TWI407618B - Battery cover locking structure - Google Patents

Abstract

A battery cover locking structure is provided. The battery cover locking structure is used to locking a battery cover on a body. The battery cover locking structure includes a body, a battery cover, a button, a spring and a button housing. The body has a first block. The button has a second block. The second block is engaged with the first block. One end of the spring supports the button, the other supports the button housing. The button is slideably mounted on the button housing.

Description

Battery cover lock structure

The invention relates to a battery cover latch structure, in particular to a battery cover latch structure applied to a portable electronic device such as a mobile phone.

Portable electronic devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) are increasingly used, and batteries that provide energy for portable electronic devices have to be replaced with energy consumption, so that people can easily install batteries. Many battery cover card lock structures have been designed.

The battery cover latch structure of the portable electronic device of the prior art is mostly directly elastically fastened to the body, that is, an elastic card is disposed on the battery cover, and a card slot is correspondingly disposed on the body, and the battery is directly installed during installation. The cover is disposed on the body, and the battery cover is pressed firmly until the elastic card is elastically deformed and then engaged in the card slot. When the battery cover needs to be disassembled, the battery cover needs to be pulled until the card is pulled.脱离 It can be detached from the card slot.

However, this type of battery cover is laborious and inconvenient to disassemble, and the excessive force may damage the card cover of the battery cover, and even fall to the ground together with the portable electronic device, causing damage to the portable electronic device.

In view of the above, it is necessary to provide a battery cover latch structure that makes the battery cover and the body snap-fit and is easy to operate.

A battery cover latch structure includes a body, a battery cover, a button, an elastic component and a a button holder fixed on the battery cover, the body has a first block, the button has a second block, the second block and the first block are engaged with each other, and the elastic element is resisted at one end On the button, the other end of the elastic member abuts against the button seat, and the button is slidably mounted on the button seat.

Compared with the prior art, the battery cover latch structure of the present invention fixes the battery cover by engaging the second block of the button with the first block of the body by sliding the button on the button base. On the body, you can unlock it by simply pressing the button when disassembling.

10‧‧‧Battery cover lock structure

111‧‧‧Upper wall

113‧‧‧ bottom wall

115‧‧‧ right wall

117‧‧‧Snap fasteners

1181‧‧‧Resistance

12‧‧‧ battery cover

122‧‧‧Wall

124‧‧‧through hole

13‧‧‧ button

1311‧‧‧ Slider

1313‧‧‧Bevel

14‧‧‧ button seat

142‧‧‧second trough

144‧‧‧ bottom

146‧‧‧Hot melt hole

11‧‧‧ body

112‧‧‧The lower wall

114‧‧‧Left wall

116‧‧‧ accommodating slots

118‧‧‧First card block

119‧‧ ‧stop

121‧‧‧ bottom wall

123‧‧‧ hook

125‧‧‧Hot-melt column

131‧‧‧ Press plate

1312‧‧‧Second block

132‧‧‧Slide board

141‧‧‧first slot

143‧‧‧ openings

145‧‧ ‧ chute

15‧‧‧Flexible components

1 is a perspective exploded view of a battery cover latch structure according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a battery cover latch structure according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 3 is a preferred embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing the battery cover latch structure shown in FIG. 3; FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing the unlocking of the battery cover latch structure shown in FIG.

The invention discloses a battery cover latch structure, which is suitable for a portable electronic device such as a mobile phone. In the embodiment, a mobile phone is taken as an example for description.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2 , the battery cover latch structure 10 of the present invention includes a body 11 , a battery cover 12 , a button 13 , a button holder 14 and an elastic member 15 .

The body 11 has an upper wall 111, a lower wall 112 opposite to the upper wall 111, a bottom wall 113, and left and right side walls 114, 115 connecting the upper wall 111 and the lower wall 112. The upper wall 111, the lower wall 112, the bottom wall 113, the left side wall 114 and the right side wall 115 enclose a rectangular receiving groove 116 for accommodating the battery and electronic components (not shown) of the mobile phone. The bottom wall 113 faces the receiving slot One of the first side of the lower wall 112 is symmetrically protruded from the second side of the lower wall 112. The end of the latching member 117 has a first block 118. The first block 118 has a resisting surface 1181 away from one side of the bottom wall 113. The left and right side walls 114 and 115 protrude toward the one side of the accommodating groove 116 to form two stoppers 119.

The battery cover 12 is used to cover the receiving slot 116 of the body 11 to shield the battery and the electronic components. The battery cover 12 has a substantially rectangular sheet shape and has a bottom wall 121 and a peripheral wall 122 bent from a periphery of the bottom wall 121. The long side of the bottom wall 121 of the battery cover 12 is adjacent to the peripheral wall 122 and symmetrically protrudes from two "L" shaped hooks 123 for hooking on the stopper 119. One of the peripheral walls 122 of the battery cover 12 has a through hole 124 formed through a short side thereof. The battery cover 12 protrudes from the through hole 124 to protrude from the heat-melting column 125.

The button 13 has a pressing plate 131 and a sliding plate 132 vertically connected to the pressing plate 131. The sliding plate 132 is a rectangular plate body with a slider 1311 protruding therefrom. Two second blocks 1312 are symmetrically protruded from the sliding plate 132 between the slider 1311 and the pressing plate 131. The top of the second block 1312 is a slope 1313 that abuts against the abutting surface 1181 of the first block 1224.

