JP2003237884A - Box for transporting instruments - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently perform air conditioning such as drying of each of a plurality of electronic instruments and electronic components in a box for transportation and to avoid that a load is directly applied on the electronic instruments and the electronic components even when the box for transportation receives the load, an impact and the like. <P>SOLUTION: In the box H1 for transporting the instruments in which the electronic instruments L are stored in a plurality of small rooms k, conditioning agent storing members 9A and 9B for storing a conditioning agent 3 are arranged at least one of the top or the bottom of partition plates 5 (5A and 5B) for dividing a plurality of the small rooms k and a plurality of vent holes a and b connected with an opening in the up and down direction of each of the small rooms k are provided in the conditioning agent storing members 9A and 9B. As the conditioning agent 3, not only a moistureproof material, namely, a drying agent, but also a cooling agent, a deoxidizing agent, a rust- proof agent, a bacteria-proof agent, deodorizing agent, a perfume, an antistatic agent and the like are applicable and these agents may be combined and placed in the conditioning agent storing members 9A and 9B. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a shipping box for devices used for shipping electronic devices such as liquid crystal display panels and electronic parts.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A liquid crystal display panel (liquid
The component parts will be described by taking a crystal display panel as an example. As shown in FIG. 4, an illumination unit UT is attached to a liquid crystal display panel L in which liquid crystal is sandwiched between a pair of substrates. The illumination unit UT includes a light source 11 and a light guide plate 12 that is disposed in the vicinity of the light source and guides light from the light source.
A reflection sheet 13 arranged along the back surface of the light guide plate 12, a reflector 14 that includes the light source 11 and reflects the light of the light source toward the incident end surface. Components such as the light guide plate 12 and the reflection sheet 13 (included in the electronic components in this specification) are made of a material such as acrylic having optimum optical characteristics represented by the transmittance and the refractive index required for light transmission. Therefore, if left in a high humidity environment for a long time, the light guide plate 1
When 2 is deformed by moisture absorption and comes into contact with the liquid crystal display panel L, the display is affected. Further, the reflection sheet 13 may also be deformed due to moisture absorption. The liquid crystal display panel L
Polarizing plates 7A and 7B that allow only specific polarized components to pass through are arranged on the front and back sides of, but are components that are easily affected by heat and the like (included in the electronic components in this specification). is there. When the electronic device or the electronic component such as the liquid crystal display panel L is transported, the light guide plate 12, the reflection sheet 13 and the like absorb moisture,
It is necessary to prevent the situation of deformation. In the case of a small liquid crystal display panel L (for example, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), etc.), dozens of units are packed and stored and transported in one packaging box. Therefore, it is necessary to protect the liquid crystal display panel L.

For this reason, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the shipping box used for shipping the liquid crystal display panel L is a partition plate 5A which is opened in the vertical direction and is divided into side walls of a plurality of small chambers k. , 5B, an outer box 8 for housing the partition plates 5A, 5B, and a moistureproof agent 3 for drying the air in the outer box 8. FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a conventional liquid crystal display panel shipping box, and FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a conventional liquid crystal display panel shipping box. The moisture preventive agent 3 absorbs moisture (humidity) in the air and dries the air, and in particular, in the exterior box 8 in order to prevent moisture absorption and deformation of parts such as the light guide plate 12 and the reflection sheet 13. Can be put in. The partition plates 5A and 5B are
It is made of corrugated cardboard, has slits for combination, and by combining the slits vertically and horizontally, a plurality of small chambers k are formed, and a plurality of openings are provided in the vertical direction. Reference numeral 7 is an inner bag for housing the assembled partition 5 in which the partition plates 5A and 5B are combined, reference numeral 8 is an outer box, and reference numeral 10 is a top plate for the lid.

When packing in the shipping box H3, small liquid crystal display panels L are individually packed in the individual packing bags 2. Next, the inner bag 6 is placed in the outer box 8, and the assembled partition 5 configured by combining the partition plate A5 and the partition plate 5B is placed in the inner bag 6. The individual wrapping bag 2 and the inner bag 6 are made of, for example, antistatic nylon. The moistureproof agent 3 is put in a small room other than the small room k in which the liquid crystal display panel L is put. Usually, the liquid crystal display panel L is put in the small room k in the center, and the moistureproof agent 3 is put in several places in the small room k on the outside in many cases. Then, the top plate 10 is placed on the partition 5 and the lid is covered. When the inner bag 6 is sealed and sealed from above, the air inside can be dried. By covering the outer box 8, the transport box H3 for packing the liquid crystal display panel L is completed.

