CN106548889B - Button assembly - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- H01H13/00—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch
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- H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
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Abstract
The present invention provides a kind of button assembly, to be configured at electronic device.Button assembly includes switch element and flexible button.Switch element is configured in the shell of electronic device.Flexible button has press section, axle portion, at least a waterproof portion and touch part.Press section is exposed to shell.Axle portion connects press section and touch part, and across the perforation of shell.Waterproof portion connects axle portion, and covers perforation.Touch part is located in shell, and is aligned with switch element.When forcing in press section, press section generates compressive deformation, and touch part is driven to generate dilatancy, with touch switch element.Therefore, button assembly of the invention meets the design requirement of micromation, and convenient for assembling repair.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of button assembly more particularly to a kind of button assemblies suitable for electronic device.
Background technology
In recent years, sci-tech product is mostly with mobility and functional for main demand, therefore portable electronic devices are for example
The products such as smart mobile phone, tablet computer and laptop have become the mainstream of electronic consumer markets now.
In general, portable electronic devices are commonly provided with button on shell, wherein have in casing and correspond to button
And the switch element being arranged, and button is mutually coupled with switch element to constitute button assembly.Therefore, user can pass through pressing
Button carrys out control switch element, so reach control power supply, bluetooth or wireless network switch, or be adjust volume, take the photograph
Make video recording as or scroll the functions such as the page.On the other hand, the shell of portable electronic devices is provided with trepanning to accommodate mostly
Button assembly.Since existing button assembly includes button, spring, waterproof case and retaining ring, overall volume is larger, therefore
To accommodate button assembly trepanning size and can not effectively be contracted by, cause extraneous aqueous vapor or dust to be easy via opening
Hole enters the inside of portable electronic devices.
Invention content
The present invention provides a kind of button assembly, meets the design requirement of micromation, and convenient for assembling repair.
The present invention proposes a kind of button assembly, to be configured at electronic device.Button assembly includes switch element and can
Flexible button.Switch element is configured in the shell of electronic device.Flexible button has press section, axle portion, at least a waterproof
Portion and touch part.Press section is exposed to shell.Axle portion connects press section and touch part, and across the perforation of shell.Waterproof portion
Axle portion is connected, and covers perforation.Touch part is located in shell, and is aligned with switch element.When forcing in press section, pressing
Portion generates compressive deformation, and touch part is driven to generate dilatancy, with touch switch element.
Flexible button based on above-mentioned, of the invention button assembly can be integrally formed structures, and be easily assembled to electricity
The shell of sub-device, or disassemble and repair, and meet the design requirement of micromation.When user force in it is flexible by
When the press section of button, the touch part of flexible button will produce dilatancy, and then touch switch element.At this point, be touched
Switch element can send out electric signal, and electronic device is made to generate respective control function.Therefore, for the user, of the invention
The operation of button assembly is extremely easy.On the other hand, the waterproof portion of flexible button is connected to shell securely, to cover connection
The extraneous perforation with enclosure interior avoids extraneous aqueous vapor or dust from entering enclosure interior, helps to improve and be set in shell
The service life and reliability of the electronic component in portion.
To make the foregoing features and advantages of the present invention clearer and more comprehensible, special embodiment below, and it is detailed to coordinate attached drawing to make
Carefully it is described as follows.
Description of the drawings
Fig. 1 is that the button assembly of one embodiment of the invention is configured at the partial cutaway schematic of electronic device；
Schematic diagram when Fig. 2 is the press section stress of the button assembly of Fig. 1；
Fig. 3 is that the button assembly of another embodiment of the present invention is configured at the partial cutaway schematic of electronic device.
Reference sign：
10：Electronic device；
11：Shell；
12：Trepanning；
13：Perforation；
100：Button assembly；
110：Switch element；
120：Flexible button；
121：Press section；
121a：First cavity；
122：Axle portion；
122a：Communication channel；
123：First waterproof portion；
124：Second waterproof portion；
125：Touch part；
125a：Second cavity.
Specific implementation mode
Fig. 1 is that the button assembly of one embodiment of the invention is configured at the partial cutaway schematic of electronic device.Please refer to figure
1, in the present embodiment, button assembly 100 can be used to be configured at electronic device 10, and wherein electronic device 10 can be intelligent hand
Machine, tablet computer, laptop or other electronic products appropriate.Button assembly 100 includes switch element 110 and flexible
Property button 120.Switch element 110 is configured in the shell 11 of electronic device 10, and (is not shown with the processing unit of electronic device 10
Go out) electric property coupling.In general, shell 11 can be that metal, plastic casing, carbon fiber shell, plastic cement and metal are constituted
The combined housing that combined housing or carbon fiber are constituted with metal, have for used in setting button assembly 100 trepanning 12 with
Perforation 13.Trepanning 12 is connected with perforation 13, and wherein trepanning 12 is exposed to shell 11, and passes through perforation 13 and 11 inside phase of shell
Connection.
