Patent Application
20150170480
The present invention relates to a structure of a light-emitting clip button, and in particular to a structure of a light-emitting clip button applicable to clothing.
Clothing is a necessary daily article for human living. Since clothing is put on a human body and is moved with the human body, light reflected by the clothing provides an easy observation of the existence of the human body or the activities thereof. For example, a nighttime worker may put on clothing or an accessory that provides an effect of light reflection to clearly indicate his or her location or a responding movement in the dark environment in order to ensure working safety of the people. Such light reflection techniques are most commonly used in road workers or cleaning personnel who often work in the nighttime. By wearing or carrying clothing that provides an effect of light reflection, they can be early identified by a driver at a substantial distance so that the driver may take proper actions to avoid potential traffic accidents.
The use of such clothing that reflects light in passive sense is effective in providing alarming for safety purposes, but the effect of securing safety may vary with environments that are different from each other and the persons to be protected so that there might be insufficiency for the security of safety. For example, such light-reflecting clothing is only effective when it is irradiated by an external source of light. A car that moves in a high speed may still collides the person wearing such clothing for the distance may be excessively short to allow the driver to react at the moment when the car light shortly irradiates the person or there may be simply of no way or no time for the car light to irradiate the person. Thus, such a passive light reflection technology applied to clothing may not be sufficient or effective to meet the needs for securing safety in various environments.
In view of such problems, the present invention aims to provide a structure of a light-emitting clip button that is applicable to clothing for realizing an active measure of light emission in various dark or nighttime environments.
An object of the present invention is to provide a structure of a light-emitting clip button, particularly a structure of a light-emitting clip button applicable to clothing.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides structure of a light-emitting clip button, which comprises: an upper body, a circuit board, a lower body, and a connection piece. The upper body comprises a first surface, a second surface, and a first side face. The first side face is circumferentially arranged and extending between the first surface and the second surface. The second surface comprises at least one first engagement section. The circuit board is arranged in the upper body. The circuit board comprises at least one light-emitting element and two conductive pins. The light-emitting element is electrically connected to an end of each of the conductive pins. Each of the conductive pins has an opposite end extending through the second surface and located adjacent to the first engagement section. The lower body comprises two coupling troughs and at least one second engagement section. Each of the coupling troughs is engageable with each of the conductive pins. The first engagement section is engageable with the second engagement section. The connection piece connects the upper body and the lower body.
In the above described structure of the light-emitting clip button, the first surface further comprises a through hole formed therein and the through hole is formed to correspond to and receive and retain the light-emitting element therein so as to allow the light-emitting element to emit light to transmit therethrough.
In the above described structure of the light-emitting clip button, a lens is further included, which is mounted in the through hole.
In the above described structure of the light-emitting clip button, the light-emitting element comprises a light-emitting diode.
In the above described structure of the light-emitting clip button, the first side face is of a concave curved cross-sectional shape to facilitate coupling of the coupling troughs with the respective conductive pins and the first engagement section is engageable with the second engagement section.
In the above described structure of the light-emitting clip button, each of the coupling troughs comprises a stepped section formed therein and the opposite end of each of the conductive pins comprises a protrusion section circumferentially surrounding thereon, wherein the protrusion section corresponds to and is tightly engageable with the stepped section.
In the above described structure of the light-emitting clip button, the first engagement section comprises a recessed cavity and the second engagement section comprises a raised block.
The present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art by reading the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof with reference to the drawings, in which:
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In summary, the features of the present invention are summarized as follows:
(1) The structure of the light-emitting clip button according to the present invention enables modularization for mass production and easing of manufacturing and also allows the upper body and the lower body to be fast set in mutual electrical connection with the conductive fabric and securely coupled and positioned.
(2) The first side face of the upper body of the present invention shows a concave curved configuration that facilitates the coupling troughs engaging the conductive pins and the first engagement section mating the second engagement section so as to provide an effect of easy assembling and disassembling.
(3) Each of the coupling troughs of the present invention comprises a stepped section formed therein and each of the conductive pins comprises a protrusion section circumferentially surrounding thereon so that the protrusion section is tightly engageable with the stepped section to provide an effect of water resistance.
(4) The first engagement section of the present invention is a recessed cavity and the second engagement section is a raised block, so that mating engagement between the recessed cavity and the raised block provides an effect of positioning and secured coupling.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment thereof, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that a variety of modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention which is intended to be defined by the appended claims.
