CN110554735B

CN110554735B - Connecting chain link assembly and wearable equipment

Info

Publication number: CN110554735B
Application number: CN201810553051.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李盼
Original assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-05-31
Filing date: 2018-05-31
Publication date: 2023-04-14
Anticipated expiration: 2038-05-31
Also published as: CN110554735A

Abstract

The invention discloses a connecting chain link assembly and wearable equipment, wherein the connecting chain link assembly comprises a connecting chain link and a connecting piece arranged on the connecting chain link, the connecting chain link comprises a chain link main body and connecting parts respectively and symmetrically arranged on two end surfaces of the chain link main body in the length direction, two end surfaces of two tanks in the length direction on the connecting piece are respectively provided with a limiting sheet and two symmetrical bulges which are arranged on the limiting sheets and are contacted with the connecting parts, one end of the limiting sheet is rotatably connected to one end part of the two end parts in the width direction of the chain link main body in the connecting part through a pin, and the other end part is connected with the limiting sheets on other connecting chain links; through connecting to be connected through rotating between chain link and the connecting piece for wearable equipment not only can realize the crooked folding of random angle, and its deformation degree is less, can adapt to user's hand shape well, can not appear pasting the phenomenon of skin after wearing, has improved user's use and has experienced.

Description

Connecting link assembly and wearable equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to a wearable device, in particular to a connecting link assembly and a wearable device.

Background

At present, with the wide application of intelligent mobile terminals, especially under the trend of continuous development and breakthrough of flexible screen technology, people are also continuously demanding full-screen experience of mobile terminals, and in the prior art, most of the manufacturing processes for realizing flexible screen intelligent mobile terminals are realized by adopting a mode that a flexible screen display module is wrapped by a silica gel mobile terminal sleeve, but the manufacturing process for wrapping the flexible screen display module by the silica gel sleeve is complicated, the produced silica gel sleeve needs to be considered, the flexible screen display module can be stably fixed on the silica gel sleeve and does not fall off except that the flexible screen display module can be bent at will to meet the wearing requirements of consumers, the silica gel sleeve for producing the composite requirements is not complicated in process and high in production cost, and the skin can be adhered to the watchband of silica gel when the user wears the watchband, especially when the user feels hot and sweats, so that the use experience of the user is reduced, and therefore, the problem needs to be solved by providing a watchband composed of a new chain link connection structure.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the technical problems that the existing silica gel mobile terminal watchband structure can cause discomfort to a user to wear and the user experience is poor, and provides a connecting link component and wearable equipment.

In order to solve the technical problem, the invention provides a connecting link assembly applied to wearable equipment, which comprises: the connecting chain comprises a connecting chain link and connecting pieces arranged on the connecting chain link, wherein the connecting chain link comprises a chain link main body and connecting parts, and the connecting parts are respectively arranged on two end faces of the chain link main body in the length direction and are symmetrically arranged;

the connecting piece comprises a connecting body and limiting pieces, the limiting pieces are respectively arranged at two ends of the connecting body along the length direction of the chain link main body, and two symmetrical bulges which are in contact with the connecting part for limiting and matching are further arranged on the limiting pieces;

when the assembly is carried out, one end of the limiting sheet is rotatably connected to one end of the two ends of the connecting part along the width direction of the chain link main body through a pin, and the other end of the limiting sheet is connected with the limiting sheet in other connecting chain link assemblies.

Optionally, a limiting groove is further disposed on the limiting sheet, the limiting groove is disposed between two protrusions on the limiting sheet, and the limiting groove is formed along the surface of the limiting sheet in an inward concave manner.

Optionally, the limiting groove is V-shaped or U-shaped, the connecting portion is a U-shaped connecting groove formed by two mounting pieces, a boss extending inward is further disposed on a side wall of the mounting piece close to the inner side of the chain link main body, and a receiving groove is formed between the boss and the chain link main body.

Optionally, a position of the limiting sheet corresponding to the position of the protrusion is further provided with a limiting hole, and the pin penetrates through the limiting hole to fix the connecting piece on the connecting portion.

Optionally, the limiting hole is a strip-shaped through hole.

Optionally, a blocking piece parallel to the limiting piece is further arranged on the end face, close to the limiting piece, of the connecting piece.

