CN112060000B

CN112060000B - Keycap plugging cleaner

Info

Publication number: CN112060000B
Application number: CN202011012787.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 周浩
Original assignee: Chongqing Hongzhi Yida Electronic Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Chongqing Hongzhi Yida Electronic Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-23
Filing date: 2020-09-23
Publication date: 2022-04-12
Anticipated expiration: 2040-09-23
Also published as: CN112060000A

Abstract

The invention discloses a keycap plugging and unplugging cleaner which comprises a shell, two fixed plates and four sliding plates, wherein each two sliding plates are tightly attached to each fixed plate, the outer side of one fixed plate is fixedly connected with a first handle, and the upper parts of the sliding plates are connected with a second handle for driving the sliding plates to move upwards; the bottom of each sliding plate is rotatably connected with a prying plate through a prying plate shaft, the weight of the upper part of the prying plate along the prying plate shaft is greater than the weight of the lower part of the prying plate along the prying plate shaft, a groove is formed in the bottom of the fixed plate, and the top end of the groove is flush with the height of the bottom of the keycap; the user wets the sponge piece in advance, then operates the second handle and can let the sliding plate slide and drive the sled piece and rotate to under the cooperation of recess, the sled piece prizes and pulls out the key cap, and meanwhile, moist sponge piece can wash the key cap of perk.

Description

Keycap plugging cleaner

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of daily necessities, in particular to a keycap plugging and unplugging cleaner.

Background

Mechanical keyboards play a crucial role as input devices in computer accessories. The mechanical keyboard is generally a game keyboard and is used as a portable object for a plurality of electric contestants, but as the use times of the mechanical keyboard are increased, the sensitivity of the keycap is reduced due to factors such as dust, and because people input information to a computer by pressing the keycap, if the surface of the keycap is not clean, bacteria can be infected to hands of people, and adverse effects are caused. Therefore, the key caps in the keyboard need to be cleaned regularly, particularly the surfaces of the key caps are cleaned; thereby improving the sensitivity and increasing the game competition experience.

The existing keycap cleaning method directly adopts a hand or a special tool for pulling the keycap to pull up the keycap, and then cleans the pulled-up keycap. The keycap can be damaged irreversibly by a direct dialing mode such as misoperation.

Based on this, the inventor proposes a key cap plugging washer to solve the above technical problems.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the invention provides the keycap plugging and unplugging cleaner, a user wets the sponge block in advance, then operates the second handle to enable the sliding plate to slide and drive the prying sheet to rotate, and the prying sheet pries and pulls up the keycap under the coordination of the groove, and meanwhile, the wetted sponge block can clean the tilted keycap; and the first adjusting knob can be operated to adjust the gap between the prying pieces on the different-side sliding plate, so that the width between the prying pieces is widened, and the key cap with longer length, such as a space key, a return key, a shift key and the like, is suitable. The key cap on the full keyboard is ensured to be plugged and cleaned.

In order to solve the technical problem, the invention is solved by the following technical scheme: the keycap plugging and unplugging cleaner comprises a shell, two fixed plates and four sliding plates, wherein each two sliding plates are arranged on each fixed plate in a relatively sliding connection mode, a first handle is fixedly connected to the outer side of one fixed plate, and a second handle used for driving the sliding plates to move upwards is connected to the upper portions of the sliding plates; the bottom of each sliding plate is rotatably connected with a prying piece through a prying piece shaft, the weight of the upper part of each prying piece along the prying piece shaft is greater than the weight of the lower part of each prying piece along the prying piece shaft, the bottom of each fixed plate is provided with a groove corresponding to each prying piece one by one, and the top end of each groove is flush with the height of the bottom end of each key cap; the side wall of the shell is also connected with a water storage tank, the shell is also rotatably connected with a rotating block, the rotating block is connected with a sponge block, and the bottom end of the sponge block is provided with a convex block matched with the surface of the keycap; in an initial state, the water storage tank is communicated with the sponge block through a valve; and a user opens the valve to moisten the sponge block in advance, and operates the second handle to pull up the keycap and drive the sponge block to rotate so that the surface of the keycap is cleaned by the sponge block.

