This application is the U.S. National Phase of and claims priority to International Patent Application No. PCT/JP2019/019419, International Filing Date May 16, 2019; which claims priority to Japanese Patent Application No. JP2018-125467 filed Jun. 29, 2018; both of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
The present invention relates to a stay including a first arm and a second arm rotatably connected each other and being attached between a body and a door.
As one that assists to open a door by a user and keeps a position of an opened door, a stay has been known. The stay includes a first arm and a second arm rotatably connected each other, and for example, the first arm is connected rotatably to a body and the second arm is connected rotatably to a door. To the first arm, a resilient body such as a spring and so on is disposed to exert assisting power against the door. Thus, the assisting power of the resilient body is converted to torque along a direction of opening of the second arm by, for example, a cam, and lastly, the assisting power is exerted to the door in the opening direction.
In Patent Literature 1, a stay including an adjustment mechanism, which can adjust such assisting power, is disclosed. The adjustment mechanism disclosed in the same literature is disposed with a spring between an engagement piece abutting to the cam and a receiver member, and makes it possible to adjust a position of the receiver member to the engagement piece along a longitudinal direction of a spring. That is to say, this adjustment mechanism, by changing the spacing between the receiver piece and the receiver member, changes the assisting power acting to the cam to adjust the assisting power by changing the magnitude of torque to be converted.
Incidentally, the adjustment mechanism disclosed in Patent Literature 1, when increasing resilient force generated by a spring by narrowing the spacing between a engagement piece and a receiver member, converted torque constantly increased from opening position to closing position of a door. That is to say, this adjustment mechanism can change widely the magnitude of assisting power, however, the adjustment mechanism has not been able to adjust relation between an angle of the door and the assisting power, for example, as the assisting power when the door starts to open is suppressed while obtaining larger assisting power after the door being opened to some extent.
In order to address such problem, the present invention aims to provide the stay which can adjust assisting power more variously when compared to the stay having the conventional adjustment mechanism.
A stay of the present invention comprises: a first arm rotatably connected to any one of a body or a door openable to the body; a second arm, one end of the second arm being rotatably connected to the first arm and the other end being connected to any one of the body or the door; the first arm including a resilient body, a slider urged by the resilient body to the second arm, a case supporting slidably the slider toward the second arm, and an pressing part being abutted and pressured onto a cam face disposed to the second arm by the slider; and an adjustment mechanism changing a pressing position between the cam face and the pressing part to a crossing direction with respect to a sliding direction of the slider and a rotation shaft axis direction of the second arm.
In such stay, the adjustment mechanism may include an adjustment screw being screwed to any one of the pressing part or the slider while being supported rotatably by the any other one, and making the pressing part and the slider move relatively.
In addition and in such stay, the pressing part preferably includes an anti-loosing member abutting to the adjustment screw.
In addition and in such stay, the adjustment mechanism preferably includes a receiver member being placed between the slider and the pressing part while supporting the pressing part slidably, and being disposed at an opposite side to a side imparted with urging force of the resilient body to receive the urging force of the resilient body.
Furthermore, in such stay, the adjustment mechanism preferably include an adjustment screw being screwed to any one of the case and the second arm while supported rotatably by the other one, and making the case and the second arm move relatively.
And in such stay, the pressing part preferably makes the second arm exert torque in a direction for opening the door throughout the entire region of the pressing position being changed by the adjustment mechanism.
In a stay of the present invention, by using an adjusting mechanism that can change the abutting position between a cam face and a pressing part to a crossing direction with respect to a slide-direction of a slider and also to a direction of the rotation shaft line of a second arm, the relation between an angle of the second arm and the torque converted from abutting power of a resilient body can be changed such that the assisting power can be adjusted more variously when compared to the conventional adjustment mechanism.
Hereinbelow, one embodiment of a stay according to the present invention will be described with referring to attached drawings. Now, the say of the present invention should not be limited to embodiments disclosed in this description and the drawings and can include various embodiments practiced within the scope in accordance with Claims.
