Spout-Equipped Packaging Bag Flange Adhesion for Self-Standing Stability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Spout-equipped packaging bags face challenges in maintaining self-standing properties when the contents decrease, and users experience discomfort due to the design of the seal portions and contact with the face during use.

Innovation Solution

A spout-equipped packaging bag design featuring a tubular barrel portion with a flange portion where the upper end of the barrel is folded and adhered to the flange in a polygonal shape, ensuring a spread shape that maintains self-standing properties and reduces discomfort by avoiding annular or Y-shaped seal protrusions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the spout is attached to an upper portion of the bag body including a narrowed shape, then the bag can be manufactured with conventional processes, but the upper portion is likely to be bent due to the weight of the spout when the amount of contents decreases, making it difficult to ensure sufficient self-standing properties

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovemanufacturabilityVSAvoidself-standing properties
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of narrowing the upper portion of the bag body to attach the spout (conventional approach), the invention inverts the approach by spreading the upper portion in the width direction. This inverted design allows the spout to be attached to a flattened upper portion while maintaining self-standing properties even when contents decrease, as the spread shape provides sufficient structural support to counteract the spout's weight.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Stability of the object's composition

If the spout is attached to the bottom portion of the bag body, then excellent self-standing properties are exhibited even if the amount of contents decreases, but the spout opens downward causing the cap to unintentionally become undone or contents to leak out when the cap is loosely fastened

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveself-standing propertiesVSAvoidcap security
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of attaching the spout to the bottom portion (which provides self-standing properties but poor cap security), the invention inverts the conventional upper-portion attachment by spreading the upper portion in the width direction to create a flattened shape. This inverted approach maintains the spout's upward orientation for better cap security while achieving self-standing properties through the spread shape of the upper portion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

3Ease of manufacture

If an annular seal portion protruding upward is formed throughout the entire circumference of the gusset portion forming the top surface portion, then the top surface portion and side walls can be joined, but the seal portion comes into contact with the face and causes discomfort when a user drinks through the spout

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesealing capabilityVSAvoiduser discomfort
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts the harmful annular seal portion that protrudes upward and contacts the user's face. Instead of forming a continuous annular seal throughout the entire circumference, the invention selectively forms seal portions only in specific regions (such as at the corners or edges of the gusset portions), removing the protruding seal from the central area where it would contact the face during drinking, thereby eliminating user discomfort while maintaining necessary sealing functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

4Stability of the object's composition

If the top surface portion is sealed to each of the pair of side walls and the side walls are sealed together on a side below the top surface portion, then the bag structure is stabilized, but the seal portion is formed into a Y-shape with a particularly hard intersection part that causes significant discomfort when the bag body is held with the hand

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidhand discomfort
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts the harmful Y-shaped seal portion with its hard intersection part that causes discomfort to the hand. Instead of forming seals at all three intersections (top surface to side walls and side walls to each other), the invention selectively forms seals only where necessary for structural integrity, omitting the seal that would create the Y-shaped intersection, thereby eliminating the hard protrusion that causes hand discomfort while maintaining adequate structural stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

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

The design ensures sufficient self-standing properties even when contents are low and reduces user discomfort by eliminating contact with uncomfortable seal portions during use.

Implementation Method 1

An upper end part of the tubular barrel portion over an entire circumference is liquid-tightly adhered to an upper surface of the flange portion

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdhesion: Adhesive

Data Source

PatentUS11655089B2Spout-equipped packaging bag and manufacturing method therefor, and spout-equipped packaging bag that contains contents
Publication Date: 2023.05.23 HOSOKAWA YOKO CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention is a self-standing spout-equipped packaging bag (1), including a bag body (10) that stores contents, and a spout (12) that is attached to an upper portion of the bag body (10). The bag body (10) includes a tubular barrel portion (20), and a bottom portion (22) which is attached to block an opening end of a lower part of the barrel portion (20). The spout (12) includes a tubular nozzle portion (14), and a flange portion (16) which projects from an outer surface of the nozzle portion (14). An upper end part (21) of the tubular barrel portion (20) over an entire circumference is liquid-tightly adhered to an upper surface (16e) of the flange portion (16) in a state of following a shape of the flange portion (16) in plan view to be in the same shape.