CN215453613U - Instrument convenient to overhaul and maintain and shell thereof - Google Patents

Instrument convenient to overhaul and maintain and shell thereof Download PDF

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CN215453613U
CN215453613U CN202121987565.5U CN202121987565U CN215453613U CN 215453613 U CN215453613 U CN 215453613U CN 202121987565 U CN202121987565 U CN 202121987565U CN 215453613 U CN215453613 U CN 215453613U
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The utility model discloses an instrument shell convenient for overhauling and maintaining, which comprises a main shell, wherein a face shell capable of being turned upwards relative to the main shell is arranged on the front side surface of the main shell; the face shell is provided with a control operation assembly; one end, close to an axis of the face shell, which is turned upwards relative to the main shell, of the control operation assembly is a hinged end, and the hinged end is hinged with the face shell; the control operation assembly and the end opposite to the hinged end are connecting ends, and the connecting ends are detachably connected with the face shell. The utility model also discloses an instrument convenient to overhaul and maintain, which comprises the instrument shell convenient to overhaul and maintain. The instrument and the shell thereof are convenient to overhaul and maintain, and the control operation assembly can be positioned right in front of the main shell during overhaul and maintenance so as to be convenient for overhaul and maintenance personnel to operate.

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Instrument convenient to overhaul and maintain and shell thereof
Technical Field
The utility model relates to an instrument, in particular to an instrument convenient to overhaul and maintain and a shell thereof.
Background
At present, when the instrument and equipment are overhauled and maintained, the next overhauling and maintenance work can be carried out on the instrument and equipment after the components such as the whole shell, a display screen and the like are disassembled. However, instrument equipment shell dismantles the back, some materials (like screw, gasket etc.) lose easily or when the installation appear the installation mistake scheduling problem, some binding post (like the binding post of display screen) appear becoming flexible after plug many times easily, thereby lead to circuit signal unstability, the display screen produces easily and jumps the screen, black screen scheduling problem, and further lead to the frequency increase of instrument equipment maintenance, the probability that instrument equipment broke down has been aggravated, greatly increased maintenance work load, lead to equipment use efficiency to reduce, even lead to equipment life to reduce.
In order to solve the problem, the existing instruments adopt a face shell which can be turned to open and close and is arranged on a shell body, and the opening modes of the face shell are generally two types: the first is that the panel can be opened laterally, which has the following problems: the two sides of the instrument are generally narrow in space, and the condition that the opening angle of a panel shell is not in place easily exists due to position interference; secondly, the display screen or the control panel and the like rotate along with the panel shell, and the display screen or the control panel needs to be repeatedly switched to the front side to maintain the internal parts of the machine during maintenance, so that the maintenance operation is inconvenient. The second is that the face-piece can upwards be opened, and the face-piece is supported fixedly by the bracing piece after upwards opening, but because there is no limit structure between the bracing piece and the face-piece, if the face-piece is touched carelessly in the process of maintenance, the face-piece and the bracing piece may be separated and fall off, and there is a safety risk.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention provides an apparatus and a housing thereof for facilitating maintenance, wherein a control operation assembly is located right in front of a main housing during maintenance, so as to facilitate operation of maintenance personnel.
In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model provides the following technical scheme:
the utility model relates to an instrument shell convenient for overhauling and maintaining, which comprises a main shell, wherein a face shell capable of being turned upwards relative to the main shell is arranged on the front side surface of the main shell;
the face shell is provided with a control operation assembly; one end, close to an axis of the face shell, which is turned upwards relative to the main shell, of the control operation assembly is a hinged end, and the hinged end is hinged with the face shell; the control operation assembly and the end opposite to the hinged end are connecting ends, and the connecting ends are detachably connected with the face shell.
Further, the top of the face shell is hinged to the main shell, and a support assembly for supporting the face shell when the face shell is turned upwards relative to the main shell is arranged between the face shell and the main shell.
