CN113628915B - Rocker assembly and rocker switch - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a rocker assembly and a rocker switch. The rocker assembly includes: the supporting piece is provided with a limiting hole or a limiting groove; the wane, the both sides of wane have the bulge, and the back is connected with support piece to the wane, and the bulge stretches into spacing hole or spacing inslot and forms spacing backstop. The invention solves the problem of poor safety performance caused by easy arc discharge of the rocker switch in the prior art.

Description

Rocker assembly and rocker switch

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of switches, in particular to a rocker assembly and a rocker switch.

Background

The rocker switch is also called a ship-shaped switch, a rocker switch, an IO switch and a power switch, is widely applied to daily life of people, and generally mainly comprises a fixing frame, a rocker and a button assembly, wherein a supporting piece for supporting the rocker is arranged on the fixing frame, the rocker can deflect around the supporting piece, when the button assembly is pressed, the rocker can be indirectly applied with force, so that the rocker can deflect, and further contacts of the rocker are connected with a connecting terminal on the fixing frame or separated from the connecting terminal on the fixing frame, so that the connection or disconnection of the rocker switch is realized.

However, at the moment of closure, the existing rocker switch is not restrained above the rocker, the rocker can spring to generate arc, structural members of the rocker switch can be ablated and damaged for a long time, the service life of the rocker switch is influenced, potential safety hazards exist, and the safety performance of the rocker switch is greatly reduced. And the situation that the arc discharge is too strong occasionally occurs, so that strong arc light can be generated, an electric leakage false image is given to people, and bad use experience is brought to users. In addition, when the rocker switch flows on the production line, the rocker is easy to misplace, and the product assembly reject ratio is higher.

From the above, the problem that the safety performance is poor due to the easy arcing of the rocker switch in the prior art exists.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide a rocker assembly and a rocker switch, which are used for solving the problem that the rocker switch in the prior art is easy to generate arc discharge and has poor safety performance.

To achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rocker assembly comprising: the supporting piece is provided with a limiting hole or a limiting groove; the wane, the both sides of wane have the bulge, and the back is connected with support piece to the wane, and the bulge stretches into spacing hole or spacing inslot and forms spacing backstop.

Further, the support piece is also provided with a limiting rib, the limiting rib is arranged on the notch side of the limiting groove, and the limiting rib is matched with the protruding portion stop.

Further, the number of the limiting ribs is two, the two limiting ribs extend out from two sides of the limiting groove in opposite directions respectively, and the two limiting ribs are matched with the two protruding parts in a one-to-one correspondence mode.

Further, the support piece comprises a body section and a bending section, an included angle is formed between the bending section and the body section, and the limiting rib is located on the bending section.

Further, the support piece is also provided with a bearing rib, the bearing rib is arranged at the bottom of the limiting groove, so that an installation gap is formed between the bearing rib and the limiting rib, and the protruding part is accommodated in the installation gap.

Further, the support piece comprises a body section and a bending section, an included angle is formed between the bending section and the body section, the bending section extends towards the center of the limiting groove to form a limiting rib, and the extending direction of the supporting rib is consistent with the bending direction of the bending section.

Further, the included angle between the supporting rib and the body section is equal to the included angle between the bending section and the body section.

Further, the support piece is further provided with a bearing rib, the bearing rib is arranged at the center of the groove bottom of the limiting groove, so that an installation gap is formed between the bearing rib and the limiting rib, the protruding portion is accommodated in the installation gap, and the length of the bearing rib is greater than or equal to the interval length between the two limiting ribs.

Further, the top of the support piece is provided with two supports arranged at intervals, the two limiting holes are respectively formed in the two supports, and the two protruding parts respectively extend into the two limiting holes, so that the seesaw rotates by taking the protruding parts as rotating shafts.

