JP2018202975A - Retainer - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a retainer capable of stably holding an object to be held and capable of inhibiting interference with another member.SOLUTION: When a tilt part 12 is tilted along a protruding/receding slide direction, a sandwiching direction and the protruding/receding slide direction are orthogonal to each other, and the tilt part is housed in a retainer body 20. Thus, a sandwiching part can be restrained from interfering with another member (panel part), because an extension direction or a juxtaposition direction corresponds with the protruding/receding slide direction, even when an extension-direction dimension of the sandwiching part is increased or the sandwiching parts are each juxtaposed to abut in a plurality of locations, so as to stably hold a smartphone 5.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

Description

  The present invention relates to a holding device.

  Conventionally, as a holding device that holds an object to be held, a portable device holder for installing a portable device such as a smartphone in a vehicle has been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1). A conventional portable device holder described in Patent Document 1 includes an attachment portion attached to a dashboard, an arm portion extending from the attachment portion, and a holding portion that is provided at the tip of the arm portion and holds the portable device. The orientation of the portable device can be changed by the provision and rotation of the holding unit.

JP 2013-256240 A

  However, the portable device holder described in Patent Document 1 is always exposed and cannot be stored even when the portable device is not held. Therefore, the appearance of the mounting target (vehicle compartment space) may be deteriorated. Therefore, a configuration in which the portable device holder is housed in a housing or the like when the portable device is not held is conceivable.

  By the way, in the portable device holder described in Patent Document 1, in order to stably hold the portable device by the holding portion having the pair of sandwiching arms, the contact area between the sandwiching arm and the edge of the portable device is increased. It is preferable that the holding arm is brought into contact with the edge of the portable device at a plurality of locations. At this time, the holding arm is easily increased in size and easily interferes with other members when the portable device holder is housed in the housing or the like as described above. As described above, in a holding device that holds an object to be held, it has been desired to suppress interference with other members while stably holding the object.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a holding device that can stably hold an object to be held and can suppress interference with other members.

  In order to solve the above-described problems and achieve the object, the holding device according to the present invention includes a holding mechanism that holds an object to be held, and a device main body that attaches the holding mechanism to an attachment target. The holding mechanism includes a slide part that is supported by the apparatus main body so as to protrude and slide, and a tilt part that is supported by the slide part so that an upright angle can be changed. Has a pair of clamping parts that are urged to approach each other and clamp the object to be held, and when it falls down along the sliding slide direction, the clamping direction and the sliding slide direction are orthogonal to each other, It is characterized by being housed in the apparatus body.

It is a front view which shows the holding | maintenance apparatus which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows a mode that the to-be-held object was hold | maintained at the said holding | maintenance apparatus. It is a disassembled perspective view which shows the said holding device. It is a perspective view which shows operation | movement of the said holding | maintenance apparatus. It is a front view which shows the holding mechanism of the said holding device. It is a front view which shows a mode that the holding | maintenance part of the said holding mechanism was rotated.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. A holding device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a holding device that includes a holding mechanism that holds an object to be held, and a device main body that attaches the holding mechanism to an attachment target. The holding mechanism includes a slide part that is slidably supported by the apparatus main body and a tilt part that is supported by the slide part so that the standing angle can be changed. The tilt part has a pair of holding parts that are biased so as to approach each other and hold the object to be held, and when the tilt part falls along the protruding and sliding direction, the holding direction and the protruding and sliding direction are orthogonal to each other, Housed in the device body.

  When the tilt part falls along the projecting / sliding slide direction, the sandwiching direction and the projecting / sliding slide direction are orthogonal to each other and are stored in the apparatus body. When extending along the edge, or when arranging a plurality so as to abut at a plurality of locations, the extending direction or the arranging direction coincides with the projecting and sliding direction. Therefore, in order to stably hold the object to be held, even if the dimension in the extending direction of the holding portion is increased or the side portions are arranged so as to contact each other at a plurality of locations, the holding portion interferes with other members. This can be suppressed.

  In addition, since the pair of sandwiching portions are arranged as described above, the pair of sandwiching portions face each other in the horizontal direction in the tilt portion immediately after being raised (that is, a state in which the object to be held is sandwiched from the horizontal direction). Become). When the object to be held is formed in a rectangular shape and has a screen (display surface), it is easy to hold when the long side is clamped (that is, the short side direction is matched with the clamping direction), and the screen is held by clamping from the horizontal direction. Becomes vertical. A vertically long image may be displayed on the rectangular screen, and a pair of holding portions face each other in the horizontal direction in the tilting portion immediately after it is woken up. There is no need to move it, and convenience can be improved.

