WO2012011771A2

WO2012011771A2 - Sliding device and electronic apparatus having same

Info

Publication number: WO2012011771A2
Application number: PCT/KR2011/005419
Authority: WO
Inventors: 이기성
Original assignee: 주식회사 다이아벨
Priority date: 2010-07-23
Filing date: 2011-07-22
Publication date: 2012-01-26
Also published as: KR20120009291A; WO2012011771A3; KR101144608B1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a sliding device in which a pair of members slide relative to one another, and one of the members is tilted by a predetermined angle after being slid linearly with respect to the other member. The present invention also relates to an electronic apparatus comprising the sliding device. The sliding device and the electronic apparatus having same according to the present invention comprise: a base plate and a sliding plate arranged in parallel; a guide plate, one end of which is rotatably coupled to the base plate, and which guides the sliding plate such that the sliding plate is linearly slidable; a tilting support plate, one end of which is foldably connected to the other end of the guide plate, and the other end of which is rotatably coupled to the base plate; and an resilient member which rotates the guide plate and the tilting plate when the sliding plate linearly slides, such that the guide plate is tilted with respect to the base plate, thereby smoothly performing a linear sliding operation and tilting operation.

Description

Sliding device and electronic device having the same

The present invention relates to a sliding device and an electronic device having the same, and more particularly, a sliding device in which the first and second members overlapping each other are relatively linearly slidably moved, and are continuously inclined at a predetermined angle after the movement. It relates to an electronic device provided.

As the spread of portable terminals has expanded worldwide, terminals with various functions and designs are being released to meet consumer tastes. These portable terminals have been developed from a bar type terminal to a flip type terminal and a flip-up type terminal. In recent years, the portable terminal and the slide type have been developed. This is mainstream.

The slide-type terminal is an operation structure in which the slide body is opened by sliding a predetermined length in the longitudinal direction of the terminal on the main body, so that the user can easily open and close the operation by pushing and pulling the slide body. Therefore, it is preferred to the high-end type because it can implement the miniaturization of the terminal while having a display screen similar in size to the folder type terminal. This slide type terminal has a tendency toward the automatic sliding method in which the entire length is automatically moved and the whole length is automatically moved when the slide body is pushed beyond a predetermined length, and various sliding devices for implementing such an automatic sliding method have been developed. come.

In addition, in the slide method, a sliding device for not only sliding but also tilting the liquid crystal to have a predetermined inclination angle has been developed and developed. This is a technology that maximizes user convenience by allowing the user to look at the LCD screen and make key manipulation easier by allowing the LCD screen to have a certain inclination angle. In particular, the portable device has been in the spotlight in game machines.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-described prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a sliding device and an electronic device having the same, wherein one side of the pair of relatively sliding members is tilted with a predetermined tilt angle after linear sliding. have.

The sliding device according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a base plate and a sliding plate provided in parallel with each other, one end is rotatably coupled to the base plate and the guide plate for guiding the sliding plate linear sliding, one end is The tilting support plate is provided to be folded at the other end of the guide plate and the other end is rotatably coupled to the base plate, and when the sliding plate moves linearly, the guide plate and the tilting plate are rotated so that the guide plate is inclined with respect to the base plate. It includes an elastic member.

In addition, the base plate of the sliding device according to the present invention includes a first rotary shaft axially coupled to the guide plate, and a second rotary shaft axially coupled to the tilting plate, the elastic member is provided on the second rotary shaft Torsion springs.

In addition, any one of the foldable guide plate and the tilting support plate of the sliding device according to the present invention is provided with a slit and the other is provided with a rotating shaft axially coupled to the slit.

In addition, the sliding plate and the guide plate of the sliding device according to the present invention is connected via an elastic module to elastically linear movement.

In addition, the sliding device according to the present invention further includes a cover plate for preventing the tilting support plate from being exposed to the outside when the sliding plate is inclined open.

In addition, one end of the cover plate of the sliding device according to the present invention is coupled to the first rotating shaft provided to axially couple the base plate and the guide plate and the other end is coupled to the guide plate.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a first member provided with a key input unit, a second member provided in parallel with the first member and provided with a display unit, a base plate installed on the first member, and the second member. A guide plate including a sliding plate to be installed, one end of which is rotatably coupled to the base plate, and a rail to guide the sliding plate to linearly slide with respect to the base plate, and one end of which is foldable to the other end of the guide plate. And the other end includes a tilting support plate rotatably coupled to the base plate, and an elastic member for elastically rotating the other end of the tilting support plate, wherein the elastic member includes the elastic plate when the sliding plate linearly slides. Tilting support plate to base plate An electronic device is provided that includes a sliding device that rotates relative to the second member so that the second member is inclinedly opened with respect to the first member.

