JP6173111B2 - Electronics - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic device such as a digital camera, and more particularly to an electronic device including a battery lid unit.

  Some electronic devices such as digital cameras include a battery lid unit that covers a battery or a storage part of a recording medium so as to be opened and closed. The battery lid unit has a battery lid that forms a part of the exterior of the device main body in a closed state, and the battery lid is slidably held and is opened and closed integrally with the battery lid via a rotating shaft with respect to the device main body. And a sheet metal member supported rotatably. When the battery lid is slid with respect to the sheet metal member in the closed state, the engagement between the battery lid and the device body is released, and in this state, the battery lid is rotated in the opening direction together with the sheet metal member by the urging force of the urging spring. Accordingly, the storage portion is opened, and the battery and the recording medium can be attached and detached.

  Conventionally, a sheet metal member is bent on both sides in the width direction, and an arm portion having a shaft hole of a rotation shaft is provided at each end of the bent portion, and a curl bending portion formed between the two arm portions and the shaft of the two arm portions A technique for inserting a rotation shaft into a hole has been proposed (Patent Document 1). According to this proposal, the rigidity of the sheet metal member is increased and the rotating shaft is pivotally supported on the device main body, so that sufficient strength can be secured even when a force is further applied in the opening direction with the battery lid open.

JP 2009-21103 A

  By the way, in order to facilitate the attachment and detachment of the battery and the recording medium, the opening angle of the battery cover is 90 degrees or more and the position of the rotating shaft is as far as possible from the battery or the recording medium, that is, the exterior side of the device main body. Need to be placed in. However, if the rotation shaft is arranged on the exterior side of the device body, the thickness of the support portion on the device body side that supports the rotation shaft is reduced, and the battery cover is opened in the opening direction with the battery cover opened. If a load is applied, it may not be possible to receive the load.

  Here, in the said patent document 1, although the intensity | strength of a sheet-metal member has been ensured, it is neither indicated nor suggested about the strength improvement of the part which supports a rotating shaft.

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device that can ensure sufficient strength even when a load is applied to the lid in the opening direction with the lid open.

In order to achieve the above object, an electronic device of the present invention is an electronic device including a device main body and a lid unit that covers a part of the device main body so as to be openable and closable. A holding member that holds the lid, and a rotation shaft that rotatably supports the holding member with respect to the device main body, and the rotation shaft is inserted into the holding member. An insertion part, a restriction part that abuts against the device main body when the lid unit is in an open state and restricts rotation of the holding member, and the restriction with respect to the rotation shaft that is inserted into the insertion part And an engaging portion that is engaged with the arm portion of the holding member when the lid unit is in an open state . The holding member is formed with a plurality of insertion portions and a plurality of the arm portions. Is a formed between the insertion portion and said Rukoto.

  According to the present invention, sufficient strength can be ensured even when a load is applied to the lid in the opening direction with the lid open.

(A) is the perspective view which looked at the digital camera which is 1st Embodiment of the electronic device of this invention from the front side (subject side), (b) is the perspective view which looked at the digital camera shown to (a) from the back side. FIG. It is the perspective view which looked at the digital camera shown to Fig.1 (a) from the bottom face side. It is a perspective view for demonstrating opening / closing operation | movement of a battery cover unit. It is a disassembled perspective view of a battery cover unit. It is a perspective view of a sheet metal member. It is a perspective view which shows the state before incorporating a battery cover unit in the battery accommodating part of a camera main body. It is a perspective view which shows the state which assembled the battery cover unit in the battery accommodating part of the camera main body. It is the figure which looked at the open state of the battery cover from the front side of the camera body. It is the XX sectional view taken on the line of FIG. It is the YY sectional view taken on the line of FIG. 8 in the closed state of a battery cover. It is the YY sectional view taken on the line of FIG. 8 in the open state of a battery cover. It is a partial expanded sectional view of FIG. It is principal part sectional drawing of the digital camera which is 2nd Embodiment of the electronic device of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1A is a perspective view of a digital camera which is a first embodiment of an electronic apparatus according to the present invention as seen from the front side (subject side), and FIG. 1B is a digital camera shown in FIG. It is the perspective view seen from the back side.

