JP5971624B2 - hand mirror - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a hand mirror that can see its appearance from an arbitrary angle.

  Conventionally, there is a hand mirror that can be held by hand and look at its appearance at an arbitrary angle. There is a hand mirror that has a pair of mirrors to see your profile and the back of your head, one mirror shows your side and back, and the other mirror shows this image .

  For example, the telescopic bendable mirror disclosed in Patent Document 1 is provided with a pair of mirror surfaces and a telescopic bendable tool that connects the pair of mirror surfaces. The telescopic bendable tool is a chain formed by a shaft provided with a ball on both sides and a shaft provided with a free-turning support bag tool on both sides. According to this telescopic bendable mirror, a pair of mirror surface parts can be joined by the telescopic bendable tool, the bending angle of the pair of mirror surface parts and the distance between each other can be freely adjusted, and it can be used as a mating mirror. it can.

  The portable beauty instrument disclosed in Patent Document 2 includes a pair of mirror surface portions and a holding portion that connects the pair of mirror surface portions. The holding portion has a substantially planar shape, and a hinge is provided between the holding portion and the mirror surface portion. An illumination device is provided on the mirror surface portion or the holding portion. According to this portable beauty instrument, a desired place can be brightened with a lighting device, and ear cleaning and the like can be performed safely.

JP 2000-197547 A JP 2009-219841 A

  In the case of the above-mentioned patent document 1, the telescopic tool is not considered to be folded compactly, and is bulky and inconvenient when not in use. In addition, since there was no lighting device, it was too dark to see inside the ear. In the case of Patent Document 2, a plurality of hinge axes are provided in parallel to each other, so that they can be folded compactly. However, when used as a mirror, the angle cannot be changed freely, and the desired angle can be viewed. There is a problem that it is difficult to match.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems of the background art, and an object thereof is to provide a hand mirror that can reliably and easily see the side and the rear of the user.

The present invention is provided with a pair of mirror surface portions that are rectangular plates of a size that can be held with one hand, and a plurality of couplings that are rectangular with the same size as the mirror surface portion between the pair of mirror surface portions. Plates are provided in a row, and the connection plates and the mirror surface portions and the connection plates are rotatably connected via shaft members, and the plurality of shaft members are substantially parallel to each other. And one of the plurality of connecting plates is formed by combining two right triangles divided by one diagonal line, the hypotenuses of the right triangles are adjacent to each other, and the hypotenuse axis is between the hypotenuses. The oblique side shaft member is rotatably connected via a member, and the oblique side shaft member intersects the plurality of shaft members provided between the connection plates and between the connection plates and the mirror surface portion. The connecting method in which the mirror part and the connecting plate are arranged in a row A hand mirror that can be rotated in a direction twisting relative.

Further, the shaft member and the hypotenuse shaft member that connect the connection plates to each other rotate at an arbitrary angle around the axis, and the shaft member that connects the connection plate and the mirror surface portion has a shaft. There is a limit to the angle in one direction around, and the connecting plate and the mirror plate are locked at a predetermined angle.

The hand mirror may be provided with a lighting device that illuminates the inside of the ear or the like .

The lighting device is provided separately from the mirror surface portion, and has a funnel portion formed in a conical shape, a cylindrical insertion portion provided at a tip of the funnel portion, and an inner peripheral surface of the funnel portion. A light that illuminates the vicinity of the insertion portion, a plate provided at an opening edge of the funnel and projecting sideways in parallel to the opening edge, and a tip of the funnel at the tip of the plate A support portion extending in parallel to the protruding direction and a contact member that is slidably attached to the support portion and locked at an arbitrary position may be provided.

  The lighting device is made of a transparent synthetic resin.

  The hand mirror of the present invention can surely see the side and the back of his / her face from an arbitrary angle, and can confirm, for example, the degree of eyelash angle at an arbitrary angle. Moreover, it can be folded compactly when not in use.

It is a front view of the hand mirror of one embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the state which puts and uses the hand mirror of this embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows the state which puts and uses the hand mirror of this embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows the state which is not using the hand mirror of this embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows the state which hold | maintains and uses the hand mirror of this embodiment. It is a perspective view of the illuminating device of the hand mirror of this embodiment. It is a perspective view which shows the use condition of the illuminating device of the hand mirror of this embodiment.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIGS. 1-7 shows one Embodiment of this invention, The hand mirror 10 of this embodiment is provided with a pair of mirror surface parts 12 and 13. FIG. In the mirror surface portions 12 and 13, a mirror 16 that is slightly smaller than the plate body 14 is attached to one side surface of a substantially square plate body 14.

