The present invention relates to an apparatus capable of guiding a (relatively) stable rotational actuation between a first support bracket fixedly connected to a supporting frame side of a door frame and a second support bracket fixedly connected to a door side in a gear hinge part (hereinafter referred to as a gear hinge unit) constituting a rotary door (hereinafter referred to as a rotating (hinged) door). More specifically, in a door hinge in which a gear hinge unit is provided between the first support bracket fixedly connected to the supporting frame side of the door frame and the second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side, by minimizing a compressive stress generated in a lower gear hinge unit under a neutral axis of the door and a tensile stress generated in a upper gear hinge unit above the neutral axis of the door induced by a rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit through the second support bracket due to a load of the door, the present invention relates to a rotational actuation guide device of the gear hinge unit of the rotary door not only for ensuring and maintaining accurate opening and closing performance of the door, but also for minimizing damage to parts caused by friction or friction noise in the door hinge.
In general, in a rotary door, one side of a door is fixedly installed in a supporting frame of a door frame in which the door is installed, and a door hinge part having a rotating shaft is installed between this installation surfaces in one side of a door and one side of the supporting frame of the door frame, in order to enable horizontal rotation of the door, so that the door can be opened and closed.
Products having various shapes and structures of the door hinge part have been developed and used. In the case of using a general hinge part having a pin-type binge rod, which is most commonly used, if deformation does not occur in a hinge frame supporting the hinge rod, and if rigidity of a fixing means for fixing and connecting the hinge frame to the door or to the supporting frame of the door frame is sufficient, a vertical displacement by a vertical load of the door generally does not occur significantly. In this case, there is a problem in that it is difficult to enlarge the door, so when the door is enlarged, size and rigidity of the hinge part and size and rigidity of its fixing means (anchor) must also be increased, because rigidity to resist the rotational moment on the vertical plane occurring between the top and bottom of the door is weak. Furthermore, a demand that the cross-sectional size of the door (or the cross-sectional size of the door frame supporting the glass window constituting the door) should be minimized to meet the demand of consumers who want to slim it while increasing the size of the door, is conflict to a demand to increase the size of the fixing means (anchor). Therefore, there is a technical limitation that it is difficult to find a solution that satisfies all such conflicting demands (needs).
As a structure different from the general hinge part using such a pin-type hinge rod, a gear hinge unit shown in the accompanying drawings
Hereinafter, in order to help the understanding of the present invention, a detailed configuration of such a gear hinge unit and an example of use of a rotary door using the same will be first described by using drawings of
In a rotary door 100U shown in
On the other hand, the gear hinge unit 30 has a planar rotation structure that provides smooth rotation action and high resistance to rotation moment as shown in
Here, as shown in
In the case of the structure shown in the drawings of
As shown in
On the other hand, in the first support bracket 31 and the second support bracket 32 rotate in a state of being engaged with each other by the gear portions 31a and 32a formed in the longitudinal direction on both sides, as shown in
An upper surface and a lower surface of the vertical locking hole 34 provided to suppress a longitudinal displacement occurring between the first support bracket 31 and the second support bracket 32 are provided to support an end face in which the opposing openings 31c and 32c are formed at the gear portions 31a and 32a on both sides of the first support bracket 31 and the second support bracket 32 when the door is rotated to open and close while rubbing against the end face. Therefore, unlike the first support bracket 31 and the second support bracket 32 that are generally made of a metal material such as an aluminum alloy material, the vertical locking hole 34 is made of a synthetic resin material having a low coefficient of friction to prevent friction noise.
However, in an actual situation in Which a large scale door 20 is installed and used in the supporting frame 10 of the door frame through the gear hinge unit 30 described so far, as shown in
Furthermore, in actual situation as shown in
In particular, when the door 20 is rotated and opened, as shown in the lower section of
Up to now, while explaining the problems of the prior art regarding the door hinge of a rotating door, examples of using the gear hinge unit have been mainly described, but if it has a structure that can generate excessive compressive stress or tensile stress according to the increase of the rotational moment occurring between the upper and lower sides of the door, it is reasonable to view that another hinge type door also has a technical problem substantially equal to the technical problem of the gear hinge unit even if the specific configuration of the hinge parts constituting the door hinge of the rotating door is different.