Optionally, the connecting portion is a U-shaped connecting groove formed by two mounting pieces, and a concave point matched with the protrusion is arranged at the bottom of the U-shaped connecting groove;

after the limiting pieces are fixed to the U-shaped connecting grooves, the protrusions are located in the concave points, and when the connecting piece rotates by taking the pin as a circle center, the rotating direction and the swinging angle of the protrusions are limited through the inner side walls of the concave points.

Optionally, two ends of the two mounting pieces along the width direction are respectively provided with symmetrical circular mounting holes, and the limiting piece is mounted on the circular mounting hole through the pin.

Optionally, the link main body is a U-shaped base plate, one of two end faces opposite to each other in the width direction of the U-shaped base plate is provided with an extending portion, and the other end face is provided with a groove having the same shape and size as the extending portion.

Further, the present invention also provides a wearable device, including: the watchband comprises a plurality of connecting chain link assemblies which are connected through pins, and the flexible display module is arranged on a connecting piece in the connecting chain link assemblies.

Has the beneficial effects that:

the invention provides a connecting link component and wearable equipment, wherein the connecting link component comprises a connecting link and a connecting piece arranged on the connecting link, the connecting link comprises a link main body and a connecting part, the connecting part is symmetrically arranged on two end surfaces of the link main body in the length direction respectively, two end surfaces of a tank on the connecting piece in the length direction are respectively provided with a limiting piece and two symmetrical bulges arranged on the limiting piece and contacted with the connecting part, when the connecting link component is assembled, one end of the limiting piece is rotationally connected to one end of the two end parts of the connecting part in the width direction of the link main body through a pin, and the other end part of the limiting piece is connected with the limiting piece on the other connecting link; the connection chain link and the connecting piece are rotatably connected, so that the bending folding at any angle can be realized, the deformation degree is small, the watchband can be well adapted to the hand shapes of various users, the skin adhesion of the watchband with the structure can not occur after the watchband is worn by the user, and the use experience of the user is greatly improved; furthermore, the connecting chain link assembly is simple in structure, the structure can be formed by respectively stamping and then assembling metal sheets, the forming process is simple, and the production cost of the wearable equipment is greatly reduced.

Drawings

The invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples, in which:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an alternative mobile terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a diagram of a wireless communication system for the mobile terminal shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of a connecting link assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a connecting link according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a top view of a connecting link provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a connector according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a wearable device provided in an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

In the following description, suffixes such as "module", "component", or "unit" used to denote elements are used only for facilitating the explanation of the present invention, and have no specific meaning in itself. Thus, "module", "component" or "unit" may be used mixedly.

The wearable device of the present invention may be a terminal having a bendable characteristic, the display screen of the wearable device may be a flexible screen, and the wearable device of the present invention may be implemented in various forms. For example, the wearable device described in the present invention may be a wearable device such as a mobile phone, a Portable Media Player (PMP), a navigation device, a smart band, and the like.

The following description will be given by way of example of a mobile terminal, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the construction according to the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a fixed type terminal, in addition to elements particularly used for mobile purposes.

Referring to fig. 1, which is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a mobile terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention, the mobile terminal 100 may include: RF (Radio Frequency) unit 101, wiFi module 102, audio output unit 103, a/V (audio/video) input unit 104, sensor 105, display unit 106, user input unit 107, interface unit 108, memory 109, processor 110, and power supply 111. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mobile terminal architecture shown in fig. 1 is not intended to be limiting of mobile terminals, which may include more or fewer components than those shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components.

The following describes each component of the mobile terminal in detail with reference to fig. 1:

the radio frequency unit 101 may be configured to receive and transmit signals during information transmission and reception or during a call, and specifically, receive downlink information of a base station and then process the downlink information to the processor 110; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, radio frequency unit 101 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 101 can also communicate with a network and other devices through wireless communication. The wireless communication may use any communication standard or protocol, including but not limited to GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), CDMA2000 (Code Division Multiple Access 2000 ), WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), FDD-LTE (Frequency Division duplex Long Term Evolution), and TDD-LTE (Time Division duplex Long Term Evolution).

WiFi belongs to a short-distance wireless transmission technology, and the mobile terminal can help a user to receive and send emails, browse webpages, access streaming media and the like through the WiFi module 102, and provides wireless broadband internet access for the user. Although fig. 1 shows the WiFi module 102, it is understood that it does not belong to the essential constitution of the mobile terminal, and may be omitted entirely as needed within the scope not changing the essence of the invention.

