CN101415303B - handheld electronic device - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a handheld electronic device which comprises a body, a cover body, a clamping component and a releasing piece. The cover body is arranged on the body and is provided with a hole. In addition, the clamping component is movably arranged between the body and the cover body and is used for clamping the cover body on the body. In addition, the releasing piece is arranged on the body and exposed outside through the hole of the cover body, and the releasing piece is suitable for bearing against the clamping component and pushing the clamping component to move from a clamping position to a releasing position so as to release the cover body.

Description

handheld electronic device

technical field

The present invention relates to a hand-held electronic device, and in particular to a hand-held electronic device with high reliability and easy cover disassembly design.

Background technique

A handheld electronic device refers to an electronic device that can be held and operated by a user with a hand, and has a small volume and light weight, so that the user can carry it with him. Currently common handheld electronic devices are, for example, mobile phones, multimedia players, personal digital assistants, palmtop computers, handheld game consoles, and handheld satellite navigation devices.

On the other hand, in order to maintain the portability of the handheld electronic device and increase the area of the display and buttons of the handheld electronic device, in addition to the upright (Bar-type) handheld electronic device, a design with an overlapping body has been developed. handheld electronic devices, such as folding and slide-type handheld electronic devices.

In addition, in order to increase battery life during use, common handheld electronic devices often adopt a replaceable battery design. The user can carry a spare battery with him, so as to replace the battery when the power of the handheld electronic device is low, so as to prolong the use time of the handheld electronic device.

Handheld electronic devices are designed with a battery cover to protect the battery. Therefore, users must first remove the battery cover on the handheld electronic device before replacing the battery, and then install the battery cover after replacing the battery. The battery cover of traditional handheld electronic devices is usually combined with the body of the handheld electronic device by using a hook design. The hook is directly connected to the push button on the outside of the handheld electronic device, and the user can push the push button to drive the displacement of the hook. The locking effect of the hook on the battery cover is removed, and the battery cover is removed from the body of the handheld electronic device. When installing the battery cover, the operation is reversed.

However, because the above-mentioned traditional hook design adopts a direct linkage method, the components are easy to wear and the reliability is not good. In terms of operation, the actuating strokes of the push button and the hook will cause errors due to component wear, which will affect the user's hand feeling during operation. In addition, since the push button connected with the hook is reserved outside the handheld electronic device, it will also affect the overall appearance design of the handheld electronic device.

Contents of the invention

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a hand-held electronic device, the cover of which is easy to assemble and disassemble, and helps to achieve better overall aesthetics and reliability.

In order to specifically describe the content of the present invention, a handheld electronic device is proposed here, which includes a body, a cover, a locking component and a release member. The cover is configured on the body, and the cover has a hole. In addition, the locking component is movably arranged between the body and the cover, and is used for locking the cover on the body. In addition, the release part is disposed on the body and exposed through the hole of the cover, and the release part is suitable for bearing against the latch assembly, and pushes the latch assembly to move from a latch position to a release position to release the cover.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the latch assembly of the above-mentioned handheld electronic device includes a first latch lever and a second latch lever, which are disposed on the side edge of the main body. In addition, the release member is located between the first latching lever and the second latching lever to push the first latching lever and the second latching lever to move in opposite directions on the side edge of the main body.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned handheld electronic device further includes a first elastic member and a second elastic member, wherein the first elastic member is arranged between the first latch lever and the body to achieve the first latch The lever moves back and forth on the side edge of the body, and the second elastic member is arranged between the second locking lever and the body to achieve the reciprocating movement of the second locking lever on the side edge of the body.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first elastic member and the second elastic member are, for example, a helical spring respectively.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first locking lever and the second locking lever respectively have a first abutting surface and a second abutting surface corresponding to the releasing member, and the releasing member includes a wedge , for bearing against the first bearing surface and the second bearing surface.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned handheld electronic device further includes a third elastic member disposed between the release member and the main body.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned third elastic member is, for example, a coil spring.

The present invention drives the locking assembly through the support of the release member, so the locking effect of the locking assembly on the cover can be released only through a simple action, which can not only reduce the wear between the connecting components, but also accurately The locking position between the locking component and the cover is controlled to improve the user's hand feeling during operation and improve the reliability of the product. In addition, since the release part is only exposed through the hole on the cover body, it can increase the overall design of the appearance of the product. Applying this design to the battery cover of the handheld electronic device also helps to improve the convenience for the user to replace the battery.

In order to make the above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, the following specific embodiments are described in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a partial perspective view of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the handheld electronic device;

3 is a partial perspective view of the back view of the handheld electronic device;

FIG. 4a and FIG. 4b are schematic diagrams showing the action modes of the locking structures in FIG. 1 to FIG. 3 , respectively.

