CN217538239U

CN217538239U - Zipper locking mechanism and case

Info

Publication number: CN217538239U
Application number: CN202221163541.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 肖海欧; 肖庭新; 庄国祥; 秦辉阳; 余光洪
Original assignee: Luxshare Precision Industry Co Ltd
Current assignee: Luxshare Precision Industry Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-05-13
Filing date: 2022-05-13
Publication date: 2022-10-04
Anticipated expiration: 2032-05-13

Abstract

The utility model provides a zipper locking mechanism, which comprises a driving part, a locking piece, a locking fitting piece and a main control unit; the main control unit is electrically connected with the driving part and can control the driving part to act; the locking piece is in transmission connection with the power output end of the driving part; the locking fitting piece is fixed on the inner side face of the zipper pull head, and the locking piece can be close to or far away from the locking fitting piece under the driving of the driving part so as to lock or unlock the zipper. The utility model also provides a case and bag, it contains aforementioned zip fastener locking mechanism, and both all belong to human life necessities field. The utility model provides a zip fastener locking mechanical system simple structure, use convenience, security height, automatic control use in case and bag and can make the interior article safety of package obtain the guarantee.

Description

Zipper locking mechanism and case

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a zip fastener locking mechanical system and case and bag belongs to human life necessities field.

Background

The opening and closing of the bags on the market at present are basically realized by zippers. In order to ensure the safety of articles in the luggage, some zippers with coded locks are also provided, but the coded locks are inconvenient to operate, are easy to crack if the codes are simple, are difficult to remember by the owner of the luggage if the codes are complex, and are not enough in practicability and convenience.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a practical, simple structure, convenient operation's zip fastener locking mechanical system and used this kind of case and bag that zip fastener locking mechanical system.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: the zipper locking mechanism comprises a driving part, a locking piece, a locking fitting piece and a main control unit; the main control unit is electrically connected with the driving component and can control the action of the driving component; the locking piece is in transmission connection with the power output end of the driving part; the locking fitting piece is fixed on the inner side of the zipper pull head, and the locking piece can be close to or far away from the locking fitting piece under the driving of the driving part so as to lock or unlock the zipper.

As the utility model discloses further modified technical scheme, the locking fitting piece is the loop forming element, loop forming element place plane with zip fastener pull head medial surface is perpendicular, the locking piece is in can follow linear motion under drive component's the drive and insert or withdraw from the inner circle of loop forming element to realize the locking or the unblock of zip fastener.

As the further improved technical proposal of the utility model, the device also comprises a first detection unit and an information input unit; the first detection unit can detect the position of the zipper puller so that the main control unit can judge whether to lock or not; the information input unit can acquire and transmit information to the main control unit so that the main control unit can judge whether to unlock.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the first detecting unit includes a hall element and a magnet fixed in the slider of the zipper; the Hall element is electrically connected with the main control unit and is fixed near a locking position; and the main control unit judges whether to control the action of the driving part according to the signal transmitted by the Hall element.

As the utility model discloses further modified technical scheme, information input unit includes one or more in fingerprint input unit, bluetooth information transmission unit and the NFC information transmission unit.

As a further improved technical proposal of the utility model, the utility model also comprises a micro switch and a contact pin arranged on the locking piece; the micro switch is electrically coupled to the master control unit; the contact pins are arranged to: when the locking piece is located at the locking position, the contact pin touches the micro switch, and when the locking piece leaves the locking position, the contact pin leaves the micro switch, so that the micro switch is reset.

As the utility model discloses further modified technical scheme, the main control unit basis micro-gap switch's the information control that resets drive unit moves to the messenger leaves the locking position the locking piece is in micro-gap switch resets after a period and repeats to the locking position.

As a further improved technical proposal of the utility model, the driving part comprises a motor, a base wheel and an eccentric wheel; the base wheel is fixedly connected with the output end of the motor; the eccentric wheel is eccentrically arranged on the base wheel; when the motor rotates, the eccentric wheel is driven to rotate around the central axis of the base wheel.

