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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2001
Toru Ichikawa, Misato, JP;
Keiichi Toyoda, Soka, JP;
Masahiro Ito, Tokyo-To, JP;
Satoru Kimura, Ota, JP;
Yutaka Okamoto, Tokyo-To, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Hosokawa Yoko, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A package enables even aged people and children to warm up foods packaged therein by simply inverting a tank and tearing a sealing member sealing the tank. The package ( ) includes an outer vessel ( ) having a bottom wall ( ) and projections ( ) projecting upward from the bottom wall ( ), an inner vessel ( ) placed in the outer vessel ( ) so as to form a heat generating block containing space ( ) and a tank containing space ( ) together with the outer vessel ( ), a heat generating block ( ) contained in the heat generating block containing space ( ), and a tank ( ) sealed by a sealing member ( ), containing a heat generation promoting agent, having recesses ( ) in which the projections ( ) engage and placed in the tank containing space ( ). The heat generation promoting agent is able to move and come into contact with the heat generating block ( ) when the sealing member ( ) is broken by separating the tank ( ) from the projections ( ), inverting the tank ( ) and pressing the sealing member ( ) against the projections ( ).