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Granted Patent B2
US 12,515,848 · App. 18/535,600 · Granted Jan 6, 2026

Sheet material container

Inventors: Yoshinori Inagawa (Chiba, JP); Mitsugu Iwatsubo (Tama, JP); Takahiro Otsuka (Wakayama, JP); Masahito Chiwaki (Yachiyo, JP); Daisuke Kodama (Koto-ku, JP)
Assignee: Kao Corporation
B65D31/145B65D31/02B65D33/02B65D37/00B65D75/008B65D75/5822
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Patent No.
US 12,515,848
App. No.
18/535,600
Granted
Jan 6, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a sheet material container being made of a sheet material and including a body portion and a bottom portion that is to be disposed on a placement surface, and the sheet material including a plurality of film layers. A body portion sheet that constitutes the body portion includes a bonding portion where peripheral edge portions of the sheet materials are bonded. In a bottom surface sheet that constitutes the bottom portion, a non-adhesive region is provided in the plurality of film layers. The non-adhesive region forms a bottom filler-filled portion. The bottom filler-filled portion extends annularly around a non-filled portion, and includes at least three protruding leg portions that are to be placed on the placement surface so as to allow the container to stand by itself. The protruding leg portions protrude toward the placement surface past other portions in the bottom filler-filled portion due a leg forming portion.

Claims (42)

1 . A sheet material container being made of a sheet material, the container comprising:

a body portion; and

a bottom portion that is to be disposed on a placement surface, wherein

the sheet material includes a plurality of film layers,

a body portion sheet that constitutes the body portion includes a bonding portion where peripheral edge portions of the sheet material are bonded,

in a bottom surface sheet constituting the bottom portion, a non-adhesive region is provided in the plurality of film layers,

the non-adhesive region forms a bottom filler-filled portion when the non-adhesive region is filled with a filler, the bottom filler-filled portion includes an intersection portion that intersects a folding crease line provided on the bottom surface sheet,

the folding crease line extends between the peripheral edge portions of the sheet material,

the intersection portion extends in a front-rear direction and is disposed between a front side and a rear side of the container, and

in an entire area between the front side and the rear side of the container, a lower end of the intersection portion is at a same height as or below another bonding portion formed by the body portion sheet and the bottom surface sheet.

2 . The sheet material container according to claim 1 , wherein the bottom surface sheet constituting the bottom portion forms a placement portion that is to be placed on the placement surface to allow the container to stand by itself.

3 . The sheet material container according to claim 1 , wherein the bottom filler-filled portion includes a portion that is continuous from a front side to a back side of the body portion.

4 . The sheet material container according to claim 1 , wherein the bottom surface sheet includes a non-filled portion that is not filled with a filler and is surrounded by the non-adhesive region that forms the bottom filler-filled portion.

5 . The sheet material container according to claim 2 , wherein the bottom filler-filled portion is formed so as to extend continuously along a peripheral edge of the placement portion in the bottom surface sheet.

6 . The sheet material container according to claim 1 , wherein

the body portion sheet includes a pair of opposing front sheets,

in the front sheets, a front filler-filled portion is formed as a result of another non-adhesive region that is provided between the plurality of film layers being filled with the filler, and

the other non-adhesive region constituting the front filler-filled portion is in communication with the non-adhesive region that forms the bottom filler-filled portion in the bottom surface sheet.

7 . The sheet material according to claim 2 , wherein the placement portion is formed as a result of the bottom filler-filled portion being formed and the bottom surface sheet being unfolded.

8 . The sheet material container according to claim 7 , wherein the intersection portion is substantially perpendicularly to the folding crease line.

9 . The sheet material container according to claim 8 , wherein the bottom filler-filled portion is formed to have a rectangular frame shape that includes a pair of the intersecting filled portions and a pair of communication rib portions.

10 . The sheet material container according to claim 7 , wherein the bottom filler-filled portion is formed to include a rectangular planar filled portion that is provided continuously so as to extend across a pair of opposing bonding portions formed by bonding bottom portions of a pair of front and back front portion sheets to a peripheral edge portion of a bottom surface gusset portion sheet and that has a non-filled portion at a center.

11 . The sheet material container according to claim 1 , wherein

the bottom filler-filled portion extends annularly around a non-filled portion in the bottom surface sheet and forms at least three protruding leg portions that are to be placed on the placement surface to allow the container to stand by itself, and

the protruding leg portions protrude toward the placement surface past other portions in the bottom filler-filled portion due to a leg forming portion provided in the bottom portion.

12 . A production method for producing the sheet material container according to claim 1 , the method comprising the steps of:

forming a web of the sheet material in which the non-adhesive region is provided in the bottom surface sheet;

bonding together a peripheral edge portion of a portion of the sheet material corresponding to an individual sheet material container in the web;

cutting the bonded web to predetermined dimensions; and

filling the non-adhesive region with the filler to form the bottom filler-filled portion.

13 . A container product that uses the sheet material container according to claim 1 , wherein a content material is contained in a containing portion that is surrounded by the body portion and the bottom portion.

14 . A container-forming sheet material that is used to form the sheet material container according to claim 1 and is formed by using the sheet material in which the plurality of film layers are stacked, the container-forming sheet material including:

the body portion sheet;

the bonding portion; and

the bottom surface sheet, wherein

the bottom surface sheet includes the folding crease line, and is folded flat via the folding crease line, and

in the bottom surface sheet, the non-adhesive region that is to be filled with the filler is provided in the plurality of film layers.

15 . A production method for producing the container product according to claim 13 , the method including the step of containing the content material in the containing portion that is surrounded by the body portion and the bottom portion of the sheet material container.

16 . A production method for producing the container-forming sheet material according to claim 14 , the method including the steps of:

forming a web of the sheet material in which the non-adhesive region is provided in the bottom surface sheet;

bonding together a peripheral edge portion of a portion corresponding to an individual container-forming sheet material in the web; and

cutting the bonded web to predetermined dimensions.

Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/JP2015/075582 · Sep 9, 2015 · international
Continuity (4)
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Continuation 15758654
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