This non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. ยง119(a) on Patent Application No(s). 100130760 filed in Taiwan, R.O.C. on 2011 Aug. 26, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to an air bag structure, and more particularly to an air cushioning bag that clamping pressure thereof can be adjusted automatically.
Currently, handbags for carrying articles or outer packages for receiving mailed objects, such as general plastic bags, paper bags, plastic mail bags, boxes, or the like, are all unable to provide good protection for packed objects. For example, mailed objects such as fragile articles or glass are easily damaged during transportation due to the compression caused from the stacking of mailed packages, no matter what kind of material they are made of. In particular, objects in paper or plastic mail bags are apt to be damaged due to collision or compression, to mailed objects, the protection capability of these mail tools are the worst.
To avoid collision, there also are paper boxes used to pack mailed objects. Since paper boxes are all almost cubic, and the surfaces thereof are rather rigid, they can provide a little more protection for contents. However, not all objects are cubic and large enough to fill up the paper box, due to a larger inner space thereof. It is inevitable that the object will roll around in the box, and collide with the box, causing damage during transportation when the object is placed in the box.
Multiple bubble granules might be placed in a paper box for the protection of a packed object from rolling around and being collided, but they cannot protect it wholly and safely.
To improve air protection structures, allowing them to have safe protection capability, the present invention is proposed.
The present invention proposes a cushioning air bag with automatically adjustable clamping pressure, including an air cylinder sheet and an adjustable air sac sheet, where the air cylinder sheet includes a first air valve and a plurality of air cylinders, one end of the first air valve is positioned in the plurality of air cylinders, and the adjustable air sac sheet, includes a plurality of cushioning adjustment zones attached to wall surfaces of the plurality of air cylinders, a bag is formed when the air cylinder sheet and adjustable air sac sheet are filled with air, an accepting space is included among the plurality of cushioning zones positioned in the bag, used for clamping a different size of object when the object is received in the accepting space.
The present invention may receive different sizes of objects through the accepting space of the adjustable air sac sheet after air filling, and uses the air cylinder sheet and adjustable air sac sheet to have double protection, capable of achieving the multiple packing bag specifications only by one single air bag structure, i.e. one single air cylinder sheet and one single adjustable air sac sheet can provide multiple different sizes of bag accepting space. In addition, the present can increase cushioning effect and the environmental protection effect of reducing the use of packing bags.
The present invention can be more fully understood by reference to the following description and accompanying drawings, wherein:
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The present embodiment, as the figures show, includes an air cylinder sheet 10 and an adjustable air sac sheet 20, respectively being a plain sheet before air filling; they can be formed into a handbag as
The air cylinder sheet 10 includes a first air valve 11, a plurality of air cylinders 12 and a plurality of first nodes 13, where one end of the first air valve 11 is positioned in the plurality of air cylinders 12, guiding air to enter the plurality of air cylinders 12. The air cylinder sheet 10 has an containing portion 110 after being bent, and the plurality of first nodes 11 are respectively positioned on the plurality of air cylinders 12. The nodes 13 are arranged in pairs and spaced at intervals on each air cylinder 12, preferably, four pairs of first nodes 13 are positioned on each air cylinder 12. Based on this, the first nodes 13 on each two adjacent air cylinders 12 are also arranged correspondingly, allowing them to be aligned in a line approximately.
The adjustable air sac sheet 20 is formed of plastics. The adjustable air sac sheet 20 of the present embodiment includes a second air valve 21, where one end of the second air valve 21 is positioned in a cushioning adjustment zone 22, and another end thereof is positioned outside the cushioning adjustment zone 22, thereby providing independent air filling, but the present invention is not so limited. The adjustable air sac sheet 20 further includes the plurality of cushioning adjustment zones 22 connected to each other in sequence, which are positioned in the containing portion 110 and attached to the wall faces of the plurality of air cylinders 12. The adjustable air sac sheet 20 is bent with the air cylinder sheet 10 to have an accepting space 101. When a differently sized article 90 is placed in the accepting space 101, the adjustable air sac sheet 20 is filled with air to expand to clamp the object 90 tightly. The adjustable air sac sheet 20 in the embodiment having three cushioning adjustment zones 22 expanded by air filling is taken as a descriptive example, but the present invention is not so limited. The adjustable air sac sheet 20 further includes a plurality of second nodes 23, which are respectively positioned on the plurality of cushioning adjustment zones 22.
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The longitudinal direction of the plurality of air cylinders 12 is preferably the same as the longitudinal direction of the adjustable air sac sheet 20, but the present invention is not so limited, the longitudinal direction of the plurality of air cylinders 12 may be perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the adjustable air sac sheet 20, i.e. The both directions are different.
