JPS598380Y2 - Goods storage device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an apparatus most suitable for application to, for example, battery storage devices in various electronic devices and storage devices for various other articles.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a battery storage device for a portable electronic device such as a radio receiver, a battery is stored in a battery storage section provided in an outer casing, and the opening of the battery storage section is sealed with a battery lid.

In this case, the battery cover must not only seal the opening, but also securely hold the battery contained therein.

This is because if the battery rattles within the battery housing, problems such as contact noise will occur.

In addition, when multiple batteries are stored in series, the center of the battery row tends to rise up in a V-shape due to the pressing force of the leaf spring and coil spring that press both ends of the battery row. , which causes poor contact and the like.

By the way, in most cases conventionally, as a method of holding down the battery with the battery cover, a cushion such as a malt plate is attached to the inner surface of the battery cover, and the elasticity of this cushion is used to hold down the battery.

However, such a structure requires a separate part called a cushion, which increases the number of parts and also requires man-hours to attach it to the battery cover with adhesive, etc., resulting in a lack of productivity and increased cost. It had defects such as being too high.

The present invention has been devised to correct the above-mentioned deficiencies, and is extremely effective due to the plate itself (only the plate) being a single component that can be removably attached to an article storage area such as a battery cover. The object of the present invention is to provide a device that can hold an article down and use a plate that is extremely easy to process.

An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a battery storage device for electronic equipment will be described below with reference to the drawings.

First, numeral 1 is the outer casing (or chassis) of the electronic device, which is made of resin.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a battery storage section provided at a predetermined position of the outer casing 1, and the battery storage section 2 stores, for example, six batteries 3 in two rows of three in series, as shown in the figure. It is shaped to be.

Note that both ends of the two battery rows are pressed by leaf springs 4 and coil springs 5, respectively.

Further, 6 shown in FIG. 1 is a finger insertion recess into which a finger is inserted when removing the battery 3.

In this battery storage device, a plate 9 is removably attached to the opening 8 of the battery storage section 2.
The battery 3 is held down by the battery 3.

Although not shown in the drawings, the upper surface of the plate body 9 is actually configured to be sealed with another opening/closing lid.

Incidentally, the plate body 9 is made of elastic resin and has a structure as shown in FIGS. 4 to 6.

That is, first, this plate 9 has a substantially rectangular planar shape, and has a substantially L-shape at one end in the longitudinal direction and is integrally formed with a non-elastic locking pawl 10, and the other end is formed integrally with a non-elastic locking pawl 10. On the side, there is a locking pawl 11 formed of an elastic piece approximately in the shape of a ■.
are integrally admonished.

On the other hand, locking portions 12 and 13 corresponding to the locking claws 10 and 11 are formed in the outer casing 1 at both ends of the battery storage portion 2 in the longitudinal direction.

Therefore, while the plate 9 is engaged with one of the locking portions 12 with the locking claw 10 on one end thereof, the plate 9 is held in the other locking portion 13 with the locking claw 11 on the other end. The plate 9 can be detachably attached to the opening 8 of the battery storage portion 2 by being pushed in against elasticity and locked.

However, the lever plate 9 is provided with a sled so that its central portion 15 in the longitudinal direction projects toward the inside of the battery storage section 2.

In other words, the plate 9 is curved in an arc shape as shown in FIG.

Further, in the central portion 15 of the plate 9, a long hole 16 is formed which extends to a predetermined length in the longitudinal direction approximately along the center of the width direction.

Therefore, the central portion 15 of the plate body 9 is divided into two parts in the width direction by the elongated hole 16, and the pair of divided plate parts 17a and 17b have a structure in which they can be bent independently of each other. It has become.

Further, on the inner surface 9a side of the plate 9, there are longitudinal ribs 18 extending longitudinally along the center of the plate 9 and the periphery of the elongated hole 16, and provided at predetermined intervals in the longitudinal direction of the plate 9. A lateral knob 19 extending in the width direction arranged in the lateral direction is integrally shaped.

Note that 20 shown in FIG. 3 is a rib for regulating the position of the battery array provided along the center of the bottom surface of the battery storage section 2.

In addition, as a method of forming the above-mentioned warp on the plate body 9, there is also a method of creating the warp in the mold itself for molding the plate body 9, but the mold itself is placed flat, and for example, the plate body 9
At the time of solidification during injection or molding, the inner surface 9a of the plate 9
The side is cooled down faster than the upper surface 9b side.
By selecting the shape of the plate 9, such as selecting the shape conditions, or selecting the shape, arrangement, number, etc. of the ribs 18, 19 formed on the inner surface 9a side, the warp described above can be reduced. It can be made extremely easily when shaping the body 9.

When such a method is adopted, it is easy to manufacture the mold, and the cost of making the mold can be reduced.