The device is further optimized to comprise a first vertical rod and two limiting plates for limiting the sliding plate to move along the left-right direction, and a connecting plate is connected between the two limiting plates; the upper end of the sliding plate is fixedly connected with a fixed block, and a sliding rod penetrates between the two fixed blocks on the sliding plate on the same side; one end of the second handle is rotatably connected to the first vertical rod, the bottom end of the first vertical rod is hinged to two telescopic hinged rods, and one end of each telescopic hinged rod is arranged on the sliding rod.

Further preferably, the bottom end of the first vertical rod is fixedly connected with a second vertical rod, a screw rod is arranged at the bottom end of the second vertical rod, threads matched with the surface of the screw rod are formed in the rotating block, and the rotating block is relatively rotatably connected to the connecting plate.

The water storage tank is further optimized to be provided with a liquid inlet hole on the rotating block and a water outlet on the water storage tank, wherein the water outlet is communicated with the liquid inlet hole through a liquid inlet channel in an initial state; when the second handle is pressed downwards, the rotating block rotates to drive the sponge block to rotate, and the water outlet is not communicated with the liquid inlet hole any more.

Further optimize, still include the first adjust knob that is used for adjusting the distance about being located between the two fixed blocks on the different side sliding plate, first adjust knob has Z type connecting rod through first axis of rotation connection, the one end setting of Z type connecting rod is on the restriction board on left, and the other end setting is on the restriction board on right.

Further preferably, a telescopic column is connected between the limiting plate on the left side and the limiting plate on the right side, and the connecting plate is a connecting telescopic plate.

Further optimize, the Z type connecting rod includes main rotor plate, the upper end of main rotor plate articulates there is first connecting rod, the lower extreme of main rotor plate articulates there is the second connecting rod, the one end of first connecting rod and second connecting rod with the limiting plate is articulated.

Preferably, a first spring is connected to the upper portion of the limiting plate, and the first spring is abutted against the upper end and the bottom wall of the sliding plate for determining the initial height of the sliding plate.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

1. a user opens the valve to moisten the sponge block, closes the valve, holds the first handle by hand to insert the two sliding plates into a gap between the keycap and the keycap, then only needs to operate the second handle to press down to drive the first vertical rod to ascend, and finally drives the sliding plates to ascend, the sliding plates can drive the prying plates to rotate when ascending, and under the matching of the grooves, the prying plates pry and pull up the keycap, so that the keycap is pulled up; when the second handle is pressed down, the second vertical rod rises, and the rotating block is driven to rotate relatively by the cooperation of the screw rod and the threads, so that the sponge block is driven to rotate, and the surface of the keycap is cleaned by the wetted sponge block.

The user operation is comparatively simple only need open the valve and operate the second handle and push down and can accomplish the plug and the surperficial cleanness to the key cap.

2. The design that the weight of the upper part of the prying piece along the prying piece shaft is greater than that of the lower part of the prying piece along the prying piece shaft ensures that the prying piece does not have the limit of abutting against the fixed plate in the upward moving process of the sliding plate due to the fact that the groove is formed in the fixed plate when the sliding plate moves upwards, the prying piece freely rotates and is structurally designed according to the weight of the prying piece, and the inclined state that the upper part of the prying piece is located below and the lower part of the prying piece is located above is formed; then along with the continuous rising of sliding plate, under the effect at recess top, the sled piece rotates and forms the sled piece upper portion and last, and the inclined state that sled piece lower part is under prizes the key cap and prizes, accomplishes the prizing to the key cap.

The key cap can be driven to automatically tilt through the weight design of the prying piece in the plugging process, manual force application is not needed, plugging actions in the process of plugging the key cap are omitted, the working efficiency is improved, and even children can easily perform the operation.

3. The prying piece is provided with an arc-shaped surface along one side of the upper part of the prying piece shaft, and because the key contact point of the keycap is actually a central dot, the central dot is avoided by the design of the arc-shaped surface, so that the substantial input of the keyboard is not influenced in the plugging process.

