JP2001106266A - Article storage device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an article storage device capable of protecting articles as much as possible from vertical, horizontal, and rotary shocks acting on stored articles. SOLUTION: An article is contained through a positioning and supporting means 3 at a position respectively separated from the inner peripheral wall faces of mutually opposed position of a case body 2 by equal distances.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an article storage device that effectively protects an article from vibration or impact generated during transportation or transportation of the article, and particularly to a small electronic device such as a hard disk as an article to be protected. The present invention relates to an article storage device to be stored.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to protect the article from vibrations or shocks applied in the vertical and horizontal directions applied during the transportation and conveyance of the article, the periphery of the article is surrounded by a shock absorbing material such as styrene foam, and the box is surrounded by a box. Various types of article storage devices arranged in the body have been proposed.

On the other hand, in recent years, ultra-precision equipment has also been increasing as an object to be conveyed. It is necessary not only to protect the article from the above, but also to protect the article from a force such as an impact acting in the rotation direction of the article.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional article storage device, the articles stored therein are subjected to impacts or the like acting in the vertical and horizontal directions as much as possible. Attempts are being made to protect, however, no measures have been taken to effectively protect the article to be protected against forces such as impact forces applied in the rotating direction of the article to be protected, and a solution is desired. Was.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above circumstances, the present invention provides an article storage device that protects an article as much as possible against not only vertical and horizontal directions of the stored article but also a force such as an impact applied in a rotating direction. The purpose is to provide.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, in an article accommodating device for accommodating an article in a box, the article is placed on an inner periphery of a box at an opposing position. They are accommodated via article positioning support means for positioning and supporting at positions equidistant from the wall surface by the same distance.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the article storage apparatus according to the present invention will be described below in detail.

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of an article storage device 1 according to the present invention.

The article storage device 1 includes a rectangular box 2 for storing an article made of precision equipment such as a hard disk;
And an article positioning support means 3 for positioning and supporting the article at a predetermined position in the box 2.

The article positioning support means 3 is provided with a tray means 4 for positioning and storing articles at predetermined intervals in the center.
And a cushioning means 5 for positioning and supporting the entire tray means 4 in the central portion of the inside of the box 2 and for absorbing vibrations and shocks acting from the vertical and horizontal directions of the article.

The tray means 4 includes a transparent bottom tray 10 and a transparent top tray 11 obtained by heating and molding A-PET (amorphous polyethylene terephthalate), as shown in FIG. It is composed of

On the upper surface of the bottom tray 10, four corners 12a, 12b, 12c, and 12d of an article 12 formed of a precision device such as a hard disk formed in a rectangular shape in a plane are positioned and supported at four corners at the center. And at a position facing the four corners 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d of the article 12,
Cylindrical positioning members 13, 1 with a part of the peripheral surface cut away
4, 15, 16 are protruded from each other, and a rectangular recess 18 for positioning and housing a rectangular spacer 17 is provided in a portion surrounded by the positioning members 13, 14, 15, 16 in a rectangular shape. Is formed.

In addition, the cylindrical positioning member 1 described above.
On the surface of the bottom tray 10 excluding 3, 14, 15, 16 and the concave portion 18, convex portions 20 of the same shape are used to increase the rigidity of the bottom tray 10 by changing its section modulus.
21, 22 and 23 are formed, and the bottom tray 1
An annular convex portion 24 is formed on the periphery of the zero to surround the periphery.

The spacer 17 is adjusted so that the article 12 is accommodated between the bottom tray 10 and the top tray 11 without any gap.

On the other hand, on the lower surface of the corresponding top tray 11, a concave portion 30 is formed in the center of the lower surface of the bottom tray 10 for positioning and fitting the entire circumference of the positioning members 13, 14, 15, 16 formed on the upper surface of the bottom tray 10. In addition, a rectangular concave portion 31 is formed on the upper surface of the concave portion 30 for positioning and inserting the upper surface of the article 12.

On the lower surface of the top tray 11, convex portions 20, 21 formed on the upper surface of the bottom tray 10 are provided.
The positions facing the projections 22, 21,
Recesses 32, 33, 34 for positioning and inserting 22, 23,
35 are formed.

Further, on the lower surface of the top tray 11, convex portions 20, 21, 22, and
23 and an annular projection for positioning the top tray 11 on the bottom tray 10 by being inserted into an annular recess 25 formed between the annular projections 24 surrounding the projections 20, 21, 22, 23. The part 36 is also formed.

Each of the projections formed on the top tray 11 is also formed to improve its rigidity by changing the section modulus of the top tray 11. Each of the bottom tray 10 and the top tray 11 in which the portion is formed has a configuration in which the bottom tray 10 and the top tray 11 do not themselves vibrate in various directions when an impact or the like is applied thereto.

According to such a tray means 4, first, the spacer 17 shown in FIG. 2 is positioned and accommodated in the concave portion 18 of the bottom tray 10, and the article 12 is placed thereon.

