JP2006194631A - Rotary pointer system equipped with power lighting system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotary pointer system equipped with a power lighting system. <P>SOLUTION: In this system equipped with at least one rotary pointer and a rotary shaft module of the rotary pointer, the rotary pointer is cooperated with the rotary shaft module by coupling between a rotatively supporting structure of the rotary pointer and a rotary shaft of the rotary shaft module. The surface of the rotary shaft module is covered with a plurality of ring electrodes, and each ring electrode is equipped with a coaxial outer ring electrode and a coaxial inner ring electrode. Positions corresponding to the plurality of ring electrodes on the first surface opposite to the rotary shaft module of the rotary pointer are covered with a plurality of semi-ring electrodes, and a plurality of spring electrodes electrically connected to the semi-ring electrodes are provided. After coupling between the rotatively supporting structure and the rotary shaft, the spring electrodes are brought into contact with the plurality of ring electrodes, and the plurality of semi-ring electrodes are connected electrically to the plurality of ring electrodes. Hereby, the power lighting system of the plurality of ring electrodes connected electrically to the rotary shaft module is placed on the nib of the rotary pointer or on the second surface, and provides illumination. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a rotation pointer, and more particularly to a rotation pointer that is supplied with electric power.

  The rotation pointer is widely applied to many man-machine interface measuring devices such as wristwatches, wall clocks, and automobile meters. In order to be able to read the index even in the dark, the rotation pointer is usually covered with a fluorescent material or decorated with a tip. In addition, an external light source is provided on the meter back plate to illuminate the rotation pointer.

  However, in dark environments, the visual effect of fluorescent materials is not ideal. Furthermore, since the light emission level and the mounting position are limited, there are cases where the light provided by the power lighting device cannot illuminate all the indicating portions of the rotation pointer. For this reason, it is necessary to improve the visual effect of illumination by supplying electric power to the power illumination device located on the rotation pointer.

  The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of rotary pointer system, which comprises at least one rotary pointer and a rotary shaft module of the rotary pointer. Among them, at least one rotating shaft structure is provided on the rotating axis of the rotating shaft module described above, and the rotating shaft structure includes a rotating shaft. A shaft attachment structure corresponding to the rotation shaft is located on the rotation axis of the rotation pointer. The rotation guide and the rotary shaft module cooperate with each other by the coupling of the shaft mounting structure and the rotary shaft. The surface of the rotary shaft module described above is covered with a plurality of ring-shaped electrodes, and the ring-shaped electrodes include a coaxial outer ring electrode and a coaxial inner ring electrode. A position corresponding to the plurality of ring-shaped electrodes on the first surface facing the rotary shaft module of the rotation pointer is covered with the plurality of semi-ring-shaped electrodes. This half-ring electrode includes an outer half-ring electrode corresponding to the outer ring electrode and an inner half-ring electrode corresponding to the inner ring electrode. A plurality of outer spring electrodes are provided on the outer half ring electrode, and similarly, a plurality of inner spring electrodes are provided on the inner half ring electrode. The outer half ring electrode is electrically connected to the plurality of outer spring electrodes, and similarly, the inner half ring electrode is electrically connected to the plurality of inner spring electrodes. After the shaft attachment structure and the rotating shaft are coupled, the spring electrode and the plurality of ring electrodes are in contact with each other, and then the outer half ring electrode is electrically connected to the outer ring electrode. The inner half ring electrode is electrically connected to the inner ring electrode. As a result, a plurality of annular electrode power illumination devices electrically connected to the rotary shaft module described above are placed on the tip or second surface of the rotation pointer to provide illumination.

