KR100721175B1 - Slide apparatus for mobile device - Google Patents

Abstract

The slide device of the mobile device according to the present invention includes a guide member 10 coupled to any one of the upper body 70 and the lower body 80 of the mobile device, and the upper body 70 and the lower body 80. It is coupled to any one of the slide member 20 is slidably installed on the guide member 10 and a pusher 30 for pushing the slide member 20 to slide. In addition, the pusher 30 may include a first body 40 having one end coupled to one side of the guide member 10 and one end coupled to one side of the slide member 20 and mutually slide with the first body 40. The second body 50 to be coupled, and one end is coupled to the first body 40 and the other end includes a coil spring (61, 62, 63) is coupled to the second body (50). In this configuration, when the first and second bodies 40 and 50 slide with each other by the elastic force of the coil springs 61, 62 and 63, the guide member 10 and the slide member 20 are first and second. In cooperation with the second body 40, 50 is mutually slide.

Mobile devices, slide devices, pushers, coil springs

Description

Slide apparatus for mobile device

1 is an exploded perspective view schematically showing a slide device of a mobile device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is an exploded perspective view showing the main components of the slide device of the mobile device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a front view showing a state in which the slide device of the mobile device according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention is assembled.

4A to 4C are front views illustrating the operation of the slide device of the mobile device according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10 ... guide member 20 ... slide member

30 ... Pusher 40, 50 ... Article 1,2 Body

41,51 ... Government 42,52 ... Fixing process

43,53 ... first coupling 44,54 ... second coupling

43a, 44a, 53a, 54a ... slide grooves 43b, 44b, 53b, 54b

45,55 ... spring support 46,47,56,57 ... engagement protrusion

61,62,63 ... coil spring

The present invention relates to a slide device of a mobile device, and more particularly to a slide device of a mobile device with improved durability and operational stability.

In general, mobile devices include a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a smartphone, and the like, and are commonly provided with a plurality of operation buttons and a display window.

As an example of such a mobile device, a mobile phone is classified into a bar type, a flip type, a folder type, a slide type, and the like according to the appearance and location of the handset. In the early stages of the launch of mobile phones, the bar and flip-types became the mainstream, but now the display and the folding type are mainstream as various display functions and miniaturization are required.

Among these, the slide-type mobile phone is composed of a lower body to which the operation button is mounted, and an upper body to which the display window is installed and slidably installed with the lower body. Such a slide type mobile phone is more suitable for a wide display window because it is more convenient to operate and a display window is exposed to the outside than a folder type that needs to flip a folder close to 180 degrees to operate a call or an operation button.

Due to these various advantages, the demand for slide-type mobile phones continues to increase, and various models are continuously released. In addition, the development of a slide device for sliding the upper body and the lower body to each other has been made steadily.

Korean Utility Model Registration No. 20-0350313 discloses a basic structure of a slide device.

The slide device disclosed in Korean Utility Model Publication No. 20-0350313 includes a guide member mounted on the upper body and having a pair of guide rails, a slide member mounted on the lower body and slidably installed on the guide member. It comprises a pair of torsion springs installed between the guide member and the slide member to slide the slide member semi-automatically.

In the slide device having such a configuration, when the user pushes only about half of the maximum moving distance, the guide member and the slide member slide with each other by the elastic force of the torsion spring, and the upper body semi-automatically moves the remaining distance.

However, in the conventional slide device, since the guide member and the slide member slide mutually while the torsion spring repeats bending deformation and elastic restoration, the torsion spring may be deformed or damaged when used for a long time, thereby making the slide operation of the mobile device stable. Will not be done.

In addition, when a torsion spring like the conventional slide device is used in a mobile device having a relatively large size of the upper body and the lower body such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), there is a problem that the slide operation between the upper body and the lower body is not smooth. .

The present invention is to solve the above problems, even if used for a long time operation performance is not degraded, the upper body and the lower body is applied to a relatively large mobile device is a mobile device slide device that can perform a smooth slide operation The purpose is to provide.

Slide device of a mobile device according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a guide member coupled to any one of the upper body and the lower body of the mobile device, and coupled to any one of the upper body and the lower body and the guide A slide member slidably mounted to the member, and a pusher for pushing the slide member to slide. The pusher may include a first body having one end coupled to one side of the guide member, a second body coupled to one side of the slide member and sliding with the first body, and one end of the pusher. It is coupled to the first body and the other end includes a coil spring coupled to the second body. In this configuration, when the first and second bodies slide together by the elastic force of the coil spring, the guide member and the slide member slide together with the first and second bodies.

Here, at least one of the first and second bodies may have a slide groove, and at least one of the first and second bodies may have a coupling protrusion inserted into the slide groove and slid.

And, each of the body, the fixing portion having a fixing projection that is rotatably coupled to the guide member or the slide member, respectively, and the first and second coupling portion coupled to face each other on both sides of the fixing portion And a spring support coupled to at least one of the first and second coupling portions so as to face the fixing portion, and the slide groove is provided on at least one of the first and second coupling portions. Coupling protrusion may be provided on at least one of the first and second coupling portion.