4. Generally speaking, a certain space is arranged at the bottom end of a keycap on a mechanical keyboard, the height of the top of a groove is flush with the height of the bottom end of the keycap, the height space below the groove is a certain space at the bottom end of the keycap, a prying piece can be conveniently rotated, the gap between the keycap and the keycap is large, and the space for inserting a fixed plate and a sliding plate is provided.

5. The user accessible is adjusted first adjust knob and is adjusted the clearance between the sled piece on the different side sliding plate to widen the width between sled piece and the sled piece, suitable space key, enter key, shift key etc. longer key cap of length with this. The key cap on the full keyboard is ensured to be plugged and cleaned.

6. The bottom end of the sponge block is provided with a convex block matched with the surface of the keycap, and the center of the mechanical keycap is sunken downwards, so that the design of the convex block can better accord with the design of the mechanical keycap and accord with human mechanics.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be discussed below, it is obvious that the technical solutions described in conjunction with the drawings are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other embodiments and drawings can be obtained according to the embodiments shown in the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an initial state of a keycap plugging and unplugging cleaner.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the keycap inserting and pulling cleaning device in an initial state with a part of the shell omitted.

FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of a cross-section of a front view of a keycap pull washer.

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of the working state of the keycap plugging and unplugging cleaner.

In the figure: the device comprises a shell 1, a fixed plate 2, a sliding plate 3, a first handle 4, a second handle 5, a prying plate 6, a groove 7, a fixed block 8, a sliding rod 9, a first vertical rod 10, a telescopic hinge rod 11, a limiting plate 12, a first adjusting knob 13, a water storage tank 14, a rotating block 15, a sponge block 16, a second vertical rod 17, a screw rod 18, a liquid inlet hole 19, a water outlet 20, a first spring 21, a liquid inlet channel 22, a telescopic column 23, a left and right slide way 24, a main rotating plate 25, a first connecting rod 26, a second connecting rod 27, an arc-shaped surface 28, a connecting plate 29 and a first rotating shaft 30.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is to be understood that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments described herein without the need for inventive work, are within the scope of the present invention.

The embodiment of the invention provides a keycap plugging and unplugging cleaner, as shown in fig. 1-4, the keycap plugging and unplugging cleaner comprises a shell 1, two fixed plates 2 and four sliding plates 3, wherein each two sliding plates 3 are arranged on each fixed plate 2 in a relatively sliding connection manner, a first handle 4 is fixedly connected to the outer side of one fixed plate 2, and the upper parts of the sliding plates 3 are connected with second handles 5 for driving the sliding plates 3 to move upwards; the bottom of each sliding plate 3 is rotatably connected with a prying piece 6 through a prying piece shaft, the weight of the upper part of each prying piece 6 along the prying piece shaft is greater than that of the lower part of each prying piece 6 along the prying piece shaft, the bottom of the fixed plate 2 is provided with grooves 7 which correspond to the prying pieces 6 one by one, and the top ends of the grooves 7 are flush with the bottom ends of the keycaps; the side wall of the shell 1 is further connected with a water storage tank 14, a rotating block 15 is further rotatably connected in the shell 1, the rotating block 15 is connected with a sponge block 16, and a convex block which is adaptive to the surface of the keycap is arranged at the bottom end of the sponge block 16; in the initial state, the water storage tank 14 is communicated with the sponge block 16 through a valve; the user opens the valve to moisten the sponge block 16 in advance, and the user operates the second handle 5 to pull up the keycap and drive the sponge block 16 to rotate, so that the sponge block 16 cleans the surface of the keycap.

The specific working process of the prying piece 6 is that in an initial state, the prying piece 6 is abutted against the fixed plate 2 and is obliquely arranged; when the bottom end of the prying piece 6 exceeds the bottom of the groove 7 in the upward movement process of the sliding plate 3, the prying piece 6 rotates freely to form an inclined state that the upper part of the prying piece 6 is positioned below and the lower part of the prying piece 6 is positioned above; the sliding plate 3 continues to move upwards, when the bottom end of the lower part of the prying sheet 6 is in contact with the top of the groove 7, the prying sheet 6 rotates under the action of the top of the groove 7 to form the upper part of the prying sheet 6, and the lower part of the prying sheet 6 is in a downward inclined state and pries the keycap to be pulled up.