In addition, any one of the foldable guide plate and the tilting support plate of the electronic device having a sliding device according to the present invention is provided with a slit and the other is provided with a rotating shaft axially coupled to the slit. .

The cover plate may further include a cover plate to prevent the tilting support plate from being exposed to the outside when the sliding plate of the electronic device having the sliding device according to the present invention is inclined. The cover plate may include the base plate and the guide plate. One end is coupled to the first rotary shaft provided to the shaft coupling and the other end is coupled to the guide plate.

According to the present invention, the sliding device and the electronic device including the sliding device are slidably coupled to the guide plate by being inclined by the guide plate and the tilting support plate folded in a triangular form with respect to the base plate after the linear slide movement. There is an effect that the tilting operation is smooth.

In addition, the sliding device and the electronic device having the same according to the present invention, by installing an elastic member on the tilting support plate to make the inclined opening operation elastically, in particular by installing a torsion spring on the rotation axis of the tilting support plate slimming and simplification Implemented

1 to 3 are views for explaining the operation of the electronic device having a sliding device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a perspective view showing a sliding device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is an exploded view illustrating a sliding device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a view showing a closed state of the sliding device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a side view showing a closed state of the sliding device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a view showing a state after the linear sliding movement of the sliding device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a view showing an inclined open state of the sliding device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

10 is a side view of FIG. 9.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 to 3 are views illustrating a sliding device and an electronic device having the same according to an embodiment of the present invention. As illustrated, the electronic device of the present embodiment includes a first member 1 and a second member 2 installed to be movable relative to the first member 1.

A front panel of the first member 1 is provided with a key input unit 3 consisting of a plurality of keys displayed with various characters and symbols as shown in FIG. 2, and a display unit 4 on which an image is displayed on the front surface of the second member 2. Is prepared. In the electronic device of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, when the second member 2 normally covers the key input unit 3 provided on the front surface of the first member 1, the key input unit 3 is required. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the second member 2 is inclinedly moved after the sliding linear movement using the sliding device 100 installed in the electronic device to expose the key input unit 3.

That is, in the sliding device 100 according to the present embodiment, when an external force is applied to the first member 1 and the second member 2 which overlap each other, the second member 2 linearly slides the first member 1. Move to open the front surface of the first member 1 (FIG. 2), and the second member 2 is subsequently tilted at a predetermined angle with respect to the first member 1 so that the second member 2 The inclined opening with respect to the first member 1 (Fig. 3).

To this end, the sliding device of the present embodiment has a base plate 110 installed on the first member 1, a sliding plate 120 installed on the second member 2, as shown in Figs. It is provided between the base plate 110 and the sliding plate 120 includes a sliding and tilting unit for sliding plate 120 is inclined movement after the sliding linear movement with respect to the base plate 110.

The base plate 110 is installed on the first member 1 as described above, and has a first rotary shaft 112 and a second rotary shaft 114 which are provided before and after the sliding direction as shown in FIG. 5, respectively. . The first and second

rotary shafts

112 and 114 are provided in a pair of left and right, and the opening 116 and the locking protrusion 118 are adjacent to the second rotary shaft 114, respectively.

The sliding plate 120 has a rectangular shape and is installed in the second member 2 overlapping with the first member 1 in parallel with each other. Both ends of the sliding plate 120 is coupled to the first member 1 and linearly slidable through a sliding and tilting unit to be described later. A moving plate 122 is installed on the sliding plate 120 to facilitate coupling with the second member 2. In the present embodiment, the sliding plate 120 and the moving plate 122 are separately provided, but may be provided integrally. The moving plate 122 is provided with a stopper 124 for limiting the linear sliding movement range of the sliding plate 120, and a fixing protrusion 126 for fastening the elastic module for implementing the elastic sliding movement.

The slide and tilting unit includes a guide plate 130 and a tilting support plate 140 provided between the base plate 110 and the sliding plate 120. One end of the guide plate 130 and the tilting support plate 140 are provided to be mutually foldable, and the other end thereof is spaced apart from the base plate 110 and is rotatably coupled thereto.

