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Granted Patent B2
US 9,902,546 · App. 14/902,116 · Granted Feb 27, 2018

Container

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
B65D77/2036A47J31/41B65D1/26B29C65/02B29C66/112B29C66/131B29C66/53461B29C66/71B29C66/723B29C66/81427B29C66/8322B65D1/42B65D85/8043B65D2577/2066
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Patent No.
US 9,902,546
App. No.
14/902,116
Granted
Feb 27, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a container with which a width and a position of a lid member to be unsealed can be readily made constant, thus making it less likely for contents to be discharged too vigorously and making it easy to predict the discharging direction of the contents. A container body and a lid member of the container body are sealed to each other via an annular seal portion formed along a flanged face of the opening. At a specified position of the annular seal portion, there is provided a detaching seal portion which is to be detached in response to increase of an inside pressure of the container body associated with deformation of the container body based on an external force. At positions facing each other across the detaching seal portion, there are provided non-detaching seal portions comprised of a plurality of annular seal portions extending along a circumferential direction.

Claims (18)

1. A container comprising:

a container body holding contents, and

a lid member for closing an opening of the container body, the container body and the lid member being sealed to each other via an annular seal portion formed along a flanged face of the opening, wherein

at a specified position of the annular seal portion, a detaching seal portion is provided to be detached in response to an increase of an inside pressure of the container body associated with deformation of the container body based on an external force, and

at positions facing each other across the detaching seal portion, a plurality of non-detaching seal portions are provided on the annular seal portion and include a plurality of secondary ring-like seal portions extending along a circumferential direction of the container body.

2. The container according to claim 1 , wherein

the detaching seal portion includes a reverse-oriented annular seal portion which projects toward a radial inner side of the opening.

3. The container according to claim 2 , wherein

an auxiliary detaching seal portion interconnects radial outer opposed ends of the reverse-oriented seal portion.

4. The container according to claim 1 , wherein

the detaching seal portion and the non-detaching seal portion are connected to each other via a pair of left and right connecting annular seal portions,

an outflow channel extends outwards from the detaching seal portion in a direction radially outward from the opening, and

a pair of auxiliary non-detaching seal portions extend to face each other from opposite sides of the outflow channel such that each auxiliary non-detaching seal portion is provided between a corresponding connecting annular seal portion and the outflow channel.

5. The container according to claim 4 , wherein

an outflow groove sunk toward the bottom of the container body is formed at a position of the flanged face of the container body corresponding to the outflow channel.

6. The container according to claim 1 , wherein

the annular seal portion is provided in the form of a groove sunk in a thickness direction of the flanged face by pressing the lid member against the flanged face via a seal bar having at its leading end an annular projection having a shape corresponding to the annular seal portion, and

the detaching seal portion includes an uneven sealing force groove having a smaller curvature radius on its radial inner side than its radial outer 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 Feb 26, 2016
From: BUSHIDA, MITSURU; TANAKA, DAISUKE; KADO, TAKASHI; YOKOYAMA, HIROKI; KITAMASU, MASAYUKI
To: SUNTORY BEVERAGE & FOOD LIMITED; SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 037840/0143 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-138350 · Jul 1, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160145026A1 · May 26, 2016