CN100357617C

CN100357617C - Connection structure

Info

Publication number: CN100357617C
Application number: CNB2005100044142A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李永华
Original assignee: BenQ Corp
Current assignee: BenQ Corp
Priority date: 2005-01-13
Filing date: 2005-01-13
Publication date: 2007-12-26
Anticipated expiration: 2025-01-13
Also published as: CN1804413A

Abstract

A connecting structure is used for connecting a cover and a shell of equipment so as to movably and rotatably open the cover. The casing of the device has an opening, and the cover is used for covering the opening. The connecting structure comprises a guiding member, a pivot, an elastic member and a plate-shaped member. The guide member is connected to the cover and has a guide groove. The pivot is arranged on a first inner wall of the opening of the shell and is positioned in the guide groove of the guide member. The elastic component is respectively connected with a second inner wall of the shell opening and the plate-shaped component. The plate-like member abuts against the guide member. When the cover is pushed to the inside of the casing, the elastic member is braked by the plate-shaped member and the guide member, so that the elastic member reversely pushes the plate-shaped member and the guide member, and the cover moves towards the outside of the casing and rotates towards the outside of the casing through the pivot.

Description

Linkage structure

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of linkage structure (Connection structure), particularly relate to the linkage structure that in an equipment (Equipment), can easily a lid (Cover) be opened.

Background technique

Known electronic equipment, such as TV (Television, TV), the digital video video disc (Digital videodisc, DVD) videocorder ... etc., on its housing, all can dispose multiple function key or slot, operate for the user.In general, known electronic equipment still can be installed a turnover lid, in order to hide function key or slot.When the user wanted functional key or slot, only the lid upset need be come got final product.

Consult Figure 1A to Fig. 1 C, Figure 1A is the external view of known DVD videocorder 10.Figure 1B is the external view that the lid 14 of DVD videocorder 10 among Figure 1A turns up.Fig. 1 C is the side view that the lid 14 of DVD videocorder 10 among Figure 1B turns up.Shown in Figure 1A, DVD videocorder 10 comprises a pedestal (Housing) 12, a plurality of runners 16 and a lid 14.When the user desired functional key or slot, only lid 14 upsets need be come got final product.Yet,, can make the design of DVD videocorder 10 limit to some extent because lid 14 can only be opened via the mode of upset.Shown in Figure 1A, DVD videocorder 10 must have two crack between a door and its frames in the both sides of lid 14, in order to the upset of lid 14.In addition, when lid 14 is opened, because lid 14 bottoms can be outstanding downwards, make the essential height of reserving in below of pedestal front end of DVD videocorder 10, and must increase a plurality of runners 16 with bed hedgehopping pedestal bottom, can cause the restriction in the design equally, shown in Fig. 1 C.In addition, as controlling the reversal rate of lid 14, known technology often needs to install additional comparatively complicated mechanism, for example: and the oil pressure gear, so, also can expend higher cost.

Therefore main purpose of the present invention is to provide movably a kind of and the linkage structure of opening device lid rotationally, to address the above problem.

Summary of the invention

A purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of linkage structure, and lid and the housing of this linkage structure in order to connect an equipment movably and rotationally lid is opened, makes that design is more diversified, and reduce cost.

The invention provides a kind of linkage structure (Connection structure), this linkage structure is in an equipment, in order to lid and the housing that connects this equipment, to open this lid movably and rotationally.The housing of this equipment has an opening, and lid is in order to hide this opening.

This linkage structure comprises a guide member (Guiding member), a pivot (Pivot), a resilient member (Resilient member) and a tabular component (Plate member).Guide member has a front end, a connecting end and a guide channel (Guiding groove), and wherein front end has an arc outer rim and an arc inner edge, and connecting end is connected with lid.Pivot (Pivot) is arranged on one first inwall of housing opening, and is arranged in the guide channel of guide member.Resilient member has one first end and one second end, and first end is connected in one second inwall of opening.Resilient member can be operating as and be in a preloading condition (Pre-compressure state) or releasing state (Releasing state).Tabular component is articulated on second inwall of housing opening, is connected in second end of resilient member, and is placed between guide member and the resilient member, make tabular component and guide member front end the arc outer rim near.When lid shielding casing opening, the front end of guide member is relatively away from pivot, and the connecting end of guide member is then relatively near pivot, and resilient member is in preloading condition.And when lid is pushed to enclosure interior, resilient member can be by tabular component and guide member braking, to change releasing state into by preloading condition, cause resilient member reverse propulsion tabular component and guide member, make lid axially moving along guide channel towards outside, touch when arriving to pivot up to the arc inner edge of the front end of guide member, under resilient member continues to advance, guide member changes by rotating to outside along pivot by the arc inner edge, and the lid of the connecting end that is connected in guide member is rotated towards outside in the lump.