According to the battery storage device constructed as above, after storing the battery 3 in the battery storage section 2 as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2,
Before""! {f';% Sea urchin plate 9 with its both locking claws 10,1
1, the pair of lateral ribs 19a and 19b in the central portion 15 of the plate 9 will connect the batteries in the central portion of the two battery rows described above. 3a and 3b as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.

However, at this time, the plate 9 has the aforementioned warpage, and the horizontal ribs 19 a and 19 b are pressed onto the batteries 3 a and 3 b against the elasticity of the plate 9 exerted by the warp. .

As the central portion of the battery row is elastically pressed by these horizontal ribs 19a and 19b, the aforementioned battery row is shaped into a V shape at the central portion due to the pressing action from both sides by the leaf spring 4 and the coil spring 5. Inconveniences such as floating and the battery 3 rattling within the battery storage part 2 are reliably prevented.

Note that a dimensional error of approximately ±1 mm is recognized in the diameter of the battery 3.

Therefore, if two batteries 3 with different dimensions are tried to be held down simultaneously by one plate, only the one with the larger diameter will be held down, and the one with the smaller diameter will not be held down.

However, in this battery storage device, a long hole 16 is provided in the plate body 9, and a pair of plate pieces 17a, 1 that can be bent independently of each other are provided.
7b is provided, so even if the batteries 3a and 3b have different dimensions h, as shown in FIG. 7, the batteries 3a and 3b with different dimensions can be bent independently. The resulting pair of plate pieces 9a and 9b can be pressed together independently and extremely reliably and at the same time.

In other words, according to this plate 9, the batteries 3a in FIG.
It is possible to reliably absorb the variation h in the dimension of 3b and cope with the variation h.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, various modifications can be made based on the technical idea of the present invention.

For example, in the embodiment, the plate 9 is not used as a battery cover,
Although the top of the plate 9 is sealed with another battery cover, it is possible to configure the plate 9 itself as a battery cover.

However, in this case, in the plate body 9 formed with the elongated hole 16, the flexibility of paper, film, cloth, etc. is It is desirable to cover the elongated hole 16 with a member having the above-mentioned structure.

Furthermore, if two or more elongated holes 16 are provided at appropriate intervals in the width direction of the plate 9, three or more rows of batteries can be held extremely effectively as described above.

Furthermore, the present invention is not limited to battery storage devices;
For example, it can be applied to a storage device for various items other than batteries provided in the outer casing of an electronic device, and can hold various items stored in the item storage section in exactly the same manner as described above.

As described above, the present invention includes a plate body which is detachably attached to the article storage section and is made of resin or a resin, and a sled that protrudes toward the inside of the article storage section is provided on the plate body.
Since the structure is designed to press down the items stored in the item storage section by utilizing the elastic effect of the warp of the plate, there is no need to attach a cushion like the battery cover in conventional battery storage devices. The object can be held down extremely effectively by the plate itself (only the plate), which is a single component.

Moreover, since the warpage of the plate can be made extremely easily depending on certain shape conditions and shapes, processing of this plate is extremely easy and does not result in high costs.

Therefore, the number of parts and assembly man-hours are small, and productivity is high.
It is also low cost.

Moreover, according to the present invention, at least one elongated hole is provided in the plate body along the direction of the warp, so that at least a pair of plate pieces divided by the elongated hole can bend independently of each other. Since the structure is a combination of warping and long holes, the elastic effect of the warping of the plate can be used to hold down multiple articles stored in the article storage section at the same time. Even if there are variations in height relative to each other, the plurality of articles can be held down independently and simultaneously by the plate pieces very reliably and simultaneously.

In other words, by the independent bending action of each plate piece, the above-mentioned height variations can be reliably absorbed, and an extremely effective article holding function can be achieved in response to the height variations. be.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a battery storage device, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view and Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1 II.
- II sectional view, Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken along Fig. 1 III-III line, Fig. 4 is a plan view of the plate, Fig. 5 is a bottom view of the plate, Fig. 6 is Fig. 4 VI-VI FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the variation in dimensions of the battery and how it is held down. Also, in the symbols used in the drawings, 2 is a battery storage part, 3 is a battery, 9 is a plate, 16 is a long hole, 17 a17
b is a divided plate piece portion.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A plate that can be detachably attached to the article storage section is shaped with resin or resin, a sled is provided on this plate that protrudes toward the inside of the article storage section, and a sled is provided on this plate in the direction of the sled. At least one elongated hole is provided along the length of the article so that at least a pair of plate pieces divided by the elongated hole can bend independently of each other, and the warp of the plate allows the article to be stored in the article storage section. An article storage device configured to hold down articles, and at the same time to be able to hold down the articles independently of each other with each of the plate portions.