[0005]

However, in the conventional shipping box H3, the moistureproof agent 3 is added in order to put the moistureproof agent 3 toward the outer peripheral end of the assembly partition 5 (inside the four side walls of the outer box 8). Although the liquid crystal display panel L located near the liquid crystal panel dries, the liquid crystal display panel L located far from the moisture-proofing agent 3 does not reach the dryness, and there is a problem that the drying effect is biased. Also,
Since there is no structure for receiving a load applied from the outside of the outer box 8 in the space between the lid of the outer box 8 and the top plate 10, when the lid of the outer box 10 cannot receive the load from the outside, If the liquid crystal display panel L is dropped, an excessive load is directly applied to the liquid crystal display panel L and the liquid crystal display panel L is damaged.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to efficiently perform air adjustment such as drying with respect to each of a plurality of electronic devices and electronic parts placed in a shipping box, and to prevent the shipping box from being subjected to a load or a shock from the outside. An object of the present invention is to provide a shipping box for devices that protect electronic devices and electronic components without directly applying a load to the electronic devices and electronic components even if they are received.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a transport box for equipment according to claim 1 of the present invention comprises a partition plate which is opened in the vertical direction and partitions a plurality of small chambers into side walls. An outer box that stores this partition plate, and a regulator that adjusts the air in the outer box, and in a transport box for devices in which electronic devices are housed in a plurality of small rooms, a regulator that contains the above regulator. The storage member is arranged on at least one of the upper and lower sides of a partition plate that partitions the plurality of small chambers, and the adjusting agent storage member is provided with a plurality of ventilation holes communicating with the vertical openings of the small chambers. Here, as the adjusting agent,
Moisture proofing agents, that is, drying agents, cooling agents, oxygen absorbers, rust inhibitors, antibacterial agents, deodorants, fragrances, antistatic agents, etc.
You may put these together in the adjusting agent storage member.

According to the present invention, since the adjusting agent accommodating member having the plurality of ventilation holes is arranged on at least one of the upper and lower sides of the partition plate for partitioning the plurality of small chambers, each of the plurality of electronic devices can be efficiently used. The load can be adjusted by a regulator such as a moistureproof agent, and even when a load is applied from the outside of the outer box, the load is prevented from being directly applied to the electronic device by the regulator storage member containing the regulator such as a moistureproof agent.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the box for transporting equipment, the adjusting agent storage member is arranged both above and below a partition plate containing electronic equipment, on the premise of the first aspect of the invention. It is characterized by being

According to the present invention, the adjusting agent accommodating members are arranged on both the upper and lower sides of the partition plate containing the electronic equipment. Even if you receive a shock from below,
Even when the transportation box is turned upside down and a load is applied from above the exterior of the exterior box during transportation, the load and the impact are prevented from being directly applied to the electronic device by the upper and lower adjusting agent storage members.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a transportation box for equipment, which is based on the first or second aspect of the invention, wherein the electronic equipment is a liquid crystal display panel having a polarizing plate on the outside. This liquid crystal display panel is characterized by being housed in a plurality of small rooms with the polarizing plate facing the side wall of the partition plate.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a transport box for equipment, which is based on the first or second aspect of the invention, wherein the electronic component is a lighting unit for irradiating a liquid crystal display panel with light. The lighting unit has a light source and a light guide plate,
The lighting unit is housed in a plurality of small rooms with the light guide plate facing the side wall of the partition plate.

According to the third or fourth aspect of the present invention, the polarizing plates of the plurality of liquid crystal display panels and the light guide plates of the plurality of illumination units are efficiently adjusted by an adjusting agent such as a moistureproof agent, and It can be stored efficiently by the storage method and effectively prevent the situation of damage.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(First Embodiment) In the present embodiment, the present invention is applied to a shipping box of a liquid crystal display panel which is an electronic device, and as shown in FIG. The entire liquid crystal display panel for displaying is composed of a liquid crystal display panel L and an illumination unit UT for irradiating the entire back surface of the liquid crystal display panel L with the light emitted from the light source (fluorescent discharge tube) 11. It becomes a liquid crystal display device in the state,
For example, it is used for a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and the like. ). A semiconductor element IC for displaying the liquid crystal panel L is mounted around the one side substrate 1 of the liquid crystal panel L. In the liquid crystal display panel L, the liquid crystal 15 is sandwiched between a pair of substrates L1 and L2, and the pair of substrates L1 and L2 are made of glass or the like. In addition, on the front surface and the back surface side of the liquid crystal display panel L, polarizing plates 7A and 7B which transmit only a specific polarization component are arranged.