Further, the rocker includes: the rocker body is provided with a plurality of sections which are continuously bent, and the protruding parts are positioned at two sides of the middle part of the rocker body; the two contacts are respectively arranged at two ends of the rocker body and used for being contacted and conducted with the wiring terminal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rocker switch comprising the above-described rocker assembly.

By applying the technical scheme of the invention, the rocker assembly comprises the supporting piece and the rocker, the supporting piece is provided with the limiting hole or the limiting groove, the two sides of the rocker are provided with the protruding parts, and after the rocker is connected with the supporting piece, the protruding parts extend into the limiting hole or the limiting groove to form the limiting stop, so that the rocker cannot be separated from the supporting piece through the limiting stop of the protruding parts by the limiting hole or the limiting groove, and even when the rocker switch is turned off or turned on, the limiting hole or the limiting groove can limit the stop rocker, so that arc discharge cannot occur between the rocker and the supporting piece, and the problem that the safety performance is poor due to the fact that the rocker switch is easy to generate arc discharge in the prior art is solved.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the application and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the application and together with the description serve to explain the application. In the drawings:

fig. 1 shows a schematic view of an angle of a rocker assembly in a specific embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 shows a schematic view of another angle of a rocker assembly in a specific embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows a schematic structural view of a support in one embodiment of the invention;

fig. 4 shows a schematic view of the structure of a rocker in a specific embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a schematic view showing a positional relationship with a supporting member when a rocker is in a first position in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic view showing a positional relationship with a supporting member when the rocker is in a second position in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic view showing a positional relationship with the supporting member when the rocker is in the third position in one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 shows an exploded view of a rocker switch in one embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein the above figures include the following reference numerals:

10. A support; 11. a limit rib; 12. a body section; 13. a bending section; 14. a supporting rib; 20. a limit groove; 30. a seesaw; 31. a protruding portion; 32. a rocker body; 33. a contact; 40. a transition piece; 50. a toggle member; 60. a connection terminal; 70. a pressing plate; 80. a button panel; 90. and a fixing frame.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that, without conflict, the embodiments of the present application and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other. The application will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in connection with embodiments.

It is noted that 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 unless otherwise indicated.

In the present invention, unless otherwise indicated, terms of orientation such as "upper, lower, top, bottom" are used generally with respect to the orientation shown in the drawings or with respect to the component itself in the vertical, upright or gravitational direction; also, for ease of understanding and description, "inner and outer" refers to inner and outer relative to the profile of each component itself, but the above-mentioned orientation terms are not intended to limit the present invention.

It will be apparent that the embodiments described above are merely some, but not all, embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without making any inventive effort, shall fall within the scope of the present invention.

In order to solve the problem that in the prior art, a rocker switch is easy to generate arcing and poor in safety performance, the invention provides a rocker assembly and a rocker switch. The rocker switch described below includes the rocker assembly described below.

As shown in fig. 1 to 8, the rocker assembly includes a support member 10 and a rocker 30. The support 10 has a limiting aperture or slot 20. The two sides of the seesaw 30 are provided with protruding parts 31, and after the seesaw 30 is connected with the supporting piece 10, the protruding parts 31 extend into the limiting holes or the limiting grooves 20 to form limiting stops.

The rocker assembly comprises a supporting piece 10 and a rocker 30, wherein the supporting piece 10 is provided with a limiting hole or a limiting groove 20, protruding portions 31 are arranged on two sides of the rocker 30, after the rocker 30 is connected with the supporting piece 10, the protruding portions 31 extend into the limiting hole or the limiting groove 20 to form limiting stops, so that the rocker 30 cannot be separated from the supporting piece 10 through the limiting stops of the protruding portions 31 of the limiting hole or the limiting groove 20, and even when a rocker switch is turned off or turned on, the limiting hole or the limiting groove 20 can limit the limiting stops of the rocker 30, so that arc pulling cannot occur between the rocker 30 and the supporting piece 10, structural members are prevented from being ablated and damaged due to arc pulling, and safety performance of the rocker switch is guaranteed.

