JP6761922B2 - Article holding mechanism and article holding system. - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an article holding mechanism and an article holding system using the same.

Various mechanisms for holding various items such as smartphones around kitchens and desks have been proposed.
For example, in Patent Document 1, a lid portion and a tray are formed, the lid portion can be engaged with the front surface of the tray, a connecting member for fixing the case and attaching to another article is provided, and various structures are provided via the connecting member. An article holding system that can be attached to the body and used is proposed.
Further, Patent Document 2 includes a substrate, a retaining tool, a torsion coil spring and a cover, and the lower half of the substrate is provided with an insertion hole in the center and a guide groove around the insertion hole, and further, inside the substrate. An insertion recess is bored on one end surface side, and a transmitter having an engaging portion projecting is provided in the center of the bottom thereof, and an insertion recess is provided on one end surface side of the transmitter. The retaining tool is engaged on both sides of the shaft, and the retaining tool has a closing portion formed on the center side and a protrusion engaged with the guide groove on the opposite side, and an insertion portion is provided at one end of the shaft. An article holding system has been proposed in which a hanging tool is provided and a hook portion is provided at the other end, and a drive portion that engages with the engaging portion is recessed at the tip of the insertion portion. There is.
Patent Document 3 includes a pair of bases provided with means for attaching to a structure, a shaft provided across the pair of bases, and a clip suspended from the shaft. An article holding system has been proposed which is slidably provided in the axial direction and is rotatably provided around the vertical axis of the clip with respect to the axis.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2007-038815 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 06-121725 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 07-095919

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However, a conventional article holding system such as the above-mentioned article holding system has a configuration in which an article is hooked and placed, or an article is held by applying a urging force by a metal coil spring or a leaf spring. It was insufficient from the viewpoint of holding articles of various sizes such as mobile phones and notepads. Further, the conventional holding mechanism such as a clip-type holding mechanism is not easy to remove, and there is a problem that an article is dropped when it is removed.
Therefore, at present, there is a demand for proposals of an article holding mechanism and an article holding system that can satisfactorily hold articles of various sizes and can be easily removed.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an article holding mechanism that can satisfactorily hold articles of various sizes and can be easily removed, and an article holding system using the same.

As a result of diligent studies to solve the above problems, the present inventors have found that a ratchet structure using a mainspring can be applied to achieve an object, and have completed the present invention.
That is, the present invention provides the following inventions.
1. 1. A gear having a shaft body in the center, a mainspring connected to the shaft body so that the shaft body serves as a central axis, a pair of upper and lower racks that mesh with the gear, and a rack attached by moving in the left-right direction. An article holding mechanism having a stopper mechanism for freely holding the urged state of the mainspring.
2. 2. The mainspring is formed by spirally winding a long spring material, one end thereof is integrated with the shaft body, and the other end is bent outward in the radial direction of the gear. 1. The article holding mechanism according to 1, which constitutes an engaging portion.
3. 3. 2. The article holding mechanism according to 2, wherein the mainspring is composed of two spring materials, and the engaging portions of the spring materials are bent in opposite directions.
4. The gear is for a stopper extending from the center of the gear body and the gear body toward one axial direction of the gear body and the stopper provided on one side of the gear body in the axial direction and connected to the shaft body. 2. The article holding mechanism according to 2. The article holding mechanism, which comprises a gear body, and the shaft body has a length capable of connecting one end of the spring material to one side of the stopper gear body in the axial direction.
5. Further, a housing including a housing container having an opening for accommodating one side of the gear in the axial direction and exposing the other side in the axial direction, and a lid for sealing the opening of the housing container are provided.
The housing container is composed of a bottom portion and a wall body extending in a direction perpendicular to the peripheral edge of the bottom portion, and the wall body includes a rack penetrating portion for laying the rack and an opening formed in the wall body. And a stopper portion formed of a stopper body extending from one end of the opening, and an engaging portion receiving portion for accommodating the engaging portion formed by providing a concave portion inside the wall body. Ori,
The stopper body is connected to a rectangular base extending inward of the housing container so as to be folded back from the other end of the base, and a button portion provided so as to project outward of the housing container. The joint portion of the base portion and the button portion has a meshing portion that meshes with the gear body for the stopper, and when the button portion is pushed inward in the axial direction of the housing container, the meshing portion is directed outward in the axial direction. The stopper body is curved so that it can move,
The stopper mechanism is composed of these gears and a housing.
4. The article holding mechanism according to 4.
An article holding system comprising the article holding mechanism according to 6.1, having the article holding mechanism at one end and a hooking member having a hooking means for hooking to another article at the other end.
7. 6. The article holding system according to 6, wherein the article holding system has a rail member having an engaging recess, and two hook-shaped members are formed at a predetermined interval so that the hooking means engages with the engaging recess.

