Patent ID: 7784612

Claim:
A packaging container for acupuncture needles, comprising: a container body in which storage grooves for individually storing acupuncture needles are formed concavely on a planar surface of the container body so as to be arranged parallel with each other, and boundary portions between the storage grooves are held to be flat with an outer frame portion of the container body; and a single sheet member which is detachably attached to the outer frame portion of the container body and to the boundary portions thereof in a state in which the acupuncture needles are stored in the storage grooves of the container body, to cover opening portions of the storage grooves of the container body, wherein: a free portion which is not attached to the outer frame portion of the container body is formed on one end portion side of the sheet member, viewed from a longitudinal direction of the storage grooves; perforated lines, each comprising cut portions and uncut portions, are formed along center lines of the boundary portions from the one end portion side, including the free portion, of the container body and of the sheet member to the other end portion side thereof, viewed from the longitudinal direction of the storage grooves; a length of each of the uncut portions of the respective perforated lines is made shorter than a length of one of the uncut portions thereof; and a length of one of the uncut portions of the respective perforated lines formed on the free portion is made longer than a length of each of the uncut portions thereof formed on a portion other than the free portion.