CN101203100A - locking device - Google Patents

Abstract

A locking device comprises a handle, a clamping hook and a handle magnetic fastener. The handle is pivoted on the upper cover of the electronic product. One end of the clamping hook is pivoted to the handle, the other end of the clamping hook is provided with a buckling part, and when the base of the electronic product is closed with the upper cover, the buckling part is buckled on the base. The handle magnetic fastener is positioned on the surface of the handle facing the upper cover and used for fixing the handle on the upper cover magnetic fastener of the upper cover after the buckling part is buckled on the base. In addition, the invention also discloses a flip-type electronic product applying the locking device.

Description

locking device

technical field

The present invention relates to a locking device, and in particular to a locking device for clamshell electronic products.

Background technique

With the development of today's society, people's demand for portable electronic products is gradually increasing in order to meet the requirements of work processing and entertainment enjoyment anytime and anywhere. The portable electronic product can be a clamshell electronic product including a cover and a base, for example, a notebook computer or a tablet computer is composed of a display and a computer host. The locking of the upper cover and the base is very important for clamshell electronic products. Taking a notebook computer or a tablet computer as an example, if the display is effectively locked with the computer host, it will prevent the display from being separated from the computer host when it is accidentally dropped during carrying or moving, causing the screen, host keyboard or touchpad to be disconnected. Damaged by direct impact with the ground. This kind of accidental drop that causes damage to the above-mentioned parts is more common in young or careless users. Therefore, the locking device is more important in the use of clamshell electronic products.

Contents of the invention

The invention provides a locking device applied to flip-top electronic products.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a locking device is provided, including a handle, a hook, and a handle magnetic fastener. The handle is pivotally connected to the upper cover of the electronic product. One end of the hook is pivotally connected to the handle, and the other end has a fastening portion. When the base of the electronic product is closed with the upper cover, the fastening portion is fastened to the base. The handle magnetic fastener is located on the surface of the handle facing the upper cover, and is used to fix the handle on the upper cover magnetic fastener of the upper cover after the fastening portion is fastened to the base.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a clamshell electronic product is provided, including a base, a top cover, a buckle device, a handle device, and a magnetic buckle device. The upper cover is pivotally connected to the base. The fastening device can be used to fasten the base. The handle device can be used to move the fastening device, so that the fastening device can be fastened to or disengaged from the base. The magnetic buckle device is used to fix the handle device on the upper cover after the fastening device is fastened to the base.

In the locking device described in the embodiment of the present invention, after the hook is fastened, the handle for moving the hook can be fixed on the upper cover by using the handle magnetic fastener, so that the fastening of the hook is not easy to loosen. With the above-mentioned design, electronic products can be optimally locked. If the electronic product is a notebook computer or a tablet computer, the preferred locking effect can prevent the screen, keyboard or touchpad of the computer from being damaged due to direct contact with the ground when it is accidentally dropped.

Description of drawings

In order to make the above and other objects, features, advantages and embodiments of the present invention more comprehensible, the detailed description of the accompanying drawings is as follows:

1 and 2 respectively show an electronic product with a locking device and an exploded view of its parts.

3 and 4 respectively illustrate the structure and exploded view of the locking device 100 in FIG. 1 .

5 and 6 are schematic diagrams showing the locked and unlocked states of the electronic product with the locking device in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 7 shows a side view of the electronic product 200 in FIG. 1 when it is unlocked.

Fig. 8 shows a schematic diagram of a hook of a locking device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of main component symbols

100: Locking device 110: Handle

112: Handle magnetic fastener 114: Coaxial channel

116: Handle fixing seat 130: Hook

134: Fastening part 136: Rotation shaft

138: Flange 140: Hook magnetic fastener

160: Torsion spring 170: Fixed pin

200: Electronic products 210: Upper cover

210a: Upper cover base 210b: Upper cover cover

212: Upper cover magnetic fastener 214: The first bearing

216: Upper cover fixing seat 218: Bracket

220: Screw 230: Base

232: Second bearing 234: Hook groove

260: latch

Detailed ways

The locking device described in an embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a clamshell electronic product with a top cover and a base. FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 respectively show an exploded view of an electronic product with the locking device and its parts. In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 , the electronic product 200 has a top cover 210 and a base 230 . Wherein, the upper cover 210 has a first bearing 214 , and the base 230 has a second bearing 232 . The axis of the first bearing 214 is aligned with the axis of the second bearing 232 , and the pin 260 passes through the first bearing 214 and the second bearing 232 to pivotally connect the upper cover 210 and the base 230 . More specifically, the upper cover 210 can be further disassembled into the upper cover base 210a and the upper cover cover 210b. The upper cover cover 210b may have an upper cover magnetic fastener 212 fixed thereon, and the above-mentioned first bearing 214 is located on one side of the upper cover base 210a.