Therefore, according to linkage structure of the present invention, when the user desired uncap, only need touch lid and get final product toward in.When lid was opened, by linkage structure of the present invention, lid can move a segment distance earlier forward, and then overturns and come, and not only can exempt the crack between a door and its frame design of known technology, also need not specially reserve height in the bottom of equipment.Whereby, the unlatching of lid is with convenient, and design will be more diversified also.

Can be further understood by the following detailed description and accompanying drawings about the advantages and spirit of the present invention.

Description of drawings

Figure 1A is the external view of known DVD videocorder.

Figure 1B is the external view that the lid of DVD videocorder among Figure 1A turns up.

Fig. 1 C is the side view that the lid of DVD videocorder among Figure 1B turns up.

Fig. 2 is installed in the partial view of the housing of an equipment for the linkage structure of one preferred embodiment according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 A be along with the cross section view of the upper surface Vertical direction of Fig. 2 middle shell.

Fig. 3 B moves the view of a segment distance for lid among Fig. 3 A.

Fig. 3 C rotates next view for lid among Fig. 3 B.

The reference numeral explanation:

10: videocorder 12: pedestal

14,32: lid 16: runners

20: linkage structure 22: guide member

220: front end 2200: the arc outer rim

2202: arc inner edge 222: guide channel

224: connecting end 24: resilient member

26: tabular component 30: housing

34: pivot 36a: first inwall

36b: second inwall

Embodiment

Consult Fig. 2, Fig. 2 is installed in the partial view of the housing 30 of an equipment for the linkage structure 20 of one preferred embodiment according to the present invention.In the present embodiment, equipment (not being shown among Fig. 2) can be a TV (Television, TV), a digital video video disc (Digital video disc, DVD) videocorder ... etc.Housing 30 has an opening (Opening) and in order to hide the lid (Cover) 32 of opening.Linkage structure 20 comprises a guide member (Guiding member) 22, one pivot (Pivot) 34, a resilient member (Resilient member) 24 and one tabular component (Plate member) 26.Linkage structure 20 connects lid 32 and housing 30, and opens lid 32 movably and rotationally, as shown in Figure 2.

Consult Fig. 3 A to Fig. 3 C, Fig. 3 A is installed in the cross section view of the housing 30 of an equipment along the P-P line for linkage structure 20 among Fig. 2.Fig. 3 B moves the view of a segment distance for lid 32 among Fig. 3 A.The view that Fig. 3 C comes for 32 upsets of lid among Fig. 3 B.As shown in Figure 3A, guide member 22 has a front end 220, a connecting end 224 and a guide channel (Guiding groove) 222, and wherein front end 220 has an arc outer rim 2200 and an arc inner edge 2202, and connecting end 224 is connected with lid 32.Pivot (Pivot) 34 is arranged on the one first inwall 36a of opening, and is arranged in the guide channel 222 of guide member 22.Resilient member 24 has one first end and one second end (not being shown among the figure), and first end is connected in one second inwall 36b of opening.In the present embodiment, the first inwall 36a is perpendicular to the second inwall 36b.Resilient member can be operating as and be in a preloading condition (Pre-compressure state) or releasing state (Releasing state).Tabular component 26 is articulated on the second inwall 36b of housing 30 openings, be connected in second end of resilient member 24, and be placed between guide member 22 and the resilient member 24, make tabular component 26 and the front end 220 of guide member 22 arc outer rim 2200 near.

When the opening of lid 32 shielding casings 30, lid 32 is connected in housing 30, and the front end 220 of guide member 22 is relatively away from pivot 34, and the connecting end 224 of guide member 22 is then relatively near pivot 34, and resilient member 24 is in a preloading condition, as shown in Figure 3A.When lid 32 is pushed to housing 30 inside, resilient member 24 can be by tabular component 26 and guide member 22 brakings, to change releasing state into by preloading condition, cause resilient member 24 reverse propulsion tabular components 26 and guide member 22, make lid 32 along axially the moving towards housing 30 is outside of guide channel 222, shown in Fig. 3 B.In the present embodiment, guide channel axially is horizontal axis under the final user mode of equipment.Touch when arriving to pivot 34 up to the arc inner edge 2202 of the front end 220 of guide member 22, under resilient member 24 continues to advance, guide member 22 changes by the arc inner edge 2202 by front end 220 along pivot 34 to housing 30 external rotating, and the lid 32 that makes the connecting end 224 that is connected in guide member 22 is in the lump towards housing 30 external rotating, shown in Fig. 3 C.Whereby, lid 32 can be opened smoothly.

