JP6905804B2 - cabinet - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a cabinet for storing articles to which a lighting fixture is attached.

For example, a cabinet provided in a vanity for the purpose of storing sanitary goods and beauty goods may be configured as a mirror cabinet in which the surface of the door that opens and closes the storage room is mirrored and a lighting fixture is attached. (See, for example, Patent Document 1).

The cabinet described in Patent Document 1 includes a plurality of storage chambers arranged side by side with their openings facing the same side (front side), and a front door that covers these openings so as to be openable and closable. The luminaire is arranged so as to radiate light forward from between the closed front doors using an LED (light emitting diode) as a light source.

Japanese Patent No. 5685741

In the cabinet described in Patent Document 1, the luminaire is attached via a fixed base along the front end surface of the partition wall partitioning between the storage chambers. However, since the partition wall is integrally provided with the cabinet body as a side wall of each of the adjacent storage chambers, it is difficult to satisfactorily dissipate the heat generated by the LED due to light emission, and the lighting fixture including the heat dissipation structure. There is a problem that the configuration of is complicated.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a cabinet in which lighting from between doors is realized in a simple configuration.

The cabinets according to the embodiment of the present disclosure are adjacent to each other in a cabinet provided with a plurality of storage chambers arranged side by side with the openings on one side facing the same side and a door for opening and closing the openings of the storage chambers. A spacer made of a metal material, which is interposed between the side plates of each of the storage chambers and joins both side plates with a space at least open at the top between the facing surfaces, and the side of the opening of the storage chamber between the doors The storage room is provided with a lighting fixture that is attached to one surface of the spacer located in the above and emits illumination light from between the doors, and the storage chamber has a frame body surrounded on three sides by a side plate and a bottom plate, and a common top plate. and constituted by connecting the back plate and wherein the tare Rukoto.

Further, the spacer has a vertical piece along substantially the entire length of the opening side edge of the side plate, and the luminaire is attached to the vertical piece.

Further, a plurality of the spacers are arranged along the opening side edge of the side plate at intervals in the vertical direction, and the space is formed on the other side of each spacer.

Further, the luminaire includes an LED substrate on which a plurality of LEDs are mounted on one surface and fixed on one surface of the spacer.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, lighting from between the doors that open and close the storage chamber can be realized with a simple configuration including a heat dissipation structure.

It is a perspective view of the vanity table provided with the cabinet which concerns on Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a perspective view of the cabinet with the front door removed. It is an exploded perspective view of the cabinet shown in FIG. It is sectional drawing which shows the structural example of a lighting fixture. It is a perspective view of the cabinet which concerns on Embodiment 2. FIG. FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the cabit shown in FIG. It is a perspective view of the cabinet which concerns on Embodiment 3. FIG. FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of the cabit shown in FIG. 7. It is a perspective view of the cabinet which concerns on Embodiment 4. FIG. FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of the cabit shown in FIG.

(Embodiment 1)
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vanity table including the cabinet according to the first embodiment. In the following description, the top and bottom, front and back, and left and right in the usage state shown in FIG. 1 are used. These directions are indicated by arrows in FIG. 1 and other figures.

As shown in FIG. 1, the vanity table includes a washbasin 1 installed on the floor surface and a cabinet 2 arranged above the washbasin 1. The wash basin 1 includes a top plate 10 provided at a predetermined height position, a wash basin 11 provided on the upper surface of the top plate 10, and a mixing faucet 12. The user can use the hot water discharged from the mixing faucet 12 to perform washing operations such as washing and washing hair in the washing bowl 11.

On the lower side of the top plate 10, a storage portion having a front opening door 13 and a drawer 14 is provided. Further, a support wall 15 that rises substantially vertically along the trailing edge is provided on the upper portion of the top plate 10, and the cabinet 2 is fixedly supported on the upper portion of the support wall 15.

The cabinet 2 is a box body having a left-right width substantially equal to that of the top plate 10 of the wash basin 1 and a front-rear depth smaller than that of the top plate 10. It is covered by the front door 20 (three).