The invention of claim 1 is a rotation pointer system comprising a power illumination device, wherein the rotation pointer system comprising the power illumination device comprises a rotary shaft module, a rotation pointer, and a plurality of spring electrodes.
The rotating shaft module includes a rotating shaft structure including a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft structure is covered with a plurality of ring electrodes, and the plurality of ring electrodes include an outer ring electrode and an inner ring electrode;
The rotating pointer includes a power lighting device and a shaft attachment structure coupled to the rotating shaft, and a first surface of the rotating pointer facing the rotating shaft structure is electrically connected to the power lighting device and includes a plurality of the rotating pointers. A plurality of half-ring electrodes at positions corresponding to the ring-shaped electrodes are covered, and the plurality of half-ring electrodes correspond to the outer half-ring electrodes and the inner ring electrodes at the positions corresponding to the outer ring electrodes. Including an inner half-ring electrode in position,
The plurality of spring electrodes have a rotating pointer system including a power lighting device, characterized in that both ends thereof are in contact with and electrically connected to the plurality of ring-shaped electrodes and the plurality of semi-ring-shaped electrodes.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the rotary pointer system including the power illumination device according to the first aspect, the plurality of spring electrodes include a plurality of outer spring electrodes and a plurality of inner spring electrodes, and the outer half-ring electrode includes a plurality of outer half-ring electrodes. The outer ring electrode is electrically connected to the outer ring electrode, the inner half ring electrode is electrically connected to the inner ring electrode by a plurality of inner spring electrodes, and the plurality of spring electrodes are positioned on the plurality of half ring electrodes. This is a rotation pointer system having a power lighting device.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rotary pointer system including the power illumination device according to the first aspect, wherein there are a plurality of second ring electrodes on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the rotary pointer, A two-ring type electrode includes a second outer ring electrode and a second inner ring electrode, and the rotation pointer system includes a power lighting device.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the rotary pointer system including the power illumination device according to the third aspect, the rotary shaft module includes a second rotary shaft structure of the second rotary shaft, and the rotary pointer system including the power lighting device. Further includes a second rotation pointer located on the second surface of the rotation pointer and a plurality of second spring electrodes, and the second rotation pointer is further coupled to the second power lighting device and the second rotation shaft. A plurality of second semi-annular rings having a first surface facing the rotation pointer of the second rotation pointer and electrically connected to the power lighting device and corresponding to the plurality of second ring-shaped electrodes. A power electrode, wherein both ends of the plurality of second spring electrodes are in contact with and electrically connected to the plurality of second ring electrodes and the plurality of second half ring electrodes. The rotating pointer system is equipped with a device.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the rotation pointer system including the power lighting device according to the fourth aspect, the rotation pointer system including the power lighting device is a clock, the rotation pointer is an hour hand, and the second rotation pointer is a minute hand. The rotation pointer system is equipped with a power illumination device.

  The present invention provides a rotary pointer system including a kind of power lighting device, which includes at least one rotary pointer and a rotary shaft module of the rotary pointer, and includes a pivot attachment structure of the rotary pointer and a rotary shaft of the rotary shaft module. As a result of the coupling, the rotary pointer cooperates with the rotary shaft module. The surface of the rotating shaft module is covered with a plurality of ring electrodes, and the ring electrodes include a coaxial outer ring electrode and a coaxial inner ring electrode. A position corresponding to the plurality of ring-shaped electrodes is covered with a plurality of half-ring electrodes and is electrically connected to the plurality of half-ring electrodes. A spring electrode is provided, and after the shaft attachment structure and the rotation shaft are coupled, the spring electrode contacts the plurality of ring electrodes, and the plurality of semi-ring electrodes are electrically connected to the plurality of ring electrodes. . As a result, a plurality of ring electrode power illumination devices electrically connected to the rotary shaft module are placed on the tip or second surface of the rotary pointer to provide illumination.

  1 and 2 show an embodiment of a wall clock 100 of the present invention. The wall clock 100 includes a case 110, a dial 120, a movement 140 located behind the dial 120, a rotary shaft module 130 and a power supply module 150 located on the movement 140. On the dial 120, at least the hour hand 160 and the minute hand 170 are coupled to the rotary shaft module 130, and in addition, a second hand 180 can be added.

  In this embodiment, the power of the movement 140 is supplied by the power supply module 150 described above. The movement 140 drives the rotary shaft module 130, thereby rotating the coaxial hour hand 160, minute hand 170 and second hand 180. Further, the hour hand 160, the minute hand 170, and the second hand 180 all include at least one power illumination device. In the present invention, the power lighting device described above can be a light-emitting diode or a valve filled with inertia gas, and the hour hand 160, the minute hand 170, and the second hand 180 can all be printed circuit boards.

