaged to the sectional circle wall and the protruding locking ring blocks the anchor wall so as to hold the liner layer.
18. The container of claim 14, wherein the sidewall comprises:
- a plurality of ribs perpendicular to the base layer and extending from the base layer to a rim of the sidewall at a first position; and
- a plurality of inward hooking members distributed at the rim of the sidewall, wherein a hooking top is at a second position, so that the container mouth is fit between the ribs and the inward hooking members.
19. The container of claim 18, wherein the liner layer has a plurality of peripheral concave regions to allow the ribs to pass.
20. The container of claim 14, wherein the sidewall further comprises a plurality of air conducting channels, so that the object can connect to an outer space by the through hole of the plug and the air conducting channels.
21. The container of claim 14, wherein the liner layer has a hand-operationable protrusion at a side facing to the container.
22. The container of claim 21, wherein the hand-operationable protrusion is a cross protrusion with an indent central region.
Type: Application
Filed: Oct 30, 2008
Publication Date: May 6, 2010
Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu)
Inventors: Li-Huei Chen (Hsinchu City), Shao-Wei Chung (Hsinchu County), Yu-Sung Lee (Taichung City), Kuo-Chang Hsu (Hsinchu County)
Application Number: 12/262,161
International Classification: B65D 53/00 (20060101);