The present invention relates to a power connector dedicated to a heating film, the power connector being characterized by including: a male connector formed in a rectangular thin plate shape, having a power inlet plug formed on a right side thereof, having a first electrode for wiring a heating film formed on an upper side, and having a left side to which a power cable internally wired to the power inlet plug is connected; and a female connector formed in a rectangular thin plate shape, having a right side to which the power cable is connected, having a second electrode for wiring a heating film formed on a right side thereof, and having a power outlet socket wired to the power inlet plug, in which the power cable is adjusted in length in accordance with a distance of a copper electrode of the heating film and is wired in a plane shape to the copper electrode of the heating film that is constructed flat, and power is connected to a plurality of sequential heating films by continuously maintaining connection of the male connectors and the female connectors.
In general, planar heat elements using a carbon heating film are easy to adjust in temperature, are sanitary, and do not generate noise, so they are widely used for heating apparatuses for homes use such as an apartment, a house, and a vacation condominium, heating apparatuses of commercial buildings, heating apparatuses for industry such as a work site, a warehouse, and a barn
Further, products manufactured by integrating a heating element and a shield layer have been introduced, as in Korea Patent Application No. 1020110069867 and Korean Patent Application No. 1020010068850.
In general, heating films are constructed flat on floors for floor heating.
However, heating films are formed in a thin plane, but in general, an interior power plug is used at it is or, as shown in
According to these types of the related art, when a connector for supplying power to a heating film protrudes from a floor, it protrudes from a plane even after construction, which is bad for the external appearance and causes inconvenience in maintenance and conservation of the floor with the heating film installed thereon.
Further, a heating film and a power are randomly connected, as shown in
The present invention has been made in an effort to solve the problems and an object of the present invention is to provide a power connector dedicated to a heating film, the power connector enabling simple connection between a heating film and a power, reducing construction efforts and cost, and making a power connection construction be a part of a planar construction of the heating film.
In order to achieve the objects of the present invention, a power connector dedicated to a heating film includes: a male connector formed in a rectangular thin plate shape, having a power inlet plug formed on a right side thereof, having a first electrode for wiring a heating film formed on an upper side, and having a left side to which a power cable internally wired to the power inlet plug is connected; and a female connector formed in a rectangular thin plate shape, having a right side to which the power cable is connected, having a second electrode for wiring a heating film formed on a right side thereof, and having a power outlet socket wired to the power inlet plug, in which the power cable is adjusted in length in accordance with a distance of a copper electrode of the heating film and is wired in a plane shape to the copper electrode of the heating film that is constructed flat, and power is connected to a plurality of sequential heating films by continuously maintaining connection of the male connectors and the female connectors.
A heating film mounting slot in which the heating film is fitted to set a coupling position may be formed on an upper side of each of the female connector and the male connector, so the heating film may be inserted into the heating film mounting slot and an electrode coupling position may be determined, and then the first electrode for wiring a heating film and the second electrode for wiring a heating film may be wired to the cooper electrode of the heating film.
Further, the first electrode for wiring a heating film and the second electrode for wiring a heating film may be formed as thin plate-shaped electrodes with a through-hole at an end, may be inserted between a laminating film of the heating film and a cooper electrode of the heating film, and then may be fixed together with the heating film in the through-holes by a hole tack, thereby being wired to the cooper electrode of the heating film.
Further, the power connector dedicated to a heating film may be exclusively used for a heating film having a ground electrode by forming the power inlet plug as a plug to which three single-phased interior power lines (an activation line, a neutral line, and a ground line) are connected, forming the first electrode for wiring a heating film to include a ground electrode, and forming the power cable and the power outlet socket to include a ground track.
Further, the female connector may further include a cap plug inserted in the power outlet socket, so when there is not male connector of another power connector to be coupled to the female connector, electrical safety is performed by inserting the cap plug.
According to the present invention, there is an advantage of providing a power connector dedicated to a heating film enabling simple connection between a heating film and a power, reducing construction efforts and cost, and making a power connection construction be a part of a planar construction of the heating film.
Hereafter, the present invention is described with reference to the drawings, and in the following description of the present invention, detailed descriptions of well-known technologies or configurations relating to the present invention will not be provided so as not to obscure the description of the present invention with unnecessary details.
