Development of Manufacturing Equipment for a Concavo-Convex Patterned Sheet to Protect Fruits

Increasing the export of fruit is vital for the Japanese economy. In this study, we focused on the peach trade as it is the third most transported fruit in Japan. The peach is a very sensitive fruit; therefore, proper packaging is important. We proposed a special packing sheet that we named the “concavo-convex sheet” developed through a simple mechanism. However, there were some problems in creating this sheet. This study describes the new mechanism for creating the concavo-convex sheet, and a real machine using the installed mechanism was developed. As a result, it was confirmed that the sheet can be realized by the new machine.