Abstract:
A packing bow of electronic apparatus featured in providing a characteristic diagram showing performance of electronic apparatus to be packaged to visually appeal performance of the packaged electronic apparatus to user or the like.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     1. Field of the Invention 
     The present invention relates to a packaging box for packaging electronic apparatus. 
     2. Description of the Related Art 
     In recent years, upon entering the digital broadcasting age, various electronic apparatus have been proposed. For example, upon entering the digital broadcasting age represented by digital broadcasting of BS (Broadcasting Satellite) starting from 2000 A.D. and terrestrial digital broadcasting, a television receiver for receiving the broadcast, which is provided with a so-to-speak D-terminal for digital broadcasting has been on sale. The television receiver having the D-terminal is aimed at connection to a digital broadcasting receiving adaptor which is predicted to provide in and after 2000 A.D. and the D-terminal and the digital broadcasting receiving adaptor can be connected by a connecting cable for signal transmission. The connecting cable of this kind can connect the D-terminal and the digital broadcasting receiving adaptor in one touch motion such that a component video signal having high screen quality including, for example, a high vision screen quality or the like can be transmitted by a single piece of cable. 
     Conventionally, an AV (Audio Visual) cable such as the above-mentioned connecting cable states superiority and performance of material, structure or the like. 
     However, according to such a connecting cable of electronic apparatus, the superiority or the performance in material, structure or the like is not expressed as characteristic data known by a user at a glance and therefore, the user is not informed well of what of the connecting cable is superior. 
     Although according to a catalog or an instruction manual of the connecting cable, material and structure such as adoption of oxygen free copper having high purity and 24-karat gold plating and woven shield and the like are appealed, from the view point of what and how is superior by appealing of the material or the structure, there is no visual appeal, which is difficult to understand for the user. 
     Under such a situation, there is requested a connecting cable having high performance with inconsiderable connection loss. A connecting cable having sufficient performance in material and structure has already been commercialized. However, the connecting cable does not sufficiently appeal to the user. 
     Hence, it is an object of the present invention to provide a packaging box of electronic apparatus capable of visually appealing resolving the above-described problem and the performance of packaged electronic apparatus to the user. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a packaging box of electronic apparatus, wherein in a packaging box for packaging electronic apparatus, there is provided a characteristic diagram showing performance of the electronic apparatus to be packaged. 
     According to the first aspect of the present invention, the packaging box for packaging the electronic apparatus is provided with the characteristic diagram showing the performance of the electronic apparatus to be packaged. 
     Thereby, the user can firmly grasp the performance of the packaged electronic apparatus by visually confirming the characteristic diagram provided at the packaging box. 
     According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the characteristic diagram is a characteristic graph and is provided at an outer face of the packaging box by printing. 
     According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the characteristic diagram is a characteristic graph and is provided at an outer face of the packaging box by pasting. 
     According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the characteristic diagram is a characteristic graph, a containing portion is provided at an outer face of the packaging box and the characteristic diagram is put into the containing portion. 
     According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the electronic apparatus is a connecting cable for signal transmission. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     FIG. 1 is a view showing a preferable embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention; 
     FIG. 2 is a view showing an example of applying a connecting cable as electronic apparatus contained in the packaging box of FIG. 1; 
     FIG. 3 is a view showing other embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention; 
     FIG. 4 is a view showing still other embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention; 
     FIG. 5 is a view showing still other embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention; and 
     FIG. 6 is a view showing still other embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention. 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     A detailed explanation will be given of preferable embodiments according to the present invention in reference to the drawings as follows. 
     Incidentally, embodiments described below are preferable specific examples of the present invention and therefore, technically preferable various limitations are attached thereto, however, the scope of the present invention is not limited to these embodiments so far as there is no description of particularly limiting the present invention in the following explanation. 
     FIG. 1 shows a preferable embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention. 
     A packaging box  10  of electronic apparatus is a container for packaging, for example, a connecting cable  20  as an electronic apparatus. The packaging box  10  of electronic apparatus is fabricated in, as an example, a rectangular parallelepiped shape by a material of kind of, for example, corrugated board, plastic, thick paper or the like. 
     The packaging box  10  is provided with a top portion  12 , side portions  14 ,  16 ,  18  and  24  and a bottom portion  22 . At the one comparatively wide side portion  18 , characteristic data or characteristic graph as a characteristic diagram  30  showing performance of the cable  20 , is provided by, for example, printing. According to the diagram  30 , as shown by FIG. 1, for example, transmission loss (dB) of the connecting cable  20  is designated at the ordinate and frequency (Hz) is designated in the abscissa to thereby indicate so-to-speak attenuation characteristic. 
     In this way, by displaying the characteristic diagram  30  on an outer face of the packaging box  10  packaging the connecting cable  20  constituting an electronic apparatus by printing, the user can firmly and easily know the characteristic data of the connecting cable  20  from the characteristic diagram  30  and how the connecting cable is excellent can visually be appealed. Thereby, a discrimination of the connecting cable  20  from competitive products of other companies can be achieved and technically high performance image can be appealed. Further, performance of the connecting cable  20  can specifically be appealed to the user. 
     The connecting cable  20  of FIG. 1 can be used as a connecting cable applied to a digital broadcasting receiving system shown by, for example, FIG.  2 . 
     According to the television broadcasting receiving system of FIG. 2, for example, a television receiver  42  is arranged in a house  40 . The house  40  is attached with a parabola antenna  44  and other antenna  46 . The parabola antenna  44  receives digital broadcasting wave  48 A from a communication satellite  48 . Further, the antenna  46  receives terrestrial digital broadcasting wave  50 A from a terrestrial broadcasting station  50 . 