Further, terms to be described below are terms defined in consideration of the functions in the present invention and may be different, depending on the intention of users and operator and customs, so the definition should be made on the basis of the description throughout the entire specification of the present invention.
(In the following description, terms ‘left, right, up, and down’ are based on the positions in
As shown in
As shown in
In the present invention, the thin plate shapes of the male connector 1 and the female connector 2 are significant because the present invention is exclusively used for a heating film 5.
The heating film 5 is used for floor heating, so, as shown in
In order to solve this problem, in the present invention, the male connector 1 and the female connector 2 are formed in thin plate shapes, as shown in
Referring to
The male connector 1 has a power inlet plug 12 on the right side, a first electrode 11 for wiring a heating film on the upper side, and a power inlet plug 12 on the left side to which the power cable 3 is internally wired.
As shown in
The power inlet plug 12 of the present invention, as shown in
The female connector 2 is connected with the power cable 3 on the right side, and has a second electrode 21 for wiring on the upper side and a power outlet socket 22, which is internally wired to the power cable 3 and is wired to the power inlet plug 12, on the left side.
The terms of male connector 1 and the female connector 2 were determined on the basis of the structures wired to each other by the power inlet plug 12 and the power outlet socket 22, as show in
The length of the power cable connecting the male connector 1 and the female connector 2 is adjusted in accordance with a copper electrode distance of the heating film.
According to the present invention having this configuration, there is provided a power connector dedicated to a heating film that is wired in a plate shape to a copper electrode of a heating film, which is constructed flat, and becomes a part of a planar construction with the heating film after constructed (hereafter, referred to as ‘planar construction’).
Meanwhile, the power inlet plug 12, as shown in
Further, as shown in
Therefore, according to the present invention, there is provided a power connector dedicated to a heating power that is simply constructed only by connecting adjacent connectors without separate wiring for connecting a heating film 5 that is far from an interior power inlet to a power supply, and that becomes a part of a planar construction without damaging the flat surface of the heating film construction surface.
Meanwhile, a heating film mounting slot 40 in which the heating film 5 is fitted to set the coupling position is formed on the upper side of the female connector 2 and the male connector 1 of the present invention, as shown in
The heating film mounting slot 40, which is a space in which a heating film is fitted, as shown in
That is, the power connector dedicated to a heating film of the present invention has an object that supplies power by being sequentially connected to a power connector dedicated to a heating film wired to an adjacently arranged a heating film, as shown in
The heating film mounting slot 40 is provided for this purpose. When the heating film 5 is inserted in the heating film mounting slot 40, as shown in
As described above, according to the present invention, when the heating film 5 is constructed, the heating film 5 is inserted into the heating film mounting slot 40 such that the electrode coupling position is determined to be the same, and then the first electrode 11 for wiring a heating film and the second electrode 21 for wiring a heating film are wired to the copper electrode 50, thereby being able to form heating films 5 having the same wiring position.
Meanwhile, other than determining the wiring position of the heating film 5, the heating film mounting slot 40 has another effect that enhances coupling of the heating film 5 and the present invention and protects the coupling portion of the heating film 5 because a portion of the heating film 5 is inserted in the present invention, as shown in
As shown in
Forming the first electrode 11 for wiring a heating film and the second electrode 21 for wiring a heating film as thin plate electrodes is for making them be a portion of a planar construction and also preparing wiring to a heating film.
That is, by forming the first electrode 11 for wiring a heating film and the second electrode 21 for wiring a heating film as thin plate electrodes, laminating films 51 and 52 of the heating film 5 are opened and then the electrodes are inserted, whereby they can be connected to the copper electrode of the heating film.
Hereafter, the structure of the heating film 5 is described to for explanation about implementation of the present invention.
As shown in
The ground type heating film is formed by additionally stacking a ground film 5-1 composed of a carbon pattern film 5-12, a surface laminating film 5-13, and a ground copper electrode 5-11 on the heating film 5.
Applying the present invention to a common heating film and a ground type hearting film is described hereafter.