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Air enters the adjustable air sac sheet 20 via the second air valve 21, causing the adjustable air sac sheet 20 to be filled with air and expanded. Since the expanded adjustable air sac sheet 20 will occupy a portion of the accepting space 101, the bigger a packed object 90 is, the larger the portion is occupied by the packed object 90, the adjustable air sac sheet 20 is expanded less to occupy the less portion of the accepting space 101. Vice versa, the smaller the packed object 90 is, the smaller the portion is occupied by the packed object 90, and the adjustable air sac sheet 20 is expanded more. Consequently, the expansion of the adjustable air sac sheet 20 can be adjusted with the size of the packed object 90, allowing the adjustable air sac sheet 20 to clamp the packed object 90 tightly in any situation as
Furthermore, the air cylinder sheet 10 has a plurality of hot sealing opening-closings 17 positioned in the air filling passageway 16 as
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The air cylinder sheet 10 further includes a plurality of coupling elements 70, positioned on two side edges of the air cylinder sheet 10 as
The above coupling elements 70 may be used by means of hot sealing sticking; the coupling elements 70 may be formed as hot sealing lines or tear lines that can be torn conveniently. The coupling elements 70 may further be used by means of adhesion, allowing the bag 100 to be torn apart to return to a plain state for recycling. Furthermore, the air cylinder sheet 10 may further include a hand-strap, convenient for a user to carry the bag 100 after it is formed. Furthermore, the adjustable air sac sheet 20 may be coupled to the accepting space 101 of the bag 100 in the same direction as the plurality of air cylinders 12 to stack in the accepting space 101.
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To the first nodes 13 on the above air cylinder sheet 10, it is preferably that two pairs of first nodes 12 are positioned on each air cylinder 12 to divide the air cylinder 12 into three equal parts. Thereupon, the first nodes 13 positioned on each two adjacent air cylinders 12 also corresponds to each other, allowing them to form a straight line approximately. The air cylinder sheet 10 is stuck to the adjustable air sac sheet 20 along the coupling portions 30 while the air cylinder 10 is coupled to the adjustable air sac sheet 20, allowing the air cylinder sheet 10 and the air sac sheet 20 to form a T-shaped structure approximately.
Thereupon, the coupling portions 30 is used to stick the cushioning adjustment zone and the air cylinders 12 to couple the adjustable air sac sheet 20 to the air cylinder sheet 10; the longitudinal axis of the air cylinders 12 is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cushioning adjustment zones 22, where the length of the coupling portion 30 is smaller than the width of the air cylinder 12, allowing the inner parts of the air cylinder to be stuck to each other and other parts thereof are left unstuck upon hot sealing so that the internal portions of the air cylinders 12 still can be in air communication with one another as
The air filling passageway 16 will be expanded after air enters the air filling passageway 16. Namely, the first outer films 14 will be pulled apart outward to drive the first inner films 15 to pull apart outward to open the first air valve 11 due to the coupling of the first outer film 14 to the first inner film 15, allowing the air in the air filling passageway 16 to be filled in the air cylinders 12 via the first air valve 11. The air in the air cylinders 12 forces the first air valve 11 to close. Furthermore, air is filled into the cushioning adjustment zone 22 via the second air valve 21, and the air in the cushioning adjustment zone 22 forces the second air valve 21 to close.
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The present invention uses the plurality of air cylinders constituted outside to do the cushioning protection of the object 90, and may be formed into the handhold bag 100 or the cushioning structure 200 mounted in the paper box 90 for use. Taking the bag 100 as an example, the adjustable air sac sheet 20 formed of a plastic sheet is further configured in the bag. The air cylinder 10 and the adjustable air sac sheet 20 may be perspectively filled with air independently or may be filled with air by means of integral air communication. The adjustable air sac sheet 20 may adjust the internal pressure for clamping the object 90 automatically after air filling even if the expanded air cylinder sheet 10 is positioned outside the adjustable air sac sheet 20.
The coupling of the independent air cylinder sheet to the adjustable air sac sheet may be carried out by stacking them together, or by connecting the head portion or the tail portion of the air cylinder sheet with the adjustable air sac sheet, and the coupling way may be pure hot sealing without air communication or hot sealing with air communication, which may be carried out by not adhering inner plastic films to inner plastic films with blocking structures between them but adhering outer film to outer film at coupling points, the latter allows air to be communicated between the independent air cylinders and the air sacs connected with them; they can be filled up with air by only one time air filling.
The present invention may receive different sizes of objects through the accepting space of the adjustable air sac sheet after air filling, and uses the air cylinder sheet and adjustable air sac sheet to have double protection, capable of achieving the multiple packing bag specifications only by one single air bag structure, i.e. one single air cylinder sheet and one single adjustable air sac sheet can provide multiple different sizes of bag accepting spaces. In addition, the present can increase cushioning effect and the environmental protection effect of reducing the use of packing bags.
While the present invention has been described by the way of example and in terms of the preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention need not be limited to the disclosed embodiments. On the contrary, it is intended to cover various modifications and similar arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims, the scope of which should be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and similar structures.
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