The present disclosure relates to a socket. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a socket which can abut against a tool.
With the advance of technologies, during operating a tool such as a screw tool, a user often holds the tool by a socket to improve the convenience of operating. When the socket is used to hold the tool, the tool is often detached from the socket due to an excessive force applied by the user, which causes a waste of the time. The practitioners develop various accessories for using with the socket for improving the stability of the socket as holding the tool. For example, an abutting element is disposed at an inner side of the socket and configured for abutting against and holding the tool. However, when the abutting element is disposed in the conventional socket for improving the fixing stability of the abutting element at the socket, it is necessary to drill a through hole with a complicated shape at the socket, so the difficulty of processing and the manufacturing cost are further increased.
Accordingly, a socket under the condition that the stability of holding the tool can be improved without increasing the manufacturing cost is still the goal the practitioners pursue.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a socket includes a body, a through hole, an accommodating base and an abutting element. The body includes an outer wall and an operating inner surface. The operating inner surface surrounds an operating space, and the operating space is configured for a tool to insert therein. The through hole penetrates the outer wall and the operating inner surface radially, and the through hole is communicated with the operating space. The accommodating base is accommodated in the through hole and includes a bottom portion and a surrounding wall. The bottom portion is located at an outer end of the through hole and covers the through hole. The surrounding wall is connected to the bottom portion and located in the through hole. The surrounding wall and the bottom portion surround an accommodating space. The abutting element is disposed in the accommodating space. The abutting element is exposed from the through hole partially and protrudes into the operating space, and the abutting element is configured for abutting against the tool.
The present disclosure can be more fully understood by reading the following detailed description of the embodiment, with reference made to the accompanying drawings as follows:
It will be understood that when an element (or mechanism or module) is referred to as being “disposed on”, “connected to” or “coupled to” another element, it can be directly disposed on, connected or coupled to the other elements, or it can be indirectly disposed on, connected or coupled to the other elements, that is, intervening elements may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being “directly disposed on”, “directly connected to” or “directly coupled to” another element, there is no intervening element present.
In addition, the terms first, second, third, etc. are used herein to describe various elements or components, these elements or components should not be limited by these terms. Consequently, a first element or component discussed below could be termed a second element or component.
With the combination of the accommodating base 1300 and the abutting element 1400, the accommodating base 1300 can be disposed in the through hole 1200 by interference, and the abutting element 1400 is disposed in the accommodating base 1300. During processing of the socket 1000, the abutting element 1400 can be fixed in the through hole 1200 without using an adhesive, and there is no additional process for disposing the abutting element 1400 in the through hole 1200 at the body 1100 to avoid the fact that the design complexity of the through hole and the abutting element is increased for increasing the engaging stability of the conventional socket. Therefore, the difficulty of processing and manufacturing cost can be reduced.
A user can insert a driving tool such as a pneumatic tool or a wrench into the driving space W2 to drive the socket 1000 with an engaging tooth structure of the operating inner surface 1120 to hold the tool 100 for operating, and the tool 100 can be a nut for example. The strength of the socket 1000 holding the tool 100 can be increased by protruding the abutting element 1400 into the operating space W1 to improve the holding stability of the socket 1000 and prevent the tool 100 from detaching due to accidental shaking. The details of the structure of the socket 1000 are described in the following.
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A shape of the through hole 1200 can be cylinder, a diameter of the through hole 1200 can be 3 mm, and a shape of the accommodating base 1300 corresponding to the shape of the through hole 1200 is a cylindrical groove. In other embodiments, the shape of the through hole can be a rectangular prism, a polygon prism, or an irregular prism including bumpy surfaces, the shape of the accommodating base corresponds to the shape of the through hole, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Therefore, the stability of the abutting element 1400 abutting against the tool 100 can be improved.
The abutting element 1400 can include an abutting portion 1410 and a supporting portion 1420, the abutting portion 1410 is integrally connected to the supporting portion 1420, the supporting portion 1420 is accommodated in the accommodating space, and the abutting portion 1410 covers the surrounding wall 1320. A thickness of the abutting portion 1410 is tapered outwardly from a center of the abutting portion 1410, so that a shape of the abutting portion 1410 can be substantially a mushroom cap. The supporting portion 1420 can provide the stress to support the abutting portion 1410 to improve the stability of the abutting element 1400 abutting against the tool 100. An integral design of the butting portion 1410 and the supporting portion 1420 can simplify the processing of the abutting element 1400 and reduce the manufacturing cost. The abutting element 1400 can be made of an elastic material such as a rubber or an elastic plastic material, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. When the abutting element 1400 made of the elastic material abuts against and hold the tool 100, the abutting element 1400 is deformed to reduce the abrasion between the abutting element 1400 and the tool 100 and provides the enough holding strength.
The surrounding wall 1320 can be integrally connected to the bottom portion 1310. The accommodating base 1300 can be made of a metal material. Specifically, the accommodating base 1300 is made of a copper material. Therefore, via the accommodating base 1300 made of the copper material, the manufacturing cost and the shaping difficulty of the accommodating base 1300 can be reduced. In other embodiments, the accommodating base can be made of other metal materials, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
In other embodiments, a number of the through holes, a number of the accommodating bases and a number of the abutting elements can be plural. The through holes penetrate the outer wall and the operating inner surface radially, and the through holes are arranged and spaced away from each other, the number of the accommodating bases and the number of the abutting elements both correspond to the number of the through holes to further improve the stability of the socket holding the tool, but the present disclosure is not limited to the aforementioned numbers.
In summary, the present disclosure provides a socket which has the following advantages: first, by the configuration of the abutting element and the accommodating base, the difficulty of processing the socket and the manufacturing cost can be reduced; second, through the outside diameter of the surrounding wall being tapered off, the accommodating base can be prevented from protruding into the operating space; and, third, by disposing the engaging ring and the engaging groove, the engaging strength of the abutting element engaging with the accommodating base can be improved.
Although the present disclosure has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain embodiments thereof, other embodiments are possible. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the embodiments contained herein.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present disclosure without departing from the scope or spirit of the disclosure. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present disclosure cover modifications and variations of this disclosure provided they fall within the scope of the following claims.
This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 63/364,563, filed May 12, 2022 which is herein incorporated by reference.
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63364563 | May 2022 | US |