The material of flexible button 120 is, for example, rubber, and the technology that ejection formation can be used is made.Specifically,
Flexible button 120 has press section 121, axle portion 122, the first waterproof portion 123, the second waterproof portion 124 and touch part 125,
It is, for example, integrally formed structure.Press section 121 is located at the opposite sides of axle portion 122, and and axle portion with touch part 125
122 are connected.On the other hand, the first waterproof portion 123 is connected with axle portion 122 respectively with the second waterproof portion 124, and e.g. axis
Bulge loop in portion 122.In the present embodiment, flexible button 120 has the characteristic of deflection deformation, is assembled to shell 11
Mode is, for example, that touch part 125, the first waterproof portion 123 and axle portion 122 is made sequentially to pass through trepanning 12 and perforation 13, is touched with enabling
Portion 125 is aligned with the switch element 110 in shell 11.At this point, touch part 125 is located at press section 121 and switch element
Between 110, the first waterproof portion 123 and the second waterproof portion 124 are located at the opposite sides of perforation 13, and are covered each by perforation
13.In other words, the first waterproof portion 123 positioned at the inside of shell 11 and the second waterproof portion 124 is located in trepanning 12.
Since the spacing between the first waterproof portion 123 and the second waterproof portion 124 can take into account the depth of perforation 13,
After flexible button 120 is assembled to shell 11, the first waterproof portion 123 and the second waterproof portion 124 can firmly and respectively be connected to shell
The opposite sides of body 11 avoids extraneous aqueous vapor or dust from entering shell with the extraneous perforation 13 with inside shell 11 of covering connection
Inside body 11, the service life and reliability of the electronic component being set to inside shell 11 are helped to improve.In other words, first is anti-
Spacing between water portion 123 and the second waterproof portion 124 is, for example, to be equal to the depth of perforation 13.
As shown in Figure 1, flexible button 120 can pass through the knot in the first waterproof portion 123 and the second waterproof portion 124 and shell 11
Structure is interfered, to be fixed on shell 11.On the other hand, since flexible button 120 has the characteristic of deflection deformation,
It is not only easy to be assembled to the shell 11 of electronic device 10, is also easy to disassemble to repair from shell 11.Compared to existing
Button assembly include the structures such as button, spring, waterproof case and retaining ring for, the flexible button 120 of the present embodiment will
Press section 121, axle portion 122, the first waterproof portion 123, the second waterproof portion 124 and touch part 125 integrate, therefore can be substantially
Reduce volume, to meet the design requirement of micromation.
After flexible button 120 is assembled to shell 11, press section 121 can be exposed to shell 11, in order to user
Operation.As shown in Figure 1, press section 121 is at least partly located at the second waterproof portion 124 in trepanning 12, and it is adjacent to each other.The
Two waterproof portions 124 are located between press section 121 and perforation 13, i.e., press section 121 is connected to shell by the second waterproof portion 124
11.On the other hand, the first waterproof portion 123 is located between touch part 125 and perforation 13, and the first waterproof portion 123 is, for example, and touches
Dynamic portion 125 keeps spacing.
Signal when Fig. 2 is the press section stress of the button assembly of Fig. 1.It please refers to Fig.1 and Fig. 2 in the present embodiment can
Flexible button 120 also have be located at press section 121 in the first cavity 121a, the communication channel 122a in axle portion 122 and
The second cavity 125a in touch part 125, communication channel 122a are connected to the first cavity 121a and the second cavity 125a, so that the
Gas in one cavity 121a, communication channel 122a and the second cavity 125a reciprocally flows.On the other hand, touch part 125
It is abutted against in this way with switch element 110.Since touch part 125 is slightly to contradict switch element 110, switch element 110
It can't therefore be touched.When user forces in press section 121, therefore press section 121 can generate compressive deformation so that
The reduction in bulk of first cavity 121a.After gas in the first cavity 121a can be squeezed, communication channel 122a can be passed through
And flow in the second cavity 125a so that touch part 125 generates dilatancy.Touch part 125 after dilatancy can push against
Switch element 110 uses touch switch element 110.The switch element 110 being touched can send out electric signal, and be sent to and make electricity
The processing unit (not shown) of sub-device 10, to generate corresponding control function.
