JP2007135763A - Suitcase belt - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a suitcase belt extremely easily preventing damage from being formed on a body trunk part surface of a suitcase by providing a soft material on the back face of a buckle part of the suitcase belt. <P>SOLUTION: This suitcase belt for fastening the body trunk part of a hard suitcase from the outside is provided with the soft material on the back face of the buckle part. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a belt used for tightening a travel suitcase from the outside of a body body portion. More specifically, the present invention relates to a suitcase belt in a hard suitcase in which a mirror-finished body body surface is not damaged by a belt buckle and the body body part can be tightened tightly.

Conventionally, as a suitcase belt that tightens a travel suitcase from the outside of the body body part or releases the tightening, one end of the belt is attached to one end of the buckle part, and the other end of the belt is lengthened to the other end. Suitably attached suitcase belts are well known.

Recently, since the terrorist attacks in the United States, luggage inspections have been conducted at all airports in the United States by the US Federal Aviation Ministry Transportation Security Administration (hereinafter referred to as TSA) for explosives inspection. At that time, you have to unlock and deposit your luggage. If you leave your baggage in a locked state, the lock is cut or destroyed and the baggage is inspected. If you unlock the baggage and leave it, the lid of the suitcase will open and the baggage will overflow from inside. Also, luggage that you don't want people to see is open. To avoid them, use a suitcase belt to unlock and keep the deposited lid from opening.

Suitcase belts are made with various colors or patterns on the belt to make it stand out, and there is a name box for entering the name of the owner's address in the middle of the belt. By using a band that is tightened from the outside, it is easy to distinguish it from other people's suitcases, and in the unlikely event that the suitcase locking device breaks during transportation and the lid opens. Yes.

By the way, there are many types of suitcase belts. As an example, a suitcase belt that is not directly related to the present case but has excellent decorative properties has been filed earlier. In this case, a decorative material formed by a sheet-like woven fabric with a pattern is formed on the belt main body surface over a predetermined range in the longitudinal direction to constitute the outer surface of the belt. (See Patent Document 1).

JP 2003-325223 A

As described above, the conventional suitcase belt has the following problems.

That is, the first problem of the conventional suitcase belt is that the body body surface of the suitcase is easily damaged by the buckle. The surface of the suitcase belt is designed and decorated, but the back side of the buckle is currently kept quiet. That is, since the back surface of the buckle portion remains a hard resin or metal substrate, the body body surface of the suitcase is easily damaged. Recently, in order to improve the appearance of the suitcase, the body body has been mirror-finished. Alternatively, the metal surface of the body body is glossy with a surface finish such as plating. Therefore, scratches or line marks are generated on the surface of the suitcase due to the hard back surface and corners of the buckle portion. If you have just purchased it and it is your favorite suitcase, even a few scratches may be a concern.

Therefore, the suitcase belt of the present invention is made in order to solve such a conventional problem, and by providing a soft material on the back surface of the buckle part of the conventional belt, the suitcase belt can be very easily obtained. An object of the present invention is to provide a suitcase belt that prevents the surface of the body body portion from being damaged.

Therefore, the present inventors have focused on the fact that soft materials typified by rubber do not cause scratches, and have embodied this in the use of a suitcase belt. In a suitcase belt for tightening a body body portion from the outside, the suitcase belt is provided with a soft material on the back surface of the buckle portion.

The invention of claim 2 is a suitcase belt in which a TSA lock is attached to the buckle portion in addition to the above feature of the invention of claim 1.

Here, the “hard suitcase” referred to in the present specification is composed of a hard body body portion, and the lid is opened and closed via a hinge. The body body portion of the suitcase is covered with a material such as a hard synthetic resin such as ethylene vinyl acetate resin, polycarbonate resin, ABS resin, ABS and PC mixed resin, hard aluminum alloy, magnesium 96% alloy or the like. The surfaces of these coating materials are glossy with mirror finish, electrodeposition coating, and the like.

In addition, “TSA lock” as used in this specification refers to a lock that can be unlocked by a TSA officer using a special tool according to his / her duties to check the contents of checked baggage when using airports in the United States. Means that. It is a lock having a so-called TSA-approved keyhole, and a TSA officer can insert a special tool into the keyhole to unlock it.

To explain the background of using TSA locks, even if you use or just transfer to airports in the United States, including Hawaii, Guam, and Saipan, you are not allowed to lock your baggage for the airline. The reason is that the TSA officer inspects the checked baggage with an X-ray inspection device and manpower. If a general lock other than the TSA lock is locked, the TSA officer may break the lock and open the package. In other words, the checked baggage is opened without permission. Although it is for safety, it is unpleasant to be opened by public institutions. Speaking of opening it without permission, it seems that sometimes valuables are extracted from the checked baggage. It cannot be opened by a thief because it cannot be opened by a TSA officer. Therefore, what is required is the TSA lock. With this TSA lock, the lock may be locked to the luggage. TSA officers can use special tools to open the lock without breaking it. After the inspection, the lock is returned to the locked state. TSA locks can only be produced by manufacturers approved by TSA.

In the hard-side suitcase, the body fuselage can be tightened tightly by the suitcase belt, and the mirror surface finish of the body fuselage is not damaged by the back and corners of the buckle of the suitcase belt. It is what you play. In the case of a suitcase belt with a TSA lock, the lock of the suitcase may be locked when depositing. The TSA officer can then use a special tool to open the lock without breaking it, and will return the lock to the locked state after inspection.

Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below based on the embodiments of the present invention shown in the accompanying drawings.

First, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a suitcase according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the buckle portion of the suitcase belt, as above. FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an aspect of the back surface of the buckle part of the suitcase belt.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the accompanying drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the body case portion of the suitcase S is tightened from the outside by a suitcase belt B. Alternatively, tightening is released as necessary. The suitcase belt B has a buckle portion 1 in between, and a belt 2 is connected to both sides of the suitcase belt B so that the belt length can be adjusted.

The buckle part 1 of the suitcase belt B is shown in FIG. FIG. 4A is a perspective view of the buckle portion 1 viewed from the front side, and FIG. 4B is a perspective view of the buckle portion 1 viewed from the back side. The buckle portion 1 is provided with a fixed end 13 in the left-right direction and an adjustment end 14 on the opposite side thereof, a fixed side belt 21 is connected to the fixed end 13, and an adjustment side belt 22 is connected to the adjustment end 14. Here, the fixed side belt 21 is inserted through the locking end of the fixed end 13 so as to pass through, and one end of the belt is sewn so as not to come off. On the other hand, on the adjustment end 14 side, the adjustment side belt 22 is inserted so as to pass therethrough, and the other end of the belt is folded back and pulled out, whereby the body trunk portion of the suitcase belt B is wound. Is adjustable. Thus, the buckle portion 1 is anchored to the belt 2, and the buckle portion 1 is equipped with a TSA lock having a dial 15 on the surface portion and a keyhole 16 on the side surface portion. The TSA officer can unlock the buckle 1 by inserting a special tool into the keyhole 16 without knowing the password of the dial 15 and unfastening the belt 2.

As shown in FIG. 2B, the buckle portion 1 is viewed from the back side. The buckle portion 1 is made by resin injection molding, and the resin material of the front surface portion 11 and the back surface portion 12 with the parting line 17 as a boundary. Is different. For example, the material of the front surface portion 11 is ABS resin or ABS polycarbonate mixed resin, and the back surface portion 12 is rubber-based TPR resin, which are integrally injection-molded. At this time, it is important to select a soft material that does not easily slide on the surface of the body as the material of the back surface portion 12.

The various aspects which looked at the buckle part 1 from the back surface in FIG. 3 are shown. FIG. 2A shows a rubber pad 121 cut out from a rubber plate on the back surface. The material of the rubber pad 121 can be selected from natural rubber or synthetic rubber such as butadiene, chloroprene, or acrylonitrile. In the same figure, (b) shows a case where a cloth pad 122 cut out from a felt cloth is attached to the back surface. Felt is mainly made from wool, and may be woven fabric, non-woven fabric or molded felt. What is necessary is just to select favorite thickness from the felt material which the sheet form or the elongate roll rolled away. The material is felt, such as polyester, polypropylene, and other chemical fiber felt, etc., and it is hard to damage the body torso from soft to hard according to the body material of the suitcase, and it is difficult to slip on the body torso surface. It is good to select. FIG. 6C similarly shows a case where a plurality of small-diameter disk-shaped convex pads 123 are attached to the back surface. Alternatively, a projection pad having the same shape may be injection-molded integrally with the buckle portion 1. The material of the convex pad 123 is preferably a rubber-based soft material.

As the material of the belt 2, a belt-shaped material formed by weaving a relatively thick yarn made of acrylic resin is used. These are flexible enough to be wound around the body body portion of the suitcase and strong enough to prevent inadvertent opening of the suitcase lid. In addition to the acrylic resin, it is also possible to use polypropylene resin, nylon resin, or the like as the material.

It is comprised as mentioned above, Next, an effect | action is demonstrated.

When traveling suitcases, along with many other suitcases, are loaded onto airplanes, buses, transport vehicles, etc. and sorted at the destination, the owner can be identified and confirmed by the band pattern along with the features of the suitcase body. Also, even if the suitcase lock is broken and the suitcase lid opens while moving, the suitcase is tightly tightened by the suitcase band, so the lid will not open. No. In other words, the band is colorfully colored and has a pattern so that it can stand out even from a distance, and the suitcase band that tightens the travel suitcase from the outside makes it easy to distinguish it from other people's suitcases. . Moreover, it has the function which prevents the situation where a lock | rock is broken and a lid | cover opens by the pressurization, impact, etc. which are the original functions during conveyance of a suitcase.

In addition, the back surface and corners of the buckle part of the suitcase belt do not damage the mirror-finished surface of the body body part, and since the TSA lock is attached, the TSA officer can open it without breaking the lock using a special tool. After the inspection, the lock is returned to the locked state.

Note that the use of the suitcase belt of the present invention is not limited to the use of the suitcase, but may be used as a bag, a shoulder belt, a pull strap, or as an application for tightly fastening articles together for packing. Good.

1 is an external perspective view of a suitcase according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a perspective view which shows the buckle part of a suitcase belt same as the above. It is a perspective view which shows the aspect of the buckle part back surface of a suitcase belt same as the above.

Explanation of symbols

S Suitcase B Suitcase belt 1 Buckle portion 11 Surface portion 12 Back portion 121 Rubber pad 122 Cloth pad 123 Convex pad 13 Fixed end 14 Adjusting end 15 Dial 16 Key hole 17 Parting line 2 Belt 21 Fixed belt 22 Adjusting belt

Claims (2)

A suitcase belt for fastening a body body portion of a hard suitcase from the outside, comprising a soft material on the back surface of the buckle portion. The suitcase belt according to claim 1, wherein a TSA lock is attached to the buckle portion.

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