Patent Application
20180175646
The present disclosure relates to a charging cabinet, more particularly to a charging cabinet in which a main body includes a frame defining a receiving space inside, a panel located at the front of the frame, and a hinge lid pivotally connected to the panel corresponding in position to the receiving space. An electronic device can be placed into the receiving space to be charged through a power socket module or an expansion connection module of the power supply device, and the hinge lid can be locked by a locking device located at a side thereof, so as to achieve anti-theft effect.
In recent years, electronic technology and multimedia information technology are rapidly developed, so electronic products (such as smartphone, tablet computer, notebook computer, and personal digital assistant and so on) become more powerful, but their sizes are developed to be more compact, lighter and smaller. The mainstream electronic products have features of small size, light weight, and easy carrying, and are equipped with software and hardware which are continuously developed to provide more flexibility and practicability in use, so they can be more widely applied and have become indispensable devices in people's life, work and entertainment.
The powerful electronic product (such as smartphone, tablet computer, and notebook computer and so on) also consumes more power, so it is easy to exhaust battery power of the electronic product when the user keeps operating the electronic product during movement, and user has to find a socket to charge the battery of the electronic product for further operation.
However, away from home, for example, when the user goes to department store, and hospital and so on, it is not easy for the user to find the socket for charging. Even though the user can find the socket to charge the electric device, the user has to stay around the socket to wait for completion of a charging process and prevent the electronic product from being stolen during the charging process. As a result, during the charging process, the user wastes a lot of time in waiting and cannot do what he or her wants to do, that is why most people would rather not charge the electronic products until they go back home or offices, and it causes inconvenience in using the electronic products.
What is need is to develop a charging cabinet to solve aforesaid problems.
Therefore, in order to solve aforesaid problems, the inventors of the present disclosure put years of practical experience into data collection, research, design and test, and finally succeeded in developing a charging cabinet.
A primary objective of the present disclosure is that a frame of a main body of the charging cabinet has a receiving space to place at least one electronic device, so that it is easier for the user to properly arrange the entire space configuration for the electronic device and to centralize management of the electronic device, and at least one electronic device can be electrically inserted in the at least one socket or adaptor socket disposed on a support plate of the frame, so that a power input module of the power supply device can be connected with an external power source to charge at least one electronic device, whereby the user does not need to search other host or power source for charging. As a result, the working hour and cost for charging electronic devices individually can be reduced, and the efficiency of charging operation and convenience in use can be improved.
A secondary objective of the present disclosure is that the user can open the hinge lid to place the electronic device into the receiving space of the frame for storage or charging operation, or take the electronic device out of the receiving space; alternatively, the user can close the hinge lid to lock the hinge lid by the locking device, whereby the hinge lid can be in a locked state to prevent the electronic device in the receiving space from being lost or stolen. Therefore, the charging cabinet of the present disclosure has anti-theft function.
The detailed structure, operating principle and effects of the present invention will now be described in more details hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings that show various embodiments of the invention as follows.
The technical content of the present invention will become apparent by the detailed description of the following embodiments and the illustration of related drawings as follows.
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The main body 1 has a frame 11 which defines a hollow receiving space 10 therein, and at least one longitudinal support plate 111 is provided in the receiving space 10 to separate the receiving space 10 to form a stowing space 101 smaller than the receiving space 10. A panel 12 is disposed on a front surface of the frame 11, and a hinge lid 121 is movably disposed on the panel 12 corresponding in position to the receiving space 10. A locking device 122 is disposed at a side of the hinge lid 121 and in the front of the stowing space 101, and is configured to control open or lock of the hinge lid 121. Two side plates 13 are uprightly disposed at the frame 11 correspondingly in position to two sides of the panel 12 respectively, and a top plate 14 and a back plate 15 are disposed at and configured to cover the top and back of the frame 11, respectively.