The article holding mechanism of the present invention can satisfactorily hold articles of various sizes and can be easily removed.
The article holding system of the present invention is an article holding mechanism or an article holding system that can satisfactorily hold articles of various sizes and can easily remove the articles.

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing one embodiment of the article holding system of the present invention. 2A and 2B are views showing a gear and a mainspring spring constituting the article holding mechanism in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, where FIG. 2A is a perspective view, FIG. 2B is a view taken along the arrow b of FIG. Is a view taken along the line c in (a). 3A and 3B are views showing a housing constituting the article holding mechanism of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, where FIG. 3A is a perspective view, FIG. 3B is a perspective view of FIG. 1B, and FIG. 3C is an arrow view of FIG. ) C arrow view, (d) is a d arrow view of (a). FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a lid of a housing constituting the article holding mechanism of the embodiment shown in FIG. 5A and 5B are usage patterns showing a state in which the article holding system of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is assembled, FIG. 5A is a perspective view, and FIG. 5B is a view taken along the line b of FIG. 6A and 6B are usage mode views showing a mode in which the article holding system of the embodiment shown in FIG. 5 is used in a kitchen, FIG. 6A is a perspective view showing a mounted state, and FIG. 6B is another mode of use. The perspective views (c) to (f) are schematic views of operations showing a mode in which a smartphone is attached and detached as an article.

101: Article holding system, 1: Article holding mechanism, 110: Hook member, 12: Shaft body, 10: Gear, 20: Windspring, 30: Rack, 40: Housing, 50: Stopper mechanism, 46: Lid

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, the article holding system 101 of the present embodiment includes the article holding mechanism 1 of the present invention, has the article holding mechanism at one end, and has a hooking means for hooking to another article at the other end. It has a hook member 110.
The details will be described below.
<Article holding mechanism>
The article holding mechanism 1 of the present embodiment includes a gear 10 having a shaft body 12 at the center, a mainspring 20 connected to the shaft body 12 so that the shaft body 12 serves as a central shaft, and a pair of upper and lower parts that mesh with the gear 10. The racks 30 and 30 and a stopper mechanism 50 that freely holds the urged state of the mainspring 20 urged by the movement of the rack in the left-right direction.

(gear)
As shown in FIG. 2, the gear 10 is provided on one side in the axial direction of the shaft body 12 and the gear body 14 extending from the center of the gear body 14 and the gear body 14 toward one axial direction of the gear body 14. It includes a stopper gear body 16 connected to the shaft body 12. The gear body 14 and the stopper gear body 16 are each integrated with the shaft body 12, and the movements of the gear body 14 and the stopper gear body 16 are directly transmitted to the shaft body. Here, in addition to the one formed as a member different from the "integral" in the present specification and integrated by using an adhesive or a fastening member, the one formed as one member by integrally molding in the molding process is also available. It means to include.
The shaft body 12 extends outward from the stopper gear body 16 on one side in the axial direction of the gear body, and has a length capable of continuously providing one end of the spring material on one side in the axial direction. Further, both ends of the shaft body 12 have a diameter larger than that of the shaft main body (not shown), so that the gear main body 14 and the mainspring 20 do not easily fall off.
The gear body 14 has a smaller diameter than the stopper gear body 16, so that the rack 30 described later is accommodated in a portion between the stopper gear body 16 and the gear body 14.
(Spring)
As shown in FIG. 2, the mainspring 20 is formed by winding a long spring material in a spiral shape. Further, one end of the spring material, which is wound at a predetermined interval so as not to come into contact with each other so as to exert a function as a spring, is integrated with the shaft body 12, and the other end is a gear. The engaging portion 22 is formed by being bent outward in the radial direction.
In the present embodiment, the mainspring 20 is composed of two spring materials. Each of these spring materials has the same length, and one end thereof is integrated at a position where the shaft body 12 faces each other in the radial direction. As a result, the engaging portions 22 of the respective spring materials are configured to exist at opposite positions in the radial direction of the shaft body 12, and the engaging portions 22 are in opposite directions, specifically true. It is formed by being bent in the opposite direction.