And under the initial condition, the setting of sled piece 6 slope slightly leans on fixed plate 2, because sled piece 6 part stretches out fixed plate 2 bottom down, including sled piece 6 is greater than sled piece 6 along sled piece epaxial part weight down along sled piece epaxial part weight along sled piece 6, so left side sled piece 6 has towards clockwise rotation trend, right side sled piece 6 has towards anticlockwise rotation trend, nevertheless because sled piece 6 part stretches out fixed plate 2 bottom down, the event rotates and is died by the 2 bottom card of fixed plate, so, initial condition, sled piece 6 keeps the state of slightly inclining.

The device comprises a first vertical rod 10 and two limiting plates 12 for limiting the sliding plate 3 to move along the left-right direction, wherein a connecting plate 29 is connected between the two limiting plates 12; the upper end of the sliding plate 3 is fixedly connected with a fixed block 8, and a sliding rod 9 penetrates between the two fixed blocks 8 on the sliding plate 3 on the same side; one end of the second handle 5 is rotatably connected to the first vertical rod 10, the bottom end of the first vertical rod 10 is hinged to two telescopic hinged rods 11, and one end of each telescopic hinged rod 11 is arranged on the sliding rod 9.

The bottom end of the first vertical rod 10 is further fixedly connected with a second vertical rod 17, a screw rod 18 is arranged at the bottom end of the second vertical rod 17, threads matched with the surface of the screw rod 18 are formed in the rotating block 15, and the rotating block 15 is connected to the connecting plate 29 in a relative rotating mode.

The rotating block 15 is provided with a liquid inlet hole 19, the water storage tank 14 is provided with a water outlet 20, and in an initial state, the water outlet 20 is communicated with the liquid inlet hole 19 through a liquid inlet channel 22; when the second handle 5 is pressed down, the rotating block 15 rotates to drive the sponge block 16 to rotate, and the water outlet 20 is not communicated with the liquid inlet hole 19 any more.

The adjusting device further comprises a first adjusting knob 13 used for adjusting the left-right distance between the two fixing blocks 8 on the opposite-side sliding plates 3, the first adjusting knob 13 is connected with a Z-shaped connecting rod through a first rotating shaft 30, one end of the Z-shaped connecting rod is arranged on the limiting plate 12 on the left side, and the other end of the Z-shaped connecting rod is arranged on the limiting plate 12 on the right side. The second vertical rod 17 is provided with a through slot for the first rotating shaft 30 to pass through.

The telescopic column 23 is connected between the left limiting plate 12 and the right limiting plate 12, and the connecting plate 29 is a connecting telescopic plate. The left limiting plate 12 and the right limiting plate 12 are respectively fixedly connected with the left and right slideways 24, the number of the left and right slideways 24 is 2, so that the telescopic left and right slideways 24 can be carried out, and the first rotating shaft 30 slides left and right along the left and right slideways 24.

The Z-shaped connecting rod comprises a main rotating plate 25, a first connecting rod 26 is hinged to the upper end of the main rotating plate 25, a second connecting rod 27 is hinged to the lower end of the main rotating plate 25, the first connecting rod 26 is hinged to the left limiting plate 12, and the second connecting rod 27 is hinged to the right limiting plate 12.

When the first adjusting knob 13 is rotated, the main rotating plate 25 is driven to rotate, and the main rotating plate 25 drives the first connecting rod 26 and the second connecting rod 27 to be pushed towards the opposite direction or tightened towards the opposite direction, so that the distance between the prying sheets is enlarged. And only the sliding plate 3 and the fixed plate 2 far from the first handle 4 are extended and contracted due to the arrangement of the first handle 4.