Description of main component symbols

100: Handheld Electronic Devices

110: Ontology

112: Chute

116: card slot

120: cover body

122: hole

126, 128: buckle part

130: Buckle component

132: The first latch lever

132a: hook

134a: hook

132b: the first bearing surface

134b: second bearing surface

134: Second locking lever

140: release piece

142: Top pin

144: wedge block

152: first elastic member

154: second elastic member

156: The third elastic piece

Detailed ways

The present invention mainly achieves the combination and disassembly between the body and the cover of the handheld electronic device through a latch assembly and a release member, wherein the components are simple and are achieved by mutual support between the release member and the latch assembly Therefore, the actuation stroke of the whole locking mechanism can be accurately controlled, and the reliability of the locking mechanism can be improved.

More specifically, the design of the present invention can be applied to a battery cover of a handheld electronic device, for example. In the configuration of the components, for example, two latching levers can be used as the latching components, and they can be arranged on the side edge of the handheld electronic device, and the release part can be arranged between the two latching levers to drive the two latching levers simultaneously. A latch lever moves to achieve the purpose of releasing the cover. On the other hand, in order to more precisely control the actuating stroke of the relevant components, the part of the release member that is used to bear against the two latching levers is, for example, a wedge block, and in order to automatically reset the latching lever and the releasing member, Elastic parts can also be arranged at appropriate positions.

The following will take the battery cover of a handheld electronic device as an embodiment to illustrate the content of the present invention, but it is not intended to limit the scope of application of the present invention and the shape and arrangement of related components. As stated in the above paragraphs, all technologies that can be reasonably obtained by those skilled in the art after referring to the contents of the description of this case and can achieve similar or identical technical effects do not depart from the spirit of the present invention.

Fig. 1 is a partial perspective view of a front view of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an exploded view of the handheld electronic device, and Fig. 3 is a partial perspective view of the back view of the handheld electronic device, for illustrating the present invention The locking mechanism is applied to the design of the battery cover. Please refer to FIG. 1 to FIG. 3 at the same time. The handheld electronic device 100 includes a body 110 , a cover 120 , a locking component 130 and a release member 140 .

The handheld electronic device 100 listed in this embodiment is, for example, an upright handheld electronic device, so the main body 110 is, for example, an integrated body that integrates a display screen (not shown) and an input interface (not shown) such as a Qwerty standard keyboard at the same time. . 1 to 3 only show the back of the main body 110 to clearly illustrate the locking mechanism of the battery cover, and other parts of the main body 110 should be familiar to those skilled in the art, and will not be repeated here.

Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, the handheld electronic device 100 can be a foldable and slide-type handheld electronic device. At this time, what the main body 110 represents may only be a part of the handheld electronic device, that is, it has an input interface. An input body without a display interface.

Please refer to FIG. 1 to FIG. 3 again. In this embodiment, the cover body 120 is a battery cover, which has a hole 122 , and the inner side of the cover body 120 has a plurality of locking parts 126 and 128 . In addition, the latching assembly 130 includes a first latching lever 132 and a second latching lever 134, which are, for example, located on the side edge of the body 110, and are movably arranged between the body 110 and the cover 120 for locking the cover The body 120 is locked on the body 110 . In more detail, one side edge of the body 110 has an engaging groove 116 which can engage with the engaging portion 126 on one side of the cover 120 . In addition, the other side edge of the body 110 has, for example, a sliding groove 112, and the first locking lever 132 and the second locking lever 134 are disposed in the sliding groove 112, and the first locking lever 132 and the second locking lever 134 Each has hooks 132 a and 134 a for engaging with the buckling portion 128 on the other side of the cover 120 . In this way, the cover 120 can be locked onto the main body 110 through the above-mentioned design.

In addition, the release member 140 is disposed on the body 110 and exposed through the hole 122 of the cover 120, and the release member 140 is adapted to bear against the latch assembly 130, and push the latch assembly 130 to move from a latch position to a release position to release the cover 120 . As far as the design of this embodiment is concerned, because the latch assembly 130 includes the first latch lever 132 and the second latch lever 134, the release member 140 can be disposed between the first latch lever 132 and the second latch lever 134. Between them, the first locking lever 132 and the second locking lever 134 move in opposite directions on the side edge of the main body 110 by pushing up. On the other hand, the release member 140 includes, for example, a push pin 142 and a wedge 144 , wherein the hole 122 of the cover 120 exposes the push pin 142 . The user can use a pointed object (not shown), such as a stylus or a paper clip, to push the ejector pin 142 through the hole 122 and drive the wedge block 144 to move. The wedge-shaped block 144 bears against the first bearing surface 132b of the first locking lever 132 and the second bearing surface 134b of the second locking lever 134. When the wedge-shaped piece 144 moves toward the body 110, the first locking lever 132 and the second locking lever 134 The second locking lever 134 will be pushed by the wedge block 144 to move relatively.