As a further improved technical solution of the present invention, the locking member includes a first groove and a second groove; the first groove is formed below the locking piece, and the periphery of the eccentric wheel abuts against one side face, far away from the zipper, of the first groove; the second groove is formed in one end, far away from the zipper, of the locking piece, a guide post is horizontally fixed in the second groove, a spring is sleeved outside the guide post, one end of the spring abuts against the groove face, close to the zipper, of the second groove, and the other end of the spring abuts against a supporting part in the luggage.

Furthermore, the utility model also discloses a case and bag, it contains the zip fastener locking mechanism disclosed in this application.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses there is following advantage:

1. the zipper locking mechanism has simple structure and easy application.

2. The zipper locking mechanism is full-automatic in locking and unlocking and simple in operation.

3. Use fingerprint, bluetooth received signal, NFC received signal etc. as the signal of unblanking, improved the security and the simple operation nature of zip fastener locking mechanical system.

4. The Hall element is matched with the microswitch, so that the locking action of the zipper locking mechanism is automatic and accurate.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic front view (unlocked state) of a slide fastener locking mechanism according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a rear view schematically showing the fastener locking mechanism (unlocked state) according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a left side view schematically showing the slider of the slide fastener of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic top view of the zipper pull of the present invention (with Hall elements additionally shown);

fig. 5 is a schematic front view (locked state) of the fastener locking mechanism according to embodiment 2 of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. If several embodiments exist, the features of these embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict. When the description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The description set forth below in the exemplary detailed description does not represent all embodiments consistent with the present invention; rather, they are merely examples of apparatus, products, and/or methods consistent with certain aspects of the invention, as recited in the claims of the invention.

The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. As used in the specification and claims of this application, the singular form of "a", "an", or "the" is intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

It should be understood that the terms "first," "second," and the like as used in the description and in the claims of the present invention do not denote any order, quantity, or importance, but rather are used to distinguish one element from another. Also, the use of the terms a, an, etc. do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one. Unless otherwise indicated, the terms "front," "back," "up," "down," and the like in the description of the present invention are used for convenience of description, and are not limited to a particular position or spatial orientation. The word "comprise" or "comprises", and the like, is an open-ended expression meaning that an element that precedes "includes" or "comprising" includes "that the element that follows" includes "or" comprises "and its equivalents, that do not preclude the element that precedes" includes "or" comprising "from also including other elements. If the utility model discloses in appear "a plurality of", its meaning indicates two and more than two.

In order to solve the problems in the prior art, the present invention discloses a zipper locking mechanism, which can be applied to a bag (herein, "bag" is a general term for bag, and is a general term for various bags for holding things, including shopping bags, handbags, purses, backpacks, rucksacks, satchels, waist bags, draw-bar boxes, large luggage bags (e.g., for ball holding tools), etc.), comprising a driving part 1, a locking part 2, a locking fitting part 3, and a main control unit 4. The main control unit 4 is electrically connected with the driving part 1, the main control unit 4 can control the driving part 1 to act, and the driving part 1 can drive the locking piece 2 to be close to or far away from the locking matching piece 3 so as to lock or unlock the zipper.

In embodiment 1, the driving member 1 comprises a motor 11 and a cam 12 fixedly connected with an output shaft of the motor 11, the cam 12 comprises a base wheel 121 and an eccentric wheel 122 eccentrically arranged on the base wheel 121, and the arrangement can be a fixed or rotatable connection. When the motor 11 rotates, the eccentric wheel 122 is driven to rotate around the central axis of the base wheel 121.

Referring to fig. 1-4, the locking mating member 3 is an annular member (including an annular member having an inner ring and an outer ring that are different), and is fixed on the inner side surface of the zipper slider, the plane where the annular member is located is perpendicular to the inner side surface of the zipper slider, a pull ring is fixed on the outer side surface of the zipper slider, and a pull handle is hung on the pull ring to pull the slider.

In other embodiments, the locking mating member 3 may be a groove-shaped member, as long as the locking member 2 can prevent the locking mating member 3 from moving along the length direction of the zipper when the locking member 2 and the locking mating member 3 are located at the locking position.

A locking part 21 is formed at one side of the locking piece 2 close to the zipper, and the locking part 21 is inserted into or withdrawn from the inner ring of the annular piece to lock or unlock the zipper.