  It is preferable that the tilt portion includes a holding portion having a pair of holding portions and a base portion that rotatably supports the holding portion, and is configured to be able to change the orientation of the held object. Thereby, after raising the tilt portion, the holding portion can be rotated so that the pair of holding portions face each other in an appropriate direction (for example, the vertical direction), thereby holding the object to be held. In addition, the holding portion can be rotated so that the object to be held is in an appropriate direction after being sandwiched.

  It is preferable that at least one of the pair of sandwiching portions has a plurality of contact portions that are slidable along the edge of the object to be held. Accordingly, the object to be held can be stably held by sliding the contact portion according to the dimension of the object to be held.

  The holding mechanism may hold the portable device as an object to be held, and the holding device may be provided on the instrument panel of the vehicle. Note that the portable device referred to here is an electronic device carried by the user, and examples thereof include a smartphone, a tablet terminal, and a game device.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the drawings. The holding device of the present embodiment is an in-vehicle device and is used by being mounted on an instrument panel in a driver's seat of the vehicle. Moreover, the holding | maintenance apparatus of a present Example hold | maintains the smart phone which is an example of a portable device as a to-be-held object of a holding | maintenance object.

  The holding | maintenance apparatus 1 of a present Example is provided with the holding mechanism 10 of the smart phone 5, and the rectangular box-shaped apparatus main body 20 mounted in an instrument panel, as shown in FIGS.

  The holding mechanism 10 is held in the apparatus main body 20 so as to protrude and retract. In addition, the holding mechanism 10 includes a slide unit 11 that is supported by the apparatus main body 20 so as to freely slide in and out, and a tilt unit 12 that is pivotally supported by the slide unit 11 and holds the smartphone 5. When the holding mechanism 10 holds the smartphone 5, the slide part 11 is pulled out from the apparatus body 20 in the protruding direction D111 in the protruding and retracting direction D11 shown in FIG. 3, and the tilting part 12 is shown in FIG. It stands in the standing direction D121 in the rotating direction D12. As will be described later, the tilt part 12 has a base part 3 and a holding part 4, and is supported by the slide part 11 so that the standing angle of the holding part 4 can be changed. And it is comprised so that the smart phone 5 may be hold | maintained at this standing tilt part 12. FIG.

  The apparatus main body 20 includes an upper chassis 21 that forms an upper wall and a pair of side walls in the rectangular box-shaped apparatus main body 20, and a lower chassis 22 that forms a lower wall. The slide portion 11 of the holding mechanism 10 is supported on the upper wall of the upper chassis 21 so as to be slidable and slidable. In the lower chassis 22, a rectangular back substrate 221 that forms a back wall of the apparatus main body 20 is erected on one end side on the back side of the apparatus body 20 having a rectangular box shape. The back substrate 221 is equipped with various connection connectors with external devices and an antenna for performing short-range communication with the smartphone 5 in accordance with, for example, the Bluetooth (registered trademark) standard. Further, an inner surface board 222 electrically connected to the rear substrate 221 is attached to the inner surface of the lower chassis 22.

  In addition, the apparatus main body 20 has a rectangular plate-like detachable front panel portion 23 that forms a front wall in the apparatus main body 20 and plays a role of a user interface, and the front panel portion 23 is detachable and rotatable. And a panel portion 24 to be held. The panel unit 24 is fixed to the upper chassis 21 and the lower chassis 22. The panel portion 24 is formed in a shape provided with a notch so as not to interfere with the holding mechanism 10 supported by the upper chassis 21. A pair of shaft projections 231 forming a pivot axis are provided at both ends in the longitudinal direction of the front panel portion 23, and the pair of shaft projections 231 can be attached to and detached from the pair of holding arms 241 in the panel portion 24. It is held freely.

