CN113628915A - Rocker assembly and rocker switch - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a rocker assembly and a rocker switch. The rocker assembly includes: the supporting piece is provided with a limiting hole or a limiting groove; the fin, the both sides of fin have the bulge, and the fin is connected the back with support piece, and the bulge stretches into spacing hole or spacing inslot and forms spacing backstop. The invention solves the problem of poor safety performance caused by the fact that the rocker switch is easy to generate arc discharge in the prior art.

Description

Rocker assembly and rocker switch

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of switches, in particular to a rocker assembly and a rocker switch.

Background

The rocker switch is also called ship switch, the rocker switch, IO switch and switch, wide application is in people's daily life, generally mainly include the mount, rocker and button assembly, wherein be equipped with the support piece that is used for supporting the rocker on the mount, and the rocker can deflect around support piece, when pressing the button assembly, can be indirectly to the rocker application of force, make it to deflect, and then make the contact of rocker and the binding post switch-on the mount, or with the binding post separation on the mount, realize switching on or breaking off of rocker switch.

However, current rocker switch is in a closed instant, because the rocker top does not retrain, the rocker can bounce and produce and draw the arc, can cause the structure of rocker switch to be ablated and damaged for a long time, influences the life of rocker switch, has the potential safety hazard, greatly reduced the security performance of rocker switch. And the condition of over-strong arc discharge occasionally occurs, strong arc light can be generated, the false appearance of electric leakage is given to people, and the user experience is not good. In addition, when the rocker switch flows on a production line, the rocker is easy to misplace, so that the assembly reject ratio of the product is high.

From the above, the rocker switch in the prior art has the problem of poor safety performance due to easy arc discharge.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide a rocker assembly and a rocker switch, and aims to solve the problem that the rocker switch in the prior art is poor in safety performance due to the fact that arc is easily generated.

To achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a seesaw assembly, comprising: the supporting piece is provided with a limiting hole or a limiting groove; the fin, the both sides of fin have the bulge, and the fin is connected the back with support piece, and the bulge stretches into spacing hole or spacing inslot and forms spacing backstop.

Furthermore, support piece still has spacing muscle, and spacing muscle sets up in the notch side of spacing groove, and spacing muscle and bulge backstop cooperation.

Furthermore, two limiting ribs are arranged, the two limiting ribs extend out of two sides of the limiting groove in the opposite direction respectively, and the two limiting ribs are matched with the two protruding parts in a one-to-one corresponding stop way.

Furthermore, support piece includes this body section and the section of bending, has the contained angle between section of bending and the body section, and spacing muscle is located the section of bending.

Further, support piece still has the bearing muscle, and the bearing muscle sets up in the tank bottom department of spacing groove to form the installation clearance between messenger's bearing muscle and the spacing muscle, the bulge holding is in the installation clearance.

Furthermore, support piece includes this body section and the section of bending, has the contained angle between section of bending and the body section, and the section of bending extends towards the center of spacing groove and is formed with spacing muscle, and the direction of stretching out of bearing muscle is unanimous with the direction of bending of the section of bending.

Furthermore, the included angle between the supporting rib and the body section is equal to the included angle between the bending section and the body section.

Further, support piece still has the bearing muscle, and the bearing muscle sets up the center department at the tank bottom of spacing groove to form the installation clearance between messenger's bearing muscle and the spacing muscle, the bulge holding is in the installation clearance, and the length more than or equal to of bearing muscle the interval length between two spacing muscle.

Further, support piece's top has two supports that the interval set up, and spacing hole is two, and two spacing holes are seted up respectively on two supports, and two bulges stretch into two spacing downtheholely respectively to make the wane use the bulge to rotate as the pivot.

Further, the rocker comprises: the protruding parts are positioned on two sides of the middle part of the rocker body, and the rocker body is provided with a plurality of sections which are continuously bent; the contact, the contact is two, and two contacts set up respectively at the both ends of wane body for switch on with binding post contact.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rocker switch comprising the above-described rocker assembly.

By applying the technical scheme of the invention, the rocker component comprises a support piece and a rocker, the support piece is provided with a limiting hole or a limiting groove, the two sides of the rocker are provided with the protruding parts, after the rocker is connected with the support piece, the protruding parts extend into the limiting hole or the limiting groove to form the limiting stop, so that the rocker cannot be separated from the support piece through the limiting stop of the protruding parts by the limiting hole or the limiting groove, even when a rocker switch is turned off or turned on, the limiting hole or the limiting groove can limit and stop the rocker, and accordingly, an arc can not be generated between the rocker and the support piece, and the problem of poor safety performance caused by the fact that the rocker switch is easy to generate the arc in the prior art is solved.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 illustrates an angular, schematic view of a rocker assembly in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 shows a schematic view of another angle of a rocker assembly in an exemplary embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 shows a schematic structural view of a support member in an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 4 shows a schematic structural view of a rocker in an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic view showing the positional relationship of the rocker with the support member in a first position according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of the rocker in a second position in relation to the support member in an exemplary embodiment of the invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic view showing the positional relationship of the rocker and the support member in a third position in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 shows an exploded view of a rocker switch in an embodiment of the invention.