In the present embodiment, the supporting member 10 performs a limit stop on the protruding portion 31 through the limit groove 20.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3 and 5 to 7, the support 10 further has a stopper rib 11. The spacing muscle 11 sets up in the notch side of spacing groove 20, spacing muscle 11 and bulge 31 backstop cooperation. In this embodiment, the number of the limit ribs 11 is two. The two limit ribs 11 extend out from two sides of the limit groove 20 in opposite directions respectively, and the two limit ribs 11 are matched with the two protruding parts 31 in a one-to-one corresponding mode. That is, the two limit ribs 11 block part of the notch of the limit groove 20, so that the limit groove 20 is convex.

In this embodiment, the gap length between the two stop ribs 11 is equal to or greater than the width of the plate section of the rocker 30 having no projection 31. This facilitates insertion of rocker 30 into limiting groove 20 or removal from within limiting groove 20.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3 and 5 to 7, the support 10 comprises a body section 12 and a bending section 13. The body section 12 is parallel to the vertical direction, an included angle is formed between the bending section 13 and the body section 12, and the limiting rib 11 is positioned on the bending section 13. Specifically, the bending section 13 extends toward the center of the limiting groove 20 to form a limiting rib 11. The above arrangement can also be understood that the plate segment portions of the supporting member 10 located at both sides of the limiting groove 20 are bent to form the bending segment 13.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3 and 5 to 7, the support 10 also has a bearing rib 14. The supporting rib 14 is disposed at the bottom of the limiting groove 20, so that an installation gap is formed between the supporting rib 14 and the limiting rib 11, and the protruding portion 31 is accommodated in the installation gap. Thus, the limiting ribs 11 and the supporting ribs 14 respectively form limiting stops on the upper side and the lower side of the protruding portion 31, and the rocker 30 is prevented from being separated from the supporting piece 10 when the rocker switch is turned off or turned on. Specifically, when the rocker switch is switched between the off state and the on state, the rocker section of the rocker 30 having the projection 31 swings back and forth in the installation gap, and is stopped by the stopper rib 11 and the supporting rib 14 when the rocker switch is in the off position and the on position, preventing the rocker 30 from being separated from the supporting member 10.

In this embodiment, the upper and lower connecting lines of the edge where the supporting rib 14 contacts the rocker 30 and the edge where the limiting rib 11 contacts the rocker 30 are parallel to the vertical direction.

In this embodiment, the length of the supporting rib 14 is equal to or greater than the length of the interval between the two limiting ribs 11. Like this the bearing muscle 14 can with bulge 31 butt to form spacing backstop to bulge 31's upper and lower both sides respectively with spacing muscle 11 cooperation, prevent wane 30 and support 10 break away from when wane switch is cut off or is opened.

In this embodiment, the direction of extension of the support rib 14 corresponds to the bending direction of the bending section 13.

Specifically, the angle between the support rib 14 and the body section 12 is equal to the angle between the bending section 13 and the body section 12. That is to say that the support ribs 14 are parallel to the bending section 13. In this embodiment, the angle between the support rib 14 and the body section 12 and the angle between the bending section 13 and the body section 12 are both 45 °.

In a not shown embodiment, the support 10 carries out a limit stop on the projection 31 through a limit hole. The top of support 10 has two supports that the interval set up, and spacing hole is two, and two spacing holes are offered respectively on two supports, and two protruding portion 31 stretch into two spacing downthehole respectively to make wane 30 rotate with protruding portion 31 as the pivot. Thus, the limit stop of the protruding part 31 is passed through the limit hole, so that the rocker switch is prevented from being separated from the supporting piece 10 when the rocker switch is turned off or turned on, and arcing is prevented.