The audio output unit 103 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 101 or the WiFi module 102 or stored in the memory 109 into an audio signal and output as sound when the mobile terminal 100 is in a call signal reception mode, a call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, a broadcast reception mode, or the like. Also, the audio output unit 103 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the mobile terminal 100 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 103 may include a speaker, a buzzer, and the like.

The a/V input unit 104 is for receiving an audio or video signal. The a/V input Unit 104 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, the Graphics processor 1041 Processing image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 106. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 1041 may be stored in the memory 109 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 101 or the WiFi module 102. The microphone 1042 may receive sounds (audio data) via the microphone 1042 in a phone call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, or the like, and may be capable of processing such sounds into audio data. The processed audio (voice) data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 101 in case of a phone call mode. The microphone 1042 may implement various types of noise cancellation (or suppression) algorithms to cancel (or suppress) noise or interference generated in the course of receiving and transmitting audio signals.

The mobile terminal 100 also includes at least one sensor 105, such as a light sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that can adjust the brightness of the display panel 1061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 1061 and/or the backlight when the mobile terminal 100 moves to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used for applications of recognizing gestures of a mobile phone (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer gesture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometers and taps), and the like; as for other sensors such as a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, and an infrared sensor, which can be configured on the mobile phone, the description is omitted here.

The display unit 106 is used to display information input by a user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 106 may include a Display panel 1061, and the Display panel 1061 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 107 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the mobile terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 107 may include a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. The touch panel 1071, also referred to as a touch screen, can collect touch operations of a user (e.g., operations of a user on the touch panel 1071 or near the touch panel 1071 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object or accessory) thereon or nearby and drive the corresponding connection device according to a predetermined program. The touch panel 1071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 110, and can receive and execute commands sent by the processor 110. In addition, the touch panel 1071 may be implemented in various types, such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 1071, the user input unit 107 may include other input devices 1072. In particular, other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and the like, without limitation.

Further, the touch panel 1071 may cover the display panel 1061, and when the touch panel 1071 detects a touch operation on or near the touch panel, the touch panel is transmitted to the processor 110 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 110 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 1061 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 1, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 are two independent components to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, which is not limited herein.

The interface unit 108 serves as an interface through which at least one external device is connected to the mobile terminal 100. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 108 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from external devices and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the mobile terminal 100 or may be used to transmit data between the mobile terminal 100 and external devices.

The memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 109 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, etc. Further, the memory 109 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The processor 110 is a control center of the mobile terminal, connects various parts of the entire mobile terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the mobile terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 109 and calling data stored in the memory 109, thereby performing overall monitoring of the mobile terminal. Processor 110 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 110 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 110.

The mobile terminal 100 may further include a power supply 111 (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and preferably, the power supply 111 may be logically connected to the processor 110 via a power management system, so as to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption management functions via the power management system.

Although not shown in fig. 1, the mobile terminal 100 may further include a bluetooth module and the like, which will not be described in detail herein.

In order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present invention, a communication network system on which the mobile terminal of the present invention is based is described below.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is an architecture diagram of a communication Network system according to an embodiment of the present invention, the communication Network system is an LTE system of a universal mobile telecommunications technology, and the LTE system includes a UE (User Equipment) 201, an e-UTRAN (Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) 202, an epc (Evolved Packet Core) 203, and an IP service 204 of an operator, which are in communication connection in sequence.

Specifically, the UE201 may be the mobile terminal 100 described above, and is not described herein again.

The E-UTRAN202 includes eNodeB2021 and other eNodeBs 2022, among others. Among them, the eNodeB2021 may be connected with other eNodeB2022 through backhaul (e.g., X2 interface), the eNodeB2021 is connected to the EPC203, and the eNodeB2021 may provide the UE201 with access to the EPC 203.