When the present invention is wired to a common heating film, as shown in
The hole tack 8, as shown in
In the present invention, the first electrode 11 for wiring a heating film and the second electrode 21 for wiring a heating film are fixed to the copper electrode 50 by the hole tack 8, whereby they can be simply coupled at a construction site.
The present invention is characterized in that, as shown in
Safety is further secured by adding an insulation process after construction, but according to the present invention, the bore tack 8 is an insulating member and the connection construction of the electrodes is finished with an insulating process, so there is a large difference from the manner of the related art shown in
In order to wire the present invention to a ground type heating film, as shown in
On the other hand, as shown in
In this case, as shown in
Accordingly, when there is no longer a male connector 1 to be coupled to the female connector 2, an electrical safety accident can be prevented by inserting the cap plug in the power outlet socket 22.
Meanwhile, the male connector 1 and the female connector 2 may be formed, as shown in
However, according to a power connector dedicated to a heating film having the male connector 1 and the female connector 2 manufactured by the PCB and soldering, the manufacturing process is very complicated and is performed manually by workers, so the soldered thickness may not be uniform. When the soldered thickness is not uniform, the amount of a current depends on the thicknesses of the soldered portions, so heat may be generated due to excess current. Further, there is a problem in that it is difficult to make a connector thin due to this manufacturing manner.
Accordingly, the present invention does not exclude that the structures of the male connector 1 and the female connector 2 are formed without using the PCB. Hereafter, for the convenience, as shown in
In this configuration, the insulator 60 may be a silicon or nylon resin insulator having heat resistance of 200° C. or more, but the material is not limited thereto and any material can be used as long as it secures insulation between metals and has heat resistance.
Meanwhile, another embodiment of the present invention is shown in
Further, a female connector that has two electrodes for wiring a heating film formed on the upper side, a power inlet plug 12 formed on the lower side, and a power outlet socket 22 on each of the left and right sides is prepared, and the electrodes for wiring a heating film are connected respectively to the copper electrode 50 of the heating film 50.
A plurality of heating films 5 with the female connector 20 connected thereto is prepared, as shown in
Further, a power connector having a male connector, which has a power inlet plug 12 on a side and a power cable 3 on the other side, at both ends of the power cable 3 is prepared. That is, a male connector-dedicated connector composed of male connectors is prepared.
As described above, the heating film 5 is connected to the power socket 7 extending from the controller 70 connected to the interior plug 71, thereby being supplied with power. As in the present embodiment, the heating film 5 having the female connector 20 connected thereto is supplied with power by connecting the power inlet plug 12 disposed on the lower side of the female connector 20 to the power socket 7. However, as shown in
Further, as shown in the figure, the male connector-dedicated power connectors are respectively connected to the power outlet sockets 22 on the left and right sides of the female connector 20 having the power socket 7 connected thereto to be connected to the female connectors 20 of adjacent heating films 5, thereby supplying power to adjacent heating films 5.
According to the present embodiment, since it is possible to connect power to the heating film 5 positioned closest to the controller 70, a limit due to the position of the controller 70 is removed, so there is no need of a long wire. Further, power can be continuously supplied to an adjacent heating film 5 through the male connector-dedicated power connector from the female connector 20 of the heating film 5 supplied with the power, which enables simpler construction.
Further, since the power inlet plugs 12 of the female connectors other than the female connector 20 directly connected to the power socket 7 are exposed, the female connectors 20 further include a protective cap 60 covering the power inlet plug 12. Accordingly, an electric leak accident is prevented by covering the exposed power inlet plugs 12 of the female connectors other than the female connector 20 directly connected to the power socket 7 with the protective caps 60.
The drawings shown to describe the present invention are examples for implementing the present invention, and as shown in the figures, various combinations are possible to achieve the spirit of the present invention.
Accordingly, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments and may be changed in various ways by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention, which should be construed as being included in the spirit of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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10-2017-0043589 | Apr 2017 | KR | national |
This is a continuation of International Patent Application PCT/KR2018/003995 filed on Apr. 4, 2018, which designates the United States and claims priority of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2017-0043589 filed on Apr. 4, 2017, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
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Parent | PCT/KR2018/003995 | Apr 2018 | US |
Child | 16562595 | US |