3 and 4 respectively illustrate the structure and exploded views of the locking device 100 of FIG. 1 . In FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 , the aforementioned locking device 100 includes a handle 110 , a hook 130 and a handle magnetic fastener 112 . The handle 110 is pivotally connected to the upper cover 210 of the electronic product 200 in FIG. 1 . One end of the hook 130 is pivotally connected to the handle 110 , and the other end has a buckling portion 134 for buckling the base 230 of the electronic product 200 shown in FIG. 1 . Please further refer to FIG. 1 , the handle magnetic fastener 112 is located on the surface of the handle 110 facing the upper cover 210 , and is used to fix the handle 110 to the upper cover magnetic buckle of the upper cover 210 after the fastening portion 134 is fastened to the base 230 Item 212 on.

5 and 6 are schematic diagrams showing the locked and unlocked states of the electronic product with the locking device shown in FIG. 1 . In FIGS. 5 and 6 , when the locking device locks the electronic product 200 , the handle 110 can be used to move the hook 130 so that the engaging portion 134 of the hook 130 is locked on the base 230 . Afterwards, press the handle 110 again so that the handle magnetic fastener 112 is attracted to the upper cover magnetic fastener 212 of the upper cover 210 to complete the fastening and locking action. If you want to open the electronic product 200, you only need to follow the reverse steps. For example, the handle 110 is first opened to separate the handle magnetic fastener 112 of the handle 110 from the adsorption of the upper cover magnetic fastener 212 , and then the handle 110 is used to move the hook 130 to separate the hook 130 from the base 230 .

The above-mentioned magnetic handle fastener 112 can be a magnet or a metal sheet with ferromagnetism. If the handle magnetic fastener 112 is a magnet, the upper cover magnetic fastener 212 can be a magnet or a ferromagnetic metal sheet; if the handle magnetic fastener 112 is a ferromagnetic metal sheet, the upper cover magnetic fastener 212 can be The magnet is used for absorbing the magnetic fastener 112 of the handle.

On the other hand, the present invention can also be regarded as disclosing a clamshell electronic product with a locking device, which includes a top cover, a base, a buckling device, a handle device and a magnetic buckle device. The upper cover is pivotally connected to the base. The fastening device can be, for example, the hook 130 shown in FIG. 3 for fastening the base. The handle device can be, for example, the handle 110 shown in FIG. 3 , which is used to move the fastening device so that the fastening device can be fastened to or detached from the base. The magnetic buckle device can be the handle magnetic fastener 112 shown in FIG. 3 , which is used to fix the handle device on the upper cover after the fastening device is fastened to the base.

FIG. 7 shows a side view of the electronic product 200 of FIG. 1 when it is unlocked. In FIG. 7 , the engaging portion 134 of the hook 130 has a flange 138 , and the surface of the base 230 facing away from the upper cover 210 has a hook groove 234 . During locking, the flange 138 can be embedded in the hook groove 234 so that the hook 130 is engaged with the base 230 .

Fig. 8 shows a schematic diagram of a hook of a locking device according to another embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the fastening portion 134 of the hook 130 may have a hook magnetic fastener 140 , while the base of the electronic product has a base magnetic fastener located on the surface of the base facing away from the upper cover. In the subsequent locking, the hook magnetic fastener 140 will attract the magnetic fastener of the base, so as to achieve the fastening of the hook 130 and the base. The base magnetic fastener and the hook magnetic fastener 140 can be two magnets, or a magnet and a ferromagnetic metal sheet.

The aforementioned locking device may also include an elastic device for maintaining the relative position of the locking device and the handle device when the locking device is detached from the base, thereby avoiding the shaking of the locking device. Specifically, referring to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the above-mentioned elastic device can be a torsion spring 160, the two ends of which are respectively connected to the handle 110 and the hook 130 to maintain the relative position of the handle 110 and the hook 130, thereby avoiding The shaking of the hook 130 .

In order to describe the function of the torsion spring 160 in more detail, further reference can be made to FIG. 7 . In FIG. 7 , when the electronic product 200 is unlocked or in use, the handle 110 can be adsorbed on the upper cover 210 by the handle magnetic fastener 112 (the position can be referred to in FIG. 3 ). At the same time, the above-mentioned torsion spring 160 will keep the engaging portion 134 of the hook 130 away from the edge of the upper cover 210 and the base 230 . In this way, when the electronic product 200 is accidentally covered, the fastening portion 134 of the hook 130 and the base 230 will be prevented from being damaged due to contact.