The EPC203 may include an MME (Mobility Management entity) 2031, an hss (Home Subscriber Server) 2032, other MMEs 2033, an SGW (Serving gateway) 2034, a pgw (PDN gateway) 2035, and a PCRF (Policy and Charging Rules Function) 2036, and the like. The MME2031 is a control node that handles signaling between the UE201 and the EPC203, and provides bearer and connection management. HSS2032 is used to provide some registers to manage functions such as home location register (not shown) and holds some user-specific information about service characteristics, data rates, etc. All user data may be sent through SGW2034, PGW2035 may provide IP address allocation and other functions for UE201, PCRF2036 is a policy and charging control policy decision point for traffic data flow and IP bearer resources, which selects and provides available policy and charging control decisions for policy and charging enforcement function (not shown).

The IP services 204 may include the internet, intranets, IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), or other IP services, among others.

Although the LTE system is described as an example, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the LTE system, but may also be applied to other wireless communication systems, such as GSM, CDMA2000, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, and future new network systems.

Based on the above-mentioned mobile terminal hardware structure and communication network system, various embodiments of the present invention are proposed.

The first embodiment:

present wearable equipment's watchband structure mostly adopts current papa circle to make, specifically be through encapsulating the one deck flexible glue on papa circle surface, and form a accommodation space on the flexible glue and supply with the installation flexible display module, it can think from this, in case this wearable equipment's watchband produces direct clamp on the arm after deformation under the effect of external force, and the papa circle can have great clamp power to user's arm, and this clamp power is uncontrollable, the user area has been of a specified duration and has probably made user's arm uncomfortable, user's use experience that so can greatly reduced, and software that the papa circles is not very good to flexible display module's fixed, drop easily when whipping, in order to avoid the emergence of this kind of condition, this embodiment provides one kind and can freely control the crooked deformation's of watchband connecting link subassembly structure, wearing equipment through this connecting link subassembly formation, a structure is simple, strong adaptability, and user experience is also very good.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a connecting link assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention, the connecting link assembly 30 includes a connecting link 31 and a connecting member 32, wherein the connecting member 32 is connected to the connecting link 31 and movably connected therebetween, where the movable connection refers to a rotational connection, and a rotational angle and a direction of the rotational connection are also set to be certain, for example, the rotational connection can only be bent in a direction away from the flexible display module on the wearing device, a rotational angle of each connecting link 31 is also certain, and a circular watchband is formed by a plurality of such connecting links and connecting members cooperating with each other.

In practical applications, the rotational connection between the connecting member 32 and the connecting link 31 can be realized by a hinge connection, a pin and a connecting hole, or even a matching manner of a boss and a groove.

As shown in fig. 4, in the present embodiment, the connecting link 31 includes a link main body 311 and connecting parts 312, wherein the connecting parts 312 are disposed on two end surfaces of the link main body 311 along the length direction thereof (the direction indicated by the arrow X in fig. 4), and the connecting parts 312 disposed on the two end surfaces are also symmetrically disposed, when the connecting part 32 is assembled on the connecting link 31, the connecting part 312 on the connecting link 31 should be rotatably connected, and the connecting part 312 and the connecting part 32 are not assembled in a completely overlapping manner, but a part of the connecting part 32 overlaps the connecting part 312, and the other part of the connecting part 32 protrudes in a manner of forming a protrusion on the connecting part 312, that is, the connecting part 32 and the connecting part 312 are assembled in a manner that can be understood as being offset. As shown in particular in figure 3.

In this embodiment, the connecting element 32 includes a connecting body 321 and a limiting piece 322, the limiting piece 322 is respectively disposed at two ends of the connecting body 321 along the length direction of the link main body 311, and two symmetrical protrusions 323 for contacting and limiting the connecting portion 312 are further disposed on the limiting piece 322, as shown in fig. 6.

In the present embodiment, based on the structure of the connecting link 31 and the connecting member 32 provided in fig. 4 and 6 described above, when the connecting link assembly 30 is assembled, one end of the stopper piece 322 is pivotally connected by a pin to one of two ends of the connecting portion 312 in the width direction of the link main body 311 (the direction indicated by the arrow Y in fig. 4), and the other end is connected to the stopper piece of the other connecting link assembly.

In practical applications, the link main body 311 may be shaped to have two symmetrical-to-slightly tilted U-like structures, and the connecting portion 312 is disposed at two slightly tilted mutually symmetrical end portions, and a connecting line formed by the two end portions is referred to as a length direction of the link main body 311, and a perpendicular direction of the connecting line formed by the two end portions is a width direction of the link main body 311.