The front door 20 is configured as a mirror door with a mirror attached to each surface. For example, a storage chamber provided on the rear side of each door by swinging around one end edge in the left-right direction or sliding movement in the left-right direction. 21 (see FIG. 2) can be opened and closed. An appropriate gap is secured between the adjacent front doors 20 and 20 in the closed state shown in FIG. 1, and the lighting fixture 3 is attached so as to face forward from these gaps.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the cabinet 2 with the front door 20 removed, and FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the cabinet 2 shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, the cabinet 2 includes three storage chambers 21 arranged side by side in the left-right direction. Each storage chamber 21 is an independent housing in which the left and right side plates 22, 22, the upper and lower top plates 23 and the bottom plate 24, and the back plate 25 surround five sides, and the entire front surface facing the back plate 25 is opened. It is configured.

In the cabinet 2, as shown in FIG. 3, three storage chambers 21 are arranged with the opening side facing forward, and the side plates 22 and 22 of the adjacent storage chambers 21 are integrally joined together with the spacer 4 interposed between the facing surfaces. It is composed of. Inside each storage room 21, a plurality of shelves (not shown) are erected at appropriate intervals in the vertical direction, and various items such as sanitary items and beauty items are placed and stored. It is designed to be possible. The bottom plate 24 of the storage chamber 21 located on the right side is provided so as to be appropriately elongated upward, and the lower portion of the bottom plate 24 is, for example, a power outlet for connecting a beauty device, a hair dryer, a shaving machine, or the like. It is used as an arrangement space.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the spacer 4, plate-shaped vertical pieces having substantially the same vertical dimensions as the side plate 22 are arranged in the front-rear direction, and the lower portions thereof are connected by horizontal pieces having substantially the same front-rear dimensions as the side plate 22. It is a member that forms a long U-shape in the vertical direction. In the storage chambers 21 and 21, the vertical pieces of the spacer 4 are aligned with the front and trailing edges of the side plates 22 and 22, respectively, and the horizontal pieces are aligned with the lower edges of the side plates 22 and 22. It is joined as shown in FIG. 2 by an appropriate joining means such as doweling. The spacer 4 has a U shape as described above, and a space having an open upper portion is formed between the side plates 22 and 22 joined via the spacer 4.

As shown in FIG. 3, the luminaire 3 includes an LED substrate 30 on which a plurality of LEDs are mounted on one surface of a strip-shaped substrate, and a diffusion cover 31 that covers the mounting surface of the LED substrate 30, between the side plates 22 and 22. It is attached to the front surface of the spacer 4 located at the above, as shown in FIG. 2, over a substantially total length of the spacer 4.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing a configuration example of the lighting fixture 3. In the lighting fixture 3 shown in this figure, the LED substrate 30 is fixed to the seat surface of the fixed seat 40 projecting from the front portion of the spacer 4 with the mounting surface of the LED 30a facing forward so as to cover the front side of the LED substrate 30. It is configured by attaching a diffusion cover 31.

The LED substrate 30 is fixed to the fixed seat 40 while maintaining close contact with the fixed seat 40 by appropriate means such as adhesion on the entire surface and screwing at a plurality of locations in the length direction. The LED board 30 is connected to a power supply board (not shown) via a lead wire drawn from an upper end portion, and a plurality of LEDs 30a arranged on the LED board 30 emit light by power supply from the power supply board. .. The power supply board may be housed in a board room (not shown) that is partially enclosed inside the storage room 21 together with a control unit that executes various controls such as light intensity control and color control.

The diffusion cover 31 is a molded product made of a resin material having light diffusivity, has an arch-shaped axial cross section shown in FIG. 4, and has a rod shape having substantially the same length as the front end surface of the spacer 4. The diffusion cover 31 is attached so as to cover the outside of the LED substrate 30 by engaging both arch-shaped legs with engaging portions provided on both sides of the fixed seat 40, and emits light from the LED 30a on the LED substrate 30. It is equalized by diffusion and acts to emit light from the front to the outside.

