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US 9,902,545 · App. 14/902,109 · Granted Feb 27, 2018

Seal head and container sealed with using the seal head

Inventors: Mitsuru Bushida (Tokyo, JP); Daisuke Tanaka (Tokyo, JP); Takashi Kado (Tokyo, JP); Hiroki Yokoyama (Tokyo, JP); Masayuki Kitamasu (Tokyo, JP)
Assignees: SUNTORY BEVERAGE & FOOD LIMITED; SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Patent No.
US 9,902,545
App. No.
14/902,109
Granted
Feb 27, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a portion container whose detaching seal portion can be easily detached by a stress applied from a radial inner side based on an inside pressure of a container body, but can be hardly detached by a stress applied from the outside during distribution. Provided also are a seal head for sealing such container and a container sealed with using such seal head. The seal head includes pressing end portions for pressing a lid member against a flange of an opening. At least a portion of the pressing end portions is formed as an uneven projecting portion having different curvature radii in its cross sectional contour between a radial inner portion and a radial outer portion of the opening.

Claims (10)

1. A seal head including, at its leading end, a pressing end portion for pressing a lid member against an opening in order to fuse/bond the lid member to the opening of a container body holding contents therein;

wherein at least a portion of the pressing end portion is formed as an uneven projecting portion having different curvature radii in its cross sectional contour between a radial inner portion and a radial outer portion of the opening;

wherein the cross sectional contour of the uneven projecting portion has a shape having a smaller curvature radius on the radial inner side than the radial outer side;

wherein the pressing end portion constitutes an annular projection endlessly extending along the entire circumference of the opening; and

the uneven projecting portion is arranged in a reverse-oriented annular projecting portion with a circumferential portion of the annular projection being projected toward the radial inner side.

2. A container including a container body holding contents therein and a lid member fused and bonded to an opening of the container body by a seal head,

wherein at least a portion of a seal groove portion formed in the opening by the fusing/bonding is provided as an uneven groove portion having different curvature radii in its cross sectional contour between a radial inner side and a radial outer side of the opening;

wherein the cross sectional contour of the uneven groove portion has a shape whose curvature radius is smaller on the radial inner side than the radial outer side;

wherein the seal groove portion constitutes an annular seal groove portion endlessly extending along the entire circumference of the opening; and

the uneven groove portion is arranged in a reverse-oriented annular groove portion with a circumferential portion of the annular groove being projected toward the radial inner side.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 28, 2018
From: SUNTORY BEVERAGE & FOOD LIMITED
To: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 047005/0318 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 31, 2016
From: BUSHIDA, MITSURU; TANAKA, DAISUKE; KADO, TAKASHI; YOKOYAMA, HIROKI; KITAMASU, MASAYUKI
To: SUNTORY BEVERAGE & FOOD LIMITED; SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 038161/0849 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-138353 · Jul 1, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160368687A1 · Dec 22, 2016