  All of the power illumination devices on the three rotation pointers receive the power supply of the power supply module 150 to provide a lighting function, and the power supply module 150 includes a first electrode 151 and a second electrode 152. Is done. In the present embodiment, the first electrode 151 is a positive electrode and the second electrode 152 is a negative electrode. On the contrary, in the modified example of this embodiment, the first electrode 151 described above is a negative electrode, and the second electrode 152 is a positive electrode.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the rotary shaft module 130 of the present invention includes an annular electrode 131 and a rotary shaft structure 134. Among them, the ring electrode 131 further includes an outer ring electrode 132 and an inner ring electrode 133. The outer ring electrode 132 is electrically connected to the first electrode 151 of the power supply module 150 described above, and the inner ring electrode 133 is electrically connected to the second electrode 152 of the power supply module 150 described above. In this embodiment, the rotating shaft structure 134 includes an hour hand rotating shaft 135 coupled with the hour hand 160 described above and a minute hand rotating shaft 136 coupled with the minute hand 170 described above. At this time, the needle rotating shaft 135 and the minute hand rotating shaft 136 are coaxial and both move clockwise.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the lower surface of the hour hand 160 includes an hour hand half ring electrode 161, and the hour hand half ring electrode 161 includes an hour hand outer half ring electrode 162 and an hour hand half ring electrode 163. . The hour hand 160 further includes an hour hand outer spring electrode 164 connected to the hour hand outer half ring electrode 162 and an hour hand inner spring electrode 165 connected to the hour hand inner half ring electrode 163. The upper surface of the hour hand 160 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 includes an hour hand ring electrode 166, and the hour hand ring electrode 166 includes an hour hand outer ring electrode 167 and an hour hand inner ring electrode 168. The hour hand outer ring electrode 167 is electrically connected to the hour hand outer half ring electrode 162 and the hour hand outer spring electrode 164 by a plurality of electric circuits passing through the hour hand 160. The hour hand inner ring electrode 168 is electrically connected to the hour hand half ring electrode 163 and the hour hand spring electrode 165. When the hour hand 160 and the hour hand rotating shaft 135 are coupled, the outer spring electrode 164 and the outer ring electrode 132 are in contact with each other, and the inner spring electrode 165 and the inner ring electrode 133 are in contact with each other. Thereby, in the present embodiment, the first electrode 151 of the power supply module 150 is electrically connected to the hour hand outer ring electrode 167 and the hour hand outer ring electrode 162, and the second electrode of the power module 150 is described above. 152 is electrically connected to the above-mentioned hour hand inner ring electrode 168 and the hour hand inner ring electrode 163.

  Similarly, a minute hand half-ring electrode 171 is provided on the lower surface of the minute hand 170 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and the minute hand half-ring electrode 171 includes an outer half-ring electrode 172 and an inner half-ring electrode 173. Include. The minute hand 170 further includes an outer minute spring electrode 174 connected to the outer half-ring electrode 172 and an inner spring electrode 175 connected to the inner half-ring electrode 173. When the minute hand 170 minute hand rotating shaft 136 is coupled, the minute hand outer spring electrode 174 and the hour hand outer ring electrode 167 are in contact with each other, and the minute hand inner spring electrode 175 and the hour hand inner ring electrode 168 are in contact with each other. Accordingly, in the present embodiment, the first electrode 151 of the power supply module 150 is electrically connected to the outer half-ring electrode 172 described above, and the second electrode 152 of the power supply module 150 is connected to the inside of the minute hand. It is electrically connected to the half ring electrode 173.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a plurality of electric power illumination devices 190 are provided on the surfaces of the hour hand 160 and the minute hand 170 described above. Among them, the plurality of power lighting devices 190 are electrically connected to the outer half-ring electrode 172 and the inner half-ring electrode 173 described above, and the outer hour ring electrode 167 and the inner ring electrode 168 described above, respectively. . Accordingly, the first electrode 151 and the second electrode 152 of the power supply module 150 are further electrically connected. That is, after the power supply module 150 is activated, the plurality of power lighting devices 190 described above also starts light emission illumination.