(housing)
As shown in FIG. 1, the gear 10 and the mainspring 20 are installed and used in the housing 40. That is, the article holding system of the present embodiment includes a housing 40. The housing 40 includes a housing container 42 having an opening 42a that accommodates one side of the gear 10 in the axial direction and exposes the other side in the axial direction, and a lid 46 that seals the opening 42a of the housing container 42.
The housing container 42 is composed of a bottom portion 42b and a wall body 42c extending vertically from the peripheral edge of the bottom portion 42b, and is formed on the wall body 42c by a rack penetrating portion 42d for laying the rack 30 and the wall body 42c. It accommodates a stopper portion 54 composed of an opening 52 and a stopper body 56 extending from one end of the opening 52, and an engaging portion 22 formed by providing a recess inside the wall body 42c. An engaging portion receiving portion 42e is provided. Further, a spherical fitting portion 42f that fits with a holding member for a system, which will be described later, is provided outside the bottom portion 42b. Further, although not particularly shown, the fitting portion 42f is provided with a rotation mechanism that makes the housing container rotatable.
As shown in FIG. 3C, the stopper body 56 has a rectangular base portion 56a that is curved and extended inward of the housing container 42, and the stopper body 56 is curved and folded back from the other end of the base portion 56a. It has a button portion 56b which is continuously provided and is provided so as to project outward from the housing container, and a meshing portion 56c which meshes with the stopper gear body 16 at the connecting portion of the base portion 56a and the button portion 56b. The entire stopper body 56 is formed so as to be curved so that when the button portion 56b is pushed inward in the axial direction of the housing container 42, the meshing portion 56c moves outward in the axial direction. Further, the button portion 56b is composed of a button 56b-1 and a handle 56b-2, and is formed so that the handle 56b-2 of the button portion is longer and has a larger curvature than the base portion 56a. As a result, as will be described later, the meshing portion 56c can easily move upward when the button 56b-1 is pushed in, and the release performance of the stopper gear body 16 becomes good.
(rack)
As shown in FIG. 1, the racks 30 are a pair of left and right, a rack main body 36 having a base 32, an article receiving portion 34 provided for holding an article inside the substrate 32, and a gear cutting portion 36a, and a rack. It is composed of a support portion 38 that supports the main body 36. The rack body 36 is provided with an insertion hole 36b into which the support portion 38 can be freely inserted and removed, and by inserting the support portion into the insertion hole 36b, a pair of left and right racks can be used stably.

(Stopper mechanism)
In this embodiment, the stopper mechanism 50 is configured by the gear 20 and the housing 40 as described above. Specifically, when the gear body 14 rotates, the shaft body 12 integrated with the gear body 14 rotates, and the mainspring 20 also tries to rotate, but the engaging portion 22 of the mainspring 20 engages with the housing 40. The rotation of the mainspring is stopped because it is engaged with the part receiving portion 42e. As a result, the gear 10 is spring-biased in the direction opposite to the rotation direction by the operation of closing the rack 30. At this time, of the spring-urged gears 10, the stopper gear body 16 meshes with the meshing portion 56c of the stopper body 56, and the rotation of the gear is stopped in the spring-urged direction (the gear is stopped by the stopper mechanism 50). The rotation of the rack 30 is stopped), whereby the article located between the article receiving portions 34 of the rack 30 is sandwiched and held by the article receiving portion 34. Then, when the button portion 56b is pushed downward (arrow direction), the meshing portion 56c moves upward (arrow direction) as shown in FIG. 3 (c), and as a result, it is disengaged from the stopper gear body 16 and the spring. The urging stop state is released, the gear 20 rotates in the spring-biased direction, and the rack 30 returns to its original position.
Further, the lid body 46 seals the opening 42a, and as shown in FIG. 4, has four engaging portions 48 that engage with the wall body 42c of the housing container 42.