In order to make the first latching lever 132, the second latching lever 134 and the release member 140 reset automatically, in this embodiment, for example, between the first latching lever 132 and the body 110, between the second latching lever 134 and the body 110 A first elastic member 152 , a second elastic member 154 and a third elastic member 156 are respectively arranged between the release member 140 and the body 110 . As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 , the first elastic member 152 , the second elastic member 154 and the third elastic member 156 are, for example, helical springs respectively, so as to provide an appropriate force within the elastic limit, so that the first locking lever 132 1. The second locking lever 134 and the release member 140 can return to their original positions when no external force is applied.

FIG. 4a and FIG. 4b further illustrate the actuation modes of the locking structures in FIGS. 4a and 4b do not show the cover 120 (please refer to FIG. 2 ). As shown in Figure 4a and Figure 4b, when the cover body 120 and the body 110 are in a combined state, the first latch lever 132 and the second latch lever 134 are respectively located at the latch position, so as to pass the hooks 132a and 134a and the cover respectively. The buckling portion 128 of the body 120 produces structural interference to lock the cover 120 on the body 110 .

Next, when the ejector pin 142 of the release member 140 is pressed down through the hole 122 (please refer to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 ) on the cover body 120, the wedge-shaped piece 144 of the release member 140 bears against the first locking lever 132. A bearing surface 132b (please refer to FIG. 1 ) and a second bearing surface 134b (please refer to FIG. 1 ) of the second locking lever 134 are used to push the first locking lever 132 and the second locking lever 134 on the body. The side edge of 110 moves in opposite directions, so that the first locking lever 132 and the second locking lever 134 reach the release position. In this way, the hooks 132a and 134a on the first locking lever 132 and the second locking lever 134 will break away from the buckling portion 128 of the cover body 120, and the locking effect on the cover body 120 will be released, so that the cover body can be smoothly closed. The body 120 is removed from the body 110 .

In addition, in order to make it easier to remove the cover 120 from the main body 110, in this embodiment, other elastic members (not shown) can be arranged on the main body 110 and the cover 120 to connect the first locking lever 132 and the second locking lever 132. After the two locking levers 134 release the locking effect on the cover 120 , the main body 110 and the cover 120 can be separated from each other directly by the force of the elastic member. The type or arrangement of the elastic member can follow the existing design. For example, as shown in FIG. 1 , in this embodiment, a spring piece 158 is arranged on the body 110 . Of course, the present invention is not limited thereto. Those skilled in the art should be inspired to reasonably apply the existing design to this embodiment after referring to the above description.

To sum up, the locking mechanism proposed by the present invention can provide an accurate actuation stroke, improve the user's hand feeling when disassembling and assembling the cover, and provide a relatively simple operation method. In addition, since the components are simple and the wear between the connecting components can be reduced, it helps to improve the reliability of the locking mechanism and prolong the service life of the product. In addition, the locking mechanism will not affect the overall appearance of the handheld electronic device, and can increase the overall design of the product appearance. If this design is applied to the battery cover of the handheld electronic device, it will help to improve the convenience for the user to replace the battery.

Although the present invention has been disclosed in conjunction with the above embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Anyone with ordinary knowledge in the field can make some changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, this The scope of protection of the invention should be defined by the appended claims.

Claims (8)

1. A handheld electronic device, comprising: Ontology; a cover configured on the body, and the cover has a hole; The locking component is movably arranged between the body and the cover, and is used to lock the cover on the body. The locking component includes a first locking lever and a second locking lever, which are located on the sides of the body; and A release member is provided on the body and exposed through the hole of the cover, the release member is adapted to bear against the latch assembly, and the release member is located between the first latch lever and the second latch lever , to push the first latching lever and the second latching lever to move in opposite directions on the side edge of the body, wherein the first latching lever and the second latching lever have respectively corresponding to the release member The first abutting surface and the second abutting surface, and the release member includes a wedge block for abutting on the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface, wherein a pointed object is suitable for pressing through the hole The release member pushes the release member against the catch assembly to move from the catch position to the release position, so as to release the cover. 2. The handheld electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: the first elastic member is arranged between the first locking lever and the body, so as to realize the reciprocating movement of the first locking lever on the side edge of the body; and The second elastic member is arranged between the second locking lever and the body to realize the reciprocating movement of the second locking lever on the side edge of the body. 3. The handheld electronic device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first elastic member and the second elastic member are respectively a helical spring. 4. The handheld electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a third elastic member disposed between the release member and the main body. 5. The handheld electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the third elastic member is a helical spring (Helical Spring). 6. The handheld electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the release member comprises a push pin and a wedge, wherein the hole in the cover exposes the push pin, wherein the pointed object is adapted to press the push pin through the hole pin, so that the wedge block pushes the catch assembly to move from the catch position to the release position, so as to release the cover. 7. The hand-held electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a fourth elastic member disposed between the body and the cover, so that after the latch assembly releases the cover, the body and the cover can be They are separated from each other by the force of the fourth elastic member. 8. The handheld electronic device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the fourth elastic member is a spring leaf.

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