Patent ID: 7128211

Claim:
A packing member for packing an article, comprising: a plurality of medium accommodating portions arranged in the form of an array; a plurality of non-return valves, each of which is configured and positioned to pass a medium to one of said medium accommodating portions and to stop the medium away from one of the medium accommodating portions, wherein one of said non-return valves is provided for each of said medium accommodating portions; a plurality of introducing portions, each of which is configured and positioned to introduce the medium into one of said medium accommodating portions with one of said non-return valves from outside of said packing member to balloon one of said medium accommodating portions, wherein one of said introducing portions is independently provided for each of said medium accommodating portions, and a sealing region disposed upstream of said plurality of non-return valves with respect to a direction of the introduction of the medium from the introducing portions toward said non-return valves, configured and positioned to seal each of said introducing portions to prevent the medium from leaking to an outside of said packing member, said sealing region being sealed to keep the medium in each of said introducing portions.