The present invention relates generally to a handle-driving mechanism, and more particularly to a self-locking module device.
Nowadays, mainstream module-fixing structures in the market could be categorized into two kinds, wherein one of the two kinds of the mainstream module-fixing structures is fixed by screwing. For example, the Chinese utility model patent CN209435196U “LC filter compensation module group” discloses a module group, wherein the module group includes a housing body. A handle is disposed on a top end of an outer surface of the housing body. Four first fixing bolts are disposed on a side of the outer surface of the housing body. Two side cover boards are disposed on two sides of the housing body. The two side cover boards and the housing body are connected and fixed through the first fixing bolts. The module group is disassembled through a plurality of bolts. The handle is provided for carrying the module group.
The other kind of the mainstream module-fixing structures is fixed by a buckle. For example, the Chinese utility model patent CN212399514U “Portable trolley with modular toolbox” discloses a modular tool box, wherein the modular tool box includes a box body, a box cover, and a handle. At least one front-displacement female buckle is disposed on a front side of the box cover. At least one buckle-matching device is disposed on a front side of the box body. The at least one buckle-matching device corresponds to a location of the at least one front displacement female buckle on the box cover and matches with the at least one front-displacement female buckle. The modular toolbox is disassembled through at least one buckle-matching device. The handle is only adapted to separate the box cover from the box body by applying a force. The handle is not directly related to fastening the modular tool box.
The two aforementioned structures could fix the box body. However, when the cover body is about to be separated from the box body, it is required to remove the bolts by using a tool or separate the buckle-matching device, so that the cover body could not be quickly separated from the box body; when the cover body is about to be combined with the box body, it is also required to fasten the bolts or the buckle-matching device, so that the cover body could not be automatically fastened to the box body. As a result, the inconvenience for assembling or disassembling the module group or the modular tool box is resulted. As a result, how to provide a module device, which could be automatically fastened and be quickly separated, is a problem needed to be solved.
In view of the above, the primary objective of the present invention is to provide a self-locking module device, wherein the self-locking module device could be automatically fastened and a box body and a cover body could be quickly separated, thereby bringing convenience in using the self-locking module device.
The present invention provides a self-locking module device including a box body, a module base, and a rotary driving structure, wherein the box body includes a bottom board, a top board, and two lateral boards. The bottom board, the top board, and the two lateral boards surround to form a module space and an opening communicating with the module space. At least one of the two lateral boards has at least one locking hole. The module base includes a cover body and a bottom frame, wherein the cover body is connected to the bottom frame. When the module base is combined with the box body, the cover body is stuck at the opening and the bottom frame abuts against the bottom board. The cover body has a cover board, wherein the cover board closes the opening. A side of the cover board facing the module space is defined as an inner side, and the other side of the cover board away from the module space is defined as an outer side. The cover board has a penetrated portion. The rotary driving structure is disposed on the cover body and includes a rotary plate, a rotary handle, at least one latch, and at least one spring, wherein the rotary plate has a rotation center portion. At least one pin is combined with a periphery of the rotation center portion of the rotary plate. The rotary plate is disposed on the inner side of the cover board and the rotation center portion of the rotary plate is rotatably disposed on the penetrated portion. A part of the rotary handle penetrates through the penetrated portion and is combined with the rotary plate. At least one track device is formed between the at least one latch and the cover board and the at least one latch is movable in a straight line. An outer end portion of the at least one latch has at least one tongue, wherein the at least one tongue protrudes out of a periphery of the cover board and is inserted into the at least one locking hole. An inner end portion of the at least one latch comprises a displacement hole. The at least one pin penetrates through the displacement hole of the at least one latch. The displacement hole has a first end and a second end, wherein the at least one pin is located at the first end. A distance between the first end and a center of the rotation center portion is a first length. A distance between the second end and the center of the rotation center portion is a second length. The second length is greater than the first length. The at least one spring is adapted to drive the at least one pin to tend to move towards the first end of the displacement hole of the at least one latch.
