JPH08288020A - Electrical connection structure for day battery and circuit - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an electrical connection structure for a dry battery and a circuit, eliminating the conventional complicated wiring structure, ensuring a very simple configuration, allowing a very easy fabrication and enabling such a high function switch device as occupying space to be easily assembled. CONSTITUTION: A storage cylinder 4 made of a conductive material is laid within a housing section 2 to store a dry battery 1, and the bottom of the cylinder 4 is provided with a bearing section 5 for supporting the battery 1 to contact a terminal. Also, a closing cylinder 6 for closing an opening 2A of the section 2 is internally fitted with a contact section 8 for electrical contact with the front end of the cylinder 4, and the contact section 8 is formed to have such a shape as occupying space 10 in the cylinder 6 for coupling and arrangement therein. When the contact section 8 is coupled to and laid in the cylinder 6, the occupied space 10 is provided with a control switch body 9 for regulating electrical continuity to a circuit 3. Also, the bottom of the section 8 is provided with a terminal contact section 7 for electrical contact with the terminal of the battery 1 housed in the section 4 in such a state as isolated from the section 8.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electrical connection structure between a dry battery and a circuit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Signal lights (safety lights) used by flashlights and police officers, for example.
For example, insert several batteries in series from the opening on one side of the grip (storage) into the storage, and then plug the opening into a closed cylinder (such as the light-emitting unit or lighting circuit). It is designed to have a structure in which the lighting circuit and the dry battery are electrically connected to each other when closed by a connecting tube, and the conduction to the lighting circuit is controlled by a switch device provided in a grip portion or the like.

However, conventionally, in order to form such a connection structure, an electric wire or the like has to be laid out and wired in a housing portion, and there has been a problem that production is very troublesome.

In addition, there is only a very limited space for mounting the switch device in order to place the dry batteries in the grip portion, and the switch operation that takes up a little space is not possible and a switch device with good performance cannot be mounted. There is also.

The present invention focuses on such a problem and has an extremely simple structure without using a complicated wiring structure as in the prior art. When the opening portion of the storage portion is closed by the closing portion, electric power to each circuit is reduced. Revolutionary dry battery that is very easy to manufacture with reliable electrical connection, and is easy to incorporate a switch device with good performance that creates a sufficient space inside the closed cylinder to occupy installation space. And an electrical connection structure between the circuit and the circuit.

[0006]

The gist of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The dry battery 1 is inserted and inserted into the cylindrical housing 2 through the front opening 2A, the opening 2A is closed to house the dry battery 1 in the housing 2, and the circuit 3 using the dry battery 1 as a power source 3 In the electrical connection structure of the dry battery and the circuit for electrically connecting the circuit 3 and the dry battery 1 in the front side of the storage part 2, the storage cylinder part 4 for storing the dry battery 1 in the storage part 2 is provided.
The storage cylinder 4 is formed of a conductive material such as metal, and the dry battery 1 is supported on the bottom of the storage cylinder 4 to electrically contact the negative terminal or the positive terminal of the dry battery 1. Is provided with a support portion 5 for the upper opening 2A of the storage portion 2.
A contact portion 8 that electrically contacts the front end portion of the storage cylinder portion 4 is disposed in the closed cylinder portion 6 that closes the space, and the contact portion 8 holds the space 10 in the closed cylinder portion 6. A switch body 9 is formed in a shape that can be fitted and arranged, and when the contact portion 8 is fitted and arranged in the closed cylinder portion 6, a switch body 9 for controlling the conduction to the circuit 3 is stored in the space 10 that is retained. The switch operating portion 9A is arranged so as to be located on the outer peripheral surface of the closed tubular portion 6, and the contact portion 8 is provided.
A terminal contact portion 7 that electrically contacts the positive terminal or the negative terminal of the dry battery 1 housed in the housing cylindrical portion 4 in an insulated state from the contact portion 8 is provided at the bottom of the upper opening of the closed cylindrical portion 6. When the portion 2A is closed, the terminal abutting portion 7 and the abutting portion 8 are connected via the switch body 9 to the circuit 3 arranged on the front side which is the opening 2A side of the storage portion 2, and the switch body 9 is used. The present invention relates to an electrical connection structure between a dry battery and a circuit, which is characterized in that the electric conduction to the circuit 3 can be controlled.