  In the digital camera of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1A, a zoom lens barrel 107 is provided on the front side of the camera body 100, and microphone holes 110 and 111 are provided around the lens barrel 107. And an AF auxiliary light window 105 are provided. On the upper surface of the camera body 100, a release button 101, a zoom lever 102, a power button 103, a mode dial 104, a strobe unit 106, and the like are provided. The strobe unit 106 is rotatable in the direction of arrow A in the figure.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 1B, a display unit 201 such as an LCD, various operation button groups 202, and the like are provided on the back side of the camera body 100, and the right side when the camera body 100 is viewed from the back side. The part is provided with a terminal cover 204. The terminal cover 204 covers and protects the analog video terminal, the external power supply terminal, the digital terminal and the like so as to be opened and closed. Here, the camera body 100 corresponds to an example of a device body of the present invention.

  FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the digital camera shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, a battery lid unit 300, a tripod mounting portion 404, a regulating convex portion 205, and the like are provided on the bottom surface side of the camera body 100.

  The battery cover 301 and the sheet metal member 500 (see FIG. 3) of the battery cover unit 300 are supported by the camera body 100 so as to be rotatable in the opening / closing direction via a rotation shaft 304 (see FIG. 3), and in the closed state. The battery lid 301 forms a part of the exterior of the camera body 100 on the bottom side. Further, the restricting convex portion 205 restricts further rotation of the battery lid 301 in the opening direction when the sheet metal member 500 comes into contact with the battery lid 301 being opened.

  FIG. 3 is a perspective view for explaining the opening / closing operation of the battery lid unit 300. First, as shown in FIG. 3A, when the user slides the battery cover 301 to the front side of the camera body 100 (in the direction of arrow B) with a finger or the like, the state shown in FIG.

  In the state shown in FIG. 3B, the engagement of the engagement portion (not shown) between the camera body 100 and the battery lid 301 is released. In this embodiment, the slide movement direction of the battery lid 301 is the same as the optical axis direction of the lens barrel 107, but the present invention is not limited to this.

  When the finger or the like is released from the battery lid 301 in the state shown in FIG. 3B, the battery lid 301 is integrated with the sheet metal member 500 via the rotating shaft 304 by the urging force of the urging spring 303 in the opening direction. It rotates in the direction of arrow C, and the state shown in FIG. Thereby, the recording medium 700 such as the battery 600 and the memory card can be attached to and detached from the battery storage unit 400 of the camera body 100.

  FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the battery lid unit 300. As shown in FIG. 4, the battery lid unit 300 includes a battery lid 301, a sheet metal member 500, a rotation shaft 304, and an urging spring 303. The battery cover 301 is slidably held with respect to the sheet metal member 500, and the cable cover 302 is detachably attached to a hole 302a formed at the center. Here, the battery lid unit 300 corresponds to an example of the lid unit of the present invention, and the battery lid 301 corresponds to an example of the lid body of the present invention. The sheet metal member 500 corresponds to an example of the holding member of the present invention, and the biasing spring 303 corresponds to an example of the biasing member of the present invention.

  A rib 310 protruding rightward is provided on the left side of the battery lid 301 in the figure, a rib 311 protruding leftward is provided on the right side, and a regulating part 309 is provided on the lower side. In addition, the battery lid 301 is provided with pressing portions 305 and 306 between the rib 310 and the hole 302a, and is provided with pressing portions 307 and 308 between the rib 311 and the hole 302a. The biasing spring 303 is extrapolated to the rotation shaft 304 and biases the sheet metal member 500 together with the battery lid 301 in the opening direction.

  FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the sheet metal member 500. As shown in FIG. 5, the sheet metal member 500 has a hole 500a corresponding to the hole 302a of the battery cover 301 at the center, and ribs 310 and ribs 311 of the battery cover 301 are formed on both sides in the horizontal direction in the figure. An insertion portion 508 and an insertion portion 509 that are respectively inserted on the back side are provided.