In the present embodiment, the wall thickness of touch part 125 is, for example, the wall thickness less than press section 121, to allow 125 energy of touch part
Larger dilatancy amount is being generated by the pushing for flowing to the gas in the second cavity 125a, and then is ensuring switch element
110 can be touched portion 125 after user forces in press section 121 is touched.On the other hand, when being applied on press section 121
External force be removed when, portion gas can be back to the first cavity 121a from the second cavity 125a by communication channel 122a, in turn
Revert to state as shown in Figure 1.It should be noted that when user forces in press section 121 again, to pass through touch part 125
When touch switch element 110, the switch element 110 being touched can send out another electric signal, and be sent to and make electronic device 10
Processing unit (not shown), so that corresponding control function is closed or stopped to processing unit (not shown).
Other embodiment will be enumerated below using as explanation.It should be noted that, following embodiments continue to use aforementioned reality herein
The element numbers and partial content of example are applied, wherein adopting the identical or approximate element that is denoted by the same reference numerals, and are omitted
The explanation of same technique content.Explanation about clipped can refer to previous embodiment, and following embodiment will not be repeated herein.
Fig. 3 is that the button assembly of another embodiment of the present invention is configured at the partial cutaway schematic of electronic device.It please refers to
The difference of Fig. 3, the button assembly of this implementation and the button assembly 100 of above-described embodiment is：The button assembly of this implementation touches
Dynamic portion 125 is, for example, to keep gap, the wherein size of aforementioned gap that need to consider the expansion of touch part 125 with switch element 110
Deflection, to ensure that the touch part after dilatancy 125 can be abutted against with switch element 110, and then touch switch element 110.
In conclusion the flexible button of the button assembly of the present invention can be integrally formed structures, it is easily assembled to electricity
The shell of sub-device, or disassemble and repair, and meet the design requirement of micromation.When user force in it is flexible by
When the press section of button, the touch part of flexible button will produce dilatancy, and then touch switch element.At this point, be touched
Switch element can send out electric signal, and electronic device is made to generate respective control function.Therefore, for the user, of the invention
The operation of button assembly is extremely easy.On the other hand, the waterproof portion of flexible button is connected to shell securely, to cover connection
The extraneous perforation with enclosure interior avoids extraneous aqueous vapor or dust from entering enclosure interior, helps to improve and be set in shell
The service life and reliability of the electronic component in portion.
Finally it should be noted that：The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention., rather than its limitations；To the greatest extent
Present invention has been described in detail with reference to the aforementioned embodiments for pipe, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that：Its according to
So can with technical scheme described in the above embodiments is modified, either to which part or all technical features into
Row equivalent replacement；And these modifications or replacements, various embodiments of the present invention technology that it does not separate the essence of the corresponding technical solution
The range of scheme.
Claims (9)
1. a kind of button assembly, which is characterized in that be configured at electronic device, the button assembly includes：
Switch element is configured in the shell of the electronic device；And
Flexible button has press section, axle portion, at least a waterproof portion, touch part, the first cavity, communication channel and the second chamber
Body, the press section are exposed to the shell, and the axle portion connects the press section and the touch part, and passes through the shell
Perforation, the waterproof portion connects the axle portion, and covers the perforation, and the touch part is located in the shell, and with institute
Switch element to be stated to align, first cavity is located in the press section, and the communication channel is located in the axle portion, and described
Two cavitys are located in the touch part, and the communication channel is connected to first cavity and second cavity, described when forcing in
When press section, the press section generates compressive deformation, and the touch part is driven to generate dilatancy, to touch the switch member
Part.
2. button assembly according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the wall thickness of the touch part is less than the press section
Wall thickness.
3. button assembly according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the press section at least partly with the waterproof portion
In the trepanning of the shell, the trepanning is connected with the perforation.
4. button assembly according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the waterproof portion and the press section are adjacent, and
The waterproof portion is between the press section and the perforation.
5. button assembly according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the quantity in the waterproof portion is two, is located at
The opposite sides of the perforation.
6. button assembly according to claim 5, which is characterized in that the wherein one waterproof portion be located at the press section with
Between the perforation, another waterproof portion between the touch part and the perforation, and two water-proof part not with
The shell abuts against.
7. button assembly according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the touch part is located at the press section and is opened with described
Between the element of pass.
8. button assembly according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the touch part is abutted against with the switch element.
9. button assembly according to claim 1, which is characterized in that between the touch part and switch element holding
Gap.
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