CN214306784U - Annular tubular lamp with regulating switch and mounting structure - Google Patents

Annular tubular lamp with regulating switch and mounting structure Download PDF

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CN214306784U
CN214306784U CN202120232229.3U CN202120232229U CN214306784U CN 214306784 U CN214306784 U CN 214306784U CN 202120232229 U CN202120232229 U CN 202120232229U CN 214306784 U CN214306784 U CN 214306784U
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郭杰江
蒲纪忠
甘彩英
赵艺佼
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The utility model relates to an annular tubular lamp and mounting structure with regulating switch, including annular body, fix LED lamp strip and relevant drive module in the body, the mounting hole has still been seted up on the body, the position that corresponds with the mounting hole still is provided with toggle switch, toggle switch's main part is connected with drive module, and the cover is equipped with the switch cap of being convenient for to adjust on the switch handle of being connected with the main part, drive the switch handle through the toggle switch cap and remove in order to realize the regulation to drive module, make the structure of whole annular tubular lamp more simple like this, increase the application mode of annular tubular lamp when further reducing manufacturing cost.

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Annular tubular lamp with regulating switch and mounting structure
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a LED lamp illumination field especially relates to an annular spot and mounting structure with regulating switch.
Background
With the continuous popularization and technical application of the LED lamps in the market, the LED lamps have the advantages of low power consumption, long service life, long emergency lighting time, easy control, no maintenance, safety, environmental protection and the like, so the LED lamps are widely applied to indoor emergency lighting lamps in hotels, offices, large markets, basements and the like. The annular tube lamp is also one of the more LED lamps in the market, and generally includes an annular lamp body and a light emitting device installed in the lamp body. The annular tubular lamp that can be used to adjust light colour at present, intensity etc. have regulatory function is higher in manufacturing cost, and structure reliability itself is not enough, and along with the increase of live time, some spare parts on the annular tubular lamp are become flexible easily and drop.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In view of the above, there is a need to provide an annular tube lamp with an adjustment switch and a mounting structure that address at least one of the problems.
The utility model provides an annular tubular lamp with regulating switch, includes annular body, fixes LED lamp strip in the body and with the drive module that LED lamp strip electricity is connected, annular tubular lamp still includes:
the mounting hole is formed in the pipe body and has a length direction and a width direction;
the toggle switch is arranged in the pipe body at a position corresponding to the mounting hole, and is provided with a main body part electrically connected with the driving module and a switch handle for adjustment;
and the switch cap is slidably arranged in the mounting hole, sleeved on the switch handle and provided with an operating part exposed outside the pipe body.
Optionally, the switch cap further includes a sliding portion disposed in the mounting hole and fixedly connected to the operation portion, and the sliding portion slides along the length direction of the mounting hole under the driving of the operation portion.
Optionally, the mounting hole is a stepped hole, the step of the mounting hole is used as a limit step, and the periphery of the sliding part is lapped on the limit step;
the switch cap further comprises a limiting part which extends into the tube body and is abutted to the bottom surface of the limiting step.
Optionally, a gap is left between the top of the switch handle and the inner wall of the operation portion.
Optionally, one end of the limiting portion is fixed to one side, facing the inside of the pipe body, of the sliding portion, and the other end of the limiting portion is located on two sides of the width direction of the mounting hole and provided with barb structures which abut against the inner wall of the pipe body.
Optionally, the tubular body comprises two annular half-shells fixed axially along the annulus;
one of them half shell is used for the installation as the base LED lamp strip, the light emitting area of LED lamp strip is half shell towards another, and this half shell is the printing opacity cover.
Optionally, the LED lamp strips comprise a plurality of arc-shaped unit lamp strips, and the unit lamp strips are sequentially spliced into an annular shape along the circumferential direction of the pipe body.
Optionally, a plurality of mounting columns are arranged on the base, and the splicing parts of two adjacent unit light bars are overlapped and fixed on the same mounting column and fixed by fastening screws.
Optionally, the base is fixed to the contact surface of the light-transmitting cover through ultrasonic welding, and a joint of one of the base and the light-transmitting cover and the other of the base and the light-transmitting cover is provided with an annular step on the outer side of the tube body.