A first spring 21 is further connected to the upper portion of the limiting plate 12, and the first spring 21 abuts against the bottom wall of the upper end of the sliding plate 3 for determining the initial height of the sliding plate 3. For accommodating different kinds of key cap heights.

An arc-shaped surface 28 is further arranged on the prying plate 6.

The bottom of the rotating block 15 is connected with the sponge block 16, and a gap is arranged between the bottom of the rotating block 15 and the bottom of the screw 18 and used for water flow to the sponge block 16.

The housing 1 includes a housing 1 that is telescopic right and left.

The method comprises the following specific operation steps: a user opens the valve to enable water in the water storage tank 14 to enter the sponge block 16 through the liquid inlet channel 22, moistens the sponge block 16, and then closes the valve to close the liquid inlet channel 22; then, a user firstly holds the first handle 4 to insert the whole keycap plugging and unplugging cleaner into a gap between the keycap and the keycap, and the height of the top of the groove 7 on the fixing plate 2 is flush with the height of the bottom of the keycap. And in the initial state the pry tab 6 is slightly obliquely arranged against the fixing plate 2.

Then the user operates the second handle 5 to press down, the second handle 5 rotates to press down, the first vertical rod 10 is driven to ascend, meanwhile, the two telescopic hinged rods 11 are driven to be folded, the sliding plates 3 on the two sides are driven to move towards the middle, however, due to the limitation of the limiting plate 12, the sliding plates 3 cannot move towards the middle, and therefore the sliding plates 3 are driven to ascend.

Because the weight of the upper part of the prying piece 6 along the prying piece shaft is greater than that of the lower part of the prying piece 6 along the prying piece shaft, when the sliding plate 3 moves upwards, the fixed plate 2 is provided with the groove 7, the prying piece 6 is not limited by the abutting of the fixed plate 2 in the process of moving upwards of the sliding plate 3, the prying piece 6 rotates freely, and the inclined state that the upper part of the prying piece 6 is below and the lower part of the prying piece 6 is above is formed according to the weight structural design of the prying piece 6; then along with sliding plate 3 continuously rising, under the effect at recess 7 top, sled piece 6 rotates and forms sled piece 6 upper portion and last, and 6 lower parts of sled piece are the tilt state under and pried the key cap and pried, accomplish the prying to the key cap. The design of cambered surface 28 on sled piece 6 has guaranteed that sled piece 6 is when prizing a key cap, and four sled pieces 6 have just been located four corners of key cap, have guaranteed that sled piece 6 pries the key cap smoothly.

When the user operation second handle 5 pushed down, it rises simultaneously to drive first vertical pole 10 and second vertical pole 17, second vertical pole 17 rises and drives screw rod 18 and rise simultaneously, because the radial movement of turning block 15 is fixed, only can take place to rotate, so screw rod 18 rises and drives turning block 15 and rotate, turning block 15 drives sponge piece 16 and rotates, thereby make sponge piece 16 also corresponding rotation rinse the key cap surface, and because sponge piece 16 is the software design, the rising of key cap has certain squeezing action to sponge piece 16, can make the moisture in sponge piece 16 extrude the key cap surface, more intensive cleaning.

And finally, the user operates the second handle 5 to lift up, then all the components are driven to reset, and the user removes the key cap inserting and pulling device of the keyboard.

When a user needs to insert and pull the special-shaped keycap for cleaning, the user can adjust the gap between the prying sheets 6 on the different-side sliding plate 3 through the first adjusting knob 13, so that the length of the keycap is widened, and the keycaps with longer lengths, such as a space key, a return key, a shift key and the like, are suitable. The key cap on the full keyboard is ensured to be plugged and cleaned.

It will be evident to those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the details of the foregoing illustrative embodiments, and that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof. The present embodiments are, therefore, to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the invention is indicated by the appended claims, rather than the foregoing description, and all changes that come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned.

Furthermore, it should be understood that although the present description refers to embodiments, not every embodiment may contain only a single embodiment, and such description is for clarity only, and those skilled in the art should integrate the description, and the embodiments may be combined as appropriate to form other embodiments understood by those skilled in the art.