  Between the mirror surface portions 12 and 13, connecting plates 18, 20, 22, and 24 are connected to each other. A connecting plate 18 is connected to one side 14 a of the plate 14 of the mirror surface portion 12. The connecting plate 18 is a right isosceles triangle having an adjacent side 18 a having the same length as the side 14 a of the mirror surface part 12, and the adjacent side 18 a is adjacent to the side 14 a of the mirror surface part 12. A connecting plate 20 is connected to the oblique side 18 b of the connecting plate 18. The connecting plate 20 has the same shape as the connecting plate 18, and the oblique side 20b of the same length as the oblique side 18b is connected to the oblique side 18b of the connecting plate 18, and the connecting plate 18 and the connecting plate 20 are combined like a square. Has been. A connecting plate 22 is connected to the adjacent side 20 a of the connecting plate 20 far from the mirror surface portion 12. The connecting plate 22 is also formed in a square shape, and the width direction and the connecting direction in the connecting direction are formed to have substantially the same length as the plate 14 of the mirror surface portion 12. A connecting plate 24 having the same shape as that of the connecting plate 22 is sequentially connected to a side 22 a of the connecting plate 22 opposite to the connecting plate 20. A mirror surface portion 13 having the same shape as the mirror surface portion 12 is connected to a side 24 a of the connection plate 24 opposite to the connection plate 22. In the mirror surface portions 12 and 13, the mirror 16 faces the same direction.

The mirror surface portion 12 is attached to the boundary with the connecting plate 18 via a shaft member 30. The mirror surface portion 13 is attached to the boundary with the connecting plate 24 via a shaft member 32. The shaft members 30 and 32 are not limited in the direction in which the mirror 16 side surfaces of the mirror surface portions 12 and 13 are inclined to the connecting plates 18 and 24, and are parallel to each other, and the surfaces opposite to the mirror 16 are the connecting plates 18 and 24. As shown in FIG. 2, when the rotation is stopped at a predetermined angle and the connecting plates 18 and 24 are placed almost horizontally on a desk or the like, the mirror surface portions 12 and 13 are self-weighted. The surface on the 16th side is maintained at a predetermined angle facing obliquely upward. The connecting plates 18 and 20 are attached via the oblique shaft member 33, the connecting plates 20, 22 and 24 are attached via the shaft member 34, and the oblique shaft member 33 and each shaft member 34 rotate. There is no limit to 360 °, and it can be rotated 360 °.

Next, how to use the hand mirror 10 will be described. The hand mirror 10 will be described with the surface shown in FIG. 1 as the front surface and the opposite side as the back surface. When the hand mirror 10 is used on a desk or the like, as shown in FIG. 2, the back surface of the connecting plate 22 is placed on the desk, the connecting plate 24 is folded over and overlapped, and the mirror surface portion 13 is placed at a predetermined angle by the shaft member 32. The surface on the mirror 16 side is kept at a predetermined angle that faces obliquely upward. The connecting plate 20 extends to the mirror 16 side of the mirror surface portion 13 flush with the connecting plate 22, the connecting plate 18 is folded back by the oblique side shaft member 33 and overlapped with the back surface of the connecting plate 20, and the mirror surface portion 12 is the shaft member. The mirror 16 is covered with the half connecting plates 20 and 18 and the half appears to be exposed. When used in the state shown in FIG. 2, the face can be seen on both the mirror surface portions 12 and 13.

  Further, the hand mirror 10 may be used by being placed on a desk in the state shown in FIG. The positions of the connecting plates 22 and 24 and the mirror surface portion 13 are the same as those in FIG. The connecting plate 20 and the connecting plate 18 are flush with each other, the back surface is placed on the desk, and is folded back by the shaft member 30 so that the surface of the mirror surface portion 12 is superposed on the surfaces of the connecting plates 18 and 20. When used in the state shown in FIG. 2, the mirror 16 of the mirror surface portion 12 is partially exposed, so that the lower part can also be seen.

  When the hand mirror 10 is not used, as shown in FIG. 4, the mirror surface portion 13 is tilted toward the mirror surface portion 12 from the state of FIG. Thereby, it is folded planarly and becomes thin and compact.

Next, a usage method for holding the hand mirror 10 by hand will be described. As shown in FIG. 5, the user 36 holds the mirror surface portion 12 with one hand, the mirror surface portion 13 with the other hand, holds the mirror surface portion 12 in front of the face, and places the mirror surface portion 13 on the side of the face. Hold it where you want to see later, adjust the angle so that the image reflected in the mirror 16 of the mirror surface portion 13 is reflected in the mirror 16 of the mirror surface portion 12, look at the mirror 16 of the mirror surface portion 12, and beside your face. And you can see behind. At this time, the mirror surface portions 12 and 13 are swung by an arbitrary angle in a direction intersecting the connecting direction of the connecting plates 22 and 24 by the hypotenuse shaft member 33 between the hypotenuses 18b and 20b of the connecting plates 18 and 20. be able to. Moreover, any of the mirror surface portions 12 and 13 may be positioned in front of the face.

