Embodiment
Please consult Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 simultaneously, better embodiment electronic equipment 99 of the present invention comprises top cover 10, housing 20, pedestal 30, slide key 40 and circuit board 50.This housing 20 is the main body accommodating body of electronic equipment 99 with pedestal 30, and the two is in conjunction with circuit board 50 is contained in it.Top cover 10 is articulated on the housing 20 rotationally, as the flip portion of electronic equipment 99.Slide key 40 is the mode switch operating key of electronic equipment 99, all can be by slide key 40 controls as display mode, audio mode, video mode or input locking etc.Slide key 40 is fixed on the sidewall 22 of housing 20, and touches toggle switch 52 on the circuit board 50 and the pattern of conversion electron equipment 99 by the mode of move left and right.
See also Fig. 3, be formed with the oval-shaped resettlement section 220 of class on the sidewall 22 of housing 20 to accommodate slide key 40, slide key 40 can slide along the oval-shaped long side direction of class in resettlement section 220.Resettlement section 220 caves inward and forms from the sidewall 22 of housing 20, its have peripheral 222 and by peripheral 222 around bottom 224, peripheral 222 and bottom 224 all be the class ellipse.Bottom 224 offers be placed in first otch, 226 both sides and all communicating with first otch 226 of first otch 226 and 2 second otch, 228, the second otch 228 continuously.The height of first otch 226 is than the height height of second otch 228.
Please in conjunction with referring to Fig. 4 to Fig. 5, slide key 40 key that is formed in one, it has operating portion 42, touch part 44 and location division 46.Touch part 44 goes out from operating portion 42 vertical extent, location division 46 and touch part 44 square crossings and spaced apart with operating portion 42.
Operating portion 42 is a class ellipse slice, forces on its first surface 420 so that slide key 40 moves for the operator.Operating portion 42 is accommodated in the resettlement section 220, and can be along the glide direction reciprocating motion parallel with its long side direction in resettlement section 220.Vertically extend some protrudingly 422 on the first surface 420 of operating portion 42, projection 442 can increase stiction between operator and the first surface 420 to reach anti-skidding effect.Form depression 424 on the first surface 420 simultaneously, depression 424 can align with printing on the sidewall 22 of housing 20 or the sign/literal (figure does not show) that is etched into to indicate the current state of electronic equipment 99.Operating portion 42 has in the opposing second surface 426 of first surface 420, is formed with two fins 428 on the second surface 426, and this two fin 428 is distributed in two far-ends of second surface 426 respectively.This two fin 428 can reduce the bottom 224 contacted contacts area of second surface 426 and resettlement section 220, thereby the frictional force that reduces between the two makes that the slip of slide key 40 in resettlement section 220 is more smooth and easy.
Triggering portion 44 extends from second surface 426 central vertical of operating portion 42, is used to touch the toggle switch 52 on the circuit board 50.The Breadth Maximum of triggering portion 44 is slightly less than the width of first otch 226, can be by extending in first otch 226, and it comprises connecting plate 440 and two empennages 442.Connecting plate 440 and empennage 442 all go out from second surface 426 vertical extent, and the 442 opposing parallel settings of two empennages also are clamped and connected plate 440 therebetween.The end of each empennage 442 is formed with protruding fin 444 and fillet 446.Protruding fin 444 is formed at respectively on two adjacent angles of empennage 442 with fillet 446.Protruding fin 444 can trigger toggle switch 52, and fillet 446 can make triggering portion 44 be easier to pass first otch 226 of resettlement section 220 when mounted.