In this embodiment, the connecting portion 312 is a U-shaped connecting slot 314 formed by two mounting pieces 313, and a concave point 315 is disposed at the bottom of the U-shaped connecting slot 314 and is matched with the protrusion 323, as shown in fig. 5.

After the limiting sheet 322 is fixed to the U-shaped connecting groove 314, the protrusion 323 is located in the concave point 315, and when the connecting element 32 rotates around the pin as a center, the rotation direction and the swing angle of the protrusion 323 are limited by the inner side wall of the concave point 315.

Similarly, the rotation connection between the connecting link assemblies 30 is also the same, and the rotation connection is realized through the connection cooperation between the limiting piece 322 and the connecting portion 312, that is, other connecting link assemblies can rotate on the limiting piece 322 at a proper angle, and in practical application, the limiting piece 322 is specifically connected with the connecting portion 312 on other connecting links in a rotation manner when being connected with other connecting links.

In practical applications, the link main body 311 is designed to have a small U-shaped curved surface structure with two ends slightly tilted upward, the connecting portion 312 formed by the two mounting pieces 313 is disposed on the two ends slightly tilted upward of the link main body 311, and the two mounting pieces 313 and the link main body 311 enclose a U-shaped connecting groove 314.

In this embodiment, an inwardly extending boss 316 is further disposed on a side wall of the mounting plate 313 near the upper inner side of the link main body 311, and an accommodating groove is formed between the boss 316 and the link main body 311, as shown in fig. 4, the boss 316 is also symmetrically disposed on the link main body 311.

In practical applications, the two bosses 316 disposed at opposite ends of the link body 311 may be extended symmetrically without contact, or extended symmetrically with contact, and when not in contact, the receiving groove formed therein is non-enclosed, and when in contact, the receiving groove formed therein is enclosed, and the receiving groove can receive an electronic device and a power structure for controlling bending of the connecting link assembly 30 in subsequent wearing devices.

In this embodiment, symmetrical circular mounting holes 317 are respectively formed at both ends of the two mounting pieces 313 in the width direction, and the stopper pieces 322 are mounted on the circular mounting holes 317 by the pins.

For further fitting installation, the link body 311 is further provided with an extension 318 on one of two opposite end surfaces in the width direction of the link body 311, and a groove 319 with the same shape and size as the extension 318 is provided on the other end surface, wherein, when assembling the watchband, the connecting link assemblies are formed by connecting the connecting link assemblies with each other, specifically, the extension 318 on the first connecting link is lapped on the groove 319 on the second connecting link, so that a plurality of connecting link assemblies are connected end to realize the assembly of the watchband, and simultaneously, the extension 318 is provided to further realize the shielding of the gap between the connecting links, and the extension 318 is embedded in the groove 319 of the other connecting link, thereby avoiding the phenomenon of meat clamping when the watchband is bent due to the existence of the gap, greatly improving the use experience of a user, and further making the appearance of the connecting links look as a whole.

In this embodiment, the limiting piece 322 for realizing the rotation limitation of the connecting link 31 in a matching manner may be configured as follows: the limiting sheet 322 is further provided with a limiting groove 324, the limiting groove 324 is disposed between two protrusions 323 on the limiting sheet 322, the limiting groove 324 is formed along the surface of the limiting sheet 322 in an inward concave manner, the limiting groove 324 is specifically disposed on one side surface of the limiting sheet 322, which is in contact with the U-shaped connecting groove 314, and the limiting groove 324 is specifically V-shaped or U-shaped.

When the rotation is realized, firstly, the connecting link 31 slides along the side wall of the limiting groove 324 under the action of the pin, and after the sliding rotation reaches a certain angle, the protrusion 323 on the limiting sheet 322 contacts with the inner wall of the concave point 315 and limits the further rotation of the connecting link 31; when the connecting link 31 rotates in the direction, the protrusion 323 on the limiting sheet 322 contacts with the other inner wall of the concave point 315 to limit the further bending in the direction, so that the phenomenon that the flexible display module on the wearable device is damaged due to the reverse folding is prevented.