As shown in fig. 4, rocker 30 includes a rocker body 32 and contacts 33. The protruding portion 31 is located at two sides of the middle of the rocker body 32, and the rocker body 32 has a plurality of sections that are continuously bent. The number of the contacts 33 is two, and the two contacts 33 are respectively arranged at two ends of the rocker body 32 and are used for being in contact conduction with the wiring terminal 60.

As shown in fig. 8, the rocker switch includes the above-described support member 10, the above-described rocker 30, the transition member 40, the toggle member 50, the connection terminal 60, the pressing plate 70, the button panel 80, and the fixing frame 90. The fixing frame 90 has a receiving groove in which the supporting member 10, the seesaw 30 and the connection terminal 60 are received. The transition piece 40 has a hollow cavity in which the toggle piece 50 is mounted. The pressure plate 70 has a central slot through which the transition piece 40 is abutted by the toggle 50 to the rocker 30. The transition piece 40 abuts against the button panel 80, the button panel 80 is rotatably connected with the fixing frame 90, and a user presses the button panel 80 to drive the transition piece 40 to swing in the central groove. The number of the connection terminals 60 is at least two, and the support 10 is disposed between the two connection terminals 60. The toggle member 50 toggles the rocker 30 back and forth between the two connection terminals 60 and is respectively connected with one connection terminal 60, thereby realizing the turn-off and turn-on of the rocker switch.

In this embodiment, rocker switch 30 has a first position, a second position, and a third position during switching between off and on. Wherein, the first position is the position of the rocker 30 when the rocker switch is in the off state, at this time, the right side of the rocker 30 is tilted, the left side moves down, and the contact 33 on the left side is contacted and conducted with the connecting terminal 60. The second position is where rocker 30 is when the rocker switch is switched between the off state and the on state. The third position is the position of the rocker 30 when the rocker switch is in the on state, at this time, the left side of the rocker 30 is tilted, the right side is moved down, and the contact 33 on the right side is contacted and conducted with the connecting terminal 60.

In the present embodiment, when the rocker switch is switched between the off state and the on state, the rocker section of the rocker 30 having the projection 31 swings in the limit groove 20. As shown in fig. 5 to 7, when the rocker 30 is located at the first position, the rocker 30 abuts against the supporting rib 14 and the limiting rib 11 respectively, so as to form a limiting stop for the rocker 30, wherein the point a is the abutting position of the rocker 30 and the supporting rib 14; the point b is the contact position between the seesaw 30 and the limiting rib 11; the angle between the rocker 30 and the horizontal is beta. When the rocker 30 is located at the second position, the rocker 30 is only abutted against the supporting rib 14, the point a is the abutting part of the rocker 30 and the supporting rib 14, a gap h exists between the rocker 30 and the limiting rib 11, and d is the thickness of the rocker 30. It will be appreciated that gap hmax when rocker 30 is in a horizontal state. When the rocker 30 is located at the third position, the rocker 30 is respectively abutted with the supporting rib 14 and the limiting rib 11 to form a limiting stop for the rocker 30, wherein the point a is the abutting position of the rocker 30 and the supporting rib 14; the point c is the contact position of the rocker 30 and the supporting rib 14, and the included angle between the rocker 30 and the horizontal direction is also beta.

Specifically, the connection line of the ab two points is parallel to the vertical direction. Wherein, h=ac-d=d/cos β -d, the thickness d of the rocker 30 is reasonably set to control the size of the gap h, so that the above-mentioned limiting structure can limit the stop of the rocker 30 to prevent arc discharge at the moment of respectively contacting and conducting the two connection terminals 60, and can ensure that the user can easily press without insensitive feeling during the switching movement of the rocker switch between the off state and the on state, thereby not affecting the use feeling of the user. In addition, the provision of the gap h also enables the rocker 30 to be mounted with the support 10 conveniently and quickly.

