WO2010093098A1

WO2010093098A1 - Slide module for mobile phone

Info

Publication number: WO2010093098A1
Application number: PCT/KR2009/004370
Authority: WO
Inventors: 이근주
Original assignee: 주식회사 한빛티앤아이
Priority date: 2009-02-12
Filing date: 2009-08-05
Publication date: 2010-08-19
Also published as: KR20100092181A

Abstract

The present invention relates to a slide module for a mobile phone, more specifically to a slide module for a mobile phone, which can vertically open and close using elastic members. The slide module with a slide hinge disposed between a main body with a key pad and a cover with a display unit which slides open or closed on the main body, comprises: a frame with a pair of separated spaces and openings which are formed in diagonal positions and connected with one side of the respective spaces, movable plates sliding in the spaces through the openings, sliding arms which are formed by coupling holes formed on one side of each movable plate, and elastic members which are installed in the spaces and transformed when the movable plates slide.

Description

Mobile phone slide module

The present invention relates to a mobile phone slide module, and more particularly, to a mobile phone slide module that can open and close the slide mobile phone up and down using an elastic body.

In general, a mobile phone slide module is installed between a display unit where a liquid crystal display device is installed and a main body unit where a keypad is installed, and when the display unit is slid with respect to the main body unit, the mobile phone slide module automatically slides the display unit by the elastic force of the elastic body installed in the mobile phone slide module. Prior art is disclosed in Korean Patent No. 10-0622373.

The disclosed prior art comprises a first rod into which a spring is inserted, a second rod inserted into one side of the first rod to pressurize the spring, and shafts rotatably coupled to the display portion and the main body at both ends of the first rod and the second rod. The prior art relates to a slide unit, which allows a compressed spring to generate a restoring force to automatically move the display to a desired position when the display is moved on the body.

This technology has a problem that the force to move the display portion is dependent on a single spring installed inside the first bar, the physical properties of the spring can be easily changed in repeated use can not guarantee the certainty of the operation.

This problem can be solved by installing a plurality of slide units, but the mobile phone is becoming smaller, so can not solve the lack of a suitable space for installing a plurality of slide units, if a plurality of slide units are installed, the assembly cost is increased bar There was a problem of falling economics.

In addition, such a slide unit has a problem in that a clearance of at least the diameter of the first rod is formed between the display unit and the main body.

An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone slide module having excellent durability by installing a sliding arm sliding in a direction facing each other using a pair of elastic bodies around the frame.

In addition, the present invention has another object to provide a mobile phone slide module that is formed with a minimum gap when installed in the mobile phone using a sliding arm installed in the frame having a thin thickness.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone slide module in which a proper deceleration is performed during sliding of a display unit by mounting a slider formed on a slider in a sliding groove of a frame.

The above object of the present invention is provided between the main body mounted on the keypad and the cover equipped with the display, the mobile phone slide module for sliding opening and closing the display unit with respect to the main body, a pair of spaces are formed spaced apart, A sliding arm formed of a frame having an open surface communicating with one side and formed diagonally with each other, a moving plate sliding on the space portion through the open surface, a sliding arm formed on one side of the moving plate, and installed and moving in the space portion. Is achieved by a mobile phone slide module comprising an elastic body that deforms when the plate is sliding.

In addition, both sides of the space portion adjacent to the open surface is formed with a protrusion formed with a sliding groove that prevents the movement of the moving plate when sliding the movable plate, both sides of the movable plate is formed in a shape corresponding to the sliding groove sliding Preferably, the slider seated in the groove is formed to protrude.

In addition, the case has an elastic support rod is installed on the side surface of the space portion opposed to the open surface in the direction of the open surface, the other side of the movable plate is formed with an insertion groove into which the elastic support rod is inserted, the sliding plate of the movable plate in the center of the movable plate The cutting surface is provided with a through hole communicating with the insertion groove so that the elastic support rod inserted into the insertion groove can be protruded when the elastic support rod is protruded. It is preferable to include a compression coil spring for pressing the end portion.

