Patent Application
20150181734
The present disclosure relates to card loading assemblies and, particularly, to a card loading assembly for loading a digital card and an electronic device including the card loading assembly.
Many portable devices may include trays for placing digital cards such as memory cards or subscriber identity module (SIM) cards. Typically, such a tray can be pulled out of the electronic device to allow a user to place a digital card therein.
Many aspects of the embodiments with this disclosure can be better understood with references to the following drawings. The components in the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale, the emphasis instead being placed upon clearly illustrating the principles of the embodiments. Moreover, in the drawings, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the views. The description is not to be considered as limiting the embodiments described herein or the appended claims.
The present disclosure, including the accompanying drawings, is illustrated by way of examples and not by way of limitation. The term “comprising,” when utilized, means “including, but not necessarily limited to”; it specifically indicates open-ended inclusion or membership in the so-described combination, group, series and the like.
The card loading assembly 20 can include a cover 21, a tray 22, a first shaft 23, a limiting assembly 24, a spacer 25, an operating member 26, a second shaft 27, and two fixing elements 28. The cover 21 can be secured to the first and the second fixing blocks 14, 15 via the two fixing elements 28, such as bolts, and can include a second elastic member 210 aligned with the sliding slot 12. In at least one embodiment, the second elastic member 210 can be a substantially rectangular leaf spring.
The tray 22 can define a first shaft hole 221 at one end, and define a receiving groove 222 at an opposite end for receiving the SIM card 200. The tray 22 can further define a positioning recess 223 (shown in
The limiting assembly 24 can include a limiting member 241 and a first elastic member 242. The limiting member 241 can be slidably received in the blind hole 152, and can include a pin 2412 and a flange 2411 extending around the periphery of a middle of the pin 2412. In at least one embodiment, the first elastic member 242 can be a coil spring coiled around a bottom portion of the pin 2412, and can be positioned between and elastically abuts against the flange 2411 and a bottom of the blind hole 152. When the tray 22 is received in the casing 10, a top portion of the pin 2412 can be inserted into the positioning recess 223 of the tray 22 and elastically abuts against the bottom of the tray 22 under the force of the first elastic member 242, thereby positioning the tray 22 with respect to the second fixing block 15.
The operating member 26 can be rotatably connected to the second fixing block 15, and can push the tray 22 to disengage from the pin 2412 of the limiting member 241 when being rotated. In at least one embodiment, the operating member 26 can include a barrel portion 261, a first arm 262, and a second arm 263. The first arm 261 and the second arm 262 can extend from an exterior wall of the barrel portion 261, and can be angled with each other.
The spacer 25 can be arranged on the accessed portion 151, and can be sandwiched between the tray 22 and the second fixing block 15. The spacer 25 can define a first guiding hole 250 and a second guiding hole 251. The second shaft 27 can be inserted into the barrel portion 261, the second guiding hole 251, and the second fixing hole 153, thereby securing the operating member 26 and the spacer 25 to the second fixing block 15. Thus, the first and the second arms 262, 263 can rotate about the second shaft 27, and the spacer 25 can prevent the limiting member 241 from being disengaged from the blind hole 152 when the limiting member 241 is pushed by the first elastic member 242. Moreover, the top portion of the pin 2412 can insert into the positioning recess 223 of the tray 22 via the first guiding hole 250 of the spacer 25.
When the tray 22 is received in the casing 10, the top portion of the limiting member 241 can be inserted into the positioning recess 223 to position the tray 22 with respect to the second fixing block 15. The first elastic member 242 can be elastically compressed, and the second elastic member 210 can be elastically deformed (see
To take out the digital card 200, the first arm 262 of the operating member 26 can be rotated about the second shaft 27 away from the through hole 13, the second arm 263 can be rotated with the first arm 262 and pushes the tray 22 to disengage from the limiting member 241. The second elastic member 210 rebounds pushing the tray 22 to rotate about the first shaft 23, thereby allowing the receiving groove 222 to rotate out of the casing 10 through the sliding slot 12 (
The described embodiments and their advantages will be understood from the foregoing description. It will be apparent that various changes may be made thereto without departing from the scope of the disclosure or sacrificing all of its material advantages, the examples described merely being exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure. The described embodiments are not intended to limit the scope of the following claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013107072754 | Dec 2013 | CN | national |