From the above description, it can be seen that the above embodiments of the present invention achieve the following technical effects: the rocker assembly comprises a supporting piece 10 and a rocker 30, wherein the supporting piece 10 is provided with a limiting hole or a limiting groove 20, protruding portions 31 are arranged on two sides of the rocker 30, after the rocker 30 is connected with the supporting piece 10, the protruding portions 31 extend into the limiting hole or the limiting groove 20 to form limiting stops, so that the rocker 30 cannot be separated from the supporting piece 10 through the limiting stops of the protruding portions 31 of the limiting hole or the limiting groove 20, and even when a rocker switch is closed, the limiting hole or the limiting groove 20 can also limit the limiting stops of the rocker 30, so that arc pulling cannot occur between the rocker 30 and the supporting piece 10, structural members are prevented from being ablated and damaged due to arc pulling, and safety performance of the rocker switch is guaranteed.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of exemplary embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular is also intended to include the plural unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, and furthermore, it is to be understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" when used in this specification are taken to specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and the claims of the present application and the above figures are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate such that embodiments of the application described herein may be implemented in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein.

The above description is only of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, but various modifications and variations can be made to the present invention by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (8)

1. A rocker assembly, comprising:

A support (10), the support (10) having a limiting aperture or slot (20);

The rocker (30) is provided with protruding parts (31) at two sides of the rocker (30), and after the rocker (30) is connected with the supporting piece (10), the protruding parts (31) extend into the limiting holes or the limiting grooves (20) to form limiting stops;

the supporting piece (10) is further provided with a limiting rib (11), the limiting rib (11) is arranged on the notch side of the limiting groove (20), and the limiting rib (11) is in stop fit with the protruding portion (31);

the support piece (10) comprises a body section (12) and a bending section (13), an included angle is formed between the bending section (13) and the body section (12), the plate sections of the support piece (10) positioned at two sides of the limiting groove (20) are bent to form the bending section (13), the limiting rib (11) is positioned on the bending section (13), and the bending section (13) and the body section (12) are not in the same plane;

the supporting piece (10) is further provided with a bearing rib (14), the bearing rib (14) is arranged at the bottom of the limiting groove (20) so that an installation gap is formed between the bearing rib (14) and the limiting rib (11), and the protruding part (31) is accommodated in the installation gap;

The extending direction of the supporting ribs (14) is consistent with the bending direction of the bending section (13).

2. The rocker assembly according to claim 1, wherein the number of the limiting ribs (11) is two, the two limiting ribs (11) respectively extend out from two sides of the limiting groove (20) in opposite directions, and the two limiting ribs (11) are in one-to-one corresponding stop fit with the two protruding parts (31).

3. The rocker assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that the bent section (13) is formed with the stop rib (11) extending towards the center of the stop groove (20).

4. A rocker assembly according to claim 3, wherein the angle between the brace (14) and the body section (12) is equal to the angle between the bent section (13) and the body section (12).

5. The rocker assembly according to claim 2, wherein the supporting member (10) further has a supporting rib (14), the supporting rib (14) is disposed at the center of the groove bottom of the limiting groove (20) such that an installation gap is formed between the supporting rib (14) and the limiting rib (11), the protruding portion (31) is accommodated in the installation gap, and the length of the supporting rib (14) is equal to or greater than the interval length between the two limiting ribs (11).

6. The rocker assembly according to claim 1, wherein the top of the supporting member (10) is provided with two supports arranged at intervals, the two limiting holes are respectively formed in the two supports, and the two protruding portions (31) respectively extend into the two limiting holes, so that the rocker (30) rotates by taking the protruding portions (31) as rotating shafts.

7. The rocker assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the rocker (30) comprises:

The rocker body (32), the protruding part (31) is positioned at two sides of the middle part of the rocker body (32), and the rocker body (32) is provided with a plurality of sections which are continuously bent;

the number of the contacts (33) is two, and the two contacts (33) are respectively arranged at two ends of the rocker body (32) and used for being in contact conduction with the wiring terminal (60).

8. A rocker switch comprising the rocker assembly of any one of claims 1 to 7.