  In the holding device 1 according to the present embodiment, each of the holding mechanism 10 supported by the upper chassis 21 and the panel unit 24 is electrically connected to the inner surface substrate 222 of the lower chassis 22 by a cable 223. In the present embodiment, for example, display of map information on the screen of the smartphone 5 or in-vehicle audio device by a touch operation on the smartphone 5 held as shown in FIG. 2 or a button operation on the front panel unit 23. Music can be played from. In addition, charging of the held smartphone 5 can be performed via a cable 223 that connects the holding mechanism 10 and the inner surface substrate 222 and a charging cable that extends from the smartphone 5 and is connected to the holding mechanism 10.

  The holding device 1 described above holds the smartphone 5 by the following procedure.

  FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example procedure for holding the smartphone in the holding device illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 3. In FIG. 4, only the upper chassis 21 is shown for the apparatus main body 20 in order to make the drawing easier to see. The procedure described below is performed manually by the user.

  First, in step S11 and step S12, the holding mechanism 10 is pulled out from the apparatus main body 20 in the protruding direction D111. At this time, in this embodiment, the front panel unit 23 is rotated about the shaft protrusion 231 shown in FIG. 3 and tilted forward so as not to obstruct the movement of the holding mechanism 10. The panel portion 24 is removed. At this time, in the holding mechanism 10, holding claws 421 and 431, which will be described later, are opposed (that is, lined up) in a direction orthogonal to the pull-out direction (left-right direction and vehicle width direction). That is, the holding mechanism 10 is accommodated in the apparatus main body 20 in a state where the holding direction of the holding mechanism 10 and the sliding slide direction of the slide portion 11 are orthogonal to each other.

  In subsequent step S <b> 13, in the holding mechanism 10, the tilt portion 12 is raised in the standing direction D <b> 121 with respect to the slide portion 11. At this time, the tilt portion 12 includes a base portion 3 that is pivotally supported by the slide portion 11 and a holding portion 4 that is rotatably supported by the base portion 3, and the holding portion 4 has a total of three holding claws 421. , 431 constitute a chucking mechanism 46. In the present embodiment, in the state where the tilt portion 12 is raised in step S13, the chucking mechanism 46 has a posture in which one holding claw 431 is located on the right side and two holding claws 421 are located on the left side. It has become. In the chucking mechanism 46, one holding claw 431 on the right side is spring-biased toward the two holding claws 421 on the left side.

  Here, in the present embodiment, in the tilt unit 12, the holding unit 4 having the chucking mechanism 46 rotates in a rotation direction D <b> 14 around the rotation axis O <b> 1 along the direction perpendicular to the screen of the smartphone 5. It is attached freely. In step S14, the chucking mechanism 46 is rotated by 90 ° counterclockwise in the drawing around the rotation axis O1. By this rotation, the one holding claw 431 is positioned on the upper side, the two holding claws 421 are positioned on the lower side, and the holding claws 421 and 431 are opposed to each other in the vertical direction.

  In step S15, the upper holding claw 431 is pulled up in the pulling direction D131 against the spring bias in the chucking mechanism 46.

  In step S16, the smartphone 5 is placed sideways (with its longitudinal direction facing the horizontal direction) between the upper holding claw 431 and the lower holding claw 421 pulled up as described above. Be placed. When the user releases the upper holding claw 431, the upper holding claw 431 moves in the descending direction D132 due to the spring bias. As a result, the smartphone 5 is sandwiched between the holding claw 431 on the upper side and the holding claw 421 on the lower side.

  When the user wants to view the display screen with the smartphone 5 in the vertical direction (the longitudinal direction thereof is directed in the vertical direction) after the smartphone 5 is sandwiched, the rotation axis O1 is the center. The smartphone 5 may be oriented vertically by rotating the chucking mechanism 46 with the smartphone 5 by 90 ° clockwise in the drawing.

  In the present embodiment, the user returns the front panel unit 23 at an arbitrary timing after the holding mechanism 10 is pulled out. As a result, the appearance after holding the smartphone 5 becomes, for example, an appearance as shown in FIG. When the smartphone 5 is removed and the holding mechanism 10 is stored in the apparatus main body 20, the holding mechanism 10 is stored by a procedure opposite to the procedure shown in FIG.