The application also provides a mounting structure, mounting structure is used for installing foretell annular spot with regulating switch to the ceiling, mounting structure is including being fixed in two at least magnetic part on the body, and fix in advance extremely the mounting bracket of ceiling, annular spot passes through magnetic part adsorb extremely on the mounting bracket.
Above-mentioned annular spot with regulating switch is through setting up regulating switch on the body, makes annular spot simple structure like this, further practices thrift the processing cost.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an annular tube lamp according to one embodiment;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged schematic view indicated at A in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a switch cap according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a toggle switch according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is an exploded view of an annular tube lamp in one embodiment;
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a structure of a unit light bar in one embodiment;
FIG. 7 is an enlarged schematic view indicated at B in FIG. 5;
FIG. 8 is a schematic cross-sectional view of an embodiment of a annular tube lamp at a toggle switch;
FIG. 9 is an enlarged schematic view indicated at C in FIG. 8;
FIG. 10 is an enlarged schematic view indicated at D in FIG. 8;
FIG. 11 is a schematic view of an annular tube lamp and mounting structure in one embodiment;
the reference numbers illustrate:
100. an annular tube lamp; 10. a pipe body; 11. a base; 111. a plug-in wall; 112. energy guide points; 113. an annular step (first step); 114. a second step; 12. a light-transmitting cover; 121. inserting grooves; 13. mounting a column; 131. a screw hole; 132. an installation table; 133. fastening screws;
20. an LED light bar; 21. a unit light bar; 22. a snap-fit structure;
30. a drive module;
40. mounting holes; 41. a limiting step; 411. a chamfering structure;
50. a toggle switch; 51. a main body portion; 52. a switch handle;
60. a switch cap; 61. a limiting part; 611. a semi-hoop structure; 6111. a barb structure; 62. an operation section; 621. a gap; 63. a sliding part;
70. a power supply module; 71. a pin;
80. heat dissipation holes;
90. a magnetic member.
Detailed Description
The technical scheme of the application is clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the attached drawings. It should be apparent that the embodiments described are only a few embodiments of the present application and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the disclosed embodiments without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When a component is referred to as being "disposed on" another component, it can be directly on the other component or intervening components may also be present.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs. The terminology used in the description of the present application herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the application. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
As shown in fig. 1 to 9, there is provided a circular tubular lamp 100 with a regulating switch, including a circular tubular body 10, an LED light bar 20 fixed in the tubular body 10, and a driving module 30 electrically connected to the LED light bar 20, the circular tubular lamp 100 further including:
the mounting hole 40 is formed in the pipe body 10;
the toggle switch 50 is arranged inside the tube body 10 at a position corresponding to the mounting hole 40, and the toggle switch 50 is provided with a main body part 51 electrically connected with the driving module 30 and a switch handle 52 for adjustment;
the switch cap 60 is slidably fitted into the mounting hole 40 and fitted over the switch lever 52, and has an operating portion 62 exposed to the outside of the pipe body 10.
The annular tubular lamp 100 with the adjusting function in the prior art is high in production cost, and the annular tubular lamp 100 is complex in structure matched with the adjusting function and inconvenient to install. In this application, the adjusting switch is directly arranged on the lamp body of the annular tubular lamp 100, and the switch cap 60 is adjusted in a matching manner, so that the structure is simple, the production cost of the annular tubular lamp 100 is reduced, and the purpose of adjustment is achieved.
In the present embodiment, the toggle switch 50 connected to the driving module 30 may be a dial switch, and the parameters related to the annular tube lamp 100 are adjusted by a handle of the toggle switch. A plurality of terminals are arranged in the main body 51 of the toggle switch 50, each terminal is connected with a unit with different parameters on the driving module 30, and the communication of each terminal is controlled through the switch handle 52 to adjust different parameters. The color, the color temperature or the light intensity of the annular tube lamp 100 can be adjusted according to different use environments.