     The parabola antenna  44  is connected to a digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  60 . The antenna  46  is connected to a terrestrial digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  62 . The connecting cable  20  of FIG. 1 is connected to a terminal  64  of the digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  60  and a D-terminal  70  for digital broadcasting of the television receiver  42 . 
     Similarly, the other connecting cable  20  is connected between a terminal  66  of the terrestrial digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  62  on the side of the antenna  46  and a D-terminal  74  of the television receiver  42 . 
     Further, a CATV (Cable Television) station  80  is connected to a digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  84  via a cable  82 . Still other connecting cable  20  is connected between a terminal  86  of the digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  84  and a D-terminal  88  of the television receiver  42 . 
     For example, when the digital broadcasting wave  48 A is received by the parabola antenna  44 , the digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  60  carries out predetermined signal processing. 
     Further, the connecting cable  20  can display received video of digital broadcasting by transmitting a signal from the digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  60  to the television receiver  42  via the D-terminal  70 . 
     Similarly, when the terrestrial digital broadcasting wave  50 A is received by the antenna  46 , the terrestrial digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  62  carries out predetermined signal processing. 
     Thereby, the connecting cable  20  can transmit a signal from the terrestrial digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  62  to the television receiver  42  via the D-terminal  74  and the television receiver  42  can display received video of the terrestrial digital broadcasting wave. 
     Or, a signal from the CATV station  80  is subjected to predetermined signal processing by the digital broadcasting receiving adapter  84  via the cable  82 . 
     Thereby, the connecting cable  20  can display video by transmitting a signal from the digital broadcasting receiving adaptor  84  to the television receiver  42  via the D-terminal  88 . 
     Next, an explanation will be given of other embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention in reference to FIG.  3 . 
     Although the packaging box  10  of electronic apparatus is similar to the packaging box  10  of FIG. 1, the characteristic diagram  30  is provided by, for example, pasting the characteristic diagram  30  on the side portion  18  by using an adhering agent. By pasting the characteristic diagram  30  later on the packaging box  10  in this way, in comparison with the case of printing, the case of other kind of electronic apparatus contained in the packaging box  10  can simply be dealt with. 
     FIG. 4 shows still other embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention. In the example of the packaging box  10  of FIG. 4, a containing portion  100  is previously fixed to the side portion  18 . The containing portion  100  can be fabricated by, for example, transparent plastic. An opening portion  110  of the containing portion  100  can be inserted with the characteristic diagram  30  attachably and detachably. The characteristic diagram  30  contained in the containing portion  100  can firmly be seen through the containing portion  100 . 
     By adopting such a structure, even in the case in which electronic apparatus intended to contain in the packaging box  10  is replaced by other one, display can be changed immediately and firmly in correspondence therewith. 
     FIG. 5 shows still other embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention. The packaging box  210  is of, for example, a circular cylindrical shape and the characteristic diagram  30  is provided at a surrounding face  230  thereof. Naturally, the characteristic diagram  30  may be provided by, for example, printing or may be pasted thereon by an adhering agent. Or, naturally, as shown by FIG. 4, a containing portion may be provided and the characteristic diagram  30  may be contained therein attachably and detachably. 
     FIG. 6 shows still other embodiment of a packaging box of electronic apparatus according to the present invention. A packaging box  310  is a box having a top portion  312 , a bottom portion  322  and side portions  314 ,  316 ,  318  and  324 . In the packaging box  310 , as other electronic apparatus, a television receiver  320  is contained. At the side portion  318  of the packaging box  310 , a characteristic diagram  330  is provided by, for example, printing. The characteristic diagram  330  may not be provided by printing but may be pasted by an adhering agent, or, naturally, there may be constituted a structure in which a containing portion is provided as shown by FIG.  4  and the characteristic diagram  330  may be contained in the containing portion attachably and detachably. 
     By displaying characteristic of the television receiver  320 , for example, power conservation characteristic or other characteristic in the characteristic diagram  330 , the user can visually grasp the feature of the television receiver  320 . 
     As has been explained above, according to the packaging box of electronic apparatus of the present invention, by providing a characteristic diagram such as a characteristic graph of electronic apparatus which is intended to package on an outer face of the packaging box which is referred to as individual packaging carton by printing, pasting or in other system, the user can firmly grasp visually the characteristic of the electronic apparatus. 
     In the future, with start of digital broadcasting, the AV (Audio Visual) cable conveys highly fine video signal. In compliance therewith, excellent frequency characteristic of the cable per se is requested and therefore, a characteristic graph is printed on an individual packaging carton such that a user can know the characteristic at a glance. 
     A discrimination between electronic apparatus contained in the packaging box and competitive products of other companies can be carried out. Technically high performance image can be appealed and image of something great is given by only attaching the characteristic graph even when the characteristic graph may not be known technically. 
     Performance can be appealed specifically to the user. For a user having more or less knowledge, the frequency characteristic provides a general method in view of evaluating the performance. 
     Meanwhile, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, the shape of the packaging box is not limited to the illustrated shapes but other shape can naturally be adopted. Further, as the kinds of electronic apparatus to be contained, there are included not only the connecting cable or the television receiver but also other kind of electronic apparatus, for example, a monitor apparatus of a computer, a recording/reproducing apparatus or a reproducing apparatus of an information recording medium on a disk, a stereo head phone, a stereo earphone, a game machine and so on. 
     Further, the characteristic diagram is not limited to the characteristic graph but a characteristic diagram of a display system of other mode is naturally included. 
     As has been explained, according to the present invention, performance of packaged electronic apparatus can visually be appealed to the user.