Extend with operating portion 42 intervals on touch part 44 location division 46, and its bearing of trend is parallel to the glide direction of slide key 40.The Breadth Maximum of location division 46 is slightly less than the Breadth Maximum between 2 second otch 228, can pass in the space of 2 second otch 228 and first otch, 226 compositions.Location division 46 can with operating portion 42 together clamping resettlement section 220 bottom 224 therebetween, location division 46 comprises extension board 460 and two flanks 462, extension board 460 is vertical mutually with the connecting plate 440 of triggering portion 44, two flanks 462 extend along the bearing of trend identical with the protruding fin 444 of triggering portion 44 from two sides of extension board 460 respectively and form, the height of flank 462 is greater than the height of second otch 228, flank is stopped by the bottom 224 of resettlement section 220, thereby prevent that it from skidding off in second otch 228.The afterbody of each flank 462 has wedge 464, and the starting altitude of wedge 464 is less than or equal to the height of second otch 228, can make flank 462 be easier to pass second otch 228 when mounted.
See also Fig. 6, toggle switch 52 is welded on the circuit board 50, and toggle switch 52 has finger 520, and this finger 520 convexedly stretches in outside the circuit board 50.Toggle switch 52 can be two-period form switch or multisection type switch, makes the current state of electronic equipment 99 switching between two or more states by the mode of sliding or shake finger 520.Be triggered two protruding fins 444 of portion 44 of finger 520 limit, and slide along with the slip of slide key 40 or shake, thereby change the state of toggle switch 52.
See also Fig. 7, below will the process that slide key 40 is installed on the housing 20 be described in detail.
At first, the protruding fin 444 on the empennage 442 of slide key 40 is obliquely extended in the housing 20 in first otch 226 in resettlement section 22.Subsequently, slide key 40 is rotated around the contact point of protruding fin 444 with 220 bottoms 224, resettlement section, make the fillet 446 of empennage 442 pass through first otch 226 smoothly.Treat protruding fin 444 and fillet 446 on the empennage 442 all smoothly by behind first otch 226, the position of slide key 40 becomes sidewall 22 orthogonal directions with housing 20 by before oblique, and the tail end of whole triggering portion 44 enters in the housing 20.
After above-mentioned steps is finished, the location division 46 and first otch 226, second otch 228 over against.The wedge 464 of location division 46 progresses in second otch 228, makes flank 442 can be pressed through second otch 228, and is stopped by the bottom 224 of resettlement section 220 and can not deviate from second otch 228.After flank 442 was clamp-oned second otch 228, operating portion 42 was contained in the resettlement section 220 slidably, and the bottom 224 of resettlement section 220 is held between location division 44 and the operating portion 42.
Please consult Fig. 2 and Fig. 6 once more, after slide key 40 was installed on the housing 20, housing 20 can match with the pedestal 30 that contains circuit board 50.Housing 20 is covered on the pedestal 30 with the circuit board 50 in the closed base 30.At this moment, the slide key 40 on the housing 20 is just in time relative with toggle switch 52 on the circuit board 50, and the finger 520 of toggle switch 52 is constrained between two empennages 442.
When electronic equipment 99 when in use desire changes its current mode of operation, move slide key 40 along glide direction, slide key 40 moves in resettlement section 220.The finger 520 of toggle switch 52 under the constraint of empennage 442 along with slide key 40 together moves, thereby the mode of operation of electronic equipment 99 is via toggle switch 52 conversions.
As optional execution mode, under the situation that structure allows, the empennage 442 of triggering portion 44 can omit, and triggers the task of toggle switch 52 and can be carried out by the flank 462 of location division 46.In addition, when toggle switch 52 was the two-period form switch, slide key 42 also can adopt the structure of single empennage 442 to replace the structure of above-mentioned two empennages 442 and connecting plate 444, and in the case, the finger 520 of trigger switch 52 promotes switching state by empennage 442.
Obviously, above-mentioned slide key 40 adopts one-body molded, simplifies its structure.As mentioned above, sliding part 40 is easy to be installed on the housing 20 of electronic equipment 99, and simultaneously, sliding part 40 is owing to the keep out effect of flank 462 with 220 bottoms 224, resettlement section, and sliding part 40 is difficult for breaking away from housing 20, uses more firm.
Above-mentioned sliding part 40 can be widely used in various electronic installations, as: mobile computer, game machine, portable optic disk player etc.