CN114122793A - Protection type protection against electric shock socket - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to the field of sockets, in particular to a protective electric shock prevention socket which comprises a socket panel with a socket hole and a cover plate positioned at the front end of the socket hole, wherein the cover plate is arranged at the front end of the socket hole, two sides of the cover plate are provided with sliding blocks, two sides of the socket panel are fixedly connected with two fixed plates, and the side surfaces of the two fixed plates, which are close to the socket panel, are provided with sliding grooves which are connected with the sliding blocks in a vertical sliding manner; the bottom of apron is equipped with first draw-in groove, be equipped with spring and card strip in the first draw-in groove, the bottom of fixed plate is equipped with the second draw-in groove, the spout is kept away from one side fixed connection of socket panel the second draw-in groove, the one end of card strip is passed through the spring with the interior wall connection of first draw-in groove, the other end is used for the card to advance in the second draw-in groove, make the apron covers the socket hole. The invention realizes the functions of electric shock prevention, water prevention and dust prevention stably through the mutual matching of the cover plate and the fixing plate.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of sockets, in particular to a protective electric shock prevention socket.
Background
The socket is a socket into which one or more circuit wiring can be inserted, is generally used for connecting a power line so as to supply power to electric equipment, and achieves connection and disconnection of the part of circuit through connection and disconnection between a circuit and a copper piece; when traditional socket installation, the panel protrusion is outside at the wall body, and the jack with the plug connection on the panel is open design, and this kind of structure is convenient for use, but has the potential safety hazard, for example: in the occasion of water, if water enters the jack, or a child inserts the jack by fingers or inserts the jack by using a small tool, the adverse effects of fire, electric shock and the like can be caused. Therefore, a protective electric shock prevention socket is determined to be developed.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a protective electric shock prevention socket which can prevent electric shock and reduce potential safety hazards.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme:
a protective electric shock prevention socket comprises a socket panel with a socket hole and a cover plate positioned at the front end of the socket hole, wherein the cover plate is arranged at the front end of the socket hole, sliding blocks are arranged on two sides of the cover plate, two fixing plates are fixedly connected to two sides of the socket panel, sliding grooves are formed in the side faces, close to the socket panel, of the two fixing plates, and the two fixing plates are connected with the sliding blocks in a vertical sliding mode through the sliding grooves;
the bottom of apron is equipped with first draw-in groove, be equipped with spring and card strip in the first draw-in groove, the bottom of fixed plate is equipped with the second draw-in groove, the spout is kept away from one side fixed connection of socket panel the second draw-in groove, the one end of card strip is passed through the spring with the interior wall connection of first draw-in groove, the other end is used for the card to advance in the second draw-in groove, make the apron covers the socket hole.
Preferably, the front end of card strip still is equipped with expose in the outer attacker of apron, the attacker is used for stirring the card strip is followed first draw-in groove and second draw-in groove remove, the up end of apron still is equipped with and is used for the restriction the home range's of attacker spacing groove.
Preferably, the bottom of the sliding block is further provided with a movable groove for the movement of the clamping strip, and the middle part of the clamping strip penetrates through the movable groove.
Preferably, a plurality of first balls are arranged between the sliding blocks and the corresponding fixing plates.
Preferably, one end of the clamping strip, which is used for being clamped into the second clamping groove, is provided with a second ball.
Preferably, the preceding terminal surface of socket panel is equipped with the seal groove of two symmetries, the rear end face of apron is equipped with the sealing strip of two symmetries, the sealing strip is used for inserting and seals the seal groove.
Preferably, the sliding blocks on both sides of the cover plate are symmetrically distributed with the center line of the socket panel as an axis, and the sliding grooves on both sides of the fixing plate are symmetrically distributed with the center line of the socket panel as an axis.
Preferably, the number of the first clamping grooves, the springs and the clamping strips is two, the first clamping grooves, the springs and the clamping strips are respectively located on two sides of the bottom of the cover plate, and the first clamping grooves, the springs and the clamping strips are symmetrically distributed by taking the center line of the socket panel as an axis.