The above-mentioned locking device may further include a first pivoting device for pivotally connecting the handle device and the buckling device. The first pivoting device may be a combination of the two coaxial channels 114 , the rotating shaft 136 , and the fixing pin 170 shown in FIG. 3 . A coaxial channel 114 is located on the handle 110 . The rotating shaft 136 is located on the hook 130 and is located between the two coaxial channels 114 . The axis of the rotating shaft 136 is aligned with the axis of the coaxial channel 114 . The fixing pin 170 passes through the coaxial channel 114 and the rotating shaft 136 to pivotally connect the hook 130 to the handle 110 .

Referring to FIG. 3 again, the torsion spring 160 can be further disposed between the rotating shaft 136 and the coaxial channel 114 , and the above-mentioned fixing pin 170 passes through the torsion spring 160 , the rotating shaft 136 and the coaxial channel 114 . In this way, the assembly process of the locking device 100 can be further simplified and the efficiency of space configuration can be greatly improved.

In addition, the aforementioned clamshell electronic product with the locking device further includes a second pivoting device, which is used to pivotally connect the handle device to the upper cover of the clamshell electronic product. The second pivoting device can be, for example, a combination of the handle fixing base 116 and the upper cover fixing base 216 shown in FIG. 2 , and the handle fixing base 116 is pivotally connected to the upper cover fixing base 216 . In addition, the second pivoting device may further include a bracket 218 and a screw 220 as shown in FIG.

The above-mentioned electronic product 200 in FIG. 6 can also be regarded as a notebook computer or a tablet computer, wherein the upper cover 210 is, for example, a display, and the base 230 is, for example, a computer host. In view of the fact that the locking device of this embodiment can effectively lock the notebook computer or the tablet computer, when the notebook computer or the tablet computer falls, the keyboard and touchpad on the display or the computer main body will be prevented from being damaged by directly hitting the ground .

In addition, the locking device described in the embodiment of the present invention can also use the torsion spring to maintain the relative position of the buckling part of the hook, the monitor and the computer host, so as to avoid the lock when the user accidentally covers the monitor. The hook collides with the host computer and causes damage.

Although the present invention has been disclosed above with the embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Any person in the industry can make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection of the present invention The scope should be determined by what is defined in the claims.

Claims (13)

1. A locking device, the locking device comprising: a handle pivotally connected to an upper cover of an electronic product; a hook, one end of which is pivotally connected to the handle, and the other end of the hook has a fastening portion, when a base of the electronic product is closed with the upper cover, the fastening portion is fastened to the base; and A handle magnetic fastener is located on a surface of the handle facing the upper cover, and is used for fixing the handle to a upper cover magnetic fastener of the upper cover after the fastening portion is fastened to the base. 2 . The locking device according to claim 1 , wherein the handle magnetic fastener is a magnet or a ferromagnetic metal sheet for absorbing the upper cover magnetic fastener. 3 . 3. The locking device according to claim 1, wherein the buckling portion has a flange for fitting into a hook groove of the base. 4. The locking device according to claim 1, wherein the buckling part has a hook magnetic fastener, and the hook magnetic fastener is a magnet or a ferromagnetic metal sheet for absorbing a base of the base Magnetic closure. 5. The locking device according to claim 1, further comprising a torsion spring, one end of the torsion spring is connected to the handle, and the other end is connected to the hook, so as to maintain the relative position of the handle and the hook. 6. The locking device of claim 5, further comprising: Two coaxial passages are located on the handle; A rotating shaft is located on the hook and interposed between the coaxial channels, wherein the axes of the coaxial channels are aligned with the axis of the rotating shaft; and A fixing pin passes through the coaxial passages and the rotating shaft to pivotally connect the hook to the handle. 7. The locking device according to claim 6, wherein the fixing pin further passes through the torsion spring for disposing the torsion spring between the handle and the hook. 8. A clamshell electronic product, comprising: a base; an upper cover pivotally connected to the base; a fastening device for fastening the base; a handle means for moving the snap-fit device to engage or disengage the snap-fit device from the base; and A magnetic buckle device is used for fixing the handle device on the upper cover after the fastening device is fastened on the base. 9. The clamshell electronic product according to claim 8, further comprising: a first bearing located on the upper cover; a second bearing located on the base; and At least one pin passes through the first bearing and the second bearing to pivotally connect the upper cover and the base. 10 . The clamshell electronic product according to claim 8 , further comprising a first pivot device for pivotally connecting the buckle device to the handle device. 11 . 11. The clamshell electronic product according to claim 8, further comprising a second pivoting device for pivotally connecting the handle device to the upper cover. 12. The clamshell electronic product according to claim 8, further comprising an elastic device for maintaining the relative position of the buckling device and the handle device when the buckling device is detached from the base. 13. The clamshell electronic product according to claim 8, wherein the upper cover is a display, and the base is a computer host.

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