JP2003232309A - Holding tool - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a holding tool capable of easily attaching and detaching an interposed object by simple configuration, and which has no probability of scraping surface of the interposed object due to contact between tip end of interposing parts and the interposed object. <P>SOLUTION: The holding tool 1 includes a base 2 fixed to wall face 5, a sliding member 3 slidably installed on the base 2, an urged member 4 urging the sliding member 3 in sliding direction of the sliding member 3, and the interposing parts 341, 342 provided in the sliding member 3. Further, the tool 1 is provided with a guide 35 guiding the side of the interposed object 6 at a tip of the interposing parts 341, 342. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a holder for mounting an electronic device such as a mobile phone on a wall surface.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A holder for detachably holding an electronic device such as a mobile phone on a wall surface of an automobile is used.

FIG. 9 shows a vertical sectional view of the structure of a conventional holder. Such a holder has a base 71 as shown in FIG.
And the sliding member 7 slidably installed on the base 71.
3 and a biasing member (spring) 75 that biases the sliding member 73 in the sliding direction of the sliding member 73.

The base 71 and the sliding member 73 are provided with holding portions 72 and 74 for holding both side surfaces of the held object.

Further, the urging member 75 includes the holding portions 72, 74.
Are configured to urge the sliding members 73 in directions toward each other.

When the object to be pinched, such as a mobile phone, is attached, the pinching portion 7 is accompanied by the urging force of the urging member 75.
By sandwiching 2, 74, the object to be sandwiched can be held.

[0007]

However, the above-described holder 7 has the holding portion 7 when the object to be held is attached.
The tip ends of 2, 74 and the object to be held come into contact with each other, and the holding portion 72,
There is a possibility that the tip end of 74 and the surface of the object to be sandwiched may rub against each other, the surface of the object to be sandwiched may be scraped, or the paint applied to the object to be sandwiched may peel off.

Further, in the above-mentioned structure, both holding portions 72,
Since the object to be sandwiched cannot be clamped until the interval of 74 is made larger than the width of the object to be clamped, it takes time to attach and detach the object to be clamped.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and the object to be sandwiched can be easily attached and detached with a simple structure. An object of the present invention is to provide a holder that does not scrape the surface of an object.

[0010]

Such an object is achieved by the present invention of the following (1) to (9).

(1) A base portion fixed to a wall surface, a pair of sandwiching portions, and a biasing member for biasing the pair of sandwiching portions in directions toward each other, and being sandwiched by the pair of sandwiching portions. A holder for holding and holding an object, characterized in that a guide portion for guiding the object to be held is provided at the tip of at least one of the pair of holding portions.

(2) The holder according to (1), wherein at least one of the pair of holding portions is provided on a sliding member slidably mounted on the base portion.

(3) The holder according to (1) or (2) above, wherein the guide portion smoothly moves the object to be clamped from the tip end side to the base end side of the clamp portion. .

(4) The holder according to any one of the above (1) to (3), wherein the guide portion is a roller.

(5) The rotation axis of the roller is
The holder according to (4), which is provided substantially perpendicular to the sliding direction of the sliding member.

(6) A plurality of the sliding members are provided, and all of them are biased by the biasing members in directions toward each other. Retainer.

(7) The holder according to any one of the above (1) to (6), wherein the holding portion is configured to hold a mobile phone suitably.

(8) The holder according to any one of the above (1) to (6), wherein the holding portion is configured to hold the portable information terminal suitably.

(9) The holder according to any one of the above (1) to (8), which is installed on a wall surface provided inside a car.

Other objects, functions and effects of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description of embodiments with reference to the drawings.

[0021]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A holder according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state in which a mobile phone is attached to the holder of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a plan view of the holder of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway side view showing the structure of the holder of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a state in which both holding portions of the holder of the present invention are extended in the directions in which they are separated from each other. FIG. 5: is a top view of the base part of the holder of this invention. FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the engaging portion of the sliding member of the holder of the present invention taken along the line AA ′ in FIG. FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the base portion of the holding portion of the present invention taken along the line AA ′ in FIG. Figure 8
It is explanatory drawing which shows the procedure at the time of attaching to-be-held object to the holder of this invention.

