JP2006057310A - Door scope - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute a flange part for impactively contacting with a door surface of a door scope arranged in a door for separating the indoor side and the outdoor side of a toilet, so as to have both stability and design performance. <P>SOLUTION: This door scope 20 has a pair of light transmissive cylinder elements 26 and 40 installed in an opening 16 of a surface 12 of the door 10, and is formed for transmitting the light via a light transmissive cylinder body 24 to the other one side from one side of the door by inserting and mutually uniting both these light transmissive cylinder elements 26 and 40 into the opening, and is provided with metallic plate material flanges 50 and 60 having a preselected external shape in an end part of at least one cylinder element of the light transmissive cylinder elements and having window holes 53 and 63 facing the end part of its cylinder element in the center, and is formed into a structure for fixing the metallic plate flanges 50 and 60 in close contact to one surface in an inside surface and an outside surface of the door 10 via turnups 52 and 62. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a lighting or door scope that allows indoor light to pass outside by attaching to a door that does not have a window, such as a toilet.

  For entrance doors installed at the entrance of rooms such as toilets and photo-development dark rooms that do not have windows intentionally, as a means to indicate whether the room is currently in use Conventionally, a display in which a red display appears around the handle on the outside of the room when a key comprising a thumb turn or the like is applied from the room has been widely used. However, with such a red display method, the display is difficult to see for people close to the outside at night or in the dark surroundings of the front of the entrance door, which may be overlooked and inconvenient, or If you have forgotten to take a thumb turn, there are disadvantages such as the risk that an outsider will accidentally open the door.

  Also, an auxiliary light bulb etc. is installed close to the switch button of the light, and when the room is lit, the auxiliary light bulb is also turned on at the same time so that it can be seen externally. In this case, the switch part You can see whether the room is used even in dark places at night by turning on the auxiliary light, but the structure is slightly complicated in that it requires wiring, etc. Also, it does not convey the state of the room directly outside the room Therefore, it is difficult to understand at first glance, and there is an inconvenient problem that the lighting in the room cannot be clearly identified when the auxiliary light bulb or the power distribution unit in the switch part breaks down.

Therefore, a translucent material made of a highly translucent material disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-173030 of Patent Document 1 so that the indoor lighting state can be directly seen with a simple structure without performing wiring work. Some have their bodies attached to openings formed in part of the door.
In this case, the translucent body is attached to the door opening by arranging a condensing lens at the end of the shaft-shaped light transmitting main body inserted from one side of the door, and the male screw formed at the tip from the opposite side of the door to the opening. A structure in which the door is sandwiched and fixed by the shaft-shaped light transmitting main body and the lid-shaped body, or the male screw, the screw hole of the female screw, and the shaft and the shaft hole. A means is employed for fixing the light-transmitting body at the opening position of the door by adopting the non-stop fitting.

  On the other hand, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-102940 of Patent Document 2 is provided with several fine movement plates having elasticity provided with male screws at the tip of a male member for a scope as a one-touch mounting structure of a light window or a scope. A device is disclosed in which a female screw is provided on the inner surface, and both the male and female members are screwed together at a stretch without being screwed.

However, in the former Patent Document 1, the processing and formation of male and female screws are relatively expensive, and the mounting is not simple. There are disadvantages in that the cost is high, and it is often impossible to achieve non-wobbled mounting depending on the opening accuracy provided in the door during installation, and the contact between the door surface and the light transmitting body Most of the parts are made of a resin material similar to a light transmissive body made of a resin material, and the design to the extent that forms a simple collar at most is employed.
On the other hand, although the thing of patent document 2 has the simplicity of attachment operativity, the structure which held the external thread on the fine motion plate becomes high in the point that a comparatively high manufacturing technique is required at the manufacturing stage, and is elastic. Due to the necessity of selection of the resin material possessed, the material itself is upgraded and the flange (flange) provided at the abutting portion with the door surface cannot be selected too freely, and is limited to a small diameter annular flange, etc. In this respect, there is a drawback of lack of design.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-173030 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-102940

  As mentioned above, in conventional lighting and door scopes, this type of focus is focused on improvement and ingenuity in the door mounting structure as well as the function of transmitting light, and the human eye is concentrated in comparison with the door surface. At present, there has been no interest in ingenuity in maintaining the design of the door scope or the lighting section.

  Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide a door scope having a novel structure capable of combining both light-stable or door-scoped door scope mounting stability and design with a translucent function. To do.