The stay 1 includes a first arm 2 and a second arm 3 rotatably connected each other. The first arm 2 is attached rotatably to the body 101 through a clip plate 103, and the second arm 3 is attached rotatably to the door 102 through a clip plate 104 as a connection element.
When the stay 1 is used as
Here, the clip plate 103 shown is attached to an inside lateral face of the body 101, however, the clip plate attached to an inside back face of the body 101 may be used. Besides, the stay 1 can be attached to the one other than the system where the door 102 opens to the back from this side as illustrated, and for example, the stay 1 can be attached between the body having an opening part at the front and having a hinge at upper part of the front side and the door is disposed in front of the body through the hinge for allowing the opening from a lower side to a upper side.
Next, the configuration of stay 1 will be described in detail with referring to
The case 4 is formed by folding a metal thin plate to the shape including a right-and-left pair of lateral plates 4a, and a front plate 4b connecting the lateral plates 4a at the front while its back being opened. Now, the opened back-side part of the case 4 will be referred to a back opening 4c. The lateral plates 4a of the present embodiment is formed so as to have an upper quadrilateral shape and a lower triangle shape and the spacing between the lateral plates 4a becomes narrow such that the spacing of the bottom part is narrower than that of the upper part. In addition, at the upper part of the lateral plates 4a, shaft holes 4d positioned near the center of front and back direction, upper through-holes 4e positioned in front of the shaft hole 4d, a window hole 4f being placed below the shaft hole 4d while extending along the front and back direction, and a measure 4g positioned below the window hole 4f are disposed. At the lower part of the lateral plates 4a, lower through-holes 4h are disposed. Furthermore, as shown in
The spring receiver 5 forms generally a shape connecting the plate pieces each having a rectangular shape in their planer view and the plate pieces each having a triangle shape in its side view, and the spring receiver 5 is made of a synthetic resin. At the upper part of the spring receiver 5, protrusions 5a each having a columnar shape for positioning the spring 8 are disposed. At the bottom part of the spring receiver 5, a bottom through-hole 5b is disposed. The spring receiver 5 is inserted from the back opening 4c to be held by the case 4.
The bushing 6 has the shape that forms generally a cylinder shape and is disposed with a flange at one end along an axis direction. In addition, in the condition where the spring receiver 5 is held in the case 4, the bushing 6 is inserted and is held in the bottom through-holes 4h, 5b. The bushing 6 is inserted with a screw and the like as shown in
The slider 7 has the shape that a front wall 7a and a back wall 7b are disposed with the spacing along the front and back direction at the upper part of the part having a rectangular shape in its lateral view, and is made of a synthetic resin. To the front wall 7a and the back wall 7b, circular through-holes 7c extending along the front and back direction are disposed for supporting rotatably the adjusting screw 13. Besides, as shown in
The springs 8 are lain between the spring receiver 5 and the slider 7 to urge the slider 7 upwardly. The springs 8 of the present embodiment are positioned by the protrusion 5a and the concave part 7d. Furthermore, the springs 8 with three larger diameter types and two smaller diameter types are used in the illustrated embodiment, however, the number and sizes may be adequately selected.
The pressing part 9 has the shape connecting the upper part having almost the triangular shape and the lower part having the quadrilateral shape in its lateral view and is made of metal. The width of right and left direction of the pressing part 9 becomes wider at the upper part having the triangular shape than the lower part having the quadrilateral shape. Besides, at the lower part of the pressing part 9, a female screw part 9a extending to the front and back direction is disposed. As shown in
The anti-loosing member 11 has generally a rectangular solid shape and is made of a synthetic resin. At the center of the anti-loosing member 11, a circular through-hole 11 extending to the front and back direction is formed at the position aligned to the female screw part 9a when assembled to the pressing part 9. Here, the through-hole 11a is formed as providing an outer diameter of an extent allowing an outer face of the adjustment screw 13 to abut.