The present invention is to solve the common problems of the prior art described above, and a technical object of the present invention is to achieve a door support structure through a simple device which is possible to minimize the occurrence of rotational moment between the upper and the bottom of the door with overcoming the phenomenon that the tendency to increase the rotational moment between the upper side and bottom side of the door on the vertical surface of the door hinge around the horizontal directional neutral axis of the door hinge during the door rotation opening/closing actuation due to the load of the door constituting the rotating door, intensities.
In particular, another technical object of the present invention is to provide a device by which the compressive stress and deformation occurring between the gear portions on the side of the second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side and the gear portions on the side of the first support bracket fixedly connected to the door supporting frame side to constitute the gear hinge unit of the rotating door can be minimized, and by which not only ensures and maintains accurate opening/closing performance of the door, but also minimizes damage to parts caused by friction or friction noise generated by the door hinge.
In order to solve the above-described technical problem, the present invention provides an apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door between a first support bracket fixedly connected to a supporting frame side of a door frame and the second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side in the gear hinge unit constituting the rotating door,
in order to minimize a tensile stress generated in an upper part of the gear hinge unit above a neutral axis a-a′ of the door and a compressive stress generated in a lower part of the gear hinge part under the neutral axis a-a′ of the door by a rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit through the second support bracket due to the load of the door, comprising:
Herein, the present invention provides the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door, characterized in that in case that the first vertical contact surfaces provided to the first vertical support are convex contact surfaces, the second vertical contact surfaces provided to the second vertical support is formed by a concave contact surface; and in case that the first vertical contact surfaces provided to the first vertical support are concave contact surfaces, the second vertical contact surfaces provided to the second vertical support is formed by a convex contact surface.
And so, the apparatus characterized in that, through a rotation opening/closing process of the door, a change distance of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the first vertical contact surfaces provided in the first vertical support is formed to be larger than a change distance of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the second vertical contact surfaces provided in the second vertical support, is provided as a preferred example of the present invention.
Furthermore, it is preferable that the first vertical contact surfaces provided on the first vertical support are provided with both the concave contact surface and the convex contact surface, and the second vertical contact surfaces provided on the second vertical support are provided with both the convex contact surface and the concave contact surface corresponding to the first vertical contact surfaces, respectively.
Herein, it will be even more useful to improve the fixing force in the closed state of the door that the concave contact surface of the first vertical contact surfaces provided to the first vertical support is formed to contact the convex contact surface of the second vertical contact surfaces provided to the second vertical support in a door closed state, and in an inflection section passing an inflection point at which a contact portion is changed from the concave contact surface to the convex contact surface in the first vertical contact surfaces provided to the first vertical support, the inflection section is formed such that contact stress of the line contact portion is reduced due to an increase in a number of contact line as the contact portion is changed.
According to the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door to which the present invention is applied, it can have the following effects.
According to the basic configuration of the present invention, it is possible to guide a stable rotation actuation between the first support bracket fixedly connected to the supporting frame side of a door frame and the second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side in the gear hinge unit constituting the rotating door, and it is possible to minimize a tensile stress and deformation generated in an upper part of the gear hinge unit above a neutral axis a-a′ of the door and a compressive stress and deformation generated in a lower part of the gear hinge unit under the neutral axis a-a′ of the door by a rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit through the second support bracket due to the load of the door by reducing the rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit through the second support bracket due to the load of the door. Therefore, in particular, if an amount of compressive deformation generated by the compressive stress in the gear hinge unit at the lower end of the horizontal neutral axis of the door is reduced, in the state that the gear parts of the first support bracket and the second support bracket are meshed with each other, a permanent compressive deformation induced in the meshing gear tooth portion is reduced, and it is possible to maintain the rotational actuation trajectory of the door for a longer period of time while providing the effect of reducing friction noise.