In the present embodiment, the switch handle 52 of the toggle switch 50 is disposed in the mounting hole 40, and a switch cap 60 is disposed on the switch handle 52 for easy operation. The design of the switch cap 60 makes the annular lamp more aesthetically pleasing.
As shown in fig. 1, 3 and 8, the switch cap 60 further includes a sliding portion 63 disposed in the mounting hole 40 and fixedly connected to the operating portion 62, and the sliding portion 63 is driven by the operating portion 62 to slide along the length direction of the mounting hole 40. The two sides of the sliding part 63 in the width direction are respectively attached to the two sides of the mounting hole 40 in the width direction, and a certain limiting effect is achieved, so that the operating part 62 is prevented from shaking in the width direction of the mounting hole 40 when moving.
Further, the sliding portion 63 has a plate-like structure, and a thickness thereof is smaller than a depth of the mounting hole 40 so as to be fitted into the mounting hole 40. The operation portion 62 provided on the sliding portion 63 protrudes from the mounting hole 40, facilitating the operation.
Further, the sliding portion 63 is elongated along the longitudinal direction of the mounting hole 40 to limit the moving range of the operating portion 62 in the longitudinal direction of the mounting hole 40. According to actual requirements, the length of the mounting hole 40 or the length of the sliding portion 63 can be adjusted so that the moving range meets the adjustment requirements.
As shown in fig. 4 and 8, since the switch handle 52 is made of metal, a creepage distance needs to be reserved, and a gap 621 is reserved between the top of the switch handle 52 and the inner wall of the operation portion 62 to enhance the safety and reliability of the annular tubular lamp 100. As shown in fig. 3 and 8, in order to allow the switch cap 60 to be stably sleeved on the switch handle 52, the switch cap 60 further has a limiting portion 61 for engaging and limiting with the wall of the tube 10. One end of the limiting part 61 is fixed on one side of the sliding part 63 facing the inside of the pipe body 10, and the other end has barb structures 6111 abutting against the inner wall of the pipe body 10 on both sides of the mounting hole 40 in the width direction.
Specifically, the limiting portion 61 is located inside the tube 10 and is composed of semi-encircling structures 611 respectively disposed at two sides of the width direction of the mounting hole 40 and surrounding the switch handle 52, and the bottoms of the semi-encircling structures 611 extend back to form barb structures 6111 abutting against the inner wall of the tube 10.
Further, each of the semi-surrounding structures 611 is extended from one side of the switch handle 52 to the adjacent two sides, and the extending portions of the semi-surrounding structures 611 are not connected with each other at the same side, so that a certain elasticity exists between the two semi-surrounding structures 611, when the switch cap 60 is mounted on the switch handle 52, the semi-surrounding structures 611 of the switch cap 60 are respectively aligned to the two sides of the width direction of the mounting hole 40, the operating portion 62 is sleeved on the switch handle 52, and after the limiting portion 61 extends into the lamp body through the mounting hole 40, the semi-surrounding structures 611 rebound, so that the barb structure 6111 is clamped with the inner wall of the tube body 10.
In this embodiment, the switch cap 60 is a unitary structure and is made of a material having a certain elasticity, such as plastic.
As shown in fig. 10, the mounting hole 40 is a stepped hole, and the wall of the hole has a stepped structure extending in the circumferential direction of the mounting hole 40, and this structure is used as a stopper step 41, the peripheral edge of the sliding portion 63 overlaps the stopper step 41, and the stopper portion 62 abuts against the bottom surface of the stopper step 41 to restrict the movement of the switch cap 60 in the longitudinal direction of the mounting hole 40.
Specifically, the barb structure 6111 of the limiting part 62 abuts against the bottom surface of the limiting step 41 in a clamping manner.
Specifically, the limit step 41 has a chamfered structure 411 inclined toward the inside of the body 10 to facilitate insertion of the limit portion 62 of the switch cap 60 into the mounting hole 40.
As shown in fig. 5 to 7, the tube 10 includes two annular half shells fixed along an annular axial direction, one of the half shells serves as a base 11 for mounting the LED light bar 20, and a light emitting device associated with the LED light bar 20, and a light emitting surface of the LED light bar 20 faces the other half shell, which is a light-transmitting cover 12.
