Patent ID: 9622940
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: A61J,B65D

Claim:
1. A medicine packaging press-through-package (PTP) having a rectangular shape as viewed in a plane and comprising a pair of cells, each one of the pair of cells comprising a first sheet and a second sheet, the first sheet having at least one pocket and at least one convex portion, said one pocket being configured to accommodate an item of medicine, said one convex portion defining an internal space configured to be absent of medicine, said one pocket and said one convex portion each projecting from a first surface, which is one of a front surface and a back surface of the first sheet, and the second sheet being attached to a second surface opposite to the first surface of the first sheet, the second sheet being configured relative to the first sheet to seal said item of medicine in said one pocket by blocking an opening of said one pocket; and wherein each one cell of said pair of cells has at least one said pocket and a pair of said convex portion; wherein each one of said convex portions extend to a height from the first surface greater than a height to which said one pocket extends from the first surface; wherein each pocket of said at least one pocket and each convex portion of said pair of convex portions are asymmetrical to any one of the pockets and any one of the convex portions with respect to a virtual straight line along a center in a longitudinal direction or a lateral direction of said plane; wherein in a stacked arrangement of said pair of cells with edge peripheries of said first sheet of said each one cell of said pair of cells being in alignment, said at least one pocket and said each one convex portion of said pair of cells are offset out of vertical alignment and not in contact with any other pocket or convex portion, said each one convex portion of one of said pair of cells contacts the first surface of the first sheet of the other of said pair of cells, and said at least one pocket of one of said pair of cells does not contact the first surface of the first sheet of the other of the pair of cells so that a gap occurs between said at least one pocket of said one cell and a portion of the first surface of the other cell of said pair of cells directly aligned in a height direction with said at least one pocket.