Wherein the figures include the following reference numerals:

10. a support member; 11. limiting ribs; 12. a body section; 13. bending sections; 14. supporting ribs; 20. a limiting groove; 30. a seesaw; 31. a projection; 32. a rocker body; 33. a contact; 40. a transition piece; 50. a toggle piece; 60. a wiring terminal; 70. pressing a plate; 80. a button panel; 90. a fixing frame.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.

It is noted that, unless otherwise indicated, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs.

In the present invention, unless specified to the contrary, use of the terms of orientation such as "upper, lower, top, bottom" or the like, generally refer to the orientation as shown in the drawings, or to the component itself in a vertical, perpendicular, or gravitational orientation; likewise, for ease of understanding and description, "inner and outer" refer to the inner and outer relative to the profile of the components themselves, but the above directional words are not intended to limit the invention.

It is to be understood that the above-described embodiments are only a few, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

In order to solve the problem that the rocker switch in the prior art is poor in safety performance due to the fact that arc discharge is easily generated, the invention provides a rocker assembly and the rocker switch. The rocker switch described below includes the rocker assembly described below.

As shown in fig. 1 to 8, the rocker assembly includes a support 10 and a rocker 30. The support member 10 has a stopper hole or a stopper groove 20. The two sides of the rocker 30 have protrusions 31, and after the rocker 30 is connected to the supporting member 10, the protrusions 31 extend into the limiting holes or the limiting grooves 20 to form limiting stops.

Include support piece 10 and wane 30 through the wane subassembly, support piece 10 has spacing hole or spacing groove 20, the both sides of wane 30 have bulge 31, the back is connected with support piece 10 to wane 30, bulge 31 stretches into spacing hole or spacing inslot 20 and forms spacing backstop, through spacing hole or spacing groove 20 to the spacing backstop of bulge 31 like this, make wane 30 can't break away from with support piece 10, even when the wane switch shuts off or opens, spacing hole or spacing groove 20 also can spacing backstop wane 30, thereby make and can not produce between wane 30 and the support piece 10 and draw the arc, avoid the wane switch to draw the arc because of producing and lead to the structure to be ablated and damaged, the security performance of wane switch has been guaranteed.

In the present embodiment, the support 10 performs a limit stop on the protrusion 31 through the limit groove 20.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3 and 5 to 7, the supporting member 10 further has a limiting rib 11. The limiting rib 11 is arranged on the notch side of the limiting groove 20, and the limiting rib 11 is matched with the protruding part 31 in a stopping way. In this embodiment, the number of the limiting ribs 11 is two. The two limiting ribs 11 extend out of two sides of the limiting groove 20 in opposite directions, and the two limiting ribs 11 are matched with the two protruding parts 31 in a one-to-one corresponding stop way. That is, the two limiting ribs 11 block part of the notches of the limiting groove 20, so that the limiting groove 20 is in a convex shape.

In the present embodiment, the length of the gap between the two limiting ribs 11 is greater than or equal to the width of the plate section of the rocker 30 without the protrusion 31. This facilitates the insertion of the rocker 30 into the retaining groove 20 or the removal of the rocker from the retaining groove 20.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3 and 5 to 7, the supporting member 10 includes a body segment 12 and a bending segment 13. This body section 12 is parallel with vertical direction, has the contained angle between section 13 and the body section 12 of bending, and spacing muscle 11 is located the section 13 of bending. Specifically, the bending section 13 extends towards the center of the limiting groove 20 to form a limiting rib 11. The above arrangement can also be understood that the plate section portions of the supporting member 10 located at both sides of the limiting groove 20 are bent to form the bent section 13.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3 and 5 to 7, the support member 10 further has a support rib 14. The supporting rib 14 is disposed at the groove bottom of the limiting groove 20, so that an installation gap is formed between the supporting rib 14 and the limiting rib 11, and the protruding portion 31 is accommodated in the installation gap. The limiting rib 11 and the supporting rib 14 respectively form limiting stops at the upper side and the lower side of the protruding portion 31, so that the rocker 30 is prevented from being separated from the supporting member 10 when the rocker switch is turned off or turned on. Specifically, when the rocker switch is switched between the off state and the on state, the segment of the rocker 30 having the protrusion 31 swings back and forth in the installation gap, and is limited and stopped by the limiting rib 11 and the supporting rib 14 when the rocker switch is in the off position and the on position, so that the rocker 30 is prevented from being separated from the support 10.