The guide plate 130 is positioned in front of the linear sliding direction and includes a first shaft hole 131 extending downward. As the first shaft hole 131 and the first rotating shaft 112 of the base plate 110 are coupled by the first shaft 132 penetrating in the horizontal direction, the base plate 110 and the guide plate 130 mutually It becomes rotatable. In addition, the guide plate 130 is positioned in the rear of the linear sliding direction, and has a second shaft hole 133 extending downward. The second shaft hole 133 and the third shaft hole 141 of the tilting support plate 140 to be described later are coupled by the second shaft 134 penetrating in the lateral direction, whereby the guide plate 130 and the tilting support plate ( 140 is mutually collapsible. The second shaft hole 133 is provided in the form of a slit.

In addition, a rail 135 for supporting linearly sliding both ends of the sliding plate 120 is provided in the upper portion of the guide plate 130, the guide plate 130 and the sliding plate 120 in the upper portion of the rail 135 ) Is provided with a fixing protrusion 136 for connecting the elastic module 137. As the elastic module 137, a mobile phone hinge device of Korean Patent Registration No. 721347, filed and registered by the present applicant, in addition to the torsion spring shown in the drawing may be used as an example. As shown in the elastic module 137, one side is rotatably coupled to the fixing protrusion 126 of the movable plate 122, and the other side is rotatably coupled to the fixing protrusion 136 of the guide plate 130. By the elastic module 137, the sliding plate 120 is operated by an external force acting on the sliding plate 120 to a predetermined point, and is operated by an elastic restoring force against the external force applied after passing through the predetermined point. The fixing protrusion 136 of the guide plate 130 is bidirectionally supported by the stopper 124 of the moving plate 122 to limit the moving distance of the sliding plate 120.

The tilting support plate 140 is positioned in front of the linear sliding direction and includes a third shaft hole 141 extending downward. As the third shaft hole 141 and the second shaft hole 133 of the guide plate 130 are coupled by the second shaft 134 penetrating in the horizontal direction, the guide plate 130 and the tilting support plate 140 are Can be folded together. In addition, the tilting support plate 140 includes a joint 143 coupled to the lower portion in the rear of the linear sliding direction, and the joint 143 is provided with a fourth shaft hole 144. As the fourth shaft hole 144 and the second shaft hole 114 of the base plate 110 are coupled by the third shaft 145 penetrating in the horizontal direction, the tilting support plate 140 and the base plate 110 are It becomes rotatable mutually.

That is, in summary, in the sliding device 100 of the present embodiment, the sliding plate 120 coupled to the rail 135 of the guide plate 130 is straight with respect to the guide plate (exactly, the base plate 110 in an overlapping state). After the sliding movement, the guide plate 130, which is then folded along the tilting support plate 140 inclined with respect to the base plate 110, is inclined with respect to the base plate 110, whereby the sliding plate 120 as a whole is the base. The inclined opening with respect to the plate (110).

Meanwhile, an elastic member 148 is provided on the second rotation shaft 114 of the base plate 110 that is axially coupled to the tilting support plate 140 to elastically provide the rotational force to the tilting support plate 140. In this embodiment, the torsion spring is used as an example, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The elastic member 148 provides an elastic force that the tilting support plate 140 tries to rotate clockwise in the drawing with respect to the base plate 110. One end of the elastic member 148 is supported by the locking protrusion 118 of the base plate 110 and the other end is supported by the joint 143 of the tilting support plate 140.

In addition, the cover plate 150 is provided at the rear of the tilting support plate 140. The cover plate 150 prevents the inner tilting support plate 140 from being exposed to the outside during the inclined movement of the sliding plate 120. The cover plate 150 is coupled to the bent portion 138 in which the rotating shaft 152 is connected to the base plate 110 by the first shaft 132, and the cover 154 is provided at the rear of the guide plate 130. do.

Then, the operation of the sliding device according to an embodiment of the present invention having the configuration as described above and the electronic device having the same will be described.

