Patent Application
20230031835
This application claims priority to and/or benefit from Chinese patent application No. 202110853062.7, filed Jul. 27, 2021, entitled ANGLE ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM AND TV MOUNTING BRACKET THEREOF, the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to the field of mounting bracket technologies, and in particular, to an angle adjustment apparatus and a television (TV) mounting bracket including the same.
With the development of science and technology, since flat-panel TVs have advantages of small occupied space and light weight, the flat-panel TVs are more and more popularized. More and more families can use the flat-panel TVs for audio and video entertainment, and companies can use the flat-panel TVs to explain meetings and so on, greatly enriching and facilitating people's life.
Based on the advantages of the flat-panel TVs, the flat-panel TVs may be directly mounted to wall surfaces, so as to further reduce the occupied space of the flat-panel TVs during actual use. However, a conventional manner of mounting a flat-panel TV involves mounting a TV bracket with screws by drilling holes in a wall, and then fixing the TV to the bracket. Although the stability of the mounting of the TV may be realized in this manner, the TV is fixed to the bracket because the mounted bracket is fixed. As a result, an orientation and a tilt angle of the TV are fixed during actual use, which cannot meet usage requirements of users.
According to various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, an angle adjustment apparatus and a TV mounting bracket including the same are provided.
An angle adjustment apparatus is provided, including:
a first connector having a first end and a second end;
a second connector having a third end and a fourth end, the third end of the second connector being rotatably connected to the first end of the first connector through a pivot shaft;
a first adjusting member, the first adjusting member being connected to the second end of the first connector;
a second adjusting member, the second adjusting member being connected to the fourth end of the second connector; and
a third adjusting member configured to adjust a distance between the second end of the first connector and the fourth end of the second connector;
wherein at least one of the first adjusting member and the second adjusting member is rotatably connected to the first connector corresponding thereto or the second connector corresponding thereto, and a rotation axis for the rotatable connection is parallel to the pivot shaft.
An angle adjustment apparatus is further provided, including:
a first connector having a first end and a second end and configured to be connected to a mounting surface;
a second connector having a third end and a fourth end and configured to be connected to a display device, the third end of the second connector being rotatably connected to the first end of the first connector through a pivot shaft; and
an adjusting component connected to the first connector and the second connector and configured to adjust a distance between the first connector and the second connector;
when the adjusting component adjusts the distance between the first connector and the second connector, at least one of the second end of the first connector and the fourth end of the second connector rotates with the adjusting component about a rotation axis parallel to the pivot shaft.
A TV mounting bracket includes the angle adjustment apparatus as described above and a connecting arm. The connecting arm has one end connected to the angle adjustment apparatus and the other end connected to a mounting surface.
Details of one or more embodiments of the present disclosure are set forth in the following accompanying drawings and descriptions. Other features, objects, and advantages of the present disclosure become obvious with reference to the specification, the accompanying drawings, and the claims.
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in embodiments of the present disclosure or the conventional art, the accompanying drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the conventional art will be briefly introduced below. It is apparent that, the accompanying drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present disclosure, and those of ordinary skill in the art can derive other drawings from the accompanying drawings without creative efforts.
In order to make the above objectives, features and advantages of the present disclosure more obvious and understandable, specific implementations of the present disclosure are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, many specific details are set forth in order to fully understand the present disclosure. However, the present disclosure can be implemented in many other ways different from those described herein, and those skilled in the art can make similar improvements without departing from the connotation of the present disclosure. Therefore, the present disclosure is not limited by the specific embodiment disclosed below.
In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that the orientation or position relationship indicated by the terms “center”, “longitudinal”, “transverse”, “length”, “width”, “thickness”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “back”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer”, “clockwise”, “counterclockwise”, “axial”, “radial”, “circumferential”, etc. are based on the orientation or position relationship shown in the accompanying drawings and are intended to facilitate the description of the present disclosure and simplify the description only, rather than indicating or implying that the apparatus or element referred to must have a particular orientation or be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore are not to be interpreted as limiting the present disclosure.
In addition, the terms “first” and “second” are used for descriptive purposes only, which cannot be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance, or implicitly specifying the number of the indicated technical features. Thus, the features defined with “first” and “second” may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the features. In the description of the present disclosure, “a plurality of” means at least two, such as two or three, unless specifically stated otherwise.