In addition, the end of the engaging projection is provided with a head portion larger than the width of the slide groove, at least one of the first and second coupling portion coupling hole larger than the width of the slide groove so that the head portion can be inserted It may be provided to be connected to the slide groove.

In addition, the spring support may be provided with a spring coupling groove to which the end of the coil spring is coupled.

Hereinafter, a slide device of a mobile device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is an exploded perspective view schematically showing a slide device of a mobile device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view showing the main components of the slide device of a mobile device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention 3 is a front view illustrating a assembled state of a slide device of a mobile device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Figure 1, the slide device of a mobile device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the guide member 10, the slide member 20 is slidably coupled to the guide member 10, the guide member And a pusher 30 for pushing the slide member 20 coupled to the 10 to slide.

The guide member 10 includes a pair of guide bars 11 and 12 for slidably supporting the slide member 20, and the slide member 20 slides together with the guide bars 11 and 12. It has a plurality of guide ribs (13) to guide the. One side of the guide member 10 is provided with a fixing hole (14).

The slide member 20 includes a pair of guide holes 21 and 22 into which the guide bars 11 and 12 of the guide member 10 are inserted, and a pair of guides corresponding to the guide ribs 13. It has a groove 23. A fixing hole 24 is provided at one side of the slide member 20.

The pusher 30 has a first body 40 coupled to one side of the guide member 10, and a second body 50 coupled to one side of the slide member 20 and coupled to slide with the first body 40. And a plurality of coil springs 61, 62, 63 coupled to both ends of the first body 40 and the second body 50, respectively.

As shown in FIG. 2, the first body 40 and the second body 50 have the same structure, and each of the fixing parts 41 and 51 having the fixing protrusions 42 and 52, respectively, First coupling portions 43 and 53 and second coupling portions 44 and 54 coupled to opposite sides of each of the fixing portions 41 and 51, respectively, and each of the fixing portions 41 and 51. ) And spring support parts 45 and 55 coupled to each of the first coupling parts 43 and 53 so as to face each other.

Coupling protrusions 46, 47, 56, 57 protrude from each end of the first coupling portion 43, 53 and the second coupling portion 44, 54 of each body 40, 50. And slide grooves 53a and 54a into which the engaging projections 46, 47, 56 and 57 are inserted and slid into the middle portions of the engaging portions 43, 44, 53 and 54, respectively. 43a and 44a are provided. At each end of each of the engaging projections 46, 47, 56 and 57, heads 46a, 47a and 56a larger than the widths of the corresponding slide grooves 53a, 54a, 43a and 44a are provided. 57a, a coupling hole 53b, 54b into which each of the heads 46a, 47a, 56a, 57a can be inserted into each of the coupling parts 43, 44, 53, and 54. (43b) 44b is provided to be connected to each slide groove (53a) (54a) (43a) (44a).

Due to this structure, each of the engaging projections 46, 47, 56 and 57 has its heads 46a, 47a, 56a and 57a having respective coupling holes 53b, 54b, 43b and 44b. It is inserted through each of the slide grooves 53a, 54a, 43a, 44a so as to be slidably inserted. Here, each of the engaging projections 46, 47, 56, 57, each head 46a, 47a (56a) (57a) is each slide groove (53a) (54a) 43a (44a) Since it is larger than the width of (), it is not easily separated from each slide groove (53a) (54a) (43a) 44a.

Each spring support part 45, 55 is provided with spring coupling grooves 45a and 55a to which end portions of the respective coil springs 61, 62 and 63 are coupled.

In the central portion of each body 40, 50, a fixed portion 41, 51, a pair of coupling portions 43, 44, 53, 54, and spring support 45, 55 A space surrounded by the second body 50 is provided, and the second body 50 has the first body 40 rotated 180 degrees about an imaginary center line C connecting the coupling parts 43 and 44. It is coupled with the first body 40 so that the space overlaps. That is, the upper surface of the first coupling portion 43 of the first body 40 and the upper surface of the first coupling portion 53 of the second body 50 overlap the second coupling portion 44 of the first body 40. In the position where the upper surface and the upper surface of the second coupling portion 54 of the second body 50 overlap each other, each of the engaging projections 46 and 47 of the first body 40 is each coupled to the second body 50. It is inserted into each slide groove (53a) (53b) through the holes (53b) (54b), each engaging projection (56) (57) of the second body 50 is each engaging hole (1) of the first body (40) It is inserted into each slide groove 43a, 44a through 43b) 44b.

Each coil spring 61, 62, 63 has one end coupled to the spring support 45 of the first body 40 and the other end of the spring support 55 of the second body 50. By being coupled to, the first body 40 and the second body 50 are connected to each other to be pulled.