In this embodiment, the vertical connecting line of the edge of the supporting rib 14 contacting the rocker 30 and the edge of the limiting rib 11 contacting the rocker 30 is parallel to the vertical direction.

In this embodiment, the length of the supporting rib 14 is greater than or equal to the interval length between the two limiting ribs 11. The support rib 14 can abut against the protruding portion 31, so that the upper side and the lower side of the protruding portion 31 are respectively matched with the limiting rib 11 to form limiting stops, and the rocker 30 is separated from the support 10 when the rocker switch is turned off or turned on.

In this embodiment, the support rib 14 extends in the same direction as the bending direction of the bending section 13.

Specifically, the included angle between the support rib 14 and the body section 12 is equal to the included angle between the bending section 13 and the body section 12. That is to say, the support rib 14 is parallel to the bending section 13. In this embodiment, the included angle between the supporting rib 14 and the body section 12 and the included angle between the bending section 13 and the body section 12 are both 45 °.

In an embodiment, not shown, the support 10 is a limit stop for the projection 31 via a limit hole. The top of support piece 10 has two supports that the interval set up, and spacing hole is two, and two spacing holes are seted up respectively on two supports, and two bulges 31 stretch into two spacing downtheholely respectively to make wane 30 use bulge 31 to rotate as the pivot. Therefore, the rocker switch is prevented from being separated from the supporting piece 10 when being turned off or turned on through the limit stop of the limit hole to the protruding part 31, and accordingly arc discharge is prevented.

As shown in fig. 4, paddle 30 includes paddle body 32 and contacts 33. The protrusions 31 are located at both sides of the middle of the rocker body 32, and the rocker body 32 has a plurality of continuously bent sections. The two contacts 33 are respectively disposed at two ends of the rocker body 32, and are used for contacting with the terminals 60.

As shown in fig. 8, the rocker switch includes the above-mentioned supporting member 10, the above-mentioned rocker 30, the transition member 40, the toggle member 50, the connection terminal 60, the pressing plate 70, the button panel 80, and the fixing bracket 90. The fixing frame 90 has a receiving groove in which the supporting member 10, the seesaw 30 and the connection terminal 60 are received. The transition piece 40 has a hollow cavity in which the toggle 50 is mounted. The pressure plate 70 has a central slot through which the transition piece 40 passes to abut the rocker 30 via the toggle 50. Transition piece 40 and button panel 80 butt, button panel 80 and mount 90 are rotationally connected, and the user presses button panel 80 to drive transition piece 40 and swing in the central slot. The terminals 60 are at least two, and the support 10 is disposed between the two terminals 60. The toggle element 50 toggles the rocker 30 back and forth between the two terminals 60 and respectively communicates with one of the terminals 60, thereby turning off and on the rocker switch.

In the present embodiment, the rocker 30 has a first position, a second position, and a third position during the switching of the rocker switch between off and on. The first position is the position of the rocker 30 when the rocker switch is in the off state, the right side of the rocker 30 tilts at the moment, the left side moves downwards, and the contact 33 on the left side is in contact with the wiring terminal 60. The second position is where the rocker 30 is positioned when the rocker switch is switched between the off state and the on state. The third position is the position of the rocker 30 when the rocker switch is in the on state, at this time, the left side of the rocker 30 tilts, the right side moves down, and the contact 33 on the right side is in contact with the terminal 60.

In the present embodiment, when the rocker switch is switched between the off state and the on state, the plate section of the rocker 30 having the protrusion 31 swings in the limiting groove 20. As shown in fig. 5 to 7, when the rocker 30 is located at the first position, the rocker 30 abuts against the supporting rib 14 and the limiting rib 11 respectively to form a limiting stop for the rocker 30, wherein point a is an abutting position of the rocker 30 and the supporting rib 14; the point b is the abutting part of the wane 30 and the limiting rib 11; the angle between the rocker 30 and the horizontal is β. When the rocker 30 is located the second position, the rocker 30 only butts with the bearing rib 14, and a point is the butt department of rocker 30 and bearing rib 14, has clearance h between rocker 30 and the spacing rib 11, and wherein, d is the thickness of rocker 30. It will be appreciated that the gap h is greatest when the rocker 30 is in a horizontal position. When the rocker 30 is located at the third position, the rocker 30 is respectively abutted against the bearing rib 14 and the limiting rib 11 to form a limiting stop for the rocker 30, wherein the point a is the abutted position of the rocker 30 and the bearing rib 14; the point c is the contact position of the rocker 30 and the supporting rib 14, and the included angle between the rocker 30 and the horizontal direction is also beta.