Preferably, the upper portion of the fixing plate is further provided with a third clamping groove, and the third clamping groove is used for clamping the other end of the clamping strip, so that the cover plate opens the socket hole.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
firstly, the cover plate and the fixing plate are mutually matched to realize the effects of electric shock prevention, water prevention and dust prevention stably, so that the effect of improving the safety is achieved; the front end of the socket panel is provided with a cover plate, two sides of the cover plate are provided with fixed plates, the cover plate and the fixed plates are in sliding connection through the sliding blocks and the sliding chutes, the cover plate can cover and open the socket holes of the socket panel through the sliding connection with the fixed plates, when the cover plate slides to the position right opposite to the front end of the socket panel, the socket holes can be blocked, and when the cover plate slides upwards to be close to the top of the socket panel, the socket holes can be opened; wherein, when hiding the state, the apron slides to the front position just to socket panel, card strip in the first draw-in groove of its bottom then blocks into the second draw-in groove of fixed plate bottom, when needing to open, then remove the card strip along first draw-in groove toward the spring direction earlier, through the compression with the help of the spring, make the other end of card strip deviate from in can following the second draw-in groove, thereby break away from the chucking state, the apron just can up slide, until opening the socket hole, when hiding the state like this, the apron is difficult to be opened, can prevent child's dangerous action, thereby realize that the protection against electric shock socket covers and the stability of opening the state, can play protection against electric shock and waterproof dirt-proof effect better.
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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 briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive exercise.
Fig. 1 is a front view of an open state of a protective electric shock protection socket according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a protective electric shock protection socket a according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a front view of a closed state of a protective electric shock protection socket according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a first groove of a protective electric shock protection socket according to an embodiment of the present invention.
And (3) iconic marking: 1-socket panel, 2-fixing plate, 3-cover plate, 4-sliding block, 5-sliding groove, 6-second clamping groove, 7-clamping strip, 8-second ball, 9-spring, 10-first clamping groove, 11-first ball, 12-sealing groove, 13-buckle, 14-movable groove, 15-limiting groove, 16-sealing strip and 17-third clamping groove.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, features and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is apparent that the embodiments described below 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 given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it is to 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.
Furthermore, the terms "long", "short", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of describing the present invention, but do not indicate or imply that the referred devices or elements must have the specific orientations, be configured to operate in the specific orientations, and thus are not to be construed as limitations of the present invention.
The technical scheme of the invention is further explained by the specific implementation mode in combination with the attached drawings.
Referring to fig. 1 to 3, a protective electric shock prevention socket includes a socket panel 1, including a socket panel 1 having a socket hole and a cover plate 3 located at a front end of the socket hole, wherein:
the cover plate 3 is arranged at the front end of the socket hole, the two sides of the cover plate are provided with sliding blocks 4, the two sides of the socket panel 1 are fixedly connected with two fixing plates 2, the side surfaces, close to the socket panel 1, of the two fixing plates 2 are respectively provided with a sliding groove 5, and the two fixing plates are connected with the sliding blocks 4 in a vertical sliding mode through the sliding grooves 5;
the bottom of apron 6 is equipped with first draw-in groove 10, be equipped with spring 9 and card strip 7 in the first draw-in groove 10, the bottom of fixed plate 2 is equipped with second draw-in groove 6, spout 5 is kept away from one side fixed connection of socket panel 1 second draw-in groove 6, the one end of card strip 7 is passed through spring 9 with the interior wall connection of first draw-in groove 10, the other end is used for the card to advance in the second draw-in groove 6, make apron 3 covers the socket hole.
The sliding blocks 4 on the two sides of the cover plate 3 are symmetrically distributed by taking the central line of the socket panel 1 as an axis, and the sliding grooves 5 on the two sides of the fixed plate 2 are symmetrically distributed by taking the central line of the socket panel 1 as an axis.
