TWI412670B - Connecting member - Google Patents

Abstract

A connecting member includes an elongated main body. The elongated main body defines a first though hole extending along a direction paralleling with the axis of the elongated main body. The main body also defines a plurality of shrink slots communicating with the first through hole. A supporting body is formed between two adjacent shrink slots for insulating the said two shrink slots. An extending plane is defined by a point of the supporting body and the axis of the elongated main body slits the side wall of the elongated main body, and a line on the cross-section of the side wall extending along the direction of the axis of the elongated main body passes through at least a shrink slot. The shrink slots will shrink when bearing axial pressure, the length of the elongated main body will decrease, such that a distance between two items that the connecting member connected can be adjusted.

Description

Connector

The invention relates to a connector.

A stud is a mechanical part used for assembly that can be attached to two objects, typically made of a metal material.

a stud for connecting a first workpiece and a second workpiece, the stud comprising a cylinder and a stud head disposed at one end of the cylinder, the cylinder being provided with a lateral groove near the end of the stud head, the cylinder being close to The surface of the stud head is provided with a rolling pattern of a suitable length, and the cylindrical body is provided with a threaded hole away from one end of the stud head, and the stud head is a hexagonal protrusion. When the stud is used, the end of the stud head is riveted and fixed to the riveting hole on the first object, and the rolling pattern and the lateral groove on the surface of the cylinder prevent the stud from slipping or loosening, and the thread of the other end of the stud is threaded. The hole cooperates with the screw to fix the second object to the stud.

However, the length of the stud is a fixed length, and after connecting the two workpieces, the distance between the two workpieces is the length of the stud. During assembly, the length tolerance of the stud itself accumulates with the error during assembly, which may cause the distance between the first workpiece and the second workpiece to not meet the requirements. For products with higher requirements on the parallelism of two objects, such as monitors, if multiple studs are used to connect the front frame and the rear frame, due to assembly errors, the distance between the frame and the rear frame is often different between the positions where the different studs are connected. Equal, resulting in non-parallel between the front and rear frames, it is difficult to meet product requirements.

In view of the above, it is necessary to provide an effective elimination of assembly errors. Connector.

A connector that includes a post. a first through hole is defined in the column body, and a plurality of contracting grooves communicating with the first through hole are formed in the outer wall of the column of the connecting member, the shrinking groove is curved and extends in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the column. A support body is formed between the adjacent two shrink grooves to separate the two shrink grooves; the shrink grooves on the same circumference are at least two and are symmetrically distributed along the axis of the column or uniformly distributed in the circumferential direction, and the plural shrinkage The grooves make the two supporting bodies adjacent to each other along the axis of the cylinder staggered from each other; any point on the supporting body and the axis of the cylinder determine an extending plane, the extending plane longitudinally cuts the column, and the side wall of the column is longitudinally cut by the extending plane On the longitudinal section, any one of the lines extending in the direction of the cylinder axis through the arbitrary point passes through at least one contraction groove.

When the cylinder of the connecting member is subjected to the axial pressure, the shrinking groove will contract, so that the axial dimension of the cylinder is reduced, and the distance between the two objects connected by the connecting member is further adjusted, thereby eliminating the assembly of the connecting member during assembly. error.

The connecting member of the present invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 4 , the connecting member 20 of the embodiment of the present invention includes a column 22 and a connecting portion 26 , and the connecting portion 26 is formed at one end of the column 22 . In this embodiment, the connecting member 20 is a stud.

The shape of the cylinder 22 may be one of a cylindrical shape, a prism shape, and the like. In the present embodiment, the cylinder 22 is cylindrical. The column 22 is provided with a connected first A through hole 224 and a second through hole 226. The aperture of the first through hole 224 is larger than the aperture of the second through hole 226, and the side wall of the second through hole 226 is provided with a thread 225. The second through hole 226 is located at one end of the column 22 near the connecting portion 26 , and the first through hole 224 is located at one end of the column 22 away from the connecting portion 26 . An annular groove 222 is defined in the outer wall of the cylinder 22 near the connecting portion 26.

The outer wall of one end of the column 22 away from the connecting portion 26 is provided with a plurality of shrink grooves 228 which are curved and centered on the axis of the column 22. The shrink groove 228 extends in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder 22, and the shrink groove 228 is in communication with the first through hole 224, that is, the shrink groove 228 penetrates the side wall of the column 22. The edge of the shrink groove 228 is at a right angle. Of course, the edge of the shrink groove 228 can also be rounded. Each of the three contraction grooves 228 is evenly distributed on the same circumference of the cylinder 22, wherein the adjacent two contraction grooves 228 are separated by a support body 229. In this embodiment, the three contraction grooves 228 on the same circumference are distributed at an angle of 120 degrees with respect to the axis of the cylinder 22, and the angle between the center of the adjacent two contraction grooves 228 to the axial direction of the column 22 in the axial direction of the column 22 At 60 degrees, at this time, the outer wall of the cylinder 22 passing through any of the support bodies 229 and extending along the axis of the cylinder will pass through at least one shrink groove. When the cylinder 22 is subjected to the pressure in the axial direction, the support body 229 is pressed against the contraction groove 228, and the contraction groove 228 is deformed so that the length in the axial direction of the cylinder 22 is reduced, so that the height of the cylinder 22 is changed. Small, the pressure is removed, and the height of the cylinder 22 is restored.