Specifically, the line connecting the two points ab is parallel to the vertical direction. Wherein, h ac-d/cos beta-d, the size of clearance h is controlled through the thickness d that rationally sets up wane 30, even make wane 30 in the twinkling of an eye that switches on with two binding post 60 contacts respectively, above-mentioned limit structure can be to the spacing backstop of wane 30 in order to prevent to produce the arc of drawing, can guarantee again that the wane switch is in the in-process of switching motion between off-state and on-state, the user can easily press and can not feel blunt feeling, thereby does not influence user's use and feels. Furthermore, the provision of the gap h also enables the rocker 30 to be easily and quickly mounted with the support 10.

From the above description, it can be seen that the above-described embodiments of the present invention achieve the following technical effects: include support piece 10 and wane 30 through the wane subassembly, support piece 10 has spacing hole or spacing groove 20, the both sides of wane 30 have bulge 31, the back is connected with support piece 10 to wane 30, bulge 31 stretches into spacing hole or spacing inslot 20 and forms spacing backstop, through spacing hole or spacing groove 20 to the spacing backstop of bulge 31 like this, make wane 30 can't break away from with support piece 10, even when the wane switch is closed, spacing hole or spacing groove 20 also can spacing backstop wane 30, thereby make and can not produce the arc between wane 30 and the support piece 10, avoid the wane switch to lead to the structure by the ablation damage because of producing the arc, the security performance of wane switch has been guaranteed.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular is intended to include the plural unless the context clearly dictates otherwise, and it should be further understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," when used in this specification, specify the presence of features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (11)

1. A rocker assembly, comprising:

a support (10), the support (10) having a limit hole or a limit groove (20);

wane (30), the both sides of wane (30) have bulge (31), wane (30) with back is connected in support piece (10), bulge (31) stretch into form spacing backstop in spacing hole or spacing groove (20).

2. A rocker assembly according to claim 1, characterised in that the support member (10) further has a limiting rib (11), the limiting rib (11) being arranged on the notch side of the limiting groove (20), the limiting rib (11) being in stop-fit with the protrusion (31).

3. A rocker assembly according to claim 2, characterised in that there are two limiting ribs (11), two limiting ribs (11) extending from two sides of the limiting groove (20) towards each other, and two limiting ribs (11) cooperating with two corresponding stops of the protruding parts (31).

4. A rocker assembly according to claim 2, characterised in that said support member (10) comprises a body section (12) and a bend section (13), said bend section (13) being at an angle to said body section (12), said spacing rib (11) being located on said bend section (13).

5. A rocker assembly according to claim 2, wherein the support member (10) further has a bearing rib (14), the bearing rib (14) being arranged at a groove bottom of the restraining groove (20) such that a mounting gap is formed between the bearing rib (14) and the restraining rib (11), the protrusion (31) being accommodated in the mounting gap.

6. A rocker assembly according to claim 5, characterised in that the support member (10) comprises a body section (12) and a bending section (13), the bending section (13) has an angle with the body section (12), the bending section (13) extends towards the centre of the limiting groove (20) to form the limiting rib (11), and the protruding direction of the bearing rib (14) coincides with the bending direction of the bending section (13).

7. A rocker assembly according to claim 6, characterised in that the angle between the carrier rib (14) and the body section (12) is equal to the angle between the bent section (13) and the body section (12).

8. A rocker assembly according to claim 3, wherein the support member (10) further comprises a support rib (14), the support rib (14) is disposed at the center of the bottom of the limiting groove (20) such that a mounting gap is formed between the support rib (14) and the limiting rib (11), the protrusion (31) is accommodated in the mounting gap, and the length of the support rib (14) is greater than or equal to the interval length between two limiting ribs (11).

9. The rocker assembly according to claim 1, wherein the top of the supporting member (10) has two spaced seats, the two limiting holes are respectively formed in the two seats, and the two protrusions (31) respectively extend into the two limiting holes, so that the rocker (30) rotates around the protrusions (31).

10. A rocker assembly according to any of claims 1-9, characterised in that the rocker (30) comprises:

the rocker body (32), the convex part (31) is positioned at two sides of the middle part of the rocker body (32), and the rocker body (32) has a plurality of sections which are continuously bent;

the contact (33), contact (33) are two, two contact (33) set up respectively the both ends of wane body (32) are used for leading to with binding post (60) contact.

11. A rocker switch comprising a rocker assembly as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 10.

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