First draw-in groove 10, spring 9 and card strip 7's quantity is two sets of, and two sets of first draw-in groove 10, spring 9 and card strip 7 are located the bottom both sides of apron 3 respectively, and are two sets of first draw-in groove 10, spring 9 and card strip 7 use the central line of socket panel 1 is the axle and is the symmetric distribution.
The upper part of the fixing plate 2 is further provided with a third clamping groove 17, and the third clamping groove 17 is used for clamping the other end of the clamping strip 7, so that the cover plate 3 opens the socket hole.
Specifically, firstly, the cover plate 3 and the fixing plate 2 are mutually matched to realize the effects of electric shock prevention, water prevention and dust prevention stably, so that the effect of improving the safety is achieved; the front end of the socket panel 1 is provided with a cover plate 3, two sides of the cover plate are provided with fixed plates 2, the cover plate 3 and the fixed plates 2 are in sliding connection through the sliding blocks 4 and the sliding chutes 5, the cover plate 3 can cover and open the socket holes of the socket panel 1 through the sliding connection with the fixed plates 2, when the cover plate 3 slides to the position right opposite to the front end of the socket panel 1, the socket holes can be blocked, and when the cover plate 3 slides upwards to be close to the top of the socket panel 1, the socket holes can be opened;
wherein, in the covering state, the cover plate 3 slides to the front position opposite to the socket panel 1, the clamping strip 7 in the first clamping groove 10 at the bottom of the cover plate is clamped in the second clamping groove 6 at the bottom of the fixing plate 2, when the cover plate needs to be opened, the clamping strip 7 moves along the first clamping groove 10 towards the spring 9, the other end of the clamping strip 7 can be separated from the second clamping groove 6 by virtue of the compression of the spring 9, thereby being separated from the clamping state, the cover plate 3 can slide upwards until the clamping strip 7 is contacted and clamped into the third clamping groove 17 at the upper part of the fixed plate 2, thus, in the covering state, the cover plate 3 is not easy to be opened, the dangerous action of children can be prevented, in the opening state, the cover plate 3 does not need to be manually opened, the socket is convenient to use, thereby realize that the protection against electric shock socket covers and the stability of open mode, convenient regulation and fixed cover plate 3's position can play the effect of stably protection against electric shock and waterproof dirt-proof.
In addition, the arrangement of the various symmetrical structures is to enable the whole sliding process and the buckling process to be smoother and balanced, the four second clamping grooves 6 are arranged to increase the clamping stability of the clamping strips 7, and meanwhile, the stability of the closing state and the stability of the opening state are achieved.
Referring to fig. 4, a buckle 13 exposed outside the cover plate 3 is further disposed at the front end of the clamping strip 7, the buckle 13 is used for shifting the clamping strip 7 to move along the first clamping groove 10 and the second clamping groove 6, and a limiting groove 15 used for limiting the range of motion of the buckle 13 is further disposed on the upper end surface of the cover plate 3. Specifically, because the attacker 13 exposes outside apron 3, consequently can be directly can conveniently stir through promoting attacker 13 card strip 7 makes card strip 7 remove along first draw-in groove 10 and second draw-in groove 6 to reach the purpose that fixed plate 2 chucking or unclamp apron 3, it is very convenient laborsaving.
In this embodiment, the bottom of the slider 4 is further provided with a movable groove 14 for the movement of the clamping strip 7, and the middle part of the clamping strip 7 penetrates through the movable groove 14.
It should be noted that a plurality of first balls 11 are disposed between the sliding blocks 4 and the corresponding fixing plates 2. One end of the clamping strip 7, which is used for being clamped into the second clamping groove 6, is provided with a second ball 8. The effect of first ball 11 makes slider 4 when sliding, reduces frictional force, increases gliding smooth and easy degree, and the effect of second ball 8 makes the card strip 7 card advance or deviate from second draw-in groove 6 when, reduces frictional force, increases the smooth and easy degree of card strip 7 motion.