In view of the above-mentioned object, the present invention comprises a pair of translucent inner cylinder elements and translucent outer cylinder elements mounted at predetermined opening positions on the surface of the door, and the translucent inner cylinder element is A door scope that allows light to pass through the light-transmitting cylinder from one side of the door to the other side by inserting the light-transmitting outer cylindrical element from the inner surface of the door into the opening from the outer surface of the door and combining them. In
A metal having a pre-selected outer shape at the end of at least one of the pair of translucent inner cylinder elements and translucent outer cylinder elements, and having a window hole at the center facing the end of the cylinder element A door scope having a structure in which a flange made of a plate material is provided and the metal plate flange is adhered and fixed to one of the inner surface and the outer surface of the door is formed.
Further, if desired, both ends of the cylindrical elements of the pair of translucent inner cylindrical element and translucent outer cylindrical element have pre-selected outer shapes, and the end of the cylindrical element faces the center. You may make it each provide the flange made from a metal plate material provided with the window hole.

  Preferably, the metal plate flange is formed as a thin plate member having a square shape such as a square, and has a structure in which the entire periphery of the flange end surface is folded toward the door surface.

  Also, a claw facing the door opening is formed at the edge of the window hole provided in the flange made of the metal plate material, and the claw is fitted and locked in an engagement groove formed in the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical body. It is preferable that the metal plate flange and the cylindrical body be integrated.

  The pair of translucent inner cylinder element and translucent outer cylinder element are formed by engaging the other outer cylinder peripheral surface with the inner ring through the O-ring and engaging with each other through an O-ring. It is preferable that the translucent cylinder is configured in the door opening.

According to the door scope of the present invention described above, the end portions of at least one of the pair of translucent inner cylinder elements and translucent outer cylinder elements or the end portions of both cylinder elements have pre-selected outer shapes. And a flange made of a metal plate material provided with a window hole facing the end of the cylindrical element in the center, and the metal plate flange is in close contact with the surface on the inner surface and the outer surface of the door and fixed. The metal plate material is selected from stainless steel plate, aluminum metal plate, copper metal plate, etc., and the color type as desired, and the outer shape can be selected from various shapes such as square, circular, polygonal and star shape. Design can be given as the selected shape, and since it is a plate member, it can be adhered and fixed to the surface of the door, so it can form a door scope that matches the atmosphere of the room area of the building where the door is installed. , Door scope product Because obtain the the conventional even on the same time Akaritori function any can be made without inferior.
In addition, a metal flange can be easily processed and manufactured from a metal plate material through a series of sheet metal processing processes such as cutting, drilling, drawing, etc. It can contribute to manufacturing. Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail based on embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a state in which a door scope according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is mounted near the line-of-sight position on the door surface.
In the present embodiment, when the door 10 is opened and closed by the handle 15, the average line-of-sight position of the person on the door surface 12 in the door 10 that can be opened and closed at the boundary between the room where the door 10 is mounted and the outdoor. That is, this is a case where the door scope 20 is mounted at a position of about 1.4 meters in height and light is transmitted through the door scope 20 from the indoor side to the outdoor side when the door 10 is closed. That is, if the light transmission hole 22 is formed in the center portion of the door scope 20 and light is projected from the light transmission hole 22 to the outside of the room, the person outside the room stays and occupies the room. It is possible to recognize that other people are not allowed to enter from outside. In addition, a light-condensing lens, a light scattering member having a cut surface, or the like is formed and attached to the light-transmitting hole 22 using glass or a transparent plastic material so as to increase the degree of light-transmitting recognition. It is preferable.

  Next, referring to FIG. 2, a pair of translucent inner cylinder element 26 and translucent outer cylinder element 40, which are constituent elements of translucent cylinder 24 forming the door scope 20 shown in FIG. The state in the stage before being attached to the door 10 is illustrated.

  The translucent inner cylinder element 26 of the translucent cylinder 24 is formed, for example, as a molded product of a synthetic resin material as a cylindrical part inserted into the opening of the mounting portion of the door 10 from the inside of the door 10, that is, the indoor side. , A cylindrical portion 27, a flange portion 28 that is integrally formed on the proximal end side of the cylindrical portion 27 and abuts against the door surface (inner surface) when attached, and a recess that attaches an O-ring 32 to the entire periphery of the distal end portion of the cylindrical portion 27. A groove 29 is formed. A cylindrical hole 31 that penetrates the cylindrical portion 27 and the flange portion 28 and serves as a light transmission path is provided.