With the aforementioned design, when the box body is combined with the module base, the cover body is pushed to the opening and the two latches of the two sides of the rotary plate protrude outward to be fastened to the box body, so that a function of automatically fastening could be achieved, thereby enhancing the convenience. When the rotary handle is rotated to drive the rotary plate to rotate, so that the two latches of the two sides of the rotary plate are driven to retract inwards, so that the module base and the box body are unlocked. The self-locking module device of the present invention could be locked and unlocked simply by rotating the rotary handle without other complicated procedures that a plurality of bolts needs to be removed by using a tool or a buckle-matching device needs to be separated. In this way, the user could use the self-locking module device of the present invention more intuitively and conveniently.
The present invention will be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of some illustrative embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which
A self-locking module device 100 according to a first embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in
The box body 10 includes a bottom board 12, a top board 14, and two lateral boards 16, wherein the bottom board 12, the top board 14, and the two lateral boards 16 surround to form a module space 18 and an opening 181 communicating with the module space 18. Each of the two lateral boards 16 has two locking holes 161, wherein the two locking holes 161 of each of the two lateral boards 16 are located near the opening 181. In other embodiments, each of the two lateral boards 16 could be provided with only one locking hole 161.
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When the module base 20 is combined with the box body 10, the two lateral frames 223 respectively abut against the two lateral boards 16 and the two through holes 223a of each of the two lateral frames 223 are aligned with the two locking holes 161 of each of the two lateral boards 16. The elastic piece groups 26 are respectively disposed on the two lateral frames 223 and a bottom portion of the bottom frame 24. When the module base 20 is combined with the box body 10, each of the two lateral frames 223 abuts against each of the two lateral boards 16 through the elastic piece groups 26 disposed on the two lateral frames 223 and the bottom frame 24 abuts against bottom board 12 through the elastic piece groups 26 disposed on the bottom portion of the bottom frame 24 for positioning. In other embodiments, the number of the through holes 223a of each of the two lateral frames 223 corresponds to the number of the locking holes 161 of each of the two lateral boards 16; when the module base 20 is combined with the box body 10, the through hole 223a of each of the two lateral frames 223 corresponds to the locking hole 161 of each of the two lateral boards 16.
The rotary driving structure 30 is disposed on the cover body 22 and includes a rotary plate 32, a rotary handle 34, two latches 36, and at least one spring 38. The rotary plate 32 has a rotation center portion 321, wherein a periphery of the rotation center portion 32 is combined with two pins 33. In the current embodiment, the two pins 33 are respectively combined with a left side of the rotary plate 32 and a right side of the rotary plate 32. The rotary plate 32 is disposed on the inner side of the cover board 221. The rotary plate 32 is rotatably disposed on the penetrated portion 2211 through the rotation center portion 321. A part of the rotary handle 34 penetrates through the penetrated portion 2211 and is combined with the rotary plate 32. More specifically, referring to
The cover body 22 further includes a fixing base 224, wherein the fixing base 224 is fixed to the non-circular hole 2211c. The rotation center portion 321 of the rotary plate 32 is an axial hole and fits around the fixing base 224, so that the rotary plate 32 could rotate relative to the fixing base 224. The two ends of the handle 341 respectively penetrate through the first hole 2211a and the second hole 2211b. The two ends of the handle 341 are respectively fixed to an upper end of the rotary plate 32 and a lower end of the rotary plate 32. The first hole 2211a and the second hole 2211b allow the handle 341, which penetrates through the first hole 2211a and the second hole 2211b, to be rotatable relative to the penetrated portion 2211.
The two latches 36 are disposed on the inner side of the cover board 221. The two latches 36 are respectively located on two sides of the rotary plate 32 and respectively correspond to the two pins 33. At least one track device 35 is formed between each of the two latches 36 and the cover board 221, so that each of the two latches 36 could be movable in a straight line. In the current embodiment, the number of the at least one track device 35 corresponds to the number of the at least one latch 36 and includes the two track devices 35.