The locking member 2 is formed with a matching portion in transmission connection with the power output end of the driving member 1, in embodiment 1, the matching portion is configured as a first groove 22, the first groove 22 is formed below the front side of the locking member 2 (when the orientation is described herein, the left side and the right side of fig. 1 are left and right, the upper side and the lower side are up and down, the vertical paper surface is outward forward, and vice versa), the peripheral side of the eccentric wheel 122 abuts against the left side of the first groove 22, that is, the periphery of the eccentric wheel 122 abuts against a side of the first groove 22 away from the zipper.

The locking piece 2 is still formed with second recess 23, second recess 23 is seted up the left end of locking piece 2, also sets up the one end of keeping away from the zip fastener of locking piece 2 in the second recess 23, the level is fixed with a guide post, and spring 24 cover is in outside the guide post, the one end of spring 24 supports and leans on the second recess 23 is close to on the side of zip fastener (also can describe as the tank bottom), and the other end supports and leans on the supporting component.

The spring 24 is fixed against the support member in the case and the support members in the following two cases: a supporting component fixedly connected with the motor 11 and a supporting component for supporting the locking piece 2 to slide.

The rotation of the motor 11 will move the locking member 2. In order to ensure that the locking member 2 moves in the lateral direction (i.e. the left-right direction in fig. 1), the locking member 2 is arranged inside the bag via a guide member. Preferably, a track groove can be arranged in the case, and the locking piece 2 is arranged on the track groove in a sliding mode; or, guide posts are arranged in the luggage, correspondingly, guide holes are arranged in the locking piece 2, and the locking piece 2 is sleeved on the guide posts in a sliding manner through the guide holes; alternatively, a slide rail/slider may be provided between the lock member 2 and the bag support member for guiding.

When the motor 11 rotates, the eccentric wheel 122 rotates counterclockwise or clockwise around the central axis of the base wheel 121, which generates displacement in the left-right direction and the front-back direction, the motor 11 is fixed on the case supporting member, the locking member 2 is supported on the case supporting member in a laterally movable manner, in order to avoid relative movement of the motor 11 and the locking member 2 in the front-back direction (which will affect the accuracy of the locking action of the locking member 2) or relative movement tendency in the front-back direction (which will generate a force of relative compression between the eccentric wheel 122 and the locking member 2, which will easily damage these two members and other members connected to these two members), a compressible layer is disposed in the first groove 22 of the locking member 2, and is disposed between the locking member 2 and the eccentric wheel 122 in the front-back direction, and when the eccentric wheel 122 rotates counterclockwise or clockwise, the compressible layer can be compressed to counteract the displacement of the eccentric wheel 122 in the front-back direction. The compressible layer is preferably an elastomeric material.

When the locking piece 2 is transversely moved and inserted into the locking mating piece 3 under the driving of the motor 11, the zipper is locked, at the moment, the locking piece 2 is also called to be located at a locking position, and when the locking piece 2 is transversely moved out of the locking mating piece 3 under the driving of the motor 11, the zipper is unlocked.

In order to make the zip fastener lock and unblock can realize automatically, the zip fastener locking mechanical system of this application still includes first detecting element 5 and information input unit 6, first detecting element 5 can detect zip fastener pull head position and judge whether to lock in order to supply main control unit 4, information input unit 6 can acquire and provide main control unit 4 with external information to whether the main control unit 4 judges to unblock.

In embodiment 1, referring to fig. 1 and 4, the first detection unit 5 includes a hall element 51 and a magnet 52 fixed in the slide fastener slider. The hall element 51 is electrically connected to the main control unit 4, and is fixed near the position where the zipper slider is located when the zipper of the luggage is closed, or is fixed near the locking position, when the zipper slider is close to the hall element 51, the hall element 51 sends information to the main control unit 4, the main control unit 4 judges that the zipper of the luggage is pulled to the position where the luggage is closed or the luggage is to be closed, and then the motor 11 is controlled to act to drive the locking piece 2 to be inserted into the inner ring of the locking matching piece 3, so that the zipper slider is locked.