The button holder 14 is substantially a rectangular plate body having a first slot 141 defined therein. The shape and size of the first groove 141 is substantially equivalent to the shape and size of the elastic member 15 for accommodating the elastic member 15. The button holder 14 defines a second slot 142 adjacent to the first slot 141. The second slot 142 communicates with the first slot 141 to form a slot bottom 144 and a rectangular opening 143 is formed at an edge of the button holder 14. The shape and size of the second slot 142 is substantially the same as the shape and size of the sliding plate 132 of the button 13 so that the sliding plate 132 is slidably received in the second slot 142. The slot bottom 144 defines a sliding slot 145 for the slider 1311 to be slidably received in the sliding slot 145. The two ends of the button holder 14 respectively define a hot melt hole 146 corresponding to the heat-melting column 125 of the body 11.

In the present embodiment, the elastic member 15 is a rectangular elastic body, such as rubber or foam, which is received in the first groove 141. The elastic member 15 has one end abutting against the button seat 14 and the other end abutting against the sliding plate 132 of the button 13.

Referring to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, in the assembly, the elastic member 15 is first received in the first groove 141; then the sliding plate 132 is partially received in the second groove 142, and the pressing plate 131 is exposed. Outside the opening 143, at this time, the slider 1311 is slidably received in the sliding slot 145, and the elastic member 15 is preset in pressure, one end of which abuts against the button seat 14, and the other end abuts against the sliding of the button 13. The plate holder 132 is finally mounted on the battery cover 12 with the first slot 141 away from the body 11 at this time. At this time, the heat-melting column 125 is sleeved in the hot-melt hole 146. And the fuse is integrally formed, and the button 13 is partially received on the through hole 124, so that the battery cover latch structure 10 is installed.

When the battery cover 12 is to be placed on the body 11, the battery cover 12 is first aligned with the receiving slot 116, and the hook 123 of the battery cover 12 is hooked on the stop 119; The battery cover 12 is rotated toward the body 11 by the connection of the two hooks 123 until the second block 1312 abuts against the first block 118 of the latching member 117; finally, the battery cover 12 is pressed to make the second The block 1312 is elastically deformed by the sliding fit of the inclined surface 1313 and the resisting surface 119, so that the second block 1312 slides away from the first block 118 of the latching member 117 to restore deformation, thereby clamping the latching member 117. The first block 118 is at the bottom of the second block 1312.

When the battery cover 12 is to be opened, only the pressing plate 131 of the button 13 is pressed, so that the button 13 slides against the elastic force of the elastic member 15 toward the accommodating groove 115 until the first block 118 of the locking member 117 is removed from the second card. The bottom of the block 1312 is disengaged. At this time, after the button 13 is released, the latching member 117 is automatically disengaged from the second block 1312 by the sliding fit of the inclined surface 1313 and the resisting surface 119.

It can be understood that the button seat 14 can also be screwed onto the battery cover 12.

It can be understood that the button seat 14 can also be adhered to the battery cover 12.

The battery cover latch structure 10 of the present invention locks the battery cover 12 by the sliding of the button 13 on the button base 14 so that the second block 1312 of the button 13 is engaged with the latching member 117 of the body 11. On the body 11, it is only necessary to gently press the button 13 to unlock when disassembling.

In summary, the present invention complies with the requirements of the invention patent and submits a patent application according to law. The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and equivalent modifications or variations made by those skilled in the art in light of the spirit of the present invention are It should be covered by the following patent application.

10‧‧‧Battery cover lock structure

111‧‧‧Upper wall

113‧‧‧ bottom wall

115‧‧‧ right wall

117‧‧‧Snap fasteners

1181‧‧‧Resistance

12‧‧‧ battery cover

131‧‧‧ Press plate

14‧‧‧ button seat

142‧‧‧second trough

144‧‧‧ bottom

146‧‧‧Hot melt hole

11‧‧‧ body

112‧‧‧The lower wall

114‧‧‧Left wall

116‧‧‧ accommodating slots

118‧‧‧First card block

119‧‧ ‧stop

13‧‧‧ button

132‧‧‧Slide board

141‧‧‧first slot

143‧‧‧ openings

145‧‧ ‧ chute

15‧‧‧Flexible components

Claims (7)

A battery cover latch structure includes a body, a battery cover, a button and an elastic component, the body has a first block, the button has a second block, the second block and the first The card member is engaged with each other, and the elastic member is abutted on the button. The battery cover latching structure further includes a button holder fixed on the battery cover, and the other end of the elastic member is resisted by the button cover. The button seat is slidably mounted on the button base, and the button base defines a first slot for receiving the elastic component therein. The battery cover latching structure of claim 1, wherein the button seat defines a second slot adjacent to the first slot, the second slot is in communication with the first slot, and the button is slidably received Placed in the second tank. The battery cover latching structure of claim 2, wherein the slot of the first slot and the second slot defines a slot, the button corresponding to the protruding slider, the slider slidably receiving In the chute. The battery cover latch structure according to claim 3, wherein the first block has a resisting surface, and the second block has a slope, and the slope abuts against the abutting surface. The battery cover latching structure of claim 1, wherein the bottom wall of the battery cover has a through hole for receiving the button therein. The battery cover latch structure according to claim 1, wherein the elastic member is a foam or rubber. The battery cover latching structure of claim 1, wherein the battery cover protrudes from a heat-melting column, and the button seat defines a hot-melt hole corresponding to the heat-melting column, and the hot-melt column is sleeved and hot. Melted into the hot melt hole.