The receiver member 12 is formed by folding a thin metal plate and has a right-and-left pair of lateral plates 12a and a bottom plate 12b connecting the lateral plates 12a each other at the lower side. The receiver member 12 is attached at the upper part of the slider 7 between the front wall 7a and the back wall 7b. Here, the receiver member 12 supports slidably the triangular shape part of the pressing part 9 by the top part of the lateral plates 12a. Furthermore, the receiver member 12 has the function for enforcing the slider 7 by receiving the urging force of the springs 8 acting from the lower direction of the slider 7 with making the lower plate 12b abut to the upper face of the slider 7. That is to say, as shown in
The adjustment screw 13 is held rotatably to the slider 7 under the condition where the pressing part 9, the anti-loosing member 11, and the receiver member 12 are fixed to the slider 7. Particularly, one end of the adjustment screw 13 and the opposite end are supported rotatably by through-holes 7c of the front wall 7a and the back wall 7b, and the male screw part disposed at the center of the adjustment screw 13 is screwed into the female part 9a of the pressing part 9. Thus, by the rotation of the adjustment screw 13, the pressing part 9 is made to move in the front and back direction with respect to the slider 7. Also, in this condition, the male screw part of the adjustment screw 13 abuts to the through-hole 11a of the anti-loosing member 11. That is to say, the adjustment screw 13 does not rotate carelessly so that the pressing part 9 can not move carelessly. Here, when attaching the adjustment screw 13 to the slider 7, a washer 13a shown in
Furthermore, the second arm 3 has generally an L-shape in its plane view and is made of a synthetic resin. At the upper part of the second arm 3, an upper through-hole 3a is disposed. Into the upper through-hole 3a, a pin and so on is inserted as shown in
The shaft part 14 has generally a columnar shape in which a flange is disposed at one end along the shaft direction. The shaft 14 is inserted into the shaft hole 4d of the case 4 and the shaft hole 3b of the second arm 3 to connect rotatably the first arm 2 and the second arm 3. Now, when attaching the shaft part 14, a washer 14a shown in
In the stay 1 as such configured and shown in
Now, depending on shapes and positional relations of the cam surface 3d, the pressing part 9 and the shaft part 14, the torque directing to the closing direction of the door 102 (the direction that the door 102 is returned to the body 101) can be also made to act. With configuring as describe above, for example by applying the door that opens to the horizontal direction with respect to the body, the door can be securely closed. On the other hand, as the present embodiment, when attached to one that the door 102 opens upwardly to the body 101, as shown in
Incidentally, in the condition where the door 102 is opened largely and upwardly as shown in
Although the stay 1 of the above first embodiment has been one that adjust the assist force provided to the door 102 by moving the pressing part 9 with respect to the slider 7 along the front and back direction, the similar effect can also obtained by using a stay 15 of the second embodiment.
The case 4 of this embodiment includes, as shown in
The bracket 16 has generally a channel shape in its plane view. At the right and left sides of the bracket 16, the through-holes 16a are disposed. Furthermore, to the forward side of the bracket 16, one end part of the adjustment screw 13 is inserted and a supporting hole 16b for supporting rotatably it is disposed.
Besides, the shaft part 14 is inserted into the long hole 4k, the through-holes 16a, and shaft hole 3b to hold the second arm 3 rotatably and movably toward the front and back direction to the first arm 2.
The adjustment mechanism in the stay 15 of the second embodiment is configured, by rotating the adjustment screw 13, to move the second arm 3 along the front and back direction with respect to the case 4. By such adjustment mechanism, since the cam face 3d of the second arm 3 can be moved along the front and back direction to the pressing part 9 such that the torque acting to the second arm 3 is also changed likely to the stay 1 of the first embodiment.
As described as far, the present invention has been described using particular embodiments, however, the stay of the present invention is not limited to the above described embodiments and can include ones that various modifications are incorporated. For example, though the stay 1 is one that the driver and so on for rotating the adjustment screw 13 is inserted from the front side of the case 4, as shown in
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