<Goods holding system>
Next, the article holding system 101 of the present invention will be described.
As shown in FIG. 1, the article holding system 101 of the present embodiment includes the article holding mechanism 1 composed of the above-mentioned gear 10, mainspring 20, rack 30, housing 40, and lid 46, and further, one end. The hook member 110 is provided with an intermediate member 120 for holding the article holding mechanism, and the hooking member 110 is provided at the other end with a hooking means 130 for hooking the article.
Specifically, the hooking member 110 has two holding members 124 having circular openings 122 arranged at predetermined intervals, and an intermediate member 120 having a locking portion 126 at the tip thereof. Have. The hooking means 130 extends from the bottom 134 in which the opening 132 is formed and the two opposite sides of the bottom 134, and is curved inward and has a hook-shaped portion 136 formed at the tip. Although the locking portion 126 is not particularly shown, a hole is formed in the center at a predetermined interval and a slit is provided to form a mushroom-shaped member divided into two, and the locking portion 126 is inserted into the opening 132. Further, the hooking means can be fixed to the intermediate member 120 by inserting the fastening member 140 into the central hole.
As a result, as shown in FIG. 5, the fitting portion 42f is sandwiched between the openings 122, and the article holding mechanism 1 is rotatably held by the hooking member 110 at a desired angle. The article holding mechanism 1 can be used in a tilted state.
Further, as shown in FIG. 6A, the article holding system 101 of the present invention further has a rail member 200 having an engaging recess 210, and the hook-shaped portion 136 of the hooking means 130 is formed in the engaging recess 210. It may be a system to engage. With this configuration, it is possible to fix the article A such as a smartphone at an easy-to-see position in various situations such as a kitchen and check the screen while performing other work in a hands-free state. Further, as shown in FIG. 6B, the smartphone can be used sideways by rotating the article holding mechanism 1.
In this embodiment, a hooking member 34a made of an elastic member is fitted in the article receiving portion 34 so that the article can be firmly held.
Then, when the article holding system 101 of the present embodiment is used, as shown in FIG. 6C, the rack 30 is first bound and the article is sandwiched between the article receiving portions 34. Next, as shown in (d), the hook-shaped portion 136 is sandwiched between the rails to fix the article holding mechanism 1. At the end of use, the hook-shaped portion 136 is removed from the rail, the article holding mechanism is removed, and then the button portion 56b is pushed in (not shown) to release the stopper mechanism 50, and the article is released to end the use. can do.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be variously modified without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

Claims (5)

The gear body, a shaft body extending from the center of the gear body toward one axial direction of the gear body, and the gear body provided on one side of the gear body in the axial direction and connected to the shaft body. Gears with larger diameter stopper gears and
A power spring connected to said shaft member so that the shaft body is the central axis,
A pair of upper and lower racks that mesh with the above gear body ,
A stopper mechanism that freely holds the urged state of the mainspring urged by moving the rack in the left-right direction, and
A housing including a housing container having an opening for accommodating one side of the gear in the axial direction and exposing the other side in the axial direction, and a lid for sealing the opening of the housing container .
The housing container is composed of a bottom portion and a wall body extending in a direction perpendicular to the peripheral edge of the bottom portion, and the wall body includes a rack penetrating portion for laying a rack and an opening formed in the wall body. A stopper portion including a stopper body extending from one end of the opening and an engaging portion receiving portion formed by providing a recess inside the wall body are provided, and the stopper gear body and the stopper body Store the above spring
The mainspring is formed by stacking two spring materials having a long shape and the same length and winding them in a spiral shape, and one end of each of them is a shaft at a position facing each other in the radial direction of the shaft body. It is integrated with the body, and the other end is bent outward in the radial direction of the gear to form an engaging portion, and each engaging portion is located at a position facing the radial direction of the shaft body. It is configured to exist and
The gear body engages with the geared portion of the rack, the gear body for the stopper engages with the stopper body, and the engaging portion is housed in the engaging portion receiving portion .
Article holding mechanism. Two of the engagement portion of the spring material, the article holding mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the bent respectively toward the opposite direction. Upper Symbol stopper member is continuously provided as folded back from the other end of the rectangular base and the base portion extending towards the inside of the housing container, and a button portion that protrudes outwardly of the housing container, The joint portion of the base portion and the button portion has a meshing portion that meshes with the gear body for the stopper, and when the button portion is pushed inward in the axial direction of the housing container, the meshing portion is directed outward in the axial direction. The stopper body is curved so that it can move
The stopper mechanism is composed of these gears and a housing.
The article holding mechanism according to claim 1. An article holding system comprising the article holding mechanism according to claim 1, having the article holding mechanism at one end and a hooking member having a hooking means for hooking to another article at the other end. The article holding according to claim 4, further comprising a rail member having an engaging recess, and two hook-shaped members formed at a predetermined interval so that the hooking means engages with the engaging recess. system.