[0008]

When the dry battery 1 is inserted and inserted into the storage cylinder portion 4 of the storage portion 2 from the upper opening 2A with the negative terminal on the bottom side, and the upper opening 2A is closed by the closing cylinder portion 6, the dry battery 1 The minus terminal is connected to the contact portion 8 that comes into contact with the front end of the storage cylinder portion 4 through the support portion 5 and the storage cylinder portion 4 at the bottom of the storage cylinder portion 4, and the plus terminal is connected to the terminal contact portion 7. Then, the power source of the dry battery 1 and the circuit 3 arranged on the front side of the storage portion 2 are connected via the switch body 9 provided in the space 10 in the closed tubular portion 6.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The drawings show an example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is a practical application developed by the applicant.
The present invention has been applied to the signal light according to No. 81.

In this embodiment, the dry battery 1 is inserted and inserted from the front opening 2A into the cylindrical storage portion 2 of the gripping portion, the opening 2A is closed, and a plurality of dry batteries 1 are connected to the storage portion 2 in series. A circuit 3 which uses the dry battery 1 as a power source and blinks the light emitting diode 12 arranged in the lighting tube portion 11 of the signal light.
Is arranged on the front side of the storage portion 2 and the circuit 3 and the dry battery 1 are electrically connected.

Specifically, the configuration is as follows.

An accommodating cylinder portion 4 for accommodating the dry battery 1 is arranged in a cylindrical accommodating portion 2 forming a grip portion, and the accommodating cylinder portion 4 is made of a conductive material such as metal.

At the bottom of the accommodating cylinder portion 4, a conductive spring-like support portion 5 for elastically supporting the dry battery 1 inserted and inserted in the accommodating cylinder portion 4 and contacting the negative terminal of the dry battery 1 is accommodated in the accommodating cylinder portion 4.
When the two dry batteries 1 are inserted and inserted in series in the storage cylinder portion 4 by the spring-shaped support portion 5, the storage portion 2 is installed.
The positive terminal of the dry battery 1 arranged on the side of the opening 2A is supported so as to be slightly recessed to the bottom side from the upper peripheral edge of the storage cylinder 4. When the upper opening 2A of the storage part 2 is closed by the closing tubular part 6 that closes the upper opening 2A of the storage part 2, when the upper opening 2A of the storage part 2 is closed, the front edge of the storage part 4 is electrically connected. An abutting portion 8 that comes into contact with is provided.

The abutting portion 8 has a bottom disk 8A that abuts on the front edge of the accommodating tubular portion 4, and is a bottomed cylindrical body that can be inserted along the inner edge of the closed tubular portion 6. When the contact portion 8 is fitted and disposed in the closed cylindrical portion 6 with the bottom circular plate 8A as the bottom plate,
A space 10 is retained in the closed cylinder portion 6 by the upper cylinder portion 8B. Further, in the present embodiment, the contact receiving piece portions 13 are horizontally folded back at several places on the front edge portion of the storage tubular portion 4 to form the bottom disk 8A of the contact portion 8 and the front edge portion of the storage tubular portion 4. It is configured to ensure contact with.

A notched portion having a split groove is formed along the front-rear direction on the peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion 8B, and the closed cylindrical portion 6 is formed by the cylindrical portion 8B.
A push-type switch body 9 is arranged in a space 10 to be held therein, and a switch operating portion 9A of the switch body 9 is projected from the outer peripheral surface of the closed tubular portion 6 through a notch having a split groove. To set up.

The contact portion 8 is connected to the negative connection portion of the circuit 3 by a lead wire, and is housed in the storage cylinder portion 4 at the center of the bottom disk 8A in an insulated state from the contact portion 8. A terminal contact portion 7 capable of making electrical contact with a positive terminal existing at a position slightly deeper on the bottom side than the upper peripheral edge of the storage cylinder portion 4 of the dry battery 1 is vertically provided, and a closed cylinder portion 6 is provided above the storage portion 2. Opening 2
The terminal contact portion 7 is provided so as to press and contact the positive terminal of the dry battery 1 when A is closed, and the terminal contact portion 7 is connected to the positive connection portion of the circuit 3 via the switch body 9 by the lead wire. .