In the present disclosure, unless otherwise expressly specified and limited, the terms “mount,” “join,” “connect”, “fix”, etc. should be understood in a broad sense, such as, a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; a direct connection, an indirect connection through an intermediate medium, an internal connection of two elements, or an interaction of two elements, unless otherwise expressly limited. For those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meanings of the foregoing terms in the present disclosure can be understood on a case-by-case basis.
In the present disclosure, unless otherwise explicitly specified and defined, the expression a first feature being “on” or “under” a second feature may be the case that the first feature is in direct contact with the second feature, or the first feature is in indirect contact with the second feature via an intermediate medium. Furthermore, the expression the first feature being “over”, “above” and “on top of” the second feature may be the case that the first feature is directly above or obliquely above the second feature, or only means that the level of the first feature is higher than that of the second feature. The expression the first feature being “below”, “underneath” or “under” the second feature may be the case that the first feature is directly underneath or obliquely underneath the second feature, or only means that the level of the first feature is lower than that of the second feature.
It is to be noted that, when one element is referred to as “fixed to” or “arranged on” another element, it may be directly disposed on the another element or an intermediate element may exist. When one element is considered to be “connected to” another element, it may be directly connected to the another element or an intermediate element may co-exist. The terms “vertical”, “horizontal”, “upper”, “lower”, “left”, “right” used herein and similar expressions used herein are for illustrative purposes only and do not imply that they are the only means of implementation.
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In some embodiments, the first adjusting member 130 is fixedly connected to the second end 112 of the first connector 110 by soldering, and the second adjusting member 140 is rotatably connected to the fourth end 122 of the second connector 120. Since the first adjusting member 130 is fixed to the first connector 110 and the first connector 110 is connected to a mounting surface such as a wall, it can be considered that a position and an angle of the first adjusting member 130 always remain fixed. When the third adjusting member 150 causes the distance between the second end 112 of the first connector 110 and the fourth end 122 of the second connector 120 to increase, the second adjusting member 140 is away from the second end 112 of the first connector 110 and rotates clockwise as observed in
Similarly, in some other embodiments, the second adjusting member 140 is fixedly connected to the fourth end 122 of the second connector 120 by soldering, and the first adjusting member 130 is rotatably connected to the second end 112 of the first connector 110. Obviously, the principles of these embodiments are consistent with the above solution, the first adjusting member 130 can stably displace and rotate relative to the second adjusting member 140, driving the angle between the first connector 110 and the second connector 120 to change.
In some other embodiments, the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140 are rotatably connected to the first connector 110 and the second connector 120 correspondingly. It is easy to understand that, in the foregoing embodiments, the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140 both rotate and displace to some extent. The angle between the first connector 110 and the second connector 120 can be changed through cooperation between the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140.
In the angle adjustment apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure, at least one of the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140 is rotatably connected to the first connector 110 or the second connector 120. As a result, during the adjustment, the third adjusting member 150 can adapt to a change in the angle between the third adjusting member 150 and the first adjusting member 130 or the angle between the third adjusting member 150 and the second adjusting member 140, so that it is ensured that the distance between the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140 can always be synchronously adjusted with the third adjusting member 150, so as to drive the distance between the second end 112 of the first connector 110 and the fourth end 122 of the second connector 120 to also be synchronously adjusted with the third adjusting member 150, thereby realizing the adjustment on the angle between the first connector 110 and the second connector 120. Compared with the prior art, during the angle adjustment of the angle adjustment apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure, the third adjusting member 150 is actually adjusted, and a change in the distance is more easily perceived and controlled than the change in the angle in the prior art, which enables the angle adjustment apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure to control the adjustment on the angle between the first connector 110 and the second connector 120 more accurately. In addition, since the distance between the first connector 110 and the second connector 120 is adjusted using the third adjusting member 150, the angle adjustment apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure is not required to provide bent portions with poor strength on the first connector 110 and the second connector 120 like the prior art. The angle adjustment apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure has better structural integration, more uniform force, and better stability. By arranging at least one of the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140 to be rotatably connected to the first connector 110 corresponding thereto or the second connector 120 corresponding thereto, and arranging the rotation axis for the rotatable connection to be parallel to the pivot shaft 160, the force between the first adjusting member 130 and the first connector 110 and the force between the second adjusting member 140 and the second connector 120 are parallel, thereby ensuring the overall stability of the angle adjustment apparatus 100 during the adjustment on the third adjusting member 150.