  Here, the detailed shape of the holding | maintenance part 4 is demonstrated. Hereinafter, the vehicle front-rear direction (traveling direction) is the X direction, the vehicle width direction (left-right direction) is the Y direction, the vertical direction is the Z direction, and the holding device 1 faces the smartphone 5 toward the rear side in the X direction. (Ie, the screen is along the YZ plane). Moreover, let the short side direction of the rectangular smart phone 5 be a width direction.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the holding unit 4 is located on the back surface of the smartphone 5 and extends along the YZ plane and has a rectangular plate-like holding plate unit 41 and a fixed holding unit 42 arranged on one side of the holding plate unit 41. And a movable holding part 43 having a holding claw 431 and an urging means for urging the movable holding part 43 closer to the fixed holding part 42. 5 shows a state in which the holding claws 421 and 431 face the Z direction and do not hold the smartphone 5 (the state in step S14 described above), and the dimensions and positional relationship of each part will be particularly described. Unless otherwise noted, this state is the standard.

  The fixed clamping part 42 is constituted by two holding claws 421. The two holding claws 421 are arranged along the outer edge of the holding plate portion 41 and are slidable, and function as contact portions that slide along the edge of the smartphone 5. The two holding claws 421 are slidable in the ranges A1 and A2, respectively. The two holding claws 421 are spaced apart from each other in the closest state and positioned at the corners of the holding plate portion 41 in the most separated state. Moreover, the fixed clamping part 42 is arrange | positioned in the state shown in FIG. 5 at substantially the same height (the same height or a little upwards) as the lower end 31 of the base part 3. FIG.

  A rotation shaft (rotation center) O1 on which the holding unit 4 is pivotally supported by the base 3 is disposed at the center in the Y direction of the rectangular plate-shaped base 3. Further, the rotation axis O <b> 1 is disposed closer to the movable clamping unit 43 than the fixed clamping unit 42 in the clamping direction (Z direction) of the clamping units 42 and 43. The rotation axis O1 is disposed at the center of the holding plate 41 in the direction orthogonal to the clamping direction (Y direction). Here, half of the dimension of the holding plate portion 41 in the orthogonal direction (that is, the distance from the rotation axis O1 to the edge 411 of the holding plate portion 41 in the Y direction) is L1, and the rotation axis O1 in the Z direction. The distance from the fixed clamping portion 42 to L2. In this embodiment, the distance L2 is longer than the distance L1. The distance L2 is substantially half the width of the smartphone 5 having a predetermined dimension (for example, 5 inches) and is substantially half the dimension in the Y direction of the base 3. That is, the dimension of the base 3 in the Y direction is substantially equal to the width of the smartphone 5 having a predetermined dimension.

  When the movable holding unit 43 moves to hold the smartphone 5 having a predetermined size by such a holding unit 4, the rotation axis O <b> 1 is positioned between the fixed holding unit 42 and the movable holding unit 43, and the width of the smartphone 5. The central portion in the direction substantially coincides with the rotation axis O1.

  Here, FIG. 6 shows a state in which the holding unit 4 is rotated by approximately 90 ° from the state shown in FIG. 5 (the state in step S13 described above). At this time, the fixed clamping portion 42 overlaps the edge 32 on one side in the Y direction of the base portion 3. Further, since the distance L2 is longer than the distance L1, the end edge 411 of the holding plate portion 41 after the rotation is located above the fixed clamping portion 42 before the rotation in the Z direction.

  In the state shown in FIG. 6, the distance L <b> 2 is approximately half of the width of the smartphone 5, the rotation axis O <b> 1 is disposed at the center of the base 3 in the Y direction, and the fixed clamping part 42 overlaps the edge 32 of the base 3. Therefore, when the smartphone 5 having a predetermined size is sandwiched, the movable sandwiching portion 43 overlaps the edge 33 on the other side, and the Y-direction central portions of the smartphone 5 and the base portion 3 substantially coincide with each other. Moreover, the edge of the both sides of the Y direction of the smart phone 5 and the base 3 of a predetermined dimension aligns.

  With the above configuration, when the tilt unit 12 is tilted along the projecting / sliding direction, the holding direction and the projecting / sliding direction are orthogonal to each other and are stored in the apparatus main body 20. Even if the extending direction dimensions of the holding portions 42 and 43 are increased or the parallel arrangement is made so as to come into contact with each other at a plurality of locations, the extending direction or the aligned direction is the same as the projecting and sliding direction. And it can suppress that the clamping parts 42 and 43 interfere with another member (panel part 24). Further, in the tilt portion 12 immediately after being raised, the pair of sandwiching portions 42 and 43 are opposed to each other in the horizontal direction. Thereby, when displaying a vertically long image on the smart phone 5, the convenience can be improved.