An extension plane is now defined which passes through the support body 229 and the axis of the cylinder 22, i.e., the plane of extension is defined by a point on the support body 229 (not shown) and the axis of the cylinder 22. The extending plane slitting cylinder 22 is formed on a longitudinal section formed by the longitudinal direction of the extending plane of the pillar 22, and a line extending along the axial direction of the cylinder 22 through any one of the above points At least one shrink groove 228 is passed through. Of course, the point can be any point on the support body 229, and the above condition can be satisfied. The connecting portion 26 is a hexagonal protrusion extending from the end of the column 22 along the radial direction of the first through hole 224. It is used for fixing the connecting member 20 to the combined object (not shown), and the connecting and fixing manner can be one of snapping, riveting and welding. In this embodiment, the connection portion 26 and the joint member are connected by riveting.

Referring to FIG. 5, the connector 20 is shown as an embodiment of the present invention for connecting and fixing the first object 40 and the second object 50. In the present embodiment, the first object 40 is the front frame of the display, and the second object 50 is the rear frame of the display. The first object 40 and the second object 50 are fixedly connected by the screw 30 and the connecting member 20.

The screw 30 includes a screw 32 and a nut 34 disposed at one end of the screw 32. The screw 32 is provided with a thread 322. Thread 322 is used to mate with thread 225 of connector 20 to thread screw 30 and connector 20.

The first object 40 is provided with a through hole 402 through which the screw 30 is passed. The second member 50 is provided with a staking hole 502 for riveting with the connecting portion 26 of the connecting member 20 to fix the connecting member 20 to the second member 50.

When the first object 40 and the second object 50 are fixedly connected, first, the connecting member 20 corresponds to the riveting hole 502 of the second object 50, and the connecting portion 26 of the connecting member 20 is riveted into the riveting hole 502. At this time, the outer end surface of the connecting portion 26 of the connecting member 20 is flush with the surface of the second object 50, and the material around the riveting hole 502 of the object 50 flows into the annular groove 222 of the connecting member 20 when riveting, so that the connection is made. The combination of the piece 20 and the object 50 is closer. Next, will be the first The object 40 is placed at one end of the connecting member 20 away from the connecting portion 26, and the through hole 402 of the first object 40 corresponds to the first through hole 224 of the connecting member 20. Next, the screw 32 of the screw 30 is sequentially passed through the through hole 402 of the first object 40 and the first through hole 224 and the second through hole 226 of the connecting member 20, and the screw 322 of the screw 32 of the screw 30 and the connecting member 20 are connected. The threads 225 are screwed together. Finally, the degree to which the screw 30 and the connecting member 20 are screwed together is appropriately adjusted, so that the height of the column 22 can be adjusted, thereby adjusting the distance between the first object 40 and the second object 50.

The connecting member 20 is provided with a shrinking groove 228 which is partially pressed by the first object 40 when the screw 32 of the screw 30 is screwed with the connecting member 20, and can be elastically deformed, so that the height of the column 22 can be adjusted, thereby being changeable. The distance between the first object 40 and the second object 50 eliminates the assembly error between the connector 20 and the screw 30 and the first object 40 and the second object 50 to be between the first object 40 and the second object 50. The distance meets the design requirements. At the same time, when the first object 40 and the second object 50 are connected by using the plurality of connecting members 20, the relative distance between the first object 40 and the second object 50 can be adjusted by adjusting the height of the column 22 of each connecting member 20, thereby The parallelism between the first object 40 and the second object satisfies the design requirements. The screw 32 of the screw 30 is matched with the thread 225 of the second through hole 226 through the first through hole 224. After the assembly is completed, the main force is applied to the second through hole 226 of the cylinder 22, so the opening of the shrink groove 228 It also does not affect the strength of the cylinder. In addition, when the connecting member 20 is subjected to vibration, the column 22 is also elastically deformed, so that the connecting member 20 has a shock absorbing function.

It can be understood that the arrangement of the shrink grooves 228 is not limited to the arrangement of the above embodiment, and only two support bodies 229 adjacent in the axial direction of the cylinder 22 are required. Staggered. There may be two shrink grooves 228 on the same circumference. At this time, the two shrink grooves 228 are symmetrically distributed with respect to the axis of the column 22. The two shrink grooves 228 are separated by the support 229 along the axis of the column 22. In the direction, the adjacent two supports 229 are staggered from each other. Of course, the shrink grooves 228 on the same circumference may also be four or more. The shrinking groove 228 is not limited to be opened at one end of the column 22 away from the connecting portion 26 , and may be opened at the middle of the column 22 or near one end of the connecting portion 26 . When the shrinking groove 228 is opened in the column 22 and close to the connecting portion 26 At one end, the first through hole 224 is correspondingly formed at one end of the column 22 away from the connecting portion 26.