  The sheet metal member 500 is provided with click portions 506 and 507 having spring properties. The click portion 506 is pressed by the pressing portion 305 or the pressing portion 306 of the battery lid 301, and the click portion 507 is the pressing portion of the battery lid 301. 307 or the pressing unit 308 is pressed.

  On the lower side portion of the sheet metal member 500, curl-shaped portions 501 and 502 through which the rotation shaft 304 is inserted are provided apart from each other in the left-right direction in the drawing. As described above, the battery cover 301 is slidably held on the sheet metal member 500, and the restricting portion 309 of the battery cover 301 comes into contact with the restricting portion 510 of the sheet metal member 500, so that the battery cover 301 is more than necessary. Slide movement is restricted.

  Further, the sheet metal member 500 is formed with curled portions 501 and 502 at a plurality of locations, and an arm portion 503 is formed between the curled portions 501 and 502. The arm portion 503 is formed so as to protrude to the opposite side of the restricting portion 511 with respect to the rotation shaft 304 inserted into the curl-shaped portions 501 and 502. The arm portion 503 has an extending portion 505 extending in the tangential direction of the rotating shaft 304 and an abutment bent to the rotating shaft 304 side so as to face the rotating center of the rotating shaft 304 from the tip of the extending portion 505. Part 504 is formed. The contact portion 504 engages with an engagement portion 406 provided in a battery storage portion 400 described later in a state where the battery lid 301 is open.

  6 is a perspective view showing a state before the battery lid unit 300 is assembled into the battery housing part 400 of the camera body 100, and FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a state where the battery lid unit 300 is incorporated into the battery housing part 400 of the camera body 100. It is.

  As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, in the battery lid unit 300, both ends of the rotation shaft 304 are supported by the support portions 402 and 403 of the battery storage unit 400, respectively. In the state of FIG. 7, the battery cover unit 300 is in an open state with the opening angle of 90 ° or more together with the sheet metal member 500 by the biasing force of the biasing spring 303.

  The battery storage unit 400 stores the battery 600 and the recording medium 700. The battery 600 is discharged from the battery storage unit 400 by operating the lock lever 800 by the biasing force of a spring (not shown). The recording medium 700 is ejected from the battery storage unit 400 by pushing the recording medium 700 by a biasing force of a spring (not shown). In the present embodiment, the longitudinal direction of the battery 600 and the recording medium 700 stored in the battery storage unit 400 and the rotation shaft 304 are arranged substantially in parallel, but the present invention is not limited to this.

  Here, when the recording medium 700 is pushed with a finger or the like, if the position of the rotation shaft 304 is close to the recording medium 700, the finger or the like interferes with the battery lid 301 or the sheet metal member 500, and the recording medium 700 is hardly pushed. For this reason, it is necessary to dispose the rotation shaft 304 on the exterior side of the camera body 100 as far as possible so that the position of the rotation shaft 304 is separated from the recording medium 700.

  8 is a view of the opened state of the battery cover 301 as viewed from the front side of the camera body 100, and FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line YY of FIG. 8 when the battery cover 301 is closed, and FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line YY of FIG. 8 when the battery cover 301 is opened. 12 is a partially enlarged cross-sectional view of FIG.

  In FIG. 9, as described above, the rotation shaft 304 needs to be arranged on the exterior side (in the direction of arrow D) of the camera body 100 as much as possible, but if the rotation shaft 304 is disposed on the exterior side of the camera body 100, the battery The thickness H of the support parts 402 and 403 of the storage part 400 becomes thin.

  As shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, when the battery cover 301 is in the open state, the restricting portion 511 of the sheet metal member 500 contacts the restricting convex portion 205 of the camera body 100 to rotate the battery cover 301 in the further opening direction. Movement is regulated.

  At this time, the contact portion 504 of the arm portion 503 of the sheet metal member 500 engages with the engagement portion 406 of the battery housing portion 400. As shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, the engaging portion between the contact portion 504 and the engaging portion 406 is located on the opposite side of the restricting portion 511 with respect to the rotation shaft 304. In this state, when a force is applied to the battery lid 301 in the direction of opening the battery lid 301, the contact portion 504 presses the engaging portion 406 in the direction of arrow E in FIG.