  Next, the illumination device 38 provided separately from the hand mirror 10 will be described with reference to FIG. The illumination device 38 illuminates the inside of the ear, for example, and is made of a transparent synthetic resin. The lighting device 38 is provided with a funnel portion 40 formed in a conical shape, and a cylindrical insertion portion 42 is provided at the tip of the funnel portion 40. A light 44 that illuminates the vicinity of the insertion portion 42 is attached to the inner peripheral surface of the funnel portion 40. The light 44 is provided with a battery and a lighting switch (not shown). The opening edge portion 40 a of the funnel portion 40 is provided with a plate portion 46 that protrudes laterally parallel to the opening edge portion 40 a, and the tip of the plate portion 46 is parallel to the protruding direction of the funnel portion 40. A support portion 48 is provided to extend. The support portion 48 is formed with ribs 50 along the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of locking protrusions 52 are provided on both side surfaces of the ribs 50 at equal intervals along the longitudinal direction of the ribs 50. A contact member 54 is slidably attached to the support portion 48. The abutment member 54 is provided with a groove portion 56 that slidably surrounds the support portion 48, and a pair of claw portions 58 that are engaged with the engagement protrusions 52 of the support portion 48 are provided on the inner peripheral surface of the groove portion 56. ing. The pawl portion 58 can be elastically deformed. When the contact member 54 is moved with a force of a certain level or more, the pawl portion 58 is elastically deformed and overcomes the locking projection 52 to generate a click feeling and is locked to the next locking projection 52. A block-shaped contact portion 60 is provided at the tip of the contact member 54 away from the support portion 48.

  Next, a method of using the lighting device 38 will be described with reference to FIG. The light 44 of the illuminating device 38 is turned on, the funnel portion 40 is applied to the ear, and the insertion portion 42 is inserted into the ear hole. The abutting member 54 is directed under the ear, and the abutting portion 60 is brought into contact with the skin under the ear to attach the lighting device 38. At this time, the abutting member 54 is slid with respect to the support portion 48 so that the lighting device 38 is stabilized, and the pawl portion 58 is locked to the locking protrusion 52 at an arbitrary position, thereby adjusting the length. The inside of the ear is illuminated with the light 44 and becomes brighter. The user 36 holds the mirror surface portion 12 with one hand, the mirror surface portion 13 with the other hand, holds the mirror surface portion 13 in front of the face, holds the mirror surface portion 12 next to the ear, The angle is adjusted so that the ear reflected in the mirror 16 of the part 12 is reflected in the mirror surface part 13, the mirror 16 of the mirror surface part 13 is seen, and his / her ear is seen.

According to the hand mirror 10 of this embodiment, the side and back of his / her face can be surely seen from an arbitrary angle, and for example, the degree of the eyelash angle can be confirmed at an arbitrary angle. In particular, the hypotenuse shaft member 33 is provided in a different direction around the axis with respect to the other plurality of shaft members 34 , so that the angles of the mirror surface portions 12 and 13 can be freely changed and operated. It is easy. In addition, the lighting device 38 can be used to illuminate the inside of the ear so that it can be seen well, and the ears can be reliably cleaned. Can be folded compactly when not in use.

  In addition, the hand mirror of this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, The shape, number, etc. of each member can be changed suitably. The number and shape of the connecting plates, the connecting order, and the like can be changed as appropriate. The lighting device may have a shape other than the funnel shape as long as it is securely held by the ear and illuminates the inside of the ear. The hand mirror may be used in other ways than the above, and can be used in various ways by changing the position of the shaft member to be bent or by folding it in reverse.

10 Hand mirror 1213 Mirror surface part 18, 20, 22, 24 Connecting plate 30, 32, 34 Shaft member
33 oblique side shaft member 38 illuminating device 40 funnel portion 42 insertion portion 44 light 46 plate portion 48 support portion 52 locking projection 54 abutting member 58 claw portion

Claims (2)

A pair of mirror surface portions that are rectangular plates that can be held with one hand are provided, and a plurality of connection plates that are rectangular in size that are approximately the same size as the mirror surface portions are arranged in a row between the pair of mirror surface portions. Provided side by side, between the connecting plates and the mirror surface portion and between the connecting plates are rotatably connected via a shaft member, and the plurality of shaft members are substantially parallel to each other, One of the connecting plates is divided by one diagonal line and formed by combining two right triangles, the hypotenuses of the right triangles are adjacent to each other, and the hypotenuses are interposed between the hypotenuse shaft members. It is rotatably connected, and the oblique side shaft member is located in a direction intersecting with respect to the plurality of shaft members provided between the connection plates and between the connection plates and the mirror surface portion, With respect to the connecting direction in which the mirror part and the connecting plate are arranged in a line Hand mirror to said rotating Jill direction. The shaft member and the hypotenuse shaft member that connect each of the connection plates rotate at an arbitrary angle around the axis, and the shaft member that connects between the connection plate and the mirror surface portion rotates around the axis. The hand mirror according to claim 1 , wherein the angle in one direction is limited, and the connecting plate and the mirror plate are locked at a predetermined angle.

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