The illumination unit UT is an edge-light type illumination unit, and includes a light source (fluorescent discharge tube) 11, a light guide plate 12 arranged in the vicinity of the light source 11 for guiding light from the light source 11, and a light guide plate. The reflection sheet 13 is arranged along the back surface of the light source 12, and the reflector 14 that includes the light source 11 and reflects the light from the light source 11 toward the incident end surface. The light guide plate 12 is formed of a material such as acrylic, which has optimum optical characteristics represented by the transmittance and the refractive index required for light transmission. The reflection sheet 13 is made of a white resin film having a high reflectance, and a portion bent to have a U-shaped cross section so as to surround the light source 11 is called a reflector 14. The reflection sheet 13 has a role of returning the light emitted from the back surface of the light guide plate 12 back into the light guide plate 1 and increasing the illumination light emitted from the light emitting surface. Components such as the light guide plate 12 and the reflection sheet 13 are included in the electronic components in this specification.

Next, the boxes for transporting the equipment are shown in FIGS.
As shown in, the partition plate 5 (5
A, 5B) and an outer box 8 for housing the partition plate 5,
The adjusting agent storage member 9A having a plurality of ventilation holes a is provided. The partition plates 5A, 5B are made of corrugated cardboard, and have slits for combination. By putting the partition plates 5A, 5B in slits and combining them vertically and horizontally, a plurality of small chambers k are formed, and the vertical direction is formed. Has a plurality of openings. That is, the plurality of small rooms k are formed only by the four side walls and are formed as vertically long spaces. The partition plates 5A and 5B may be veneer plates or synthetic resin.

The adjusting agent accommodating member 9A contains an adjusting agent 3 such as a moistureproof agent. In the present embodiment, the partition plate 5 (5A,
5B), two of them are arranged in a connected state. As the adjusting agent, a moisture-proofing agent, that is, a desiccant, a cooling agent, an oxygen absorber, a rust preventive agent, an antibacterial agent, a deodorant agent, an aromatic agent, an antistatic agent, and the like are applicable. You may put in a storage member. Each adjusting agent storage member 9A has a cube shape (box shape) made of corrugated cardboard, but may be made of a veneer plate or a synthetic resin like the partition plates 5A and 5B. Also,
The adjusting agent storage member 9A is a member separate from the partition plates 5A and 5B and is arranged above the partition plates 5A and 5B, but it may be integrally provided above the partition plates 5A and 5B. A plurality of ventilation holes a are formed on the bottom surfaces of the box-shaped adjusting agent storage members 9A, 9A. The ventilation hole a is formed so as to communicate from above the small chamber k to absorb moisture in the small chamber k. In the present embodiment, the partition plate 5
Since the adjusting agent storage member 9A is arranged on (5A, 5B), the top plate 10 for the conventional lid is not necessary, and the adjusting agent storage member 9A is used as the top plate 1 instead.

The packaging method for actually packaging the transportation box H1 of the devices constructed as described above in the box is the liquid crystal display panel L.
Each of the liquid crystal display devices including the lighting unit UT and the lighting unit UT is individually packaged in the individual packaging bag 2. The liquid crystal display panel L and the lighting unit UT may be individually packaged. Next, the inner bag 6 is placed in the outer box 8, and the assembled partition 5 configured by combining the partition plate A5 and the partition plate 5B is placed in the inner bag 6. The individual wrapping bag 2 and the inner bag 6 are made of, for example, antistatic nylon. Next, a liquid crystal display device (or a liquid crystal display panel L or a lighting unit UT) which is an electronic device is placed in each small room k of the partition 5. on the other hand,
A predetermined number of adjusting agents 3 such as moistureproof agents are put in the adjusting agent storage members 9A and 9A, and the adjusting agents 3 are arranged on the assembling partition 5 which is a combination of the partition plates 5A and 5B. Interior bag 6 from above
By sealing and sealing, the air inside each of the small chambers k can be adjusted uniformly, such as drying the air. That is, the adjusting agent storage member 9A is placed on the partition 5, and the plurality of ventilation holes 4 are provided on the lower surface of the adjusting agent storage member 9A.
Since a is provided, it is possible to adjust the air such that the air around each of the plurality of liquid crystal display panels L put under it is efficiently dried. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the light guide plate 12 and the like from absorbing moisture and deforming and coming into contact with the liquid crystal display panel. In addition, the plurality of adjusting agent storage members 9A include the transport box H1.
Since it is arranged at the upper part of the above, even if a load is applied from above the outside, the adjustment agent storage member 9A above receives the load,
The liquid crystal display panel L housed inside the small room k is not directly subjected to a load from above.

