IP Library Granted Patent US 8,966,794
Granted Patent B2
US 8,966,794 · App. 14/167,205 · Granted Mar 3, 2015

Tray unit and card holder

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,966,794
App. No.
14/167,205
Granted
Mar 3, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A tray unit having a tray that is open at the top and a card holder mounted to the outer peripheral face of the tray. The tray has a bottom face, an outer peripheral wall that rises upward from the outer peripheral part of the bottom face, and a flange extending from the upper face side of the outer peripheral wall in the outer peripheral direction. The card holder has a card insertion portion along the outer peripheral wall of the tray and to the outside of the outer peripheral wall, and to which a card is removably inserted, and a guide portion that is provided at the upper part of the card insertion portion and has formed thereon a sloped face that increases in height from the outer peripheral wall of the tray in the outer peripheral direction of the tray.

Claims (19)

1. A tray unit, comprising:

a tray that is open at the top; and

a card holder mounted to an outer peripheral face of the tray,

wherein the tray has:

a bottom face;

an outer peripheral wall that rises from an outer peripheral part of the bottom face in a direction intersecting the bottom face; and

a flange that extends from a side of the outer peripheral wall that is away from the bottom face, toward an outside of the tray, and

wherein the card holder has:

a card insertion portion along the outer peripheral wall of the tray and to an outside of the outer peripheral wall, and configured to accept a removably inserted card; and

a guide portion at an upper part of the card insertion portion, the guide portion having a sloped face that increases in height from the outer peripheral wall of the tray toward the outside of the tray, the sloped face having an upper end that higher than an upper end part of the removably inserted card inserted in the card insertion portion.

2. The tray unit according to claim 1 ,

wherein the card holder further comprises an engagement portion configured to detachably engage with the flange of the tray.

3. The tray unit according to claim 2 ,

wherein the flange of the tray has a first convex portion, and

the card holder has a second convex at a position corresponding to the first convex portion at the engagement portion, and engages with the first convex portion.

4. A card holder that is to be mounted in a removable state to a container-like tray, the card holder comprising:

a card insertion portion configured to accept a removably inserted card;

an engagement portion, on an upper part of the card insertion portion, and configured to engage with the tray; and

a guide portion at an upper part of the engagement portion, the guide portion having a sloped face that increases in height from an outer peripheral wall of the tray toward an outside of the tray, the sloped face reaching a position higher than an upper end part of the removably inserted card inserted in the card insertion portion.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 29, 2018
From: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
To: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 046459/0861 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 7, 2015
From: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 034656/0807 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 033406/0255 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 24, 2014
From: KUROMITSU, KEIICHI; ISHIKAWA, MITSUAKI; TAKAUO, CHIKARA; KUSANAGI, TOORU
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032503/0530 →