It can be understood that the third adjusting member 150 may be implemented in many forms. In some embodiments, the third adjusting member 150 may be a common telescopic rod on the market. Both ends of a rod portion of the telescopic rod are connected to the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140, respectively, and a length of the telescopic rod is adjusted through a fixing component of the telescopic rod.
In some other embodiments, referring to
In this embodiment, the third adjusting member 150 can include a threaded connector 151, a positioning structure 152, and a threaded structure 153. In the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140, one is provided with the positioning structure 152, and the other is provided with the threaded structure 153. The threaded connector 151 is connected to the positioning structure 152 at one end and is connected to the threaded structure 153 at the other end thereof. With the arrangement of the third adjusting member 150 having the above structure, the connection is more stable, and it is also more advantageous to fine adjustment of a telescopic length.
In some embodiments, as shown in
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In the foregoing embodiment, during the adjustment of the angle adjustment apparatus 100, the head of the bolt 1511 is turned so that the screw portion of the bolt 1511 is rotated in the screw hole. Since the first adjusting member 130 is fixed to a head portion of the bolt 1511 by the head and the nut 1512, rotation of the bolt 1511 causes the distance between the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140 to change, thereby realizing the adjustment on the angle between the first connector 110 and the second connector 120. In addition, rotatable connections of the bolt 1511 with the first adjusting member 130 and the second adjusting member 140 form a match, so that the screw of the bolt 1511 can always be aligned with the screw hole, thereby preventing the problem of interlocking caused by dislocation between the threaded connector 151 and the screw hole and fully ensuring the stability of the use of the angle adjustment apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure.
In some embodiments, a tolerance is provided between the first adjusting member 130 and the third adjusting member 150. In the embodiment shown in
It can be understood that the specific implementation form of the threaded connector 151, the positioning structure 152, and the threaded structure 153 is obviously not limited to the above manner. As shown in
It is to be noted that, in the angle adjustment apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure, the specific implementations of the first connector 110, the second connector 120, and connections of the two and the pivot shaft 160 are not specifically limited.
In some embodiments, as shown in
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In the foregoing embodiment, the angle adjustment apparatus 100 not only provides a mounting space for the third connector 117, but also enables the third adjusting member 150 connected to the first adjusting member 130 to have a longer telescopic range by arranging the first adjusting member 130 to be appropriately away from the first connection body 114, so as to adjust the angle between the first connector 110 and the second connector 120 more accurately. By arranging the first adjusting member 130 below the first bottom plate 116, the first adjusting member 130 can have a larger rotation range in the case that the first adjusting member 130 is rotatably connected to the first bottom plate 116, enabling the first adjusting member 130, the second adjusting member 140, and the third adjusting member 150 to have better matching conditions. Moreover, since there is a lot of space below the first bottom plate 116, the angle adjustment apparatus 100 in this embodiment has a more ample operating space to adjust the third adjusting member 150 compared with the arrangement of the first adjusting member 130 on one side of the first connection body 114, which can optimize use experience of the angle adjustment apparatus 100 according to the present disclosure.
In some embodiments, as shown in
In another aspect of the present disclosure, a television (TV) mounting bracket 10 is disclosed, which, as shown in
The technical features in the above embodiments may be randomly combined. For concise description, not all possible combinations of the technical features in the above embodiments are described. However, all the combinations of the technical features are to be considered as falling within the scope described in this specification provided that they do not conflict with each other.
The above embodiments only describe several implementations of the present disclosure, and their description is specific and detailed, but cannot therefore be understood as a limitation on the patent scope of the disclosure. It should be noted that those of ordinary skill in the art may further make variations and improvements without departing from the conception of the present disclosure, and these all fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the patent protection scope of the present disclosure should be subject to the appended claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 202110853062.7 | Jul 2021 | CN | national |