In embodiment 1, the information input unit 6 may be a fingerprint input unit 61, a bluetooth information transmission unit 62, an NFC information transmission unit, or any combination of the three.

The fingerprint input unit 61 includes a fingerprint key 611 fixed on the bag, and the fingerprint key 611 is connected to the main control unit 4 through a data line. When the owner of the luggage presses the fingerprint key 611, the fingerprint is collected and transmitted to the main control unit 4, the main control unit 4 judges whether the fingerprint is preset or not, the motor 11 is controlled according to the judgment result, if so, the motor 11 is controlled to rotate, the locking piece 2 is driven to move leftwards to unlock, and if not, no reaction is made or an alarm is triggered.

The bluetooth information transmission unit 62 includes bluetooth button 621, bluetooth control panel 622 and bluetooth antenna (not shown), and after the owner of case and bag pressed bluetooth button 621, connect the bluetooth with terminal equipment to send relevant signal, main control unit 4 drives locking piece 2 and moves left in order to unblank according to the information control motor 11 that terminal equipment sent.

The NFC information transmission unit (not shown) includes an electronic card key and an NFC control board (in the embodiment of the figure, the NFC control board and the Bluetooth control board 622 are one control board, and they can be separated or integrated with the main control unit 4.)

In embodiment 1, the hall element 51 is used as a trigger element for locking the zipper, that is, when the hall element 51 detects that the zipper slider approaches, a signal is transmitted to the main control unit 4, the main control unit 4 controls the motor 11 to operate to drive the locking member 2 to lock, and the hall element 51 has a certain detection range, that is, when the zipper slider with the magnet enters a certain distance range of the hall element 51, the hall element 51 can send a signal to the main control unit 4, and at this time, the position of the zipper slider is not a very determined position (it can be defined that the owner of the luggage can pull the zipper to the bottom or a certain position, but at this time, uncertainty is increased in controlling the locking of the luggage), in view of the second embodiment of the present invention (hereinafter, only the second embodiment is described as different from the first embodiment), referring to fig. 5, the zipper locking mechanism 1 further includes a microswitch 7, and a contact foot 25 disposed on the locking member 2, and the contact foot 25 is configured such that when the locking member 2 is in the locking position, the microswitch 7 is triggered by the contact foot 25. The microswitch 7 is electrically connected to the main control unit 4, and the main control unit 4 controls the operation of the motor 11 according to the information transmitted by the microswitch 7.

Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: when the zipper puller is pulled to be close to the closed position, the Hall element 51 detects and transmits information to the main control unit 4, the main control unit 4 controls the motor 11 to rotate anticlockwise to drive the locking piece 2 to move leftwards to enable the locking position to be set, meanwhile, the contact pin 25 leaves the micro switch 7, and the micro switch 7 resets and transmits the information to the main control unit 4. The left movement of the locking member 2 allows the zipper slider to enter the locking position, and the zipper is pulled to the locking position. The main control unit 4 is in after micro-gap switch 7 resets for a certain time, control motor 11 clockwise rotation, and the spring of compressed pushes away locking piece 2 moves to the right, and locking piece 2 inserts in the annular hole of locking fitting piece 3 locks for the case and bag, and this moment touches foot 25 and is in the position of touching micro-gap switch 7 once more.

When the information input unit 6 detects a fingerprint or receives unlocking information transmitted by Bluetooth or unlocking information transmitted by NFC or receives other unlocking information, the main control unit 4 controls the motor to rotate anticlockwise to drive the locking piece 2 to move leftwards for unlocking, meanwhile, the contact pin 25 leaves the micro switch 7, the micro switch 7 resets and transmits the information to the main control unit 4, the zipper is pulled open, the active unit 4 resets the micro switch 7 for a certain time, the control motor 11 rotates clockwise, the compressed spring pushes the locking piece 2 to move rightwards and moves to a locking position (the zipper pull head is separated at the moment and the case and bag cannot be locked).

In this embodiment, the information detected by the hall element is used as a preliminary information, the left row of the lock member 2 can give way to the lock position and give time for pulling the slide fastener slider to the lock position, and after a while, the position of the slide fastener slider and the position of the lock member 2 are relatively determined, which makes the locking action more accurate.