That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the four corners 12a, 12b, 12c, and 12d of the article 12 are inserted into the corresponding cylindrical positioning members 13, 14, 15, and 16, thereby forming the four corners 12a of the article 12. , 12b, 12c, 1
2d is positioned and supported on the bottom tray 10.

Next, each of the concave portions 30, 32, 33, 34, 35 formed on the top tray 11 and the annular convex portion 36 are formed.
, The bottom trays 1 formed at positions facing each other
0 positioning members 13, 14, 15, 16;
When the top tray 11 is inserted into the bottom tray 10 without any gap, as shown in FIG. 4, the article 12 is positioned at the center of the tray means 4. Will be supported.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 1, the cushion means 5 comprises a first annular cushion member 50 having a rectangular shape disposed at the bottom of the box 2 and a first cushion member 50 having a rectangular shape. A rectangular annular second cushion member 51 loaded on the upper part, and a rectangular annular third cushion member 5 loaded on the second cushion material 51
And 2.

Each of the first to third cushion members 50, 51, 52 is made of a sponge material made of urethane or the like having a high vibration and shock absorbing capacity.

The first to third cushion members 50, 51 and 52 have the same structure.

On the other hand, the second cushion member 51 has a rectangular hole 51a in the center thereof, which is slightly smaller than the flat rectangular tray means 4.

The first cushion member 50 and the third cushion member
The cushion member 52 is also formed with substantially rectangular holes 50a and 52a similar to the rectangular holes 51a at the center thereof. Of the holes 50a and 52a, the flat rectangular tray means is provided. The four corners 4a, 4b, 4c, and 4d of the tray means 4 are located at positions facing the four corners 4a, 4b, 4c, and 4d.
c, the corner portions 50b, 50c, 50d engaged with the 4d,
50e, 52b, 52c, 52d, and 52e are formed respectively.

According to such a cushioning means 5, the first cushion member 50 is disposed on the bottom 2a in the box 2 as shown by the arrow in FIG. After the second cushion members 51 are arranged and stacked, as shown in FIG. 5, the tray means 4 is inserted into a hole 51a formed in the second cushion member 51 and positioned and arranged.

Thereafter, the third cushion member 52
Are arranged and stacked on the second cushion member 51, whereby the tray means 4 is accommodated and arranged so as to be exposed from the inside of the hole 52a formed at the center thereof as shown in FIG.

As described above, when the tray means 4 is accommodated and arranged so as to be exposed from the inside of the hole 52a formed at the center thereof, when the box 2 is expanded, the articles 12 accommodated therein can be easily arranged. Can be recognized.

After the tray means 4 and the cushion means 5 are housed and arranged in the box 2, the lids 2b, 2c and 2d of the box 2 are closed, and the articles are put in the box as shown in FIG. Housed in body 2.

In FIG. 7, reference numeral 60 denotes a cover 2 of the box 2.
A tape for fixing b, and 61 is a box label attached to the side of the box.

Next, the operation of the article storage device 1 comprising the above-mentioned box 2, tray means 4 and cushion means 5 will be described.

FIG. 8 is a conceptual sectional view showing an arrangement state of the articles 12 accommodated in the box body 2. For convenience of explanation, the tray means 4 is shown.
The illustration of the top tray 11 is omitted.

As can be seen from FIG. 8, the articles 12 accommodated in the box 2 are separated from the inner wall surfaces of the box 2 at opposing positions, for example, the opposing inner wall surfaces 2g. It is positioned and supported at a position at a length separated by an equal distance L from the wall surface 2f. Similarly, the article 12 is positioned and supported at a position separated by an equal distance S from the opposing inner peripheral wall surface 2h and inner peripheral wall surface 2i.

Although not shown, the article 12 is positioned and supported by the above-described cushion means 5 at a position equidistant from the upper and lower surfaces of the box 2.

In the embodiment, the above-mentioned distances L and S are set to be longer than the lengths W and X of the article 12 in the same direction. That is, L> W and S> X are set.

According to such an article storage device 1, FIG.
The second cushion member 51 of the cushioning means 5 prevents vibration, impact, and the like acting on the box 2 from up, down, left, and right directions.
Effectively act to absorb the vibrations and shocks as much as possible, so that the vibrations and shocks are less likely to be transmitted to the tray means 4, so that damage to the article 12 is prevented as much as possible. Become.