Further, the preceding terminal surface of socket panel 1 is equipped with two symmetrical seal grooves 12, the rear end face of apron 3 is equipped with two symmetrical sealing strips 16, sealing strip 16 is used for inserting and seals seal groove 12. When the sliding block 4 of the cover plate 3 slides into the sliding groove 5 of the fixing plate 2, the sealing strip 16 on the cover plate 3 is inserted into the sealing groove 12 of the socket panel 1, so that water vapor and dust can be better blocked.
The above-mentioned embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention, and not for limiting the same; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.
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1. A protection type electric shock prevention socket comprises a socket panel (1) provided with a socket hole and a cover plate (3) positioned at the front end of the socket hole, and is characterized in that:
the cover plate (3) is arranged at the front end of the socket hole, the two sides of the cover plate are provided with sliding blocks (4), the two sides of the socket panel (1) are fixedly connected with two fixing plates (2), the side faces, close to the socket panel (1), of the two fixing plates (2) are provided with sliding grooves (5), and the two fixing plates are connected with the sliding blocks (4) in a vertical sliding mode through the sliding grooves (5);
the bottom of apron (3) is equipped with first draw-in groove (10), be equipped with spring (9) and card strip (7) in first draw-in groove (10), the bottom of fixed plate (2) is equipped with second draw-in groove (6), spout (5) are kept away from one side fixed connection of socket panel (1) second draw-in groove (6), the one end of card strip (7) is passed through spring (9) with the interior wall connection of first draw-in groove (10), the other end is used for the card to advance in second draw-in groove (6), make apron (3) cover the socket hole.
2. The protection type electric shock protection socket according to claim 1, wherein a buckle (13) exposed outside the cover plate (3) is further arranged at the front end of the clamping strip (7), the buckle (13) is used for shifting the clamping strip (7) to move along the first clamping groove (10) and the second clamping groove (6), and a limiting groove (15) used for limiting the moving range of the buckle (13) is further arranged on the front end surface of the cover plate (3).
3. The protective electric shock protection socket according to claim 1, wherein the bottom of the sliding block (4) is further provided with a movable groove (14) for moving the clamping strip (7), and the middle part of the clamping strip (7) penetrates through the movable groove (14).
4. A protective electric shock protection socket according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of first balls (11) are provided between the sliding block (4) and the corresponding fixed plate (2).
5. A protective electric shock protection socket according to claim 1, wherein the end of the clamping strip (7) for clamping into the second clamping groove (6) is provided with a second ball bearing (8).
6. The protective electric shock protection socket according to claim 1, wherein the front face of the socket panel (1) is provided with two symmetrical sealing grooves (12), the rear face of the cover plate (3) is provided with two symmetrical sealing strips (16), and the sealing strips (16) are used for inserting into and sealing the sealing grooves (12).
7. The protection type electric shock prevention socket according to claim 1, wherein the sliding blocks (4) on both sides of the cover plate (3) are symmetrically distributed with the center line of the socket panel (1) as an axis, and the sliding grooves (5) on both sides of the fixing plate (2) are symmetrically distributed with the center line of the socket panel (1) as an axis.
8. The protection type electric shock prevention socket according to claim 1, wherein the number of the first clamping grooves (10), the springs (9) and the clamping strips (7) is two, the two groups of the first clamping grooves (10), the springs (9) and the clamping strips (7) are respectively located on two sides of the bottom of the cover plate (3), and the two groups of the first clamping grooves (10), the springs (9) and the clamping strips (7) are symmetrically distributed by taking the central line of the socket panel (1) as an axis.
9. A protective electric shock protection socket according to claim 1, wherein a third locking groove (17) is further provided at the upper portion of the fixing plate (2), and the third locking groove (17) is used for locking the other end of the locking strip (7) so that the cover plate (3) opens the socket hole.
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