More specifically, each of the two latches 36 is movable between a first position P1 and a second position P2 along each of the two track devices 35. At least one tongue 361 is disposed on an outer end portion of each of the two latches 36 and the number of the tongue 361 of each of the latches 36 corresponds to the number of the locking hole 161 of each of the two lateral boards 16. In the current embodiment, two tongues 361 are disposed on the outer end portion of each of the two latches 36. Each of the two tongues 361 protrudes out of the cover board 221 and is inserted into each of the two locking holes 161. More specifically, the two tongues 361 of each of the two latches 36 penetrate through the two through holes 223a of each of the two lateral frames 223 and are inserted into the two locking holes 161 of each of the two lateral boards 16 for positioning.
An inner end portion of each of the two latches 36 includes a displacement hole 362. Each of the two pins 33 penetrates through each of the two displacement holes 362. Each of the two displacement holes 362 is an arc hole and has a first end 362a and a second end 362b. Each of the two pins 33 is located at the first end 362a of each of the two displacement holes 362. A distance between each of the two first ends 362a and a center of the rotation center portion 321 is a first length L1. A distance between each of the two second ends 362b and the center of the rotation center portion 321 is a second length L2. The second length L2 is greater than the first length L1. When each of the two latches 36 is located at the first position P1, the two tongues 361 of each of the two latches 36 protrude out of the two through holes 223a of each of the two lateral frames 223 and are inserted into the two locking holes 161 of each of the two lateral boards. Each of the two track devices 35 has a track hole 363 and two fixing members 226, wherein the track hole 363 is disposed on the corresponding latch 36, and the two fixing members 226 penetrate through the track hole 363 and are fixed to the cover board 221, so that the track hole 363 of each of the two latches 36 could be straight slid in a direction in which the two fixing members 226 are arranged.
In the current embodiment, the at least one spring 38 includes one spring 38. The spring 38 is a torsion spring and has a main body 381, wherein the main body 381 is disposed in a recess 224a of the fixing base 224. The spring 38 has two ends adapted to hook the two pins 33 respectively. In this way, the spring 38 is adapted to drive each of the two pins 33 to move towards the corresponding first end 362a along the corresponding displacement hole 362.
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When the handle 341 is rotated, the rotary plate 32 located on the inner side of the cover board 221 correspondingly rotates relative to the fixing base 224; the two pins 33 disposed on the two sides of the rotary plate 32 respectively move from the first ends 362a of the two displacement holes 362 to the second ends 362b of the two displacement holes 362, so that the two latches 36 are driven by the two pins 33 to move from the first position P1 to the second position P2, and each of the two pins 33 compresses each of the two ends of the spring 38. When each of the two latches 36 retracts, the two tongues 361 of each of the two latches 36 sequentially leave the two locking holes 161 of each of the two lateral boards 16 and the two through holes 223a of each of the two lateral frames 223, so that the module base 20 and the box body 10 are unlocked and the module base 20 could be pulled out from the box body 10. When the module base 20 is pulled out from the box body 10 and the force is no longer applied to the handle 341, the restoring force of the spring 38 moves the two pins 33 from the second ends 362b to the first ends 362a, so that the two latches 36 located on the two sides of the rotary plate 32 respectively return from the second position P2 to the first position P1 along the two track devices 35. At that time, the two tongues 361 of each of the two latches 36 protrude out of the two through holes 223a of each of the two lateral frames 223.
In the first embodiment, the two latches 36 are disposed on two opposite sides of the rotary driving structure 30. Additionally, in other embodiments, only one latch 36 could also be disposed on one side of the two opposite sides of the rotary driving structure 30. At that time, only one of the two lateral frames 223 corresponding to the latch 36 is provided with the through holes 223a; only one of the two lateral boards 16 corresponding to the latch 36 is provided with the locking holes 161; only one pin 33 is disposed on the rotation center portion 321 corresponding to the displacement hole 362 of the latch 36 and is inserted into the displacement hole 362. With such modifications, the module base 20 could move into the box body 10 for fastening automatically or the module base 20 and the box body 10 could be unlocked and the module base 20 could be pulled out from the box body 10 as the same as the first embodiment.
A second embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in
A third embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in
A fourth embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in
It must be pointed out that the embodiments described above are only some preferred embodiments of the present invention. All equivalent structures which employ the concepts disclosed in this specification and the appended claims should fall within the scope of the present invention.
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202410043862.6 | Jan 2024 | CN | national |