In addition, the inside of the movable plate is formed in the direction of the coupling hole from the other end of the movable plate is formed an elastic insertion hole into which the elastic body is inserted, the case is fixed to the elastic body to be inserted into the elastic insertion hole in the side of the space portion facing the open surface It is preferable that the fixing projections are formed.

In addition, the elastic insertion hole is formed to have a length corresponding to the elastic body, it is preferable that the cut portion which is in communication with one end of the elastic insertion hole is formed in the movable plate around the coupling hole.

In addition, it is preferable that the stopper is formed at the other end side of the movable plate in contact with the protrusion to limit the sliding of the movable plate, and the recess is formed at the other end of the movable plate so as not to interfere with the fixing protrusion during sliding of the movable plate.

Accordingly, the mobile phone slide module of the present invention has an effect of providing a mobile phone slide module having excellent durability by installing a sliding arm sliding in a direction facing each other using a pair of elastic bodies around the frame.

In addition, the present invention is installed by using the sliding arm on the frame having a thin thickness bar when the installation on the mobile phone has an effect that the gap between the body portion and the display portion is formed to a minimum.

In addition, the present invention has an effect that the appropriate deceleration is made when the slider formed in the slider in the sliding groove of the frame is sliding the display unit.

1 is a perspective view of a mobile phone slide module according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is an exploded perspective view of the mobile phone slide module shown in FIG.

3 is a state diagram used in the mobile phone slide module shown in FIG.

4 is a perspective view of a mobile phone slide module according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a partial cutaway perspective view of the mobile phone slide module shown in FIG.

1, 1 '; Mobile phone sliding module 3; Main body

5; A display unit 10; frame

12; Space 13; Open side

15; Protrusion 15a; Bottom protrusion plate

15b; Top protrusion plate 15c; Sliding groove

17; Fixing protrusion 20; Sliding arm

21; Moving plate 21a; Incision plane

21b; Insertion groove 21c; Through hole

23; Slider 24; stopper

26; Elastic body insertion hole 27; Incision

28; Extension 29; Groove

30; Elastomer 32; Elastomer support rod

The terms or words used in this specification and claims are not to be construed as limiting in their usual or dictionary meanings, and the inventors may legally define the concept of terms in order to best describe their invention. On the basis of the principle that the present invention should be interpreted as meanings and concepts corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only one of the most preferred embodiments of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

Hereinafter, the definition of the direction used in the present specification will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The rear used in the present specification refers to the direction of the coupling hole of the sliding arm 20 coupled to the frame 10 so as to protrude in the right direction of the sliding arm 20 shown in Figure 1, the direction opposite to the direction The front side is called, and the left and right directions are defined based on the front and the rear.

In addition, in the embodiment described herein, the same pair of sliding arms 20 are installed, in order to avoid duplication of description, the sliding arm 22 is provided with a coupling hole 22 in the rear direction of the pair of sliding arms 20. The explanation is based on (20).

1 is a perspective view of a mobile phone slide module 1 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view of the mobile phone slide module 1 shown in Figure 1, Figure 3 is a mobile phone shown in Figure 1 It is a state diagram of the use of the slide module 1.

4 is a perspective view of the mobile phone slide module 1 'according to another embodiment of the present invention, Figure 5 is a partial cutaway perspective view of the mobile phone slide module 1' shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 1, the mobile phone slider module 1 includes a sliding arm 20 rotatably coupled to the main body 3 and the display unit 5, and a frame on which the sliding arm 20 is movably installed. 10 and an elastic body 30 installed inside the frame 10 to add elastic force to the sliding arm 20.

Frame 10 is to be the body of the mobile phone slide module 1 is composed of a space portion 12 and the open surface 13 communicated to one side of the space portion 12 spaced apart from each other, the open surface 13 is Since they are formed in a diagonal direction with each other, they are formed in a totally 'ㄹ' shape.

The frame 10 is preferably formed as thin as possible, but when formed too thin, the rigidity of the frame is inferior and is preferably formed to have a thickness of about 0.5 mm.

Protruding portions 15 are formed on the left and right side surfaces adjacent to the rear side of the space portion 12 of the frame 10 to prevent the detachment during the movement of the sliding arm 20.