In the present embodiment, can pass through the length of the guide channel 222 of change guide member 22, control the axial displacement distance of lid 32 along guide channel 222.In addition, resilient member 24 can be a torsion spring (Torsion spring) or other similar assembly.The present invention is only by adjusting the torque magnitude of resilient member 24, and do not need to install additional in addition expensive device, just moving and reversal rate of may command lid 32, thereby can further reduce cost.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the first inwall 36a and the second inwall 36b also can be the same inwall in housing 30 openings.Also promptly, pivot 34, resilient member 24 and tabular component 26 can be arranged on the same inwall of housing 30 openings.Its principle of work and power is same as above, does not repeat them here.

Compare with known technology, according to linkage structure of the present invention, when the user desired uncap, only need touch lid and get final product toward in.When lid was opened, by linkage structure of the present invention, lid can move earlier a segment distance forward, after again upset come, not only can exempt the crack between a door and its frame design of known technology, also need not specially reserve height in the bottom of equipment.In addition, the present invention does not need to install additional in addition expensive devices such as oil pressure gear, and just the reversal rate of may command lid can further reduce cost.Whereby, the unlatching of lid is with convenient, and design will be more diversified also.

By the above detailed description of preferred embodiments, be to wish to know more to describe feature of the present invention and spirit, and be not to come scope of the present invention is limited with above-mentioned disclosed preferred embodiment.On the contrary, its objective is that hope can contain in the scope that is arranged in claims that the present invention will apply for of various changes and tool identity property.

Claims

1. A connecting structure for a device, the device comprising a housing, the housing has an opening and a cover for covering the opening, the connecting structure connects the cover and the housing, the connecting structure includes :

A guide member, the guide member has a front end, a connecting end and a guiding groove, wherein the front end has an arc-shaped outer edge and an arc-shaped inner edge, and the connecting end is connected to the cover;

a pivot arranged on a first inner wall of the opening and located in the guide groove of the guide member;

an elastic member, the elastic member has a first end and a second end, the first end is connected to a second inner wall of the opening, the elastic member can be operated to be in a pre-compressed state or a released state; and

A plate-shaped member pivotally connected to the second inner wall of the opening, connected to the second end of the elastic member, and placed between the guide member and the elastic member, so that the plate The shape member abuts against the arc-shaped outer edge of the front end of the guide member;

Wherein, when the cover covers the opening, the front end of the guide member is relatively far away from the pivot, while the connecting end of the guide member is relatively close to the pivot, and the elastic member is in the pre-compressed state; and When the cover is pushed to the inside of the housing, the elastic member will be braked by the plate-shaped member and the guide member to change from the pre-compressed state to the released state, causing the elastic member to reversely push the plate shaped member and the guide member, so that the cover moves toward the outside of the housing along the axial direction of the guide groove until the arc-shaped inner edge of the front end of the guide member touches the pivot, the The guide member rotates toward the outside of the casing along the pivot along the arc-shaped inner edge of the front end, so that the cover connected to the connecting end of the guide member also rotates toward the outside of the casing.

2. The connection structure according to claim 1, wherein the first inner wall and the second inner wall are the same inner wall in the opening.

3. The connection structure according to claim 1, wherein the first inner wall is perpendicular to the second inner wall.

4. The connecting structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elastic member is a torsion spring.

5. A device comprising:

a housing with an opening;

a cover for covering the opening;

A connection structure, the connection structure is used to connect the cover and the housing, the connection structure includes:

Wherein, when the cover covers the opening, the front end of the guide member is relatively far away from the pivot, while the connecting end of the guide member is relatively close to the pivot, and the elastic member is in the pre-compressed state; and When the cover is pushed to the inside of the housing, the elastic member will be braked by the plate-shaped member and the guide member to change from the pre-compressed state to the released state, causing the elastic member to reversely push the plate shaped member and the guide member, so that the cover moves toward the outside of the housing along the axial direction of the guide groove until the arc-shaped inner edge of the front end of the guide member touches the pivot, the Instead, the guide member rotates toward the outside of the casing along the pivot through the arc-shaped inner edge, so that the cover connected to the connecting end of the guide member rotates toward the outside of the casing.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first inner wall and the second inner wall are the same inner wall in the opening.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first inner wall is perpendicular to the second inner wall.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the elastic member is a torsion spring.