  For this reason, when a load is further applied in the opening direction from the opened state of the battery cover 301, the load is not only the support portions 402 and 403 of the battery housing portion 400 that supports both ends of the rotating shaft 304, but also the engaging portion. 406 is also distributed and received.

  As a result, even when the thickness H of the exterior side of the camera body 100 of the support portions 402 and 403 of the battery storage unit 400 is thin, sufficient strength can be secured, and the central portion of the rotating shaft 304 is bent. Can also prevent. Further, even when a load is applied in the direction toward the rotation axis 304 along the battery lid 301 in the opened state of the battery lid 301 (the arrow F direction in FIG. 12), the receiving portion 405 provided in the battery housing portion 400 is rotated. Since the moving shaft 304 is received, bending of the rotating shaft 304 in the direction of arrow F can be prevented.

  As described above, in this embodiment, the battery 600 and the recording medium 700 can be easily attached to and detached from the battery storage unit 400 of the camera body 100, and the battery lid 301 is further loaded in the opening direction when the battery lid 301 is opened. Even when is added, sufficient strength can be secured.

(Second Embodiment)
FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view of a main part of a digital camera which is a second embodiment of the electronic apparatus of the present invention. In addition, about the part which overlaps or corresponds to the said 1st Embodiment, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to a figure and the description is abbreviate | omitted.

  As shown in FIG. 13, the digital camera according to the present embodiment includes a restriction receptacle provided on the battery housing portion 400 with the tip surface 510 of the contact portion 504 of the arm portion 503 of the sheet metal member 500 in the opened state of the battery lid 301. The contact with the surface 407 restricts further rotation of the battery lid 301 in the opening direction.

  Thereby, the rotation of the battery cover 301 can be restricted without providing the restricting convex part 205 on the exterior of the camera body 100 as in the first embodiment. Other configurations and operational effects are the same as those in the first embodiment.

  The configuration of the present invention is not limited to those exemplified in the above embodiments, and the material, shape, dimensions, form, number, arrangement location, and the like are appropriately changed without departing from the gist of the present invention. Is possible.

  For example, in each of the embodiments described above, a digital camera is exemplified as the electronic device. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and an electronic device such as an imaging device such as a digital video camera or a portable terminal other than the imaging device may be used.

300 Battery Lid Unit 301 Battery Lid 304 Rotating Shaft 400 Battery Storage Unit 402 Supporting Unit 403 Supporting Unit 406 Engaging Unit 500 Sheet Metal Member 503 Arm 504 Contacting Unit 511 Regulating Unit 600 Battery 700 Recording Medium

Claims (3)

An electronic device comprising a device main body and a lid unit that covers a part of the device main body so as to be openable and closable,
The lid unit is
A lid,
A holding member for holding the lid;
A rotation shaft that rotatably supports the holding member with respect to the device main body,
The holding member includes an insertion portion into which the rotation shaft is inserted, a restriction portion that abuts on the device main body when the lid unit is in an open state and restricts rotation of the holding member, and the insertion An arm that protrudes on the opposite side of the restricting portion with respect to the pivot shaft that is inserted into the portion is formed,
The device body is formed with an engaging portion that engages with the arm portion of the holding member when the lid unit is in an open state .
Wherein the holding member is an electronic device wherein the insertion portion is formed in a plurality of positions, said arm portion and said Rukoto formed between the plurality of the insertion portion. The lid unit is
An urging member for urging the holding member together with the lid in the opening direction;
The lid is slid can be held against the holding member, the transition to Rutoki the cover unit from a closed state to an open state, by being slid relative to the holding member, the device The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device is released from engagement with the main body and rotates in the opening direction together with the holding member by an urging force of the urging member. When the lid unit to the open state, the electronic device according to claim 1 or 2 distal end surface of the arm portion, characterized that you contact the receiving surface provided on the engaging portion.

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