Therefore, the bottomed cylindrical abutting portion 8 which is fitted and disposed in the closed tubular portion 6 allows a space 10 in which a high performance switch body 9 can be disposed to be retained so that the circuit 3 and the dry battery 1 are provided. The contact portion 8 ensures that the circuit 3 and the dry cell 1 are connected to each other, although a distance is generated between the circuit 3 and the battery 1.

Moreover, since the contact portion 8 is formed into a cylindrical shape which can be inserted along the inner edge of the closed tubular portion 6, the contact portion 8 can be easily inserted into and removed from the closed tubular portion 6. Can
By simply closing the opening 2A of the storage part 2 with the closing cylinder part 6 in which the cylindrical contact part 8 is inserted and disposed, the opening edge 2A of the storage cylinder part 4 (contact receiving piece part 13) is closed. The positive disk terminal of the dry cell 1 and the terminal disk 8A of the abutting portion 8 are provided so as to be in contact with the bottom disk 8A of the abutting portion 8 arranged in the cylindrical portion 6. Since the contact portion 7 makes contact with the circuit 3 and the electric shock-sensitive ground 1 is electrically connected, the conduction to the circuit 3 can be controlled by operating the switch operating portion 9A of the switch body 9. The excellent electrical connection structure between the dry battery 1 and the circuit 3 is extremely easy to manufacture and inexpensive.

In addition, the circuit 3 includes a circuit for switching the lighting state of the light emitting diode 12, and a cylinder held in the closed cylindrical portion 6 by a bottomed cylindrical contact portion 8 fitted and inserted in the closed cylindrical portion 6. It is also possible to easily arrange the changeover switch for driving and controlling the changeover circuit in the space 10 and to install the changeover switch in parallel with the switch body 9 for operating and controlling the main power source.

[0020]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it has an extremely simple structure without the complicated wiring structure of the prior art, and when the opening of the storage part is closed by the closing cylinder part, electric power is supplied to the circuit. It has an excellent electrical connection structure between a dry battery and a circuit, which is easy to manufacture with reliable electrical connection and is inexpensive.

Further, when the opening portion of the storage portion is closed by the closing tubular portion, the abutting portion in the closing tubular portion, which makes electrical contact with the front end portion of the receiving tubular portion, is inserted by holding a space in the closing tubular portion. The switch body for controlling the conduction to the circuit is formed in the space that is formed so that the space where the switch body is installed may hinder the installation of the switch body. Since it does not have a space, a switch operation that takes up space is easy, and an excellent electrical connection structure between a dry battery and a circuit can be easily incorporated with a switch device with good performance.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a usage state of the present embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory side sectional view of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory exploded perspective view of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Dry Battery 2 Storage Section 2A Opening Section 3 Circuit 4 Storage Cylindrical Section 5 Support Section 6 Closing Cylindrical Section 7 Terminal Contact Section 8 Contact Section 9 Switch Body 9A Switch Operation Section 10 Space

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A dry battery is inserted into and inserted from a front opening into a cylindrical storage unit, the opening is closed to store the dry battery in the storage unit, and a circuit using the dry battery as a power source is provided on the front side of the storage unit. In the electrical connection structure of the dry battery and the circuit, which is arranged to electrically connect the circuit and the dry battery, a storage cylinder part for storing the dry battery is arranged in the storage part, and the storage cylinder part is made of metal or the like. A closed cylinder that is made of a conductive material and has a conductive support that supports the dry battery at the bottom of the storage cylinder and makes electrical contact with the negative or positive terminal of the dry battery and closes the upper opening of the storage. An abutting portion that electrically contacts the front end portion of the accommodating tubular portion is disposed inside the portion, and the abutting portion is formed in a shape that allows a space to be retained in the closing tubular portion and can be inserted and disposed. When the abutting portion is fitted and disposed in the tubular portion, the circuit is provided in the space held therein. The switch body for controlling the conduction to the switch is arranged such that the switch operation portion is located on the outer peripheral surface of the closed cylinder portion, and the bottom portion of this contact portion is housed in the storage cylinder portion in an insulating state from the contact portion. When a terminal contact portion that electrically contacts the positive terminal or the negative terminal of the dry battery is provided and the upper opening portion is closed by the closing cylinder portion, the terminal contact is provided to the circuit arranged on the front side which is the opening side of the storage portion. An electrical connection structure between a dry cell and a circuit, characterized in that the contact portion and the contact portion are connected via a switch body, and the switch body can control conduction to the circuit.