As described above, the luminaire 3 attached as described above is located so as to face forward from between the adjacent front doors 20 and 20, and the emitted light equalized by the diffusion cover 31 is the front door 20. , 20 is radiated forward. Therefore, the user can be satisfactorily illuminated in the usage mode in which the front door 20 is used as a mirror.

The lighting fixture 3 can be realized by a simple configuration in which an LED substrate 30 as a light source is fixed to a spacer 4 and the outside of the LED substrate 30 is covered with a diffusion cover 31. The LED 30a mounted on the LED substrate 30 generates heat as the illumination light is emitted, but the LED substrate 30 is fixed to the spacer 4 interposed between the side plates 22 and 22 of the adjacent storage chambers 21 and 21. The spacer 4 forms a space in which the upper portion is open between the side plates 22 and 22. Therefore, the heat generated by the LED 30a is dissipated in the space formed by the spacer 4 and released to the outside through the open portion.

In order to achieve good heat dissipation, it is desirable that the spacer 4 is made of a metal material having excellent thermal conductivity, for example, aluminum. Further, the heat radiating effect can be enhanced by integrally molding the heat radiating fin on the rear side of the vertical piece of the spacer 4 to which the LED substrate 30 is fixed and increasing the contact area with air. It is desirable that the open portion of the spacer 4 is covered with a filter capable of ventilating in order to prevent the ingress of dust, foreign matter and the like.

The luminaire 3 is not limited to the configuration of the embodiment, and may have other known configurations, but a strip-shaped LED substrate 30 on which a plurality of LEDs 30a are mounted is fixed over substantially the entire length of the spacer 4. According to the lighting fixture 3 of the above embodiment, uniform lighting using the entire front doors 20 and 20 can be realized by a simple configuration.

(Embodiment 2)
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the cabinet 2 according to the second embodiment, and FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view of the cabit 2 shown in FIG. The cabinet 2 is common to the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 except for the configuration of the spacer 4, and the corresponding constituent members are designated by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted.

As shown in FIG. 6, in the cabinet 2 according to the second embodiment, a plurality of (four in the figure) spacers 4 are interposed between the side plates 22 and 22 of the adjacent storage chambers 21, respectively. These spacers 4 have a rectangular flat plate shape and are arranged side by side at intervals in the vertical direction. The spacer 4 located at the lowermost portion has a front-rear dimension substantially equal to that of the side plate 22, and has three sides along the front, trailing edge, and lower edge of the side plates 22, 22. The other spacer 4 has a front-rear dimension smaller than that of the side plate 22, and one side is aligned with the front edges of the side plates 22 and 22 at each position.

In the cabinet 2, the side plates 22 and 22 of the adjacent storage chambers 21 are joined via spacers 4 arranged as described above, and the lighting fixtures are bridged between the plurality of spacers 4 arranged vertically between the side plates 22 and 22. 3 is attached and configured as shown in FIG. The lighting fixture 3 in FIG. 6 is shown in a state where the LED substrate 30 and the diffusion cover 31 are combined.

In the cabinet 2 configured as described above, a continuous space is formed between the side plates 22 and 22 of the adjacent storage chambers 21 between the spacers 4 arranged vertically and on the rear side of the spacer 4 having a short front-rear dimension. , The upper part of this space is open as shown in FIG. Therefore, the heat generated by the luminaire 3 attached to the spacer 4 is radiated into the space formed by the spacer 4 and released to the outside through the open portion, so that good heat radiating without requiring a complicated configuration. Can be realized.

Further, the space between the side plates 22 and 22 also communicates with the front portion between the spacers 4 arranged one above the other, and this communicating portion can be used as an intake port for sucking outside air into the space. Heat exchange through the air and heat dissipation by the upper open portion can be performed more satisfactorily. The configuration (shape, number of parallel arrangements, etc.) of the spacer 4 can be changed as appropriate.

(Embodiment 3)
FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the cabinet 2 according to the third embodiment, and FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view of the cabit 2 shown in FIG. 7. The cabinet 2 is common to the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 except for the configurations of the storage chamber 21 and the spacer 4, and the corresponding components are designated by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted. ..