In particular, according to the preferred example of the present invention, by virtue of combining the double concave and convex surfaces by which the first vertical contact surfaces provided on the first vertical support are provided with both the concave contact surface and the convex contact surface, and the second vertical contact surfaces provided on the second vertical support are provided with both the convex contact surface and the concave contact surface corresponding to the first vertical contact surfaces, respectively, it is possible to prevent an overload condition caused by a single line contact when the door is rotated, and an effect of obtaining a more stable fixing holding force in a state close to closing of the door is provided.
In addition, according to the more preferred example of the present invention, through a rotation opening/closing process of the door, by which a change distance of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the first vertical contact surfaces provided in the first vertical support is formed to be larger than a change distance of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the second vertical contact surfaces provided in the second vertical support, the rotation actuation guide of the door proceeds more smoothly as the door progresses to the open state rather than the closed state.
Hereinafter, embodiments that are easily performed by those skilled in the art will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the embodiments of the present invention may be achieved in several different firms and are not limited to the embodiments described herein.
Also, reference may be made to
First, a preferred embodiment of the rotation actuation guide device of the rotating door according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in
in order to minimize a tensile stress generated in an upper part of the gear hinge unit 1300 above a neutral axis a-a′ of the door 1200 and a compressive stress generated in a lower part of the gear hinge unit 1300 under the neutral axis a-a′ of the door 1200 by a rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit 1300 through the second support bracket 1250 due to the load of the door 1200, comprising:
a fixed first vertical support 1510 installed at a lower end of the supporting frame 1100 of the door frame, comprising a fixed end 1512 fixedly installed to the supporting frame 1100 of the door frame, and a first rotational guide body being placed in a center part of a trajectory arc of the rotational actuation of the gear portion 1250a of the second support bracket 1250 of the door 1200 and having a first vertical contact surface 1510a, 1510b corresponding to the trajectory in the arc of the rotational actuation of the gear portion 1250a of the second support bracket 1250 of the door 1200; and
a rotating second vertical support 1520 installed at a lower end of the door 1200, comprising a fixed end 1522 fixedly installed to the door 1200, and a second rotational guide body being placed on the trajectory arc of the rotational actuation of the gear portion 1250a of the second support bracket 1250 of the door 1200 and having a second vertical contact surface 1520a, 1520b in line contact with a first vertical contact surface 1510a, 1510b corresponding to the trajectory in the arc of the rotational actuation of the gear portion 1250a of the second support bracket 1250 of the door 1200.
Here, the rotation actuation guide device 1500 of the gear hinge unit is well shown in
in case that the first vertical contact surfaces 1510a and 1510b provided to the first vertical support 1510 are convex contact surfaces 1510a, the second vertical contact surfaces 1520a, 1520b provided to the second vertical support 1520 is formed by a concave contact surface 1520a; and
in case that the first vertical contact surfaces 1510a and 1510b provided to the first vertical support 1510 are concave contact surfaces 1510b, the second vertical contact surfaces 1520a, 1520b provided to the second vertical support 1520 is formed by a convex contact surface 1520.
In addition, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in
Furthermore, the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door is characterized in that the first vertical contact surfaces 1510a and 1510b provided on the first vertical support 1510 are provided with both the concave contact surface 1510a and the convex contact surface 1510b, and the second vertical contact surfaces 1520a and 1520b provided on the second vertical support 1520 are provided with both the convex contact surface 1520b and the concave contact surface 1520a corresponding to the first vertical contact surfaces 1510a and 1510b, respectively.
Herein, if the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door is characterized in that the concave contact surface 1510b of the first vertical contact surfaces 1510a, 1510b provided to the first vertical support 1510 is formed to contact the convex contact surface 1520b of the second vertical contact surfaces 1520a and 1520b provided to the second vertical support 1520 in a door closed state, it will provide a more desirable effect in improving the fixing force of the door closed state, in addition, if the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door is characterized in that, in an inflection section passing an inflection point at which a contact portion is changed from the concave contact surface 1510b to the convex contact surface 1510a in the first vertical contact surfaces 1510a, 1510b provided to the first vertical support 1510, the inflection section is formed such that contact stress of the line contact portion is reduced due to an increase in a number of contact line as the contact portion is changed, it will provide a more and more desirable effect in improving the fixing force of the door closed state.
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