US 11,840,390 B2
Container
Naoki Hosoya, Sakai (JP); Kohhei Nanbu, Sakai (JP); Yuya Yano, Sakai (JP); and Akira Ieyama, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on Apr. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/715,759.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/180,640, filed on Apr. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0340352 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B65D 81/05 (2006.01); B65D 85/48 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 81/054 (2013.01) [B65D 85/48 (2013.01); B65D 2581/055 (2013.01); B65D 2585/6837 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A container comprising:
a storage member having a bottom-surface member defining a bottom surface of a storage space having four corners, and a side-surface member defining side surfaces of the storage space, the bottom-surface member defining an x-y plane, the side-surface member defining an x-z plane and a y-z plane both orthogonal to the x-y plane; and
two protectors disposed at two corners adjacent to each other in an x-direction, the two corners belonging to the four corners of the storage space, wherein
the side-surface member has, at the two corners, two cuts facing the storage space,
each of the two protectors has
a support portion detachably fitted, in a z-direction, in a corresponding one of the two cuts,
a first reception portion having a first reception surface facing an end surface in the x-direction of a housed object that is to be housed in the storage space, and
a second reception portion having a second reception surface facing an end surface in a y-direction of the housed object,
the first reception portion and/or the second reception portion is integral with the support portion,
the second reception portion has, in at least a part adjacent to the bottom surface, an evacuation portion in which a distance between the second reception surface and a facing surface increases along with approach to the bottom surface, the facing surface facing the second reception surface, being perpendicular to the bottom surface, and being in a same position in a y-direction from a side adjacent to the bottom surface to a side adjacent to an opening of the container, and
a y-direction range in which the housed object is to be disposed in the storage space is defined by the second reception surface and the facing surface.