US 12,275,569 B2
Spouted pouch
Hiroki Tanaka, Yokohama (JP); and Motohide Hata, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/100,950.
Application 18/100,950 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/016716, filed on Apr. 27, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-127111 (JP), filed on Jul. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0159248 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. B65D 75/00 (2006.01); B65D 75/56 (2006.01); B65D 75/58 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 75/008 (2013.01) [B65D 75/566 (2013.01); B65D 75/5877 (2013.01); B65D 2575/30 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A spouted pouch configured to dispense a liquid content from a spout attached to a side face of a pouch body in a state placed with a pouch bottom down,
the pouch body including a first film having a spout fixture portion to which a spout fixture target portion of the spout is fixed, and side films connected to the first film via first side seals formed on both left and right sides of the first film,
the pouch body further including a first shape-controlling seal portion formed by heat sealing the first film and the side film together at a location on an inner side of the first side seal in a left-right direction,
wherein the pouch body includes a top seal portion and a main portion disposed below the top seal portion and configured by four side surfaces including a first side surface, the first side surface formed by the first film and comprising an inclined side surface and a substantially vertical side surface in a state in which the spouted pouch is placed with the pouch bottom down and with containing a liquid content therein,
wherein the four side surfaces are laminated together in the top seal portion,
wherein the inclined side surface extends continuously from the top seal portion,
wherein the substantially vertical side surface is located below the inclined side surface and extends continuously from the inclined side surface,
wherein the first shape-controlling seal portion is disposed to the substantially vertical side surface,
wherein the spout fixture portion is disposed to the substantially vertical side surface,
the first shape-controlling seal portion having an area located in a region between an upper half of the spout fixture portion and the first side seals, and not having an area located below a center in an up-down direction of the spout fixture portion such that a vicinity of the first shape-controlling seal portion of the first film in the substantially vertical side surface is dented inward of the pouch from a surrounding area thereof and a vicinity of an area below the first shape-controlling seal of the first film in the substantially vertical side surface protrudes outward of the pouch to adjust an inclination of the spout fixture target portion so as to shift an upper side of the spout fixture target portion inward of the pouch and to shift a lower side of the spout fixture target portion outward of the pouch.