The assembled pusher 30 has the fixing protrusion 42 of the first body 40 fixed hole of the guide member 10 in a state where the guide member 10 and the slide member 20 are slidably coupled to each other. The guide member is rotatably inserted into the 14 and the fixing protrusion 52 of the second body 50 is rotatably inserted into the fixing hole 24 of the slide member 20, as shown in FIG. 3. Connect the 10 and the slide member 20 to interact with each other. That is, when the slide member 20 slides in the guide member 10, the first and second bodies 40 and 50 (see FIG. 2) of the pusher 30 also slide in association with each other. (61; see FIG. 2) The elastic restoring force generated at this time while the 62, 63 elastically deforms to pull the guide member 10 and the slide member 20 to each other.

Then, the guide member 10 is coupled to the upper body 70 of the mobile device, the slide member 20 is coupled to the lower body 80 of the mobile device, thereby, the upper body 70 and the lower body ( 80 are coupled to slide together.

Hereinafter, the operation of the slide device for a mobile phone according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to Figures 4a to 4c.

4A to 4C are front views illustrating the operation of the slide device of the mobile device according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4A, the slide member 20 is positioned above the guide member 10 at an initial position where no external force is applied. In this position, each of the coil springs 61, 62, 63 is in an unextended initial state and the fixing portion 41 of the first body 40 of the pusher 30 and the fixing portion of the second body 50. The separation distance between the 51 is the maximum. In this case, the upper body 70 (see FIG. 2) of the mobile phone is in a state of covering an operation button (not shown) provided in the lower body 80 (see FIG. 2).

In this initial state, when the slide member 20 or the guide member 10 receives an external force and the slide member 20 slides along the guide member 10, the first body 40 and the second body of the pusher 30 are moved. The body 50 also slides in conjunction with each other, so that each coil spring 61, 62, 63 is extended.

And, as shown in Figure 4b, when the slide member 20 comes to the approximately center position of the guide member 10, the elongated length of each coil spring 61, 62, 63 is the maximum and the first The separation distance between the fixing portion 41 of the body 40 and the fixing portion 51 of the second body 50 is minimal. At this time, the slide member 20 is a state that can be pushed in the upper direction or the lower direction by the elastic restoring force of each coil spring (61, 62, 63).

In this state, when the slide member 20 is biased downward due to an external force, each of the coil springs 61, 62, 63 is elastically restored and the first body 40 and the second body 50 are separated from each other. Slide in the direction of each other. At the same time, the slide member 20 is semi-automatically slide toward the lower portion of the guide member 10 in conjunction with the slide movement of each body (40) (50).

Therefore, as shown in Figure 4c, the slide member 20 is moved to a lower position of the guide member 10, at this time, the upper body 70 of the mobile device is raised to the upper portion of the lower body 80 The operation button provided on the lower body 80 is opened.

As described above, in the state where the upper body 70 of the mobile device is raised to the upper portion of the lower body 80, the pusher 30 prevents the upper body 70 from descending to the lower portion of the lower body 80. Support.

On the other hand, when the upper body 70 receives the external force in the downward direction and the guide member 10 slides in the downward direction, each coil spring 61, 62, 63 of the pusher 30 is stretched and then elastically restored to its original state. While the upper body 70 slides semi-automatically to cover the lower body (80).

According to the present invention described above, since the upper body and the lower body of the mobile device is semi-automatically slide by a plurality of coil springs resistant to deformation and breakage, the slide operation can be performed smoothly even if used for a long time.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the guide member and the slide member are connected to the coil spring so that the mutual slide movement force between them is large, a stable slide operation can be made even if the body is applied to a large mobile device.

The present invention described above is not limited to the configuration and operation as illustrated and described. That is, the riding device for a mobile device according to the present invention can be variously changed and modified within the spirit and scope of the claims.

Claims (5)

A guide member coupled to any one of an upper body and a lower body of a mobile device, a slide member coupled to any one of the upper body and the lower body, and slidably installed on the guide member, and the slide member slides. In the slide device of a mobile device comprising a pusher, The pusher includes a first body having one end coupled to one side of the guide member, a second body coupled to one side of the slide member and sliding with the first body, and one end of the first body. A coil spring coupled to the second end and coupled to the second body; Each of the body, the fixing portion having a fixing projection rotatably coupled to the guide member or the slide member, respectively, the first and second coupling portion coupled to face each other on both sides of the fixing portion, A spring support coupled to any one of the first and second coupling portions so as to face the fixing portion, and slide grooves are provided at one side of the first and second coupling portions, respectively, and the first and second coupling portions are provided. The other side of the part is provided with a coupling protrusion which is inserted into the slide groove of the other body, respectively, And the guide member and the slide member slide together with the first and second bodies when the first and second bodies slide with each other by the elastic force of the coil spring. delete delete The method of claim 1, An end portion of the coupling protrusion is provided with a head larger than the width of the slide groove, and at least one of the first and second coupling portions has a coupling hole larger than the width of the slide groove so that the head can be inserted into the slide. Slide device of a mobile device, characterized in that it is provided to be connected to the groove. The method of claim 1, Each spring support unit is a slide device of a mobile device, characterized in that the spring coupling groove is coupled to the end of the coil spring is provided.

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