In this embodiment, the LED light bars 20 include a plurality of arc-shaped unit light bars 21, and each unit light bar 21 is spliced into the annular shape along the circumference of the pipe body 10 in turn. Similarly, the driving module 30 is also disposed in an arc shape corresponding to the unit light bars 21, and is disposed below one of the unit light bars 21 facing the base 11.
In this embodiment, the mounting hole 40 is opened on the base 11 and is close to the driving module 30, so as to facilitate wiring.
In this embodiment, the base 11 is provided with a plurality of mounting posts 13, and the splicing portions of two adjacent unit light bars 21 are overlapped and fixed on the same mounting post 13 and fixed by the fastening screw 133.
Specifically, the top surface of the mounting column 13 is provided with a screw hole 131, the periphery of the screw hole 131 is an annular mounting table 132, both sides of the unit light bar 21 along the length direction are respectively overlapped on the corresponding mounting tables 132, a fastening screw 133 is fitted in the screw hole 131, and the head of the fastening screw 133 presses and fixes the edge of the unit light bar 21 on the mounting table 132.
Furthermore, the splicing part of two adjacent unit light bars 21 is provided with a complementary-shaped clamping structure 22. In this embodiment, complementary semicircular notches are formed at corresponding positions of the two adjacent unit light bars 21 and the screw hole 131, so that the screw portion of the fastening screw 133 can extend into the screw hole 131 through the notches. The head of the fastening screw 133 should cover at least a portion of two adjacent unit light bars 21 to enable the fixing function.
In order to increase the stability of the tube 10, the contact surface between the base 11 and the transparent cover 12 is fixed by ultrasonic welding, so that the tube 10 is assembled more firmly and the reliability is increased.
As shown in fig. 8 and 9, plug walls 111 are connected to the top surface of the semicircular cross section of the base 11 near the inner side of the pipe body 10, and energy conducting points 112 for ultrasonic welding are provided on the top edges of the plug walls 111. The top surface of the corresponding semicircular cross section of the light-transmitting cover 12 is provided with an insertion groove 121 for accommodating the insertion wall 111, and the top edge of the outer wall of the light-transmitting cover 12 is lapped on the step formed by the insertion wall 111 and the top surface on the base 11, namely the second step 114 indicated in fig. 9.
Specifically, the insertion wall 111 is inserted into the insertion groove 121, and a certain gap is left between the insertion wall 111 and the groove walls and the groove bottom on both sides of the insertion groove 121. Under the action of ultrasonic wave, the energy conducting point 112 on the insertion wall 111 will melt and fill into the reserved gap, so that the contact surface of the base 11 and the light-transmitting cover 12 is bonded and fixed.
Furthermore, a larger gap is reserved between the plugging wall 111 and the inward groove wall of the light-transmitting cover 12, and a certain anti-overflow effect is achieved after the energy guide point 112 is melted. And does not affect the appearance of the circular tube lamp 100 even if the guide points 112 melt overflow.
In the present embodiment, the insertion wall 111 provided on the base 11 and the insertion groove 121 provided on the light-transmissive cover 12 extend along the circumferential direction of the tube 10.
In this embodiment, the connection portion between one of the base 11 and the light-transmitting cover 12 and the other is located outside the tube 10 and is provided with an annular step 113, so as to solve the problem that the connection portion between the base 11 and the light-transmitting cover 12 is not flat due to the tolerance problem of the mold during the production of the base 11 and the light-transmitting cover 12, which causes the step, and affects the appearance.
In this embodiment, the annular step 113 is disposed on the base 11, such that the first step 113 located on the outer side of the top surface of the base 11 is used as the annular step 113 to solve the problem of uneven appearance, and the second step 114 higher than the first step 113 is used for placing the top edge of the outer wall of the light-transmitting cover 12.
In this embodiment, the annular tubular lamp 100 further includes a power module 70 disposed in the base 11 and located below the driving module 30, and the base 11 and the power module 70 are further provided with an avoiding opening at a corresponding position thereof for avoiding the pin 71 on the power socket from being exposed outside the tube 10.