The invention also discloses a case, wherein the case is provided with the zipper locking mechanism disclosed above.

The above embodiments are only used for illustrating the present invention and not for limiting the technical solutions described in the present invention, and the understanding of the present specification should be based on the technical people in the related art, for example, the descriptions of the directions such as "front", "back", "left", "right", "up", "down", etc., although the present specification has described the present invention in detail with reference to the above embodiments, the ordinary skilled in the art should understand that the technical people in the related art can still modify or substitute the present invention, and all the technical solutions and modifications thereof that do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention should be covered within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. A zipper locking mechanism is characterized in that: comprises a driving part (1), a locking piece (2), a locking fitting piece (3) and a main control unit (4);

the main control unit (4) is electrically connected with the driving component (1), and the main control unit (4) can control the action of the driving component (1);

the locking piece (2) is in transmission connection with the power output end of the driving part (1);

the locking matching piece (3) is fixed on the inner side face of the zipper slider, and the locking piece (2) can be close to or far away from the locking matching piece (3) under the driving of the driving part (1) so as to lock or unlock the zipper.

2. The zipper lock mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the locking fitting piece (3) is a ring-shaped piece, and the locking piece (2) can be inserted into or withdrawn from the inner ring of the ring-shaped piece along linear motion under the driving of the driving part (1) so as to realize the locking or unlocking of the zipper.

3. The zipper lock mechanism of claim 2, wherein: the device also comprises a first detection unit (5) and an information input unit (6);

the first detection unit (5) can detect the position of the zipper puller so that the main control unit (4) can judge whether to lock or not;

the information input unit (6) can acquire and transmit information to the main control unit (4) so that the main control unit (4) can judge whether to unlock.

4. The zipper lock mechanism of claim 3, wherein: the first detection unit (5) comprises a Hall element (51) and a magnet (52) fixed in the zipper slider;

the Hall element (51) is electrically connected with the main control unit (4) and is fixed near a locking position;

and the main control unit (4) judges whether to control the action of the driving part (1) according to the signal transmitted by the Hall element (51).

5. The zipper locking mechanism according to claim 3, wherein: the information input unit (6) includes one or more of a fingerprint input unit (61), a Bluetooth information transmission unit (62), and an NFC information transmission unit.

6. The zipper lock mechanism according to claim 4 or 5, wherein: the locking mechanism also comprises a microswitch (7) and a contact pin (25) arranged on the locking piece (2);

the microswitch (7) is electrically coupled to the master control unit (4);

the contact foot (25) is arranged to: when the locking piece (2) is located at the locking position, the contact pin (25) touches the micro switch (7), when the locking piece (2) leaves the locking position, the contact pin (25) leaves the micro switch (7), and the micro switch (7) resets.

7. The zipper locking mechanism of claim 6, wherein: the main control unit (4) controls the driving part (1) to act according to the reset information of the microswitch (7), so that the locking piece (2) which is away from the locking position moves to the locking position again after the microswitch (7) is reset for a period of time.

8. The zipper lock mechanism of claim 7, wherein: the driving part (1) comprises a motor (11), a base wheel (121) and an eccentric wheel (122);

the base wheel (121) is fixedly connected with the output end of the motor (11);

the eccentric wheel (122) is eccentrically arranged on the base wheel (121);

when the motor (11) rotates, the eccentric wheel (122) is driven to rotate around the central axis of the base wheel (121).

9. The zipper locking mechanism of claim 8, wherein: the locking piece (2) comprises a first groove (22) and a second groove (23);

the first groove (22) is formed below the locking piece (2), and the periphery of the eccentric wheel (122) abuts against one side face, far away from the zipper, of the first groove (22);

the second groove (23) is formed in one end, far away from the zipper, of the locking piece (2), a guide post is fixed in the second groove (23), a spring (24) is sleeved outside the guide post, one end of the spring (24) abuts against the groove face, close to the zipper, of the second groove (23), and the other end of the spring abuts against the supporting component.

10. A case comprising the zipper lock mechanism of any one of claims 1-9.