Moreover, the hinge lid 121 of the panel 12 includes a pivot holder 1211 disposed on a side thereof for being pivotally connected to the panel 12, and a clasping sheet 1212 inwardly protruded on the other side thereof, a pulling groove 1213 recessed on an outer surface of the other side thereof, and a plurality of holes 1214 cut therethrough and located between the pulling groove 1213 and the pivot holder 1211. The locking device 122 includes a plurality of buttons 1221 disposed on a side of the hinge lid 121, a lock 1222 disposed on the support plate 111 in the stowing space 101, and a mounting member 1223 protruded on a side of the lock 1222 and inserted through the support plate 111 into the receiving space 10. The locking device 122 can be cooperated with aforesaid members to form a password lock structure. The at least one side plate 13 has a plurality of ventilation holes 131 inserted therethrough, and the back plate 15 has a plurality of heat dissipation holes 151 formed on a surface thereof.
Preferably, the locking device 122 of the panel 12 is a password lock; in actual application, the locking device 122 can be a checkmark lock, a digital lock, a keylock or a fingerprint lock. It should be noted that, upon actual application, the locking device 122 can be implemented and changed by any one of various locks to lock the hinge lid 121 of the panel 12 when the hinge lid 121 is closed. The detailed structure of the locking device 122 is not key feature of present disclosure, so its description is omitted.
The power supply device 2 includes a power input module 21, a power socket module 22 and an expansion connection module 23. The power input module 21 includes at least one adaptor member 211 which can be a power plug or power socket. When the adaptor member 211 is the power socket, a plug formed at an end of a power wire (not shown in figures) can be plugged into the adaptor member 211, and a plug formed at the other end of the power wire can be connected to an external power source, such as commercial power source, a power supplier or a power generator. The plug is plugged into a socket of the external power source to form electrical connection. The adaptor member 211 is electrically connected with the at least one socket 221 of the power socket module 22 via power supply wiring (not shown in figures), so that the adaptor member 211 can provide the socket 221 with AC power inputted from the external power source. The adaptor member 211 is electrically connected to at least one circuit board 231 of the expansion connection module 23 via power supply wiring (not shown in figures). The at least one circuit board 231 includes an adopter circuit, and at least one adaptor socket 232 in the format of USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface disposed on a side surface of the circuit board 231. Therefore, the circuit board 231 can convert AC power inputted from the adaptor member 211 into DC power, and provide DC power to the adaptor socket 232.
To assemble the charging cabinet of the present disclosure, the power input module 21 of the power supply device 2 is disposed on the bottom of the back plate 15 located at back side of the main body 1 first, and the at least one adaptor member 211 is exposed out of the back plate 15. Next, the power socket module 22 and the expansion connection module 23 of the power supply device 2 are disposed in the stowing space 101 of the frame 11, and at least one socket 221 of the power socket module 22 and the circuit board 231 of the expansion connection module 23 are mounted on the support plate 111, so that at least one socket 221 and at least one adaptor socket 232 are disposed on a side of the receiving space 10 for electrical insertion. Next, the panel 12, the two side plate 13, the top plate 14 and the back plate 15 are stably mounted on the frame 11, so that the assembly of the charging cabinet of the present disclosure is completed.
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At least one electronic device 3 is placed in the receiving space 10 of the frame 11 of the main body 1, so that it is easier for the user to properly arrange the entire space configuration for the electronic device 3 and to centralize management of the electronic device 3. Moreover, at least one electronic device 3 can be electrically inserted in at least one socket 221 or adaptor socket 232 disposed on the support plate 111, that is, the power input module 21 of the power supply device 2 can be connected with the external power source to charge at least one electronic device 3, whereby the user does not need to search other host or power source for charging. As a result, the working hour and cost for charging electronic devices 3 individually can be reduced, and the efficiency of charging operation and convenience in use can be improved.
Furthermore, the main body 1 has the hinge lid 121 disposed at the panel 12 at the front thereof, so the user can open the hinge lid 121 to place the electronic device 3 into the receiving space 10 of the frame 11 for storage or charging operation, or take the electronic device 3 out of the receiving space 10; alternatively, the user can close the hinge lid 121 to lock the hinge lid 121 by the locking device 122, whereby the hinge lid 121 is in a locked state to prevent the electronic device 3 in the receiving space 10 from being lost or stolen.
Therefore, the charging cabinet of the present disclosure has anti-theft function.
The above description is for the purpose of illustration only and shall not be interpreted in any way to limit the scope, configuration or applicability of the present invention. A person skilled in the art may carry out many changes and modifications in the described embodiments without departing from the spirit and the scope of the present invention, which is intended to be limited only by the appended claims.