First, as illustrated in FIG. 4, when the second member 2 overlaps the upper surface of the first member 1 side by side, the sliding provided in the second member 2 as illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 7. The plate 120 is located on the left side of the drawing based on the rail 135 of the guide plate 130 installed on the first member 1. In addition, the tilting support plate 140 is positioned on the base plate 110, the guide plate 130 is positioned on the tilting support plate 140, and the sliding plate 120 is positioned on the guide plate 130. The second shaft 134 penetrating through the slit-shaped third shaft hole 133 of the guide plate 130 in a state not overlapping side by side is positioned on the left side of the third shaft hole 133, the elastic member 148 of the The elastic opening force is limited by the overlapping first and

second members

1 and 2.

In this state, when an external force is applied to the second member 2 in the horizontal direction, as illustrated in FIG. 8, the sliding plate 120 is guided by the rail 135 of the guide plate 130, thereby moving the base plate 110. Go straight sliding. At this time, the sliding plate 120 which is elastically slid by the elastic module 137 moves by an external force up to a certain point, but after a certain point, the sliding plate 120 is slid by the elastic restoring force of the elastic module 137.

As described above, while the sliding plate 120 continues to move by the elastic restoring force of the elastic module 137, the front end 120a of the sliding plate 120 approaches the first rotation shaft 112 of the base plate 110. The sliding plate 120 which is slid and moved rotates with respect to the base plate 110 by the elastic rotation force of the elastic member 148 provided on the second rotation shaft 114 of the base plate 110. do.

For example, when the tilting support plate 140 is rotated by the elastic member 148, the guide plate 130 foldably connected to the tilting support plate 140 rotates about the first rotational shaft 112 and the base plate ( Inclined with respect to 110). That is, while the base plate 110, the guide plate 130 and the tilting support plate 140 has a triangular shape, the sliding plate 120 coupled to the guide plate 130 to be linearly slidable, the base plate 110 The second member 2 coupled to the sliding plate 120 is tilted open with respect to the first member 1 coupled to the base plate 110.

Meanwhile, the cover plate 150 coupled to the guide plate 130 prevents the tilting support plate 140 from being exposed to the outside while rotating along the guide plate 130 when the second member 2 is opened.

Claims

A base plate and a sliding plate provided in parallel with each other,

A guide plate having one end rotatably coupled to the base plate and guiding the sliding plate to linearly slide;

A tilting support plate having one end foldable at the other end of the guide plate and the other end rotatably coupled to the base plate;

And a resilient member for rotating the guide plate and the tilting plate so that the guide plate is inclined with respect to the base plate when the sliding plate moves linearly.
The method of claim 1,

The base plate includes a first rotary shaft axially coupled to the guide plate, and a second rotary shaft axially coupled to the tilting plate,

The elastic member is a sliding device which is a torsion spring provided on the second rotation shaft.
The method according to claim 1 or 2,

Slit is provided in any one of the guide plate and the tilting support plate is foldably coupled and the other is provided with a rotating shaft that is axially coupled to the slit to be movable.
The method of claim 1,

The sliding plate and the guide plate is a sliding device connected via an elastic module to elastically linear movement.
The method of claim 1,

And a cover plate to prevent the tilting support plate from being exposed to the outside when the sliding plate is inclinedly opened.
The method of claim 5,

The cover plate is a sliding device is coupled to one end and the other end is coupled to the first rotating shaft is provided to axially couple the base plate and the guide plate.
A first member provided with a key input unit;

A second member stacked side by side with the first member and provided with a display unit;

A base plate installed on the first member;

A sliding plate installed on the second member;

A guide plate having one end rotatably coupled to the base plate and including a rail for guiding the sliding plate to linearly slide with respect to the base plate;

A tilting support plate having one end foldable at the other end of the guide plate and the other end rotatably coupled to the base plate;

Including an elastic member for elastically rotating the other end of the tilting support plate,

The elastic member is provided with a sliding device for rotating the tilting support plate relative to the base plate when the sliding plate is linear sliding movement so that the second member is inclined open relative to the first member.
The method of claim 7, wherein

An electronic device having a sliding device provided with a slit on one of the guide plate and the tilting support plate to be foldably coupled, the other is provided with a rotating shaft axially coupled to the slit.
The method according to claim 7 or 8,

When the inclined opening of the sliding plate further includes a cover plate to prevent the tilting support plate is exposed to the outside,

The cover plate is an electronic device having a sliding device, one end of which is coupled to the first rotating shaft provided to axially couple the base plate and the guide plate, and the other end of which is coupled to the guide plate.