Blister Packaging with Integrated Case and Refill Compartments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional blister packaging processes require separate steps for packaging cases and content package bodies, leading to increased manufacturing costs and reduced productivity, and lack functionality for efficiently distributing and collecting feedback on prototype or not-for-sale products.
Innovation Solution
A blister package design where a case and content accommodation parts are simultaneously molded with a cutting line on the content part, allowing independent tearing and sealing with a covering film, enabling a single process for packaging and reducing manufacturing costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If separate packaging processes are used for cases and content package bodies, then each component can be individually packaged, but manufacturing cost increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the case packaging and content package body packaging into a single integrated blister package. The molding sheet simultaneously forms both the case accommodation part and the content accommodation part, eliminating the need for separate packaging processes. This merging of functions directly reduces manufacturing cost and increases productivity by processing both components in one operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The blister package structure serves multiple functions: it acts as both the case packaging and the content package body packaging. The single package body with multiple accommodation parts allows the same packaging structure to fulfill different packaging needs simultaneously, improving manufacturing efficiency and reducing the number of separate packaging operations required.
2Productivity
If a single package body houses both case and content, then packaging process is simplified, but structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The single package body is segmented into distinct accommodation parts: a case accommodation part and a content accommodation part. Each part is separately formed in the molding sheet but remains part of the integrated package structure. This segmentation allows independent access and handling of each component while maintaining the benefits of a unified packaging system, balancing structural complexity with manufacturing efficiency.
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 design allows for a single-step packaging process, improving productivity and enabling efficient distribution and feedback collection for prototype or not-for-sale products by allowing the content part to be easily torn off and stored or inserted into a case, reducing manufacturing costs and enhancing feedback diversity.
Implementation Method 1
a thermoplastic plastic film or a sheet, and is a method in which contents are put in a swollen portion of a container body, which is made of a plastic laminated molding sheet molded by pressure forming or vacuum forming
Implementation Method 2
a thermoplastic plastic film or a sheet, and is a method in which contents are put in a swollen portion of a container body, which is made of a plastic laminated molding sheet molded by pressure forming or vacuum forming
Implementation Method 3
only a flat flange part of the container body is adhered with a covering film made of a paper or a plastic laminated film, by heat-sealing, a high frequency wave, an ultrasonic wave, etc.
Implementation Method 4
only a flat flange part of the container body is adhered with a covering film made of a paper or a plastic laminated film, by heat-sealing, a high frequency wave, an ultrasonic wave, etc.
Implementation Method 5
only a flat flange part of the container body is adhered with a covering film made of a paper or a plastic laminated film, by heat-sealing, a high frequency wave, an ultrasonic wave, etc.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a blister packaging for simultaneously housing, in a single packaging body, any case for storing contents so as to allow same to be put in and taken out, thus facilitating portability and storage, and a packaging container accommodated in the interior of the case so as to allow the former to be put in and taken out, the packaging container containing cartridge- or refill-type contents. A case accommodation part for accommodating the case and a separate content accommodation part which can be filed with contents for the cartridge packaging container are molded on a molding sheet simultaneously, wherein, when both accommodation parts are sealed with a cover film, a cutting line is provided on the flexible part of the content accommodating part so that, during use, just the content accommodation part can be independently torn off to be stored inside the case, or the refill content accommodation part can be opened and inserted into the case to be used.