The rotation connection between the limiting piece 322 and the connecting portion 312 is realized through a connecting hole, specifically, two limiting holes 3221 are respectively arranged at two ends of the limiting piece 322, specifically, at positions corresponding to the positions of the protrusions 323, the pin penetrates through the limiting holes 3221 to fix the connecting member 32 to the connecting portion 312, specifically, the limiting holes 3221 are strip-shaped through holes, and the arrangement may be rectangular, and only a hole pattern providing a certain displacement redundancy in rotation may be realized.

In practical applications, the connecting portion 312 is connected to the position-limiting piece 322 by a pin passing through the position-limiting hole 3221 and the circular mounting hole 317, but the pin is fixed on the circular mounting hole 317 of the connecting portion 312, and the connecting member 32 can rotate on the pin, i.e., the size and shape of the circular mounting hole 317 are the same as the size and shape of the pin.

In this embodiment, a blocking piece 325 is further disposed on the end portion of the connecting body 321 on which the limiting piece 322 is disposed, a second limiting groove matched with the U-shaped connecting groove is formed between the blocking piece 325 and the limiting piece 322, and the width of the second limiting groove is equal to the thickness of the mounting piece 313; when the connecting member 32 is assembled to the connecting member 32, the mounting piece 313 is disposed in the second limiting groove, that is, the connecting member 32 has a symmetrical double-F-shaped structure.

In this embodiment, a chamfer is further disposed on an end of the mounting piece 313 contacting the second limiting groove, and the chamfer can guide the connecting link 31 during rotation, so as to facilitate wearing by a user.

To sum up, the connecting link assembly provided by the embodiment of the present invention comprises a connecting link and a connecting member disposed on the connecting link, wherein the connecting link comprises a link main body and a connecting portion, the connecting portion is symmetrically disposed on two end surfaces of the link main body in the length direction, two end surfaces of the connecting member in the length direction are respectively provided with a limiting piece and two symmetrical protrusions disposed on the limiting piece and contacting with the connecting portion, when assembling, one end of the limiting piece is rotatably connected to one of the two end portions of the connecting portion in the width direction of the link main body through a pin, and the other end portion is connected to the limiting piece on the other connecting link; the connection chain link and the connecting piece are rotatably connected, so that bending and folding at any angle can be realized, the deformation degree is small, the watchband can be well adapted to the hand shapes of various users, the watchband with the structure can not be adhered to the skin after being worn by the users, and the use experience of the users is greatly improved; furthermore, the connecting chain link assembly is simple in structure, the structure can be formed by respectively stamping and then assembling metal sheets, the forming process is simple, and the production cost of the wearable equipment is greatly reduced.

The second embodiment:

the wearable device provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises: the display device comprises a flexible display module 50 and a watchband 70, wherein the watchband 70 comprises a plurality of connecting link assemblies 30 connected through pins 60, and the flexible display module 50 is arranged on a connecting piece 32 in each connecting link assembly 30.

In the present embodiment, a band including two link assemblies 30 will be described as an example. As shown in fig. 7, the watch strap 70 includes a first connecting link assembly and a second connecting link assembly, and a pin 60 for fixing the first connecting link assembly and the second connecting link assembly, wherein the first connecting link assembly and the second connecting link assembly both include a connecting element 32 and a connecting link 31, wherein the connecting element 32 is disposed on the connecting link 31 and is rotatably connected, and the connecting element 32 is also rotatably connected with the connecting element 32 in the other connecting link 31.

In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 4 to 6, the connecting link 31 includes a link main body 311 and connecting portions 312 symmetrically disposed on one pair of ends of the link main body 311, and the connecting portions 312 are formed by two mounting pieces.

In practical application, the link main body 311 is designed to have a small U-shaped curved surface structure with two slightly raised ends, the connecting portion 312 formed by the two mounting pieces 313 is disposed at the two slightly raised ends of the link main body 311, and the two mounting pieces 313 and the link main body 311 enclose a U-shaped connecting groove 314, the limiting piece 322 is fixed in the U-shaped connecting groove 314, and the protrusion 323 on the limiting piece 322 is just clamped in the concave point 315 at the bottom of the U-shaped connecting groove 314, when the connecting link 31 rotates, the connecting link 31 slides along the side wall of the limiting groove 324 on the limiting piece 322 under the action of the pin, and after the connecting link rotates to a certain angle, the protrusion 323 on the limiting piece 322 contacts with the inner wall of the concave point 315 and limits further rotation of the connecting link 31; when the connecting link 31 rotates in the direction, the protrusion 323 on the limiting sheet 322 contacts with the other inner wall of the concave point 315 to limit the further bending in the direction, so that the phenomenon that the flexible display module on the wearable device is damaged due to the reverse folding is prevented.