Further, the supporting component comprises a supporting seat fixedly mounted and a supporting rod hinged to the supporting seat, the face shell is provided with a limiting block matched with the supporting rod and used for preventing the face shell from being separated from the supporting rod, and the limiting block is provided with a limiting structure matched with the supporting rod.
Furthermore, the stopper is close to the face-piece for one side of the axis of main casing body upset is equipped with interior fender wall, the stopper with the both sides that interior fender wall is adjacent are equipped with the side fender wall respectively, the stopper with the relative one side of interior fender wall is equipped with outer separation blade, interior fender wall, outer separation blade and two side fender walls that are located both sides enclose jointly limit structure.
Furthermore, the end part of the supporting rod is provided with a positioning groove matched with the outer blocking piece.
Furthermore, the supporting seat and the supporting rod are respectively and correspondingly provided with a strap hole.
Furthermore, a buckle convenient to hold is arranged on the side wall of one side of the face shell.
Furthermore, the control operation component adopts a touch display screen or a control panel.
Furthermore, the connecting end and the face shell are detachably connected through screws.
Furthermore, a connecting seat is arranged on the face shell, a connecting plate is arranged on the control operation assembly, a mounting hole is formed in the connecting seat, a connecting hole is correspondingly formed in the connecting plate and the mounting hole, and an internal thread matched with the screw is formed in the inner wall of the mounting hole.
Furthermore, the inner wall of the connecting hole is provided with an internal thread matched with the screw.
Further, the screw comprises a screw head and a screw column, the screw column comprises a large-diameter section and a small-diameter section, the small-diameter section is located between the large-diameter section and the screw head, and the outer diameter of the large-diameter section is larger than that of the small-diameter section;
and the large-diameter section is provided with an external thread matched with the internal thread of the mounting hole and the internal thread of the connecting hole.
Further, the mounting hole includes screw thread section and unthreaded hole section, the screw thread section is located the inboard of unthreaded hole section, just the internal diameter of screw thread section is less than the internal diameter of unthreaded hole section, the internal thread setting of mounting hole is in on the inner wall of screw thread section, just the axial length more than or equal to of unthreaded hole section the axial length of major diameter section.
The utility model also provides an instrument convenient for overhauling and maintenance, which comprises the instrument shell convenient for overhauling and maintenance.
The utility model has the beneficial effects that:
according to the instrument shell convenient to overhaul and maintain, the control operation assembly is arranged on the face shell, and a debugging instruction is issued through the operation of the control operation assembly during overhaul and maintenance, so that the running state of an instrument internal device part can be observed; through being connected with the face shell is articulated with the hinged end of control operation subassembly, when overhauing and maintaining, can pull down control operation subassembly's link from the face shell to make control operation subassembly can rotate around its and the articulated axis between the face shell, make control operation subassembly towards the dead ahead of the main casing body, the maintenance personal of being convenient for overhauls from the dead ahead operation of the main casing body.
The top of the face shell is hinged with the main shell, so that the face shell can be turned upwards relative to the main shell, and the position interference between other equipment is avoided; through set up supporting component between the face-piece and the main casing body, utilize bearing and bracing piece to make the face-piece keep opening the state in the upset for the main casing body, and through setting up the stopper, can avoid breaking away from between the face-piece and the main casing body, even if touch the face-piece carelessly in the maintenance process of overhauing promptly, also can not lead to breaking away from between face-piece and the bracing piece and drop, thereby can improve the security, the personal safety of the protection maintenance personnel.