  Since the holding part 4 is rotatably supported by the base part 3, after the tilt part 12 is erected, the holding part 4 is rotated so that the pair of sandwiching parts 42 and 43 face each other in an appropriate direction. The smartphone 5 can be held. Moreover, the holding | maintenance part 4 can be rotated so that the smart phone 5 may become an appropriate direction after clamping.

  Furthermore, the fixed clamping part 42 is configured by two holding claws 421 slidably provided along the edge of the smartphone 5, so that the holding claws 421 are slid according to the dimensions of the smartphone 5. The smartphone 5 can be held stably. Furthermore, since the position of each of the two holding claws 421 can be adjusted by sliding, avoid operation buttons such as a volume button and a power button on the side surface of the smartphone 5 and a charging connector connected to the side surface. The two holding claws 421 can be moved to hold the smartphone 5.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the said Example, The other deformation | transformation etc. which can achieve the objective of this invention are included in this invention.

  For example, in the above-described embodiment, the tilt unit 12 includes the base 3 and the holding unit 4 and is configured to be able to change the orientation of the smartphone 5, but the tilt unit has a rotation mechanism. However, the smartphone 5 may be configured to be used in a certain direction.

  Moreover, in the said Example, although the fixed clamping part 42 shall be comprised by the two holding claws 421 which can slide freely, you may have several holding claws which a movement clamping part can slide. In addition, for example, when the holding claws have a sufficiently large width (dimensions along the edge of the smartphone 5) or when a sufficient number of holding claws are provided, the smartphone can be held in various sizes. The holding claws may be non-slidable.

  Moreover, in the said Example, although the standing angle was changed so that the tilt part 12 might go upwards, it shall hold | maintain the smart phone 5, However, a tilt part changes a standing angle so that it may go below, May be held.

  Moreover, in the said Example, although the holding | maintenance apparatus 1 shall hold | maintain a smart phone, the to-be-held thing which is a holding | maintenance object is not limited to communication apparatuses, such as a smart phone, For example, it does not have a communication function and is simply recorded. It may be a playback device that plays back video or the like stored in a medium, or may not have a screen. When the object to be held is a portable device, the portable device is not limited to a smartphone as in the present embodiment, and may be a tablet terminal, a game device, or the like.

  Moreover, in the said Example, although the holding | maintenance apparatus shall be provided in the instrument panel of a vehicle, a holding | maintenance apparatus may be provided in moving bodies other than vehicles, such as a ship and an aircraft, a wall in a building, It may be provided on furniture or the like.

  In addition, the best configuration, method and the like for carrying out the present invention have been disclosed in the above description, but the present invention is not limited to this. That is, the present invention has been illustrated and described primarily with respect to particular embodiments, but is not limited to the embodiments described above without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention. Various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art in terms of materials, quantity, and other detailed configurations. Therefore, the description limiting the shape, material, etc. disclosed above is an example for easy understanding of the present invention, and does not limit the present invention. The description by the name of the member which remove | excluded the limitation of one part or all of such is included in this invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Holding apparatus 10 Holding mechanism 11 Slide part 12 Tilt part 20 Apparatus main body 3 Base part 4 Holding part 42 Fixed clamping part 43 Moving clamping part 5 Smartphone (holding object)

Claims (5)

A holding device comprising: a holding mechanism that holds an object to be held; and a device main body that attaches the holding mechanism to an attachment target;
The holding mechanism includes a slide portion that is supported so as to freely slide into and out of the apparatus main body, and a tilt portion that is supported by the slide portion so that a rising angle can be changed.
The tilt part has a pair of holding parts that are biased so as to approach each other and hold the object to be held. When the tilt part falls down along the protruding and sliding direction, the holding direction and the protruding and sliding direction are orthogonal to each other. And a holding device housed in the device main body.   The tilt portion includes a holding portion having the pair of holding portions and a base portion that rotatably supports the holding portion, and is configured to be able to change the orientation of the held object to be held. The holding device according to claim 1, wherein   3. The holding device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the pair of sandwiching portions includes a plurality of abutting portions provided slidably along an edge of the object to be held.   The holding device according to claim 1, wherein the holding mechanism holds a portable device as the object to be held.   It is provided in the instrument panel of a vehicle, The holding | maintenance apparatus of any one of Claims 1-4 characterized by the above-mentioned.

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