On the other hand, vibrations and shocks acting from the up and down direction of the box 2 (the up and down direction in the drawing) are shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG.
a, 4b, 4c, and 4d are the corner portions 50 of the first cushion member 50 and the third cushion member 52, respectively.
b, 50c, 50d, 50e, 52b, 52c, 52
d, 52e (FIG. 1), the vibrations and shocks acting from the vertical direction of the box 2 (the vertical direction in the drawing of FIG. 9) are not applied to the first cushion member 50 and the third cushion. Each of the corner portions 50b, 50c, 50d of the member 52,
Damage to the articles 12 accommodated in the tray means 4 shown in FIG. 8 since the vibrations and shocks are less likely to be transmitted to the tray means 4 because they are absorbed as much as possible by 50e, 52b, 52c, 52d and 52e. Is prevented as much as possible.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG.
When a force for rotating the article 12 in the counterclockwise direction is applied, and the box body 2 rotates by P degrees at a rotation angle from a point O indicated by a dashed line to a point O ′ indicated by a dashed line in a unit time. In this case, the moving distance Q of the peripheral wall of the article 12 is extremely small with respect to the moving distance R of the inner peripheral wall 2h of the box body 2 located far from the center of the article 12 due to the relationship of the moment ( Moving distance Q << moving distance R) For this reason, the acceleration acting on the peripheral wall of the article 12 in the rotation direction is extremely smaller than the acceleration acting on the peripheral wall of the box 2.

Therefore, according to the article storage device 1 having the above-described structure, as shown in FIG. 8, the length of the box 2 is equal to the inner peripheral wall of the opposing position of the box 2 via the article positioning support means 3. The force applied in the rotational direction of the box 2 is hardly transmitted to the article 12 which is positioned and supported at the position indicated by the arrow, so that a force such as an impact force applied in the rotational direction of the article 12 to be protected can be applied. As much as possible, the article 12 accommodated therein can be effectively protected against a force applied in the rotation direction of the box 2.

Although the box 2 has a rectangular shape in the above embodiment, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. It is only necessary to support the positioning at a position at a distance equidistant from the inner peripheral wall surface of the box 2. Therefore, for example, the shape of the box 2 may be spherical, and it is needless to say that the shape of the box 2 is not limited to the shape. .

Similarly, the bottom and top trays 10 and 11 of the tray means 4 are formed in a plane rectangular shape so as to correspond to the rectangular box body 2. However, this is not limited to the above embodiment, but may be any other shape. May be set to a shape corresponding to the box of the above.

[0043]

As described above, in the article storage device of the present invention, the articles stored in the box are moved from the respective inner peripheral wall surfaces at opposing positions of the box via the article positioning support means. Even when a rotational force is applied to the box, the positioning support is made at a position separated by a distance.
Rotational force acting on the article located in the center is reduced as much as possible, and as a result, articles contained inside are protected as much as possible against impacts such as impacts applied in the direction of rotation of the box. In addition, it is possible to provide an article storage device in which damage to articles is reduced as much as possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of an article storage device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the tray means.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the tray means.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of tray means.

FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the article storage device according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view of the article storage device according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a box.

FIG. 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a main part of the article storage device according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line HH in FIG. 8;

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Article storage device 2 ... Box body 3 ... Article positioning support means 4 ... Tray means 5 ... Cushion means 10 ... Bottom tray 11 ... Top tray 12 ... Article 50 ... First cushion member 51 ... Second The cushion member 52 of the third cushion member

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Yoichi Nishizawa 3-23-19 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo Inside IBM Japan Logistics Co., Ltd. (72) Hideo Igami 3-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo No. 23-19 Japan IBM Logistics Co., Ltd. F term (Reference) 3E060 AA03 CC12 CC18 CC19 CG03 DA08 EA09 EA20 3E066 AA02 BA02 CA01 CB02 FA13 HA01 JA03 MA09 NA42 3E067 AA13 AB38 BA05C BA10B BB14B BB15 EC11 3E096 AA01 BA30 CA02 CA06 DA03 DA30 EA02Y FA09 GA11

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. An article storage device in which an article is accommodated in a box body, wherein the article is positioned and supported at positions equidistant from the inner peripheral wall surfaces of the box body at opposing positions. An article accommodating device, wherein the article is accommodated via article positioning support means. 2. The article according to claim 1, wherein the lengths of the box body that are respectively equidistant from the inner peripheral wall at opposing positions are longer than the length of the article in the same direction. Housing equipment. 3. The article positioning support means includes: tray means for positioning and housing the article at a predetermined interval at a central portion; and positioning and supporting the entire tray means at a central portion in the box body; 2. The article storage device according to claim 1, further comprising cushion means for absorbing vibration and shock acting from above, below, left and right directions. 4. The article storage apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said tray means is a bottom tray and a top tray which position and hold the article at the center. 5. The article storage device according to claim 4, wherein the bottom tray and the top tray are formed with a concave portion or a convex portion for increasing a section modulus and increasing rigidity. 6. The article storage device according to claim 4, wherein the bottom tray and the top tray are formed of a transparent polyethylene resin. 7. The first cushion member is provided in the box body, and has an annular first cushion member formed with corner portions engaging with four corners of the tray device. An annular second cushion member which is stacked on the upper part and has a hole for positioning and inserting the tray means therein, and which is stacked on the second cushion material and engages with four corners of the tray means The article storage device according to claim 3, further comprising an annular third cushion member having a corner formed therein. 8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first cushion member, the second cushion member, and the third cushion member are each formed of a sponge material.
(7) The article storage device according to (7).