The connecting end of the control operation assembly can be detachably connected with the face shell by the aid of screws through arranging the connecting seat on the face shell and arranging the connecting plate on the display screen; the large-diameter section and the small-diameter section are arranged on the screw column of the screw, the threaded section and the unthreaded hole section are arranged in the mounting hole, the external thread is arranged on the large-diameter section, the internal thread is respectively arranged on the inner walls of the connecting hole and the threaded section, so that the large-diameter section of the screw can be simultaneously in threaded fit with the connecting hole and the threaded section, the axial length of the unthreaded hole section is set to be more than or equal to that of the large-diameter section, when the large-diameter section is connected, the large-diameter section firstly penetrates through the connecting hole through the threaded fit relation and then is in threaded fit with the threaded section, the connecting end of the control operation assembly can be installed on the face shell, when the face shell is disassembled, the large-diameter section is separated from the threaded section by screwing the screw, at the moment, the screw cannot fall off from the connecting plate due to the limit relation of the large-diameter section and the connecting hole, and the problem that the screw is easy to lose in the overhaul and maintenance process is avoided.
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In order to make the object, technical scheme and beneficial effect of the utility model more clear, the utility model provides the following drawings for explanation:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the apparatus for facilitating service and maintenance of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a state view after the face housing is turned upward with respect to the main housing;
FIG. 3 is an isometric view of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is detail A of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of the support assembly;
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the mounting relationship between the control and operation assembly and the front shell;
FIG. 7 is a state diagram of the control operation assembly after being turned over relative to the panel shell;
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the connection between the control operation unit and the front cover;
FIG. 9 is detail B of FIG. 8;
fig. 10 is a structural schematic diagram of the screw.
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1-a main housing; 2-a face shell; 3-a support seat; 4-a support bar; 5-a limiting block; 5 a-inner retaining wall; 5 b-side retaining walls; 5 c-an outer baffle plate; 6-positioning a groove; 7-handle fastening; 8-controlling the operating assembly; 8 a-hinged end; 8 b-a connection end; 9-a screw; 9 a-screw head; 9 b-a large diameter section; 9 c-small diameter section; 10-a connecting seat; 11-a connecting plate; 12-mounting holes; 12 a-a threaded segment; 12 b-a photopore section; 13-connecting holes; 14-a tie hole.
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The present invention is further described with reference to the following drawings and specific examples so that those skilled in the art can better understand the present invention and can practice the present invention, but the examples are not intended to limit the present invention.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the apparatus for facilitating maintenance and repair according to the present invention. The instrument convenient to overhaul and maintain comprises an instrument shell convenient to overhaul and maintain. The instrument housing convenient for overhaul and maintenance comprises a main housing 1, wherein a face shell capable of being turned upwards relative to the main housing 1 is arranged on the front side face of the main housing 1. The face shell 2 is provided with a control operation component 8; one end of the control operation assembly 8, which is close to the upward turning axis of the face shell 2 relative to the main shell 1, is a hinged end 8a, and the hinged end 8a is hinged with the face shell 2; the end of the control operation assembly 8 opposite to the hinged end 8a is a connecting end 8b, and the connecting end 8b is detachably connected with the face shell 2. Specifically, the control operation component 8 is a touch display screen or a control panel, and the control operation component 8 of this embodiment is a touch display screen.
According to the instrument shell convenient to overhaul and maintain, the control operation assembly is arranged on the face shell, and when the instrument shell is overhauled and maintained, a debugging instruction is issued by controlling the operation of the operation assembly, so that the running state of an instrument internal device part can be observed; through being connected with the face shell is articulated with the hinged end of control operation subassembly, when overhauing and maintaining, can pull down control operation subassembly's link from the face shell to make control operation subassembly can rotate around its articulated axis with between the face shell, make control operation subassembly face the dead ahead of main casing body, the maintenance personal of being convenient for overhauls from the dead ahead of the main casing body operation, as shown in fig. 8.
As shown in fig. 2, the top of the face housing 2 of the present embodiment is hinged to the main housing 1, and a support member for supporting the face housing 2 when the face housing 2 is turned upward with respect to the main housing 1 is provided between the face housing 2 and the main housing 1. The supporting component of this embodiment includes fixed mounting's supporting seat 3 and the bracing piece 4 of being connected with supporting seat 3 is articