JP2000152812A - Earlobe ornament - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve quality by reducing the weight of a holder while maintaining a holding force applied to an earlobe, reducing the pain of the earlobe when catching the earlobe in the holder and obtaining a uniform holding force. SOLUTION: This earlobe ornament 10 is provided with a roughly U-shaped holder 11 having elasticity and a decorative body 12 provided in the front side of this holder 11. In this case, the holder 11 is formed by bending a flat plate, and provided with a planar front side press-contact portion 13 pressed into surface contact with the front surface 14a of an earlobe 14, and a rear side press-contact portion 16 formed by being bent to the front side press-contact portion 13 so as to be pressed into contact with the rear surface of the earlobe 14 and holding the same with the front side press-contact portion 13.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention comprises a substantially U-shaped holding body, and a decorative body provided on a front side of the holding body.
The present invention relates to an ear ornament of a type that is sandwiched in an earlobe by an elastic pressing force of a sandwiching body.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional ear ornament, for example, the one shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 is known. The former ear ornaments 1
Is a type in which a decorative body 3 is provided on a front side of a U-shaped holding body 2 and a screwing portion 4 is provided on a rear side thereof, and is fixed to an earlobe fitted into the holding body 2 with the screwing portion 4. (See JP-A-10-33219). On the other hand, the latter ear decoration 5 is provided with a decorative body 7 on the front side of a substantially U-shaped holding body 6 using an elastic round bar, and provided with pressing portions 8 for holding earlobes at both upper ends of the holding body 6. It is of the type fixed to the earlobe by the elastic action of the holding body 6 (see Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 7-16610).

[0003]

However, in the former ear ornament 1 described above, the structure of the screwing portion 4 is complicated and the load on the ear is large due to its heavy weight.
When used for a long period of time, it may be painful. On the other hand, in the case of the latter, the ear ornament 5 is configured so as to be simply pinched to the earlobe by using the elastic action of the pinching body 6, so that the structure is simpler and lighter than the former. Can also. However, since it is pinched on the earlobe by the pressing portions 8 provided at both upper ends of the holding body 6, a part of the earlobe is locally pressed, and there is a possibility that severe pain may occur in the portion. In addition, since the holding body 6 is made of a round bar, when the shape of the holding body 6 is formed by bending, the round bar is easily twisted, and a uniform holding force at the pressing portion 8 is obtained. Could not be done.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to reduce the weight of the holding body while reducing the weight of the holding body while reducing the weight of the holding body while reducing the pain of the ear lobe when holding the holding body against the ear lobe, and to obtain a more uniform holding force. It is an object of the present invention to provide ear ornaments that can improve quality.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an ear ornament according to a first aspect of the present invention is provided with a substantially U-shaped elastic holding member and a front side of the holding member. In an ear ornament comprising a decorative body, the holding body is formed by bending a flat plate, and is formed between a flat front-side pressure contact portion that is in pressure contact with the front surface of the earlobe and the front-side pressure contact portion that is in pressure contact with the rear surface of the earlobe. And a rear pressure contact portion formed to be curved toward the front pressure contact portion with the earlobe therebetween.

[0006]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an earpiece according to the present invention. In the first embodiment of the present invention shown in FIGS.
Is composed of a substantially U-shaped holding body 11 and a decorative body 12 provided on the front side thereof. The holding body 11 is formed by forming a band-shaped flat plate into a U shape by press bending, and has an elastic action in a direction in which the U shape opens and closes.
In addition, on the front side of the holding body 11 by press bending,
As shown in FIG. 2, a flat front-side pressure contact portion 13 extending straight in the up-down direction is formed. As shown in FIG. 2, when the front-side pressure contact portion 13 is sandwiched between the earlobes 14, the entire flat surface of the front pressure-contact portion 13 contacts the front surface 14 a of the earlobe 14. On the other hand, on the rear side of the sandwiching body 11, a curved rear pressure contact portion 16 which is largely curved toward the front pressure contact portion 13 is formed, and furthermore, the upper end of the rear pressure contact portion 16 has a guide portion curled outward. 17 are formed. The rear pressure contact portion 16 in this embodiment has a curved surface having a large radius of curvature, and has a configuration in which the entire curved surface comes into surface contact with the rear surface 14b of the earlobe 14. As shown in FIG. 1, the rear pressure contact portion 16 is elastically opened by pushing and expanding the guide portion 17 outward, and is elastically restored when the guide portion 17 is released.

[0007] The press-bending process of the holding body 11 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, a lower mold 21 having a U-shaped concave groove 20 is provided.
And an upper mold 22 corresponding to the shape of the concave groove 20 is used to press-mold a strip-shaped flat plate member 23. Since the material is a flat plate, the conventional twisting during press molding does not occur.

On the other hand, a small mounting projection 18 is provided on the upper end of the front pressure contact portion 13 of the holding body 11, and the decorative body 12 is brazed to this mounting projection 18. This decoration 1
2, the front press-contact portion 13 of the sandwiching body 11 is covered to hide the front press-contact portion 13 from the front of the earlobe 14, thereby increasing the decorative effect. However, the shape, size, and material of the decorative body 12 are not particularly limited. It is not something to be done.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, when the ear ornament 10 having the above-described structure is mounted on the earlobe 14,
As described above, the earlobe 14 is fitted between the front pressure-contact portion 13 and the rear pressure-contact portion 16 while the guide portion 17 provided on the holding body 11 is pushed rearward by the fingers or the direct earlobe 14 of the hand. The earlobe 14 is sandwiched between a front pressure-contact portion 13 that presses against the front surface 14 a of the earlobe 14 and a rear pressure-contact portion 16 that presses against the rear surface 14 b of the earlobe 14. At this time, earlobe 1
Since the flat front-side pressure contact portion 13 is in surface contact with the front surface 14a of the base 4 in a wide area, the earlobe 14 is not hurt, and the earlobe 14 is hardly displaced in the left-right and up-down directions. On the other hand, since the curved rear-side press-contact portion 16 is also in surface contact with the rear surface 14b of the earlobe 14, there is no local pain as in the related art. In addition, as shown in FIG.
Like the case 3, the contact is made in the width direction of the earlobe 14, so that the displacement in the left and right direction can be suppressed in cooperation with the front side pressure contact portion 13.

[0010]

As described above, according to the ear ornament according to the present invention, the weight of the holding body can be reduced while holding the holding force on the earlobe. In addition, since the pinching member comes into contact with the earlobe over a wide area, local pain can be relieved when the pinch is pinched on the earlobe, and it can withstand long-term use. Further, since the holding body is not twisted at the time of processing, a uniform holding force can always be obtained, and the quality can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an ear ornament according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the ear ornaments sandwiched between earlobes.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing a pressing step.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing an example of a conventional ear decoration.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing another example of the conventional ear decoration.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Ear decoration 11 Holder 12 Decorative body 13 Front pressure contact part 14 Earlobe 14a Front of earlobe 14b Rear surface of earlobe 16 Rear pressure contact part

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An ear ornament comprising a substantially U-shaped holding body having elasticity and a decorative body provided on the front side of the holding body, wherein the holding body is formed by bending a flat plate, and has a front surface of an earlobe. A front-side press-contact portion, which is in surface contact with the front-side press-contact portion, which is pressed against the rear surface of the earlobe and is curved toward the front-side press-contact portion sandwiching the earlobe between the front-side press-contact portion. Ear ornaments.