The holder 1 of the present invention, as shown in FIG.
It is a device for attaching a held object 6 such as a mobile phone (including PHS) and a portable information terminal represented by a PDA to a wall surface 5 provided inside a car, for example.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the holder 1 includes a base 2, sliding members 3 and 3 slidably mounted on the base 2, and sliding members 3 and 3. Sliding members 3, 3
And a biasing member (spring) 4 that biases in the sliding direction. Each of these members is made of resin, wood, metal, ceramics, or the like.

The configuration of each part will be described below. As shown in FIG. 5, the base 2 has a substantially oval shape. Both ends in the longitudinal direction of the surface (the upper surface in FIG. 3) of the base portion 2 (FIG. 3).
Fixed portions 21 that fix the end portions of the biasing member 4 are provided at both the left and right middle portions. Further, walls 22 are provided on both sides in the longitudinal direction of the surface of the base 2 (see FIG. 5). A groove portion 24 that engages with the engaging portion 31 of the sliding member 3 is provided between the two wall portions 22, 22.

At the upper ends of the walls 22, 22 in FIG. 7,
As shown in FIG. 7, locking portions 23, 23 extending from the upper end portion of the wall portion 22 substantially perpendicular to the wall portion 22 are provided. The locking portions 23, 23 engage with the concave portions 33, 33 located on both sides of the engaging portion 31, and prevent the engaging portion 31 from coming out of the groove portion 24 in the upward direction in FIGS. 3 and 7.

Further, a regulating portion 25 is provided substantially at the center in the longitudinal direction of the both wall portions 22, 22. Regulation department 2
4 and 5, the left and right side faces of the sliding member 3 and 3 come into contact with the distal end portions of the sliding members 3 and 3, and the engaging portions 31 of the sliding members 3 and 3 extend in the distal direction (of the base portion 2). Movement inward).

The base 2 is constructed so that the double-sided adhesive tape 37 can be attached to the back surface (the lower surface in FIG. 3) of the base 2, with one surface of the double-sided adhesive tape 37 facing the base 2. By attaching the other surface to the wall surface 5 of an automobile, etc.
Attached to. Note that the holder 1 can be attached to the wall surface 5 by screwing the base portion 2 and the wall surface 5 with each other, without being limited to the above-described configuration.

The sliding members 3 and 3 are provided on the left and right sides of the base 2 in the figure. As shown in FIG. 3, the two sliding members 3 and 3 include an engaging portion 31 and sandwiching portions 341 and 34 provided substantially perpendicularly to the engaging portion 31 from an end portion of the engaging portion 31.
2 and. Moreover, these sliding members 3, 3 are
Each has the same shape. Also, both sliding members 3,
The urging member 3 is urged by the urging members 4 and 4 in directions toward each other.

As shown in FIG. 6, the engaging portion 31 is a hollow plate-like member having an open lower surface, and has an accommodating portion 32 for accommodating the biasing member 4 therein. Also, this engaging portion 31
Recesses 33, 33 that engage with the locking portion 23 of the base portion 2 are provided on both upper side portions of the. The recesses 33, 33 have a function of engaging with a locking portion 23 provided on the upper end of the wall portion 22 of the base portion 2 and restricting the movement of the engaging portion 31 to both sides and upward.

The sandwiching parts 341 and 342 are shown in FIGS.
As shown in, the base end portion is integrally formed with the end portion of the engaging portion 31. Further, a guide portion 35 is provided at the tip of the sandwiching portions 341 and 342.

The guide portion 35 has a shaft 351 and a roller 352 attached to the shaft 351.

As shown in FIG. 2, the shaft 351 is provided so that its longitudinal direction is substantially perpendicular to the sliding direction of the sliding member 3.