It can be understood that the connecting member 20 is not limited to include the connecting portion 26, the groove 222 and the thread 225, and the connecting portion 26, the groove 222 and the thread 225 can be omitted or replaced by other structures, and the structure can be used to make the connecting member 20 and the first The object 40 and the second object 50 are connected and fixed, and the cylinder 22 of the connecting member 20 is elastically deformed between the first object 40 and the second object 50. For example, a thread may be provided on the outer surface of the cylinder 22 of the connecting member 20, and a screw hole is provided in the second object 50, and the screw hole cooperates with the thread of the cylinder 20 to make the connecting member 20 and the second object 50 The screwing and screwing of the connecting member 20 between the first object 40 and the second object 50 is performed. Alternatively, a screw hole may be disposed on the second object 50, and the thread 322 of the screw 30 passes through the first object 40 and the connecting member 20 and is screwed with the screw hole of the second object 50, so that the first object 40 and the first object 40 are The two objects 50 are fixedly connected and the connecting member 20 can be elastically deformed between the first object 40 and the second object 50.

In summary, the present invention has indeed met the requirements of the invention patent, and has filed a patent application according to law. However, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it is not possible to limit the scope of the patent application of the present invention. Familiar with this Equivalent modifications or variations made by those skilled in the art in light of the spirit of the invention are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.

20‧‧‧Connecting parts

222‧‧‧ annular groove

224‧‧‧ first through hole

225‧‧‧ thread

226‧‧‧second through hole

228‧‧‧Shrinking groove

229‧‧‧Support

26‧‧‧Connecting Department

30‧‧‧ screws

32‧‧‧ screw

322‧‧‧Thread

34‧‧‧ nuts

40‧‧‧First object

402‧‧‧Perforation

50‧‧‧Second objects

502‧‧‧Ring holes

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a connector of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the connector shown in Figure 1 from another perspective.

Figure 3 is a front elevational view of the connector of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view of the connector of Figure 2 taken along line IV-IV.

Figure 5 is a plan view showing the connecting member shown in Figure 1 when the two objects are connected and fixed.

20‧‧‧Connecting parts

222‧‧‧ annular groove

224‧‧‧ first through hole

225‧‧‧ thread

226‧‧‧second through hole

228‧‧‧Shrinking groove

26‧‧‧Connecting Department

Claims (9)

A connecting member, comprising a column, the first through hole is defined in the column, wherein the outer wall of the column of the connecting member is provided with a plurality of shrinking grooves communicating with the first through hole, the shrinking groove Curved and extending in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder, a support body is formed between the adjacent two shrink grooves to separate the two shrink grooves; the shrink grooves on the same circumference are at least two and along the The axes of the cylinders are symmetrically distributed or evenly distributed along the circumferential direction, and the plurality of contraction grooves are arranged so that two adjacent supports adjacent to each other in the axial direction of the cylinder are offset from each other; an arbitrary point on the support body and an axis of the cylinder determine an extension plane, and the extension The cylinder longitudinally cuts the cylinder, and the longitudinal direction of the side wall of the cylinder is longitudinally cut by the extending plane, and any one of the lines extending along the axial direction of the cylinder passes through at least one shrinking groove. The connector of claim 1, wherein the shrink groove is curved, centered on the axis of the cylinder, and the shrink groove extends axially around the cylinder. The connector of claim 2, wherein the cylinder has a cylindrical shape, wherein each of the three contraction grooves is evenly spaced on a circumference whose center is centered on the axis of the cylinder. The connector of claim 2, wherein the cylinder has a cylindrical shape, and each of the two constricted grooves is distributed on the same circumference, the center of the circumference is on the axis of the cylinder, and the two constricted grooves are in the cylinder The axes are symmetrically distributed in the center. The connector of claim 1, wherein the connector further comprises a connecting portion disposed at one end of the post, the retracting groove being formed at the other end of the post away from the connecting portion. The connector of claim 5, wherein the connecting portion is a slave A hexagonal projection of the end of the cylinder extending radially outward of the first through hole. The connector of claim 5, wherein the column is further provided with a second through hole, the second through hole sidewall is provided with a thread, and the second through hole is in communication with the first through hole. The connector of claim 7, wherein the second through hole is opened at one end of the column adjacent to the connecting portion, and the shrinking groove is opened at one end of the column away from the connecting portion. The connector of claim 7, wherein the second through hole is located at one end of the column away from the connecting portion, and the shrink groove is opened at one end of the column near the connecting portion.