The present invention relates to a gas supply connector applied to inflation massage device, and more particularly, to a gas supply connector with fasteners on its both sides to avoid separation because of pulling.
In order to solve the situation that patients have stayed in bed for a long time, and their limbs are often unable to move flexibly, resulting in poor functioning of the body and in turn causing more complications, companies in this industry have developed a compression sheath of a gas supply device connected to a gasbag. Using the change of the gasbag volume to apply pressure onto the local area of the body, it can assist the body to speed up the return of normal operation.
However, because of gas moving repeatedly in and out, momentary force from outputting gas by supply device will cause the connection between the gas supply device and the gasbag to easily fall off. Therefore, an additional fastening structure has been designed into the connection assembly between the gas supply device and the gasbag to prevent the male and female connectors themselves from being separated. However, the conventional gas supply connection are all made of plastic injection molding, and accordingly the user often feels uncomfortable when pressing the fasteners, and the fasteners are often not easily deformed by pressing, or insufficient structural strength causes breakage and damage after repeated use. In view of this, it is necessary to improve and make innovation in the gas supply connector.
The main purpose of the present invention is to provide a gas supply connector to reduce the force required for pressing the fastener to deform by the user, and to design a reinforced structure to increase the structural strength of the fastener, which improves the lack that the fastener easily breaks at deformation position after using many times.
The secondary purpose of the present invention is to adopt a double-layer design in the pressing part to improve the comfort of pressing fastener.
Another purpose of the present invention is to design the surface of the connector with a foolproof structure to prevent incorrect insertion and a display pattern that indicates the inflation massage portion, so as to improve practicability and convenience of the gas supply connector.
In order to achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the gas supply connector of the present invention includes a gas supply member and a plurality of fasteners. The gas supply member comprises a main body and a plurality of tubes. The inside of the main body forms a plurality of gas passages along a front-rear insertion direction, and the opposite ends of the gas passage are respectively connected to different tubes; the fasteners are respectively connected to the left-right opposite sides of the main body, and the fastener includes a buckling portion, a pressing portion, and a neck portion between the buckling portion and the pressing portion. The pressing portion has an inner layer body integrally formed with the neck portion and an outer layer body enveloping the inner layer body. The neck portion contracts from two lateral ends toward the center to form a tapered section, and the outer surface of the neck portion is provided with a plurality of reinforcing ribs.
In one preferred embodiment, a plurality of anti-slip strips are formed on a surface of the pressing portion, and a slope projection is formed at an end of the pressing portion; the neck portion and the buckling portion have a first thickness, the main body has a second thickness larger than the first thickness, and the pressing portion has a third thickness larger than the second thickness.
Wherein, the outer surface of the inner layer body has a plurality of protrusions, and a plurality of depressions corresponding to the protrusions are formed on the inner surface of the outer layer body; the inner layer body and the outer layer body are composed of different materials, a first material and a second material, respectively.
In addition, a display pattern is arranged on a surface of the main body; the front of the neck portion is a form of contracted arc, and the rear of the neck portion is a slope-tapered form. The reinforcing ribs are respectively arranged on the upper and lower surfaces of the neck portion. A first rib and a second rib are respectively formed at the front and rear ends of the neck portion, and the height of the second rib is larger than that of the first rib.
The outer periphery of the main body is arranged with a ring protrusion, and the ring protrusion is constructed with a recess extending along the front-rear insertion direction. The outer layer body is a bag made of a deformable material, the bag has an opening with a diameter smaller than the third thickness, and the diameter of the opening is larger than the first thickness of the neck portion.
The feature of the present invention features a tapered section and a plurality of reinforcing ribs designed into the neck portion of the fastener, accordingly to reduce the force required for pressing the fastener to deform by a user, and the structural strength of the neck portion increases by reinforcing ribs. In addition, in the pressing portion the inner layer body is made of plastic, and the outer layer body is made of soft material, so as to improve the comfort of pressing fastener. And there are multiple mutual corresponding fastening-against mechanisms formed between the inner and outer layer bodies to prevent the inner and outer layer bodies from being separated from each other.
In order to further understand the structure, usage and features of the present invention more clearly and in detail, the present invention is described in detail below with references to the accompanying drawings and specific preferred embodiments:
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The surface of the main body 40 is constructed with a foolproof structure 43 to prevent the user from inserting in the wrong direction and a display pattern 44 for indicating the inflation massage region. The foolproof structure 43 is adjacent to the first tube 411, and includes a ring protrusion 431 perpendicular to the front-rear insertion direction D and a recess 432 parallel to the front-rear insertion direction D. The ring protrusion 431 surrounds the outer periphery of the main body 40, and the recess 432 passes through the ring protrusion 431; the display pattern 44 is aligned with one of the first tube 411 and the second tube 412. In the present embodiment, the fool proof structure 43 may be arranged with multiple recesses 432, and the recesses 432 are all arranged on the same surface of the main body 40; in addition, the display pattern 44 is set as an arrow shape. However, this is only for the convenience of illustration. The display pattern 44 can also be designed as a form of triangle, round mark, text, or symbol.
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In one preferred embodiment, a plurality of anti-slip strips 812 arranged in parallel are formed on the surface of the outer layer body 81 of the pressing portion 8, and slope projections 802, 813 formed at the end of both the inner layer body 80 and the outer layer body 81 of the pressing portion 8. Please refer to
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