The roller 352 is formed in a rounded columnar shape as a whole, and the outer peripheral surface of the roller 352 has a sandwiching portion 341,
It is attached so as to be exposed from the upper surface of 342 in FIG. 3 to the left and right side surfaces. This roller 352 is provided when the object to be sandwiched 6 is attached to or detached from the sandwiching portions 341, 342.
It has a function of guiding the side surface of the object to be clamped 6 from the tip end side to the base end side of the holders 341 and 342 to smoothly move the object to be clamped 6. The function of the roller 352 will be described in detail later.

Further, the opposing surfaces of the sandwiching portions 341 and 342 are brought into contact with both side portions of the object to be sandwiched 6, respectively.
Contact members 36, 36 having a function as a cushioning material between the objects 41, 342 and the object 6 to be held are provided. As a material forming the contact member 36, for example, a flexible material such as a urethane foam sheet is preferably used.

The procedure for attaching / detaching the object 6 to / from the holder 1 of the present invention will be described below. [1] As shown in FIG. 8, the left side of the object to be clamped 6 in the figure is pressed against the clamping section 341 of the sliding member 3, and the sliding member 3 is slid in the direction indicated by arrow A in the figure.

[2] Centering on the left end of the object 6 to be clamped,
The object 6 is rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow B in FIG. At this time, the right end of the object to be clamped 6 is smoothly guided to the position of the contact member 36 of the clamp part 342 by the guide of the guide part 35.

[3] The object to be clamped 6 is moved in the direction opposite to the arrow A in FIG. 8 to bring both clamping parts 341 and 342 into contact with both sides of the object to be clamped 6. At this time, the object to be held 6 is held by holding both the holding portions 341 and 342 by the urging force of the urging member 4. Further, at this time, the holding portions 341, 342
The force applied to the two sliding members 3 is distributed to the both sliding members 3
The lengths of the biasing members 4 for biasing are approximately equal. Then, the sliding distance of the sliding member 3 with respect to the base portion 2 becomes substantially equal.

In this description, the case where the left side portion of the object to be clamped 6 is pressed against the clamping portion 341 has been described as an example. The held object 6 is held by the holder 1 in the same procedure as
Can be attached to. Further, when removing the object to be clamped 6 from the holder 1, the right side portion of the object to be clamped 6 is moved in the direction opposite to the arrow B in FIG. 8 by a procedure reverse to the procedure of [1] to [3]. It suffices to rotate and take out the sandwiched object 6 to the upper side in the drawing.

In this embodiment, as described above,
Since the pair of left and right sliding members 3 and 3 having the same shape are provided, when the object to be sandwiched is attached, the holder 1 has a symmetrical shape, so that the object to be sandwiched can be stably held. Can be held.

Further, by providing a plurality of sliding members 3 on the base portion 2, as compared with the case where one sliding member is provided on the base portion 2, sliding on the base portion 2 per sliding member is performed. Since the distance is small, when the object to be sandwiched is sandwiched, the object to be sandwiched can be stably held without the sliding member 3 wobbling. Further, by providing a plurality of sliding members 3 with respect to the base portion 2, it is possible to stably hold the object to be sandwiched, regardless of the size of the width, so that the holder 1 having high versatility is realized.

In this embodiment, the roller 3
The configuration is such that the object to be clamped 6 is guided by 52, but the configuration is not limited to this, and the clamping members 341, 3 are provided with a protrusion formed in a rounded shape made of a resin having good sliding property as a guide.
It can also be provided at the tip of 42.

Further, in the present embodiment, the pair of sliding members 3 and 3 are provided to the base 2, but the present invention is not limited to this structure, and one sliding member is provided to the base and the base is provided. The object to be sandwiched may be sandwiched by the sandwiching portion provided and the sandwiching portion provided on the sliding member. Further, it is also possible to provide two or more pairs of sliding members with respect to the base, and to sandwich the object to be sandwiched by the sandwiching portions provided on these sliding members.