The invention provides a connecting link component and wearable equipment, wherein the connecting link component comprises a connecting link and a connecting piece arranged on the connecting link, the connecting link comprises a link main body and a connecting part, the connecting part is symmetrically arranged on two end surfaces of the link main body in the length direction respectively, two end surfaces of a tank on the connecting piece in the length direction are respectively provided with a limiting piece and two symmetrical bulges arranged on the limiting piece and contacted with the connecting part, when the connecting link component is assembled, one end of the limiting piece is rotationally connected to one end of the two end parts of the connecting part in the width direction of the link main body through a pin, and the other end part of the limiting piece is connected with the limiting piece on the other connecting link; according to the connecting chain link formed by the connecting chain links and the connecting piece, the connecting chain links are connected with the connecting piece in a rotating manner, so that the wearable equipment can be bent and folded at any angle, has small deformation degree, can be well adapted to hand shapes of various users, does not stick skin after being worn by the users, and greatly improves the use experience of the users; furthermore, the connecting chain link is simple in structure, so that the processing technology is simple, and the cost of producing the wearable equipment is greatly reduced.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one of 8230, and" comprising 8230does not exclude the presence of additional like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus comprising the element.

The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

While the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, which are illustrative and not restrictive, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A connecting link assembly for use in a wearable device, comprising: the connecting chain comprises a connecting chain link and connecting pieces arranged on the connecting chain link, wherein the connecting chain link comprises a chain link main body and connecting parts, and the connecting parts are respectively arranged on two end surfaces of the chain link main body in the length direction and are symmetrically arranged;

the connecting piece comprises a connecting body and limiting pieces, the limiting pieces are respectively arranged at two ends of the connecting body along the length direction of the chain link main body, and two symmetrical bulges which are in contact limiting fit with concave points arranged on the connecting part are also arranged on the limiting pieces;

when the assembly is carried out, one end of the limiting piece is rotatably connected to one end of the two ends of the connecting part along the width direction of the chain link main body through a pin, and the other end of the limiting piece is connected with the limiting piece in other connecting chain link assemblies.

2. The connecting link assembly of claim 1, wherein a spacing groove is further formed on the spacing plate, the spacing groove is disposed between two protrusions on the spacing plate, and the spacing groove is formed along a surface of the spacing plate to be inwardly concave.

3. The connecting link assembly of claim 2 wherein the retaining slot is in the shape of a V or U, the connecting portion is a U-shaped connecting slot formed by two mounting tabs, and an inwardly extending boss is further provided on the side wall of the mounting tab adjacent the upper inner side of the link body, the boss and the link body forming a receiving slot therebetween.

4. The connecting link assembly of claim 1 or 2, wherein a position-limiting hole is further provided on the position-limiting plate at a position corresponding to the position of the protrusion, and the pin passes through the position-limiting hole to fix the connecting member to the connecting portion.

5. The connecting link assembly of claim 4 wherein the restraining bore is a through-hole strip.

6. The connecting link assembly of claim 4 wherein a stop plate parallel to the spacing plate is also provided on the end surface of the connecting member adjacent to the spacing plate.

7. The connecting link assembly of claim 6 wherein the connecting portion is a U-shaped connecting slot formed by two mounting tabs, and wherein a concave point is provided at the bottom of the U-shaped connecting slot for cooperating with the protrusion;

8. The connecting link assembly of claim 7, wherein symmetrical circular mounting holes are provided in both ends of the two mounting pieces in the width direction, respectively, and the stopper piece is mounted on the circular mounting holes by the pin.

9. The connecting link assembly of claim 8 wherein the link body is a U-shaped base plate, one of two end surfaces opposed in a width direction of the U-shaped base plate is provided with an extension portion, and the other end surface is provided with a groove having the same shape and size as the extension portion.

10. A wearable device, comprising: the flexible display module and the watchband, the watchband comprises a plurality of connecting link assemblies which are connected through pins and are as claimed in any one of claims 1-9, and the flexible display module is arranged on a connecting piece in the connecting link assemblies.