As shown in FIG. 8, in the cabinet 2 according to the second embodiment, in each storage chamber 21, the frame bodies formed by connecting the lower portions of the side plates 22 and 22 by the bottom plate 24 are arranged in the left-right direction, and the side plates 22 adjacent to each other are arranged. 22 is integrally joined via a spacer 4, and the entire upper and rear portions thereof are covered with a common top plate 23 and back plate 25.

As shown in FIG. 8, the spacer 4 is formed by connecting a horizontal piece having a front-rear dimension substantially equal to that of the side plate 22 under a plate-shaped vertical piece having a vertical dimension substantially equal to that of the side plate 22, and is long in the vertical direction. It is a member that forms a character. The spacer 4 is interposed with a vertical piece along the front edges of the side plates 22 and 22 and a horizontal piece along the lower edges of the side plates 22 and 22, and the luminaire 3 is located between the side plates 22 and 22. It is attached to the front surface of the vertical piece of the spacer 4. The lighting fixture 3 in FIG. 8 is shown in a state where the LED substrate 30 and the diffusion cover 31 are combined.

In the cabinet 2 configured as described above, a space in which the upper portion is open is formed between the side plates 22 and 22 of the adjacent storage chambers 21 by being sandwiched between the front and rear by the vertical piece of the spacer 4 and the back plate 25. Therefore, the heat generated by the lighting fixture 3 is dissipated into the space and discharged to the outside through the open portion, so that good heat dissipation can be realized without requiring a complicated configuration. The top plate 23 is formed with an appropriate ventilation hole (not shown) at a position corresponding to the open portion of the space, and heat is dissipated to the outside air through the ventilation hole.

(Embodiment 4)
9 is a perspective view of the cabinet 2 according to the fourth embodiment, and FIG. 10 is an exploded perspective view of the cabit 2 shown in FIG. In this cabinet 2, the configuration of the spacer 4 is the same as that of the second embodiment, and the configuration of the storage chamber 21 is the same as that of the third embodiment. do.

Also in this cabinet 2, spacers 4 arranged vertically are interposed between the side plates 22 and 22 of the adjacent storage chambers 21, and open spaces are formed in the upper part and the front part. The heat generated by the luminaire 3 attached so as to be passed can be satisfactorily dissipated without requiring a complicated configuration.

In the above embodiments, the configuration example of the cabinet 2 attached to the vanity has been described, but each embodiment is applicable to all cabinets provided with lighting fixtures for illuminating the front, and is the same. Needless to say, the action and effect can be obtained.

It should be noted that the embodiments disclosed this time are exemplary in all respects and are not considered to be restrictive. The scope of the present invention is indicated by the scope of claims, not the above-mentioned meaning, and is intended to include all modifications within the meaning and scope equivalent to the scope of claims.

2 Cabinet 3 Lighting equipment 4 Spacer 20 Front door (door)
21 Storage room 22 Side plate 23 Top plate 24 Bottom plate 25 Back plate 30 LED board

Claims (4)

In a cabinet provided with a plurality of storage rooms arranged side by side with the openings on one side facing the same side and a door that covers the openings of each storage room so as to be openable and closable.
A spacer made of a metal material, which is interposed between the side plates of each of the adjacent storage chambers and joins both side plates with a space in which at least the upper part is open between the facing surfaces.
It is attached to one side of the spacer located between the doors on the side of the opening of the storage chamber.
A lighting fixture that emits illumination light from between the doors is provided .
In the storage chamber, a frame body surrounded on three sides by a side plate and a bottom plate is connected by a common top plate and a back plate.
Cabinets characterized tare Rukoto constructed by sintering. The cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the spacer has a vertical piece along a substantially overall length of the opening side edge of the side plate, and the luminaire is attached to the vertical piece. Claim 1 or claim , wherein a plurality of spacers are arranged along the opening side edge of the side plate at intervals in the vertical direction, and the space is formed on the other side of each spacer. Item 2. The cabinet according to item 2. The luminaire has a plurality of LEDs mounted on one surface and is fixed to one surface of the spacer.
The cabinet according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising an ED substrate.

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