Claims

1. Key cap plug purger, its characterized in that: the sliding plate fixing device comprises a shell, two fixing plates and four sliding plates, wherein each two sliding plates are arranged on each fixing plate in a relatively sliding connection mode, a first handle is fixedly connected to the outer side of one fixing plate, and a second handle used for driving the sliding plates to move upwards is connected to the upper portions of the sliding plates; the bottom of each sliding plate is rotatably connected with a prying piece through a prying piece shaft, the weight of the upper part of each prying piece along the prying piece shaft is greater than the weight of the lower part of each prying piece along the prying piece shaft, the bottom of each fixed plate is provided with a groove corresponding to each prying piece one by one, and the top end of each groove is flush with the height of the bottom end of each key cap; the side wall of the shell is also connected with a water storage tank, the shell is also rotatably connected with a rotating block, the rotating block is connected with a sponge block, and the bottom end of the sponge block is provided with a convex block matched with the surface of the keycap; in an initial state, the water storage tank is communicated with the sponge block through a valve; a user opens a valve to moisten the sponge block in advance, and the user operates the second handle to pull up the keycap and drive the sponge block to rotate so that the surface of the keycap is cleaned by the sponge block;

the device comprises a first vertical rod and two limiting plates for limiting the sliding plate to move along the left-right direction, wherein a connecting plate is connected between the two limiting plates; the upper end of the sliding plate is fixedly connected with a fixed block, and a sliding rod penetrates between the two fixed blocks on the sliding plate on the same side; one end of the second handle is rotatably connected to the first vertical rod, the bottom end of the first vertical rod is hinged with two telescopic hinged rods, and one end of each telescopic hinged rod is arranged on the sliding rod;

the bottom end of the first vertical rod is fixedly connected with a second vertical rod, the bottom end of the second vertical rod is provided with a screw, a rotating block is internally provided with threads matched with the surface of the screw, and the rotating block is relatively and rotatably connected to a connecting plate;

the specific working process of the prying piece is that in an initial state, the prying piece is abutted against the fixed plate and is obliquely arranged; when the sliding plate moves upwards and the bottom end of the prying piece exceeds the bottom of the groove, the prying piece rotates freely to form an inclined state that the upper part of the prying piece is located downwards and the lower part of the prying piece is located upwards; the sliding plate continues to move upwards, when the bottom end of the lower portion of the prying piece is contacted with the top of the groove, the prying piece rotates under the action of the top of the groove to form the upper portion of the prying piece, and the lower portion of the prying piece is in a downward inclined state and pries the keycap to be pulled up.

2. The key cap plug cleaner according to claim 1, wherein: the rotating block is provided with a liquid inlet hole, and the water storage tank is provided with a water outlet; when the second handle is pressed downwards, the rotating block rotates to drive the sponge block to rotate, and the water outlet is not communicated with the liquid inlet hole any more.

3. The key cap plug cleaner according to claim 1, wherein: the first adjusting knob is used for adjusting the left-right distance between the two fixing blocks on the sliding plates on different sides and connected with a Z-shaped connecting rod through a first rotating shaft, one end of the Z-shaped connecting rod is arranged on the limiting plate on the left side, and the other end of the Z-shaped connecting rod is arranged on the limiting plate on the right side.

4. The key cap plug cleaner according to claim 3, wherein: and a telescopic column is connected between the limiting plate on the left side and the limiting plate on the right side, and the connecting plate is a connecting telescopic plate.

5. The key cap plug cleaner according to claim 3, wherein: the Z-shaped connecting rod comprises a main rotating plate, the upper end of the main rotating plate is hinged with a first connecting rod, the lower end of the main rotating plate is hinged with a second connecting rod, and one end of the first connecting rod and one end of the second connecting rod are hinged with the limiting plate.

6. The key cap plug cleaner according to claim 1, wherein: and the upper part of the limiting plate is also connected with a first spring which is abutted against the bottom wall of the upper end of the sliding plate and is used for determining the initial height of the sliding plate.