On the other hand, the translucent outer cylinder element 40 of the translucent cylinder 24 is formed as a cylindrical part that is inserted from the outside of the door 10, that is, from the outdoor side to the opening of the mounting portion of the door 10.
In this case, the translucent outer tubular element 40 includes a tubular portion 41, and an assembly hole into which the tubular portion 26 of the translucent inner tubular element 26 is inserted and fitted as a translucent hole at the center of the tubular portion 41. A cylindrical hole 42 is formed. When the translucent inner cylinder element 26 and the translucent outer cylinder element 40 are inserted into the opening of the door 10 and fitted to each other, they are mounted in the concave grooves 29 of the former translucent inner cylinder element 26. The O-ring 32 is configured to be fixed in the opening of the door 10 by exhibiting a snap-fit effect in the cylindrical hole 42 of the translucent outer cylinder element 40.

Further, on the outer periphery of the cylinder portion 41 of the translucent outer cylinder element 40, a longitudinal groove 43 extending in the axial direction of two stripes (only one groove is visible) at positions spaced apart from each other by approximately 180 degrees in the circumferential direction. And is used for mounting and fixing to the metal flange 50 described later.
The metal flange 50 is preliminarily used as an independent sheet metal product formed by using a metal sheet material suitable for sheet metal processing such as stainless steel plate, aluminum plate, copper plate, etc. and having a beautiful surface. Manufactured and processed. The metal flange 50 is manufactured and processed by a sheet metal processing method such as cutting, drilling, drawing, and the like of a thin metal plate material. It is selected and designed according to various conditions such as material, color and design.

  In the embodiment of FIG. 2, a case where a square or rectangular square bowl shape is selected is shown, and the square circumference of the main body 51 of the metal flange 50 is folded back to contact the door surface when mounted on the door 10. A portion 52 is formed, and is fitted in a substantially central portion of the main body portion 51 into a circular hole 53 into which the tip of the above-described translucent outer tubular element 40 is fitted and a vertical groove 43 of the tubular portion 41. A pair of coupling claws 54 that exhibit a coupling effect are provided. The pair of coupling claws 54 are formed by a bending method at two positions around the circular hole 53 and aligned with the two longitudinal grooves 43, and have an appropriate elastic force derived from the metal material. When fitted so as to be pushed into the groove 43, the effect of firmly fixing the metal flange 50 to the end portion of the cylindrical portion 41 is achieved.

  When the metal flange 50 is attached to the door surface 12 of the door 10 with the body color 51 of the selected metal material having a skin color or flavor based on the material, the metal flange 50 exhibits a design effect consistent with the design of the door 10. It will be. Further, there is a folded portion 52 around the metal flange 50, and the folded portion 52 is in contact with the door surface 12, so that there is no risk that an edge is formed at the edge portion of the metal flange 50. It is.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which the translucent body 24 including the translucent inner cylinder element 26 and the translucent outer cylinder element 40 described above is mounted on the opening 16 of the door 10 to configure the door scope 20. A light-transmitting inner cylinder element 26 is inserted and mounted from the indoor surface 14 of the door 10, and a flange 28 is in contact therewith.
Although the gap between the metal flange 50 and the door surface 12 due to the folded portion 52 is illustrated in a slightly enlarged manner, the folded portion 52 is usually at most about 1 mm in height and is touched by human touch. It can be recognized that it is formed to such an extent that it does not feel the presence of an extreme protrusion, and the edge feel is not felt around the flange main body 51. Although not clearly shown, the door scope 20 includes a lens or a light scattering member for promoting translucency at the end of the translucent inner cylinder element 26 and the translucent outer cylinder element 40. You can understand that

  FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the metal flange 50, and the coupling claws 54, 54 are formed from the periphery of the circular hole 53 by a bending method, and the projection 55 is provided at the tip of the claw as necessary. It shows that the effect can be improved.

  FIG. 5 shows an example in which the metal flange 50 is designed and manufactured so that the outer shape different from the square hook shape shown in FIG. 4 has a circular hook shape. Also in this example, a folded portion 62 is provided on the entire outer periphery of the flange main body 61 of the metal flange 60, and a circular hole 63 is provided in the central region. The connecting claws 64 and 64 are bent from two positions around the circular hole 63 in the same manner as the rectangular metal flange 50 described above.

  And the front-end | tip part of the translucent outer cylinder element 40 was fitted by the circular hole 63 provided in the center area | region of the metal flange 60, and the coupling claws 64 and 64 were provided in the cylinder 41 of the translucent outer cylinder element 40. It is configured to be fitted and coupled to the vertical groove 43. Needless to say, the outer shape of the metal flange is not limited to the square shape or the circular shape described above, and a star shape or the like may be selected according to design requirements.

Further, although not shown in the drawing, the metal flange 50 or 60 is formed at both ends of the translucent outer cylinder element 40 and the translucent inner cylinder element 26 constituting the translucent cylinder 24 of the door scope 20. A door scope having a configuration in which metal flanges are attached to both surfaces of the door surface on the indoor side and the door surface on the outdoor side of the door 10 may be used. In that case, the integral flange portion 28 in the translucent inner cylinder element 26 shown in FIG. 2 is eliminated, and instead the metal flange 50 or 60 is connected to the coupling claw as in the above-described translucent outer cylinder element 40. Or the like. Moreover, it is good also as a structure which apply | coats an adhesive agent to the coupling | bond part using the coupling claws 54, 54 or 64, 64, and raises joint strength by adhesion | attachment.

FIG. 6 shows that the door scope 20 according to the embodiment of the present invention is provided inside the attachment plate 15a near the door end face 11 to which the door opening / closing handle 15 is attached, unlike the position of the human eye on the door surface 12 of the door 10. When a person turns his / her eyes toward the mounting plate 15a for operating the handle 15,
It is good also as a structure which can confirm the presence or absence of the light transmission in the door scope 20 naturally.
As described above, the present invention has been described with reference to examples of some embodiments. However, the present invention is attached to a metal flange that is configured to stabilize the mounting of the door scope on the door surface and to exhibit an external design function. It should be understood that various external shapes can be adopted without being limited to the external shape of the illustrated example. Needless to say, the metal material, dimensions, and the like of the metal flange can be selected from those different from the illustrated example.

The schematic perspective view which shows the example which mounted | wore the door scope which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention in the eyes | visual_axis position in the door surface of a door, FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the configuration of a light-transmitting cylinder body including a light-transmitting outer cylinder element and a light-transmitting inner cylinder element that constitute a door scope according to an embodiment of the present invention; Sectional drawing in the attachment state of the door scope shown in FIG. The perspective view which shows the example of the square hook shape which concerns on one Embodiment of a metal flange, The perspective view which shows the example of the circular bowl shape which concerns on other one Embodiment of a metal flange, The schematic perspective view which shows the example which mounted | wore near the handle arrangement position in the door surface of the door with the door scope which concerns on other one Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

10: Door 12: Door surface 14: Door surface 15: Handle 15a: Mounting plate 16: Opening 20: Door scope 22: Translucent hole 24: Translucent cylinder 26: Translucent inner cylinder element 27: Cylindrical portion 28 : Flange portion 29: Concave groove 31: Cylindrical hole 32: O-ring 40: Translucent outer cylindrical element 41: Cylindrical portion 42: Cylindrical hole 43: Vertical groove 50: Metal flange 51: Body portion 52: Turn-up portion 53: Circular hole 54: Coupling claw 55: Protrusion 60: Metal flange 61: Body portion 62: Folded portion 63: Circular hole 64: Coupling claw

Claims (5)

A pair of translucent inner cylinder elements and translucent outer cylinder elements mounted at predetermined opening positions on the surface of the door are provided, and the translucent inner cylinder element is moved from the inner surface of the door to the translucent outer cylinder element. In the door scope that allows light to pass through the translucent cylinder from one side of the door to the other side by being inserted into the opening from the outer surface of the door and uniting with each other,
A metal having a pre-selected outer shape at the end of at least one of the pair of translucent inner cylinder elements and translucent outer cylinder elements, and having a window hole facing the end of the cylinder element in the center A door scope characterized in that a flange made of a plate material is provided and the metal plate flange is adhered and fixed to one of the inner surface and the outer surface of the door. A metal plate having a pre-selected outer shape at the ends of both of the pair of translucent inner cylinder elements and the translucent outer cylinder element, and having a window hole facing the end of the cylinder element at the center The door scope according to claim 1, wherein each flange is provided. The door scope according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the metal plate flange is formed as a thin plate member having a square shape such as a square, and is provided with a turn that is bent toward the door surface on the entire periphery of the flange end surface. . A coupling claw facing the door opening is formed at the edge of the window hole provided in the flange made of the metal plate material, and the coupling claw is fitted and locked in an engagement groove formed in the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical body. The door scope according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the metal plate material flange and the cylindrical body are integrated. The pair of translucent inner cylinder element and translucent outer cylinder element are formed by engaging the other outer cylinder peripheral surface with the inner ring through the O-ring and engaging with each other through an O-ring. The door scope according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the translucent cylinder is configured in the door opening.

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