When the liquid crystal display panel L, the illumination unit UT, and the liquid crystal display device are to be stored in the transport box H1 for equipment, in the liquid crystal display panel L, the polarizing plates 7A and 7B are used.
With the partition plate 5 facing the side wall of the polarizing plate 7A.
If (or 7B) is stored so as to be lined up on one side, it can be stored efficiently and safely. Even when the components such as the polarizing plates 7A and 7B and the components such as the light guide plate 12 and the reflection sheet 13 (included in the electronic components in this specification) are individually housed and transported, as described above, The adjustment can be carried out evenly, and even if a load is applied from above the outside, the adjusting agent storage member 9A above serves as a cushioning material and protects these parts.

(Second Embodiment) As shown in FIG. 3, the transport box H2 for equipment in the present embodiment is such that the adjusting agent is provided not only above the partition 5 for partitioning the small room k but also below it. The storage members 9A and 9B are arranged. In the present embodiment, two adjusting agent storage members 9B below are also arranged in the same manner as the adjusting agent storage member 9A of the first embodiment. A plurality of ventilation holes b are provided on the upper surfaces of the lower adjusting agent storage members 9B, 9B. When the transport box is turned upside down during transportation, the adjusting agent storage member 9 below
B and 9B are at the same positions as the adjusting agent storage member 9A of the first embodiment, and the vent holes b are also at the same positions as the vent holes a of the first embodiment.

According to the present embodiment, the adjusting agent accommodating member 9B having the plurality of ventilation holes b has the partition plate 5 in which the electronic device is put.
Since it is arranged both above and below A and 5B, even when a load is applied from above the exterior of the exterior box 8, the transport box H2 is turned upside down during transportation and receives a load from above the exterior of the exterior box 8. In the case where the buffer is accidentally dropped from a high place, the adjusting agent storage member 9B functions as a cushioning material, and the load or impact is directly exerted on the liquid crystal display panel L or the lighting unit without separately filling the cushioning material. Prevent joining the UT.

Although the liquid crystal display panel L is taken as an example of the electronic device and the lighting unit UT is taken as an example of the electronic component according to each embodiment, the present invention is not limited to these electronic devices and electronic components. It can be widely applied as a shipping box for various electronic devices and electronic components.

[0024]

According to the shipping box for the equipment of the present invention, air can be efficiently adjusted for each of a plurality of electronic devices and electronic parts placed in the shipping box, and the shipping box is external. Since the load is not directly applied to the electronic device even if it receives a load or impact from it, it is possible to protect the electronic device and electronic parts, and safely transport the electronic device and electronic parts while maintaining a high quality state. It will be possible.

[0025]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a transport box for devices according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a transport box for devices according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a shipping box for devices according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view illustrating an example of a liquid crystal display panel and a lighting unit.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a conventional transportation box for equipment.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a conventional shipping box for devices.

[Explanation of symbols]

H1, H2, H3 ... Boxes for transporting equipment 2… Packaging bag 3 ... Conditioning agent 5 ... Assembly partition (partition plate) 5A ... Partition board 5B ... Partition board 6… Interior bag 8… Exterior box 9A ... Adjusting agent storage member on the upper side 9B ... Adjusting agent storage member at the bottom a, b ... Vent hole 10 ... Top plate 12 ... Light guide plate, 13 ... Reflective sheet 7A, 7B ... Polarizing plate k ... small room L: Liquid crystal display panel UT ... lighting unit

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of small compartments are provided, each of which comprises a partition plate which is opened in the vertical direction and partitions a plurality of small chambers into side walls, an outer box for housing the partition plate, and a regulator for adjusting air in the outer box. In a transport box for devices in which electronic devices and electronic parts are stored in a room, the adjusting agent storage member for containing the adjusting agent is arranged on at least one of upper and lower sides of a partition plate for partitioning a plurality of small rooms, and the adjusting agent storage member is provided. A box for transporting equipment, characterized in that a plurality of ventilation holes communicating with the vertical openings of each small room are provided. 2. The transport box for equipment according to claim 1, wherein the adjusting agent storage members are arranged above and below the partition plate. 3. The electronic device is a liquid crystal display panel having a polarizing plate on the outside, and the polarizing plate of each liquid crystal display panel is oriented in one direction with the polarizing plate facing the side wall of the partition plate. The transport box for the equipment according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the transport box is housed in a plurality of small rooms so as to be lined up with each other. 4. The electronic component is a lighting unit for irradiating a liquid crystal display panel with light, and the lighting unit has a light source and a light guide plate, and the lighting unit directs the light guide plate to a side wall of the partition plate. In the state, the respective polarizing plates are housed in a plurality of small rooms so as to be arranged in one direction, and the box for transporting equipment according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that.