In the present embodiment, the base 11 is provided with a strip-shaped heat dissipation hole 80.
As shown in fig. 11, the present application also provides a mounting structure for mounting the circular tube lamp 100 with the adjustment switch to a ceiling, the mounting structure including at least two magnetic members 90 fixed to the tube body 10, and a mounting bracket (not shown) pre-fixed to the ceiling, the circular tube lamp 100 being attracted to the mounting bracket by the magnetic members 90. Adopt such mounting structure be convenient for annular tubular lamp 100 the installation and dismantle, and when overhauing annular tubular lamp 100, can directly dismantle below annular tubular lamp 100 from the mounting bracket, convenient quick, but one-man operation.
Specifically, the magnetic member 90 includes a fixing portion fixedly connected to the base 11 and a magnetic portion connected to the mounting portion. Wherein one end of the connecting part is fixed to the base 11 by a bolt and the other end is connected to the magnetic part. The magnetism portion is discoid to increase the area of contact with the mounting bracket, make the installation more firm.
In one embodiment, the magnetic member 90 may be a unitary structure.
In one embodiment, the mounting frame may be configured in a disc shape to facilitate the attraction of the magnetic member 90.
The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.
The above-mentioned embodiments only represent some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is specific and detailed, but not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.

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1. Annular tubular lamp with regulating switch, including annular body, fix LED lamp strip in the body and with the drive module that LED lamp strip electricity is connected, its characterized in that, annular tubular lamp still includes:
the mounting hole is formed in the pipe body and has a length direction and a width direction;
the toggle switch is arranged in the pipe body at a position corresponding to the mounting hole, and is provided with a main body part electrically connected with the driving module and a switch handle for adjustment;
and the switch cap is slidably arranged in the mounting hole, sleeved on the switch handle and provided with an operating part exposed outside the pipe body.
2. The annular tubular lamp with the adjusting switch as claimed in claim 1, wherein the switch cap further comprises a sliding part disposed in the mounting hole and fixedly connected to the operating part, and the sliding part slides along the length direction of the mounting hole under the driving of the operating part.
3. The annular tube lamp with the adjusting switch as claimed in claim 2, wherein the mounting hole is a stepped hole, and the step of the mounting hole is a limit step on which the periphery of the sliding part is lapped;
the switch cap further comprises a limiting part which extends into the tube body and is abutted to the bottom surface of the limiting step.
4. The annular tube lamp with the adjusting switch as claimed in claim 1, wherein a gap is left between the top of the switch handle and the inner wall of the operating part.
5. The annular tubular lamp with the adjusting switch as claimed in claim 3, wherein one end of the limiting portion is fixed to one side of the sliding portion facing the inside of the tubular body, and the other end of the limiting portion has a barb structure abutting against the inner wall of the tubular body at two sides of the mounting hole in the width direction.
6. An annular tube lamp as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tube body comprises two annular half shells fixed in an annular axial direction;
one of them half shell is used for the installation as the base LED lamp strip, the light emitting area of LED lamp strip is half shell towards another, and this half shell is the printing opacity cover.
7. The annular tubular lamp with the regulating switch as claimed in claim 6, wherein the LED light bar comprises a plurality of arc-shaped unit light bars, and the unit light bars are sequentially spliced into an annular shape along the circumference of the tubular body.
8. The annular tubular lamp with the adjusting switch as claimed in claim 7, wherein the base is provided with a plurality of mounting posts, and the splicing parts of two adjacent unit lamp strips are overlapped and fixed on the same mounting post and fixed by fastening screws.
9. The annular tubular lamp with the adjusting switch as claimed in claim 6, wherein the base and the light-transmitting cover are fixed by ultrasonic welding, and the joint of one and the other of the base and the light-transmitting cover is provided with an annular step outside the tubular body.
10. A mounting structure for mounting the annular tube lamp with the adjustment switch according to any one of claims 1 to 9 to a ceiling, the mounting structure including at least two magnetic members fixed to the tube body, and a mounting bracket previously fixed to the ceiling, the annular tube lamp being attracted to the mounting bracket by the magnetic members.
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