Further, in the present embodiment, the sandwiching portion 34
Although the guide portions 35 are provided on both the first and the second portions 342, the advantages of the present invention can be obtained even when the guide portions 35 are provided on either one of the sandwiching portions 341 and 342.

Further, in the present embodiment, the holder 1 is constructed so as to be able to suitably hold the portable telephone (including PHS), but the present invention is not limited to this, and the holder 1 is represented by a PDA or the like. It is also possible to configure so that the portable information terminal can be suitably held.

Finally, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and various modifications and improvements can be made within the scope described in the claims.

For example, it is of course possible to use the holder of this embodiment by mounting it on the wall surface of another moving body such as an electric train, a train, a ship, or an airplane.

[0048]

As described above, according to the present invention, a holder that can easily attach and detach the object to be sandwiched is realized by the guide of the guide portion provided at the tip of the sandwiching portion. That is, since the holder having the conventional structure does not have the guide portion for guiding the side portion of the sandwiched object at the tip of the sandwiched portion, the distance between the sandwiched portions must be made larger than the width of the sandwiched object. However, in the structure of the present invention, since the guide part for guiding the side part of the sandwiched object is provided at the tip of the sandwiched part, the interval between the sandwiched parts is small. However, even when the width of the sandwiched object is equal to or slightly smaller than the width of the sandwiched object, the sandwiched object can be smoothly attached to the holder by the guide of the guide portion.

Further, according to the present invention, since the side portion of the object to be sandwiched is smoothly guided by the guide portion provided at the tip of the sandwiching portion, the tip of the sandwiching portion and the sheathed portion are guided like the conventional structure. There is no fear that the surface of the object to be sandwiched is rubbed against each other, the surface of the object to be sandwiched is scraped off by the tip of the sandwiching part, and the coating is peeled off.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state in which a mobile phone is attached to a holder of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a holder of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway side view showing the structure of the holder of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a state in which both holding portions of the holder of the present invention are extended in a direction in which they are separated from each other.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of the base of the holder of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an A in FIG. 2 of an engaging portion of a sliding member of a holder of the present invention.
It is a sectional view taken along the line A-A '.

7 is a cross-sectional view of the base portion of the holding portion of the present invention taken along the line AA ′ in FIG.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view showing a procedure for attaching an object to be held to the holder of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a vertical sectional view showing the structure of a conventional holder.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Holder (the present invention) 2 base 21 Fixed part 22 wall 23 Locking part 24 groove 25 Regulation Department 3 Sliding member 31 Engagement part 32 accommodation 33 recess 341, 342 clamping part 35 Guidance Department 351 axis 352 roller 36 Abutment member 37 Double-sided adhesive tape 4 biasing members 5 wall surfaces 6 objects to be held 7 Holder (conventional structure) 71 base 72 clamping part 73 Sliding member 74 clamping part 75 Biasing member

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A base portion fixed to a wall surface, a pair of sandwiching portions, and a biasing member for biasing the pair of sandwiching portions in directions toward each other, the object to be sandwiched by the pair of sandwiching portions. A holder for sandwiching and holding the holder, wherein a guide portion for guiding the object to be sandwiched is provided at at least one tip end portion of the pair of sandwiching portions. 2. The holder according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the pair of holding portions is provided on a sliding member slidably installed on the base portion. 3. The holder according to claim 1, wherein the guide portion smoothly moves the object to be pinched from the holding portion toward the base end side. 4. The holder according to claim 1, wherein the guide portion is a roller. 5. The holder according to claim 4, wherein the rotation axis of the roller is provided substantially perpendicular to the sliding direction of the sliding member. 6. A plurality of the sliding members are provided,
The holder according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein both of them are biased by the biasing members in directions toward each other. 7. The holder according to claim 1, wherein the holding portion is configured to hold a mobile phone in a suitable manner. 8. The holder according to claim 1, wherein the holding portion is configured to hold the portable information terminal suitably. 9. The holder according to claim 1, wherein the holder is installed on a wall surface provided inside a vehicle.