The protruding portion 15 has a lower protruding plate 15a and a lower protruding plate 15a which form the same height as the lower surface of the frame 10 at the lower left and right sides adjacent to the rear of the space part 12 and upwardly from the lower protruding plate 15a. The upper protrusion plate 15b is spaced apart to form the same height as the upper surface of the frame 10, and between the upper protrusion plate 15b and the lower protrusion plate 15a on both sides of the movable plate 21 to be described later. A sliding groove 15c is formed so that the formed slider 23 can be inserted.

Such a sliding groove 15c is not formed artificially, but consists of a space between the upper protrusion plate 15b and the lower plate 25c.

In addition, three elastic support rods 32 are coupled to the front side of the space 12 at regular intervals.

The elastic support rod 32 prevents the detachment of the elastic body 30 installed in the space part 12 and prevents the detachment of the sliding arm 20 when the sliding arm 20 moves, and is formed in a cylindrical shape to have a space It is coupled to the side in the negative front direction and extends to the open surface 13.

A coil-shaped elastic body 30 is inserted into the outer circumferential surface of the elastic support rod 32 as shown in FIG. 2.

At this time, the elastic body 30 to be installed is inserted into the elastic support rod 32 by the compression coil spring is coupled to the insertion groove of the sliding arm 20 which is slid on the space 12.

The sliding arm 20 is a linear reciprocating motion on the space portion 12 along the open surface 13 of the frame 10, in the direction of the rectangular moving plate 21 and the rear of the moving plate 21 It is made of a coupling hole 22 formed.

The moving plate 21 is inserted into the space portion 12 and is linearly formed as a linear movement. However, the movable plate 21 is rotatable with the main body 3 or the display portion 5 at a position adjacent to the rear end portion. Coupling holes 22 are formed to be combined.

Sliders 23 are formed on both side surfaces of the movable plate 21 to be in contact with the left and right sides of the space 12.

The slider 23 is movably inserted into the sliding groove 15c to prevent the moving plate 21 from being separated and generates friction between the frame 10 and the moving plate 21 when the moving plate 21 slides. The damping action is performed in a thin plate shape corresponding to the shape of the cross section of the sliding groove 15c along the side of the moving plate 21, and is formed at the height of the center of the side surface of the moving plate 21.

The stopper 24 is provided on the upper and lower surfaces adjacent to the rear end of the slider 23 to restrain the sliding of the movable plate 21 in contact with the side surface in the rear direction of the protrusion 15.

As shown in FIG. 2, a rectangular cutout surface 21a is formed at the center of the movable plate 21.

The cutting surface 21a is formed through the upper and lower surfaces of the movable plate 21 into a space where the elastic support rod 32 protrudes.

The insertion plate 21b is formed in the moving plate 21 in the rear direction of the cutting surface 21a to insert the elastic support rod 32 and the elastic body 30 as shown in FIG. 1 or 2. The through hole 21c is formed between the insertion groove 21b and the cutting surface 21a so that the elastic support rod 32 protrudes in the cutting surface 21a direction.

Looking at the state of use of the present invention with reference to Figure 3, as follows.

When the display unit 5 is slid on the main body 3 in a state in which the coupling hole 22 in the rear direction or the front direction is rotatably coupled to the upper portion of the main body portion 3 or the lower portion of the display portion 5, The display unit 5 rotates and slides the sliding arm 20 of the mobile phone slide module 1 in the direction of the open surface 13 in the space 12. In this process, the elastic force stored in the elastic body 30 is increased. It is transmitted to the moving plate 21.

At this time, if the display unit 5 is slid by a certain distance, the display unit 5 is automatically slid by using the elastic force of the elastic body 30.

4 to 5 show another embodiment of the present invention, in which the same reference numerals in FIGS. 4 to 5 and the same reference numerals in the above-described drawings indicate the same members.

As shown in FIG. 4, a fixing protrusion 17 for fixing one end of the elastic body 30 is formed at the rear side of the space 12.

