Resealable display package

Abstract

An apparatus 100 and a method (M) for packaging, displaying, and storing an electronic product having a front portion 10 including a complementary contour 11, a back portion 30 including a complementary contour 31, and an inner portion 20 including a complementary contour 21, the inner portion 20 being disposed between the front portion 10 and the back portion 30. The front portion 10, the back portion 30, and the inner portion 20 being fitted together via their respective complementary contours 11, 31, 21. The front portion 20 includes at least one coincident member 13 distributed along the lip of the periphery 14; and a coincident orifice 15 for facilitating display of the product by hanging. The back portion 30 includes at least one coincident orifice 33 distributed along a periphery 34; and a coincident orifice 35 for facilitating display of the product by hanging. The apparatus 100 is securely coupled together by a coupling feature which comprises at least one coincident member 13 capable of being disposed through the corresponding at least one coincident orifice 33, for sandwiching the inner portion 20, accommodating the product, between the front portion 10 and the back portion 30. The coupling feature can be decoupled by retracting the at least one coincident member 13 through the at least one coincident orifice 33, and recoupled by disposing the at least one coincident member 13 through the at least one coincident orifice 33.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to packaging apparatuses and methods. More particularly, the present invention relates to packaging apparatuses and methods for electronic products. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to packaging apparatuses and methods for both consumer and professional electronic products.BACKGROUND ART[0002]The currently existing art involves several apparatuses and methods for packaging electronic products. Currently, electronic products are typically sold in a hard plastic packaging, wherein a front portion and a rear portion has been heat-seamed together. With respect to these current art hard plastic packages, the consumer must cut through the hard plastic using heavy shears in order to access the electronic product, risking personal injury from the newly cut packaging edges. Because the current art plastic packaging is typically heavy gauge, substantial internal stresses will develop in the package during the consumer's a...

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Benefits of technology

[0005]Some advantages of the present invention include, but are not limited to, the reusability of the package since it can be resealed, thereby the packaging can be used not only in display of the product but for storage of the product once the consumer has purchased the product and opened the package. The stable retention of the product in the package, during display as well as after, opening, and during storage; high visibility of the product on display and in storage; and efficient coiling of the product on display and in storage. Other advantages include the easy opening of the packaging apparatus, thereby eliminating the related art need for scissors to cut through the typically thick polymer packaging in order to access the product, and reducing the chance of injury to the consumer by eliminating the sharp edges arising from cutting related art packages. Other features of the present invention are disclosed, or are apparent in the section entitled “Detailed Description of the Invention.”

Problems solved by technology

With respect to these current art hard plastic packages, the consumer must cut through the hard plastic using heavy shears in order to access the electronic product, risking personal injury from the newly cut packaging edges.

Because the current art plastic packaging is typically heavy gauge, substantial internal stresses will develop in the package during the consumer's attempt to remove the product.

During such attempted removal, the sharp edge of a cut packaging may, and often do, spring-back on the consumer, thereby causing personal injury.

In addition, the current art hard plastic packaging, once cut, cannot readily restore the product.

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