Adhesive Tape Package Production via Batch Bonding and Folding

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for producing pressure-sensitive adhesive tape packages are inefficient in mass production due to the need for complex facilities to handle separate release sheets and adhesive tapes, leading to increased costs and reduced efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A method involving feeding adhesive tapes to a release sheet base material, bonding them with predetermined spaces, folding, sealing, and temporarily attaching parts to form a two-folded package, which is then cut to create multiple packages in a single operation, improving production efficiency by eliminating the need for separate handling of release sheets and adhesive tapes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If adhesive tapes and release sheets are handled separately in conventional production methods, then individual packaging can be achieved, but production efficiency decreases and facility complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction efficiencyVSAvoidfacility complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention merges the release sheet and adhesive tape into a single integrated structure where multiple adhesive tapes are bonded to a single release sheet base material. This integration eliminates the need for separate handling of release sheets and adhesive tapes, allowing batch processing and significantly improving production efficiency while reducing facility complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The release sheet base material is divided into multiple sections with predetermined spaces between them, allowing individual adhesive tapes to be bonded to specific sections. This segmentation enables batch processing of multiple tapes simultaneously while maintaining the ability to separate and package them individually

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If multiple adhesive tapes are bonded to a single release sheet in batch, then production efficiency improves, but spacing and positioning precision must be maintained

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebatch processing efficiencyVSAvoidspacing precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The invention incorporates a predetermined space between adjacent adhesive tapes during the bonding process. This preliminary spacing arrangement ensures that when the release sheet is folded and sealed, the adhesive tapes are properly positioned without overlapping or excessive gaps, maintaining manufacturing precision while enabling batch processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This method significantly enhances production efficiency by allowing batch processing of adhesive tapes on a single release sheet, reducing facility complexity and costs, and facilitating easier handling and application of the adhesive tape packages.

Implementation Method 1

a release sheet to which the adhesive agent layer of the adhesive tape is releasably attached

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdhesive bonding: Adhesive

Data Source

PatentEP2772520B1Adhesive tape package production method
Publication Date: 2017.02.15 HISAMITSU PHARM CO INC
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AI summary

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape package suitable for mass production. The production method according to the present invention aims at producing a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape package which is a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape package 10 accommodating a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape 14 having a support 18 and an adhesive agent layer 12 provided on one surface of the support 18, the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape package comprising a release sheet 16 to which the adhesive agent layer of the adhesive tape is releasably attached. In this method, the adhesive tape 14 is bonded to the release sheet base material 116, and folded in two. Subsequently, a plurality of adhesive tapes 14 is heat sealed and temporarily attached to one release sheet base material 116, and the release sheet base material 116 is cut.