The fixing protrusion 17 is protruded from the rear side of the space portion 12, the rear end of the moving plate 21, when the moving plate 21 is slid in the direction of the space portion 12, the fixing protrusion ( The groove 29 is formed so as not to contact the 17).

These grooves 29 may be formed to correspond to the shape and number of the fixing projections 17, but considering the ease of processing, one groove in which three fixing projections 17 are inserted as shown in FIG. It is preferable that (29) is formed.

Referring to FIG. 5, an elastic body insertion hole 26 is formed at the rear side of the moving plate 21 in the forward direction.

The elastic body insertion hole 26 communicates with the cutout portion 27 formed on the movable plate 21 by inserting the elastic body 30 fixed to the fixing protrusion 17.

The cutout 27 is formed by penetrating the upper and lower surfaces of the movable plate 21 adjacent to the rearward direction from the coupling hole 22 of the movable plate 21, and the movable plate 21 is a space 12. When sliding in the direction, the elastic body 30 inserted into the elastic body insertion hole 26 protrudes through the cutout 27 to be in contact with the side of the cutout 27 in the rearward direction.

In addition, the slider 23 formed on the side of the movable plate 21 is formed from both rear end portions of the movable plate 21 to the center portion, and the protrusion 15 having the slider groove into which the slider 23 is inserted is formed in the space portion. (12) It is installed at the center of left and right sides.

In addition, on both side surfaces in the front direction of the movable plate 21, the expansion part 28 is formed to be spaced apart from the slider 23 in the forward direction so as to be in contact with the left and right surfaces of the space 12.

Therefore, when the movable plate 21 is slid in the direction of the space portion 12, the slider 23 is seated in the sliding groove 15c of the protruding portion 15 and is moved, and the expansion portion 28 of the space portion 12 It moves in contact with the left and right sides.

In addition, the elastic body 30 is deformed in contact with the side of the rear direction inside the cutout 27 accumulates the elastic energy, this elastic energy to move the moving plate 21 in the rear direction.

Claims

In the mobile phone slide module which is installed between the main body mounted on the keypad and the cover mounted on the display, the mobile phone slide module for sliding the opening and closing the display unit relative to the main body,

A frame having a pair of spaced parts spaced apart from each other, and having an open surface communicating with one side of the spaced part and formed on a diagonal line with each other;

A sliding arm comprising a moving plate sliding on the space part through the open surface and a coupling hole formed at one side of the moving plate; And

And an elastic body installed in the space part and deformed when the moving plate slides.
The method of claim 1,

Protrusions are formed on both side surfaces of the space portion adjacent to the open surface to form a sliding groove that prevents the moving plate from being separated when the moving plate is slid.

Mobile phone slide module, characterized in that formed on a shape corresponding to the sliding groove on both sides of the moving plate is a slider seated on the sliding groove is formed.
The method according to claim 1 or 2,

The case is provided with an elastic support rod on the side of the space portion facing the open surface in the open surface direction,

An insertion groove into which the elastic support rod is inserted is formed at the other side of the movable plate, and the insertion groove is formed at the center of the movable plate to protrude the elastic support rod inserted into the insertion groove when the movable plate is slid. Incision surface is provided with a through hole in communication with,

Mobile phone slide module is installed so that the elastic support rod is located therein comprises a compression coil spring for pressing the other end of the movable plate when the movable plate is sliding.
The method according to claim 1 or 2,

An elastic body insertion hole is formed inside the movable plate in the direction of the coupling hole from the other end of the movable plate to insert the elastic body.

Mobile phone slide module, characterized in that the case is formed with a fixing projection for fixing the elastic body is inserted into the elastic body insertion hole on the side of the space facing the open surface.
The method of claim 4, wherein

The elastic body insertion hole is formed having a length corresponding to the elastic body, the mobile phone slide module, characterized in that the cutting plate is formed in communication with the one end of the elastic insertion hole around the coupling hole.
The method of claim 5,

A stopper is formed at the other end side of the movable plate to contact the protrusion to limit sliding of the movable plate.

Mobile phone slide module, characterized in that the groove is formed on the other end of the movable plate so as not to interfere with the fixing projections when the movable plate is slid.