It is a display figure of the wall clock of the Example of this invention. It is a display figure of the wall clock of the Example of this invention. It is a display figure of the wall clock of the Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Wall clock 110 Case 120 Dial 130 Rotating shaft module 131 Ring electrode 132 Outer ring electrode 133 Inner ring electrode 134 Rotating shaft structure 135 Hour hand rotating shaft 136 Minute hand rotating shaft 140 Movement 150 Power supply module 151 First electrode 152 Second electrode 160 Hour hand 161 Hour hand half ring electrode 162 Hour hand outer half ring electrode 163 Hour hand inner half ring electrode 164 Hour hand outer spring electrode 165 Hour hand inner spring electrode 167 Hour hand outer ring electrode 168 Hour hand inner ring electrode 170 Minute hand 171 Minute hand half ring electrode 172 Minute hand outside Half-ring electrode 173 Half-ring electrode inside minute hand 174 Spring electrode outside minute hand 175 Spring electrode inside minute hand 180 Second hand 190 Power illumination device

Claims (5)

In the rotation pointer system including the power lighting device, the rotation pointer system including the power lighting device includes a rotary shaft module, a rotation pointer, and a plurality of spring electrodes.
The rotating shaft module includes a rotating shaft structure including a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft structure is covered with a plurality of ring electrodes, and the plurality of ring electrodes include an outer ring electrode and an inner ring electrode;
The rotating pointer includes a power lighting device and a shaft attachment structure coupled to the rotating shaft, and a first surface of the rotating pointer facing the rotating shaft structure is electrically connected to the power lighting device and includes a plurality of the rotating pointers. A plurality of half-ring electrodes at positions corresponding to the ring-shaped electrodes are covered, and the plurality of half-ring electrodes correspond to the outer half-ring electrodes and the inner ring electrodes at the positions corresponding to the outer ring electrodes. Including an inner half-ring electrode in position,
A rotating pointer system comprising a power lighting device, wherein the plurality of spring electrodes are in contact with and electrically connected to a plurality of ring-shaped electrodes and a plurality of semi-ring-shaped electrodes at both ends.   The rotation pointer system comprising the power lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of spring electrodes include a plurality of outer spring electrodes and a plurality of inner spring electrodes, and the outer half ring electrode is formed by a plurality of outer spring electrodes. The inner half-ring electrode is electrically connected to the inner ring electrode by a plurality of inner spring electrodes, and the plurality of spring electrodes are located on the plurality of half-ring electrodes. A rotating pointer system with a lighting device.   The rotation pointer system comprising the power illumination device according to claim 1, wherein there are a plurality of second ring electrodes on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the rotation pointer, and the plurality of second ring electrodes are a second one. A rotation pointer system comprising a power lighting device, comprising an outer ring electrode and a second inner ring electrode.   4. The rotary pointer system comprising the power illumination device according to claim 3, wherein the rotary shaft module comprises a second rotary shaft structure of a second rotary shaft, and the rotary pointer system comprising the power illumination device further includes a second rotary pointer system. A second rotation pointer located on the surface and a plurality of second spring electrodes, the second rotation pointer further comprising a second power illumination device and a second pivoting structure coupled to the second rotation shaft, The first surface of the second rotation pointer that faces the rotation pointer is covered with a plurality of second semi-annular electrodes that are electrically connected to the power lighting device and that correspond to the plurality of second ring-shaped electrodes. A rotating pointer system having a power illumination device, wherein both ends of the second spring electrode are in contact with and electrically connected to the plurality of second ring electrodes and the plurality of second half ring electrodes . The rotation pointer system comprising the power illumination device according to claim 4, wherein the rotation pointer system comprising the power illumination device is a clock, the rotation pointer is an hour hand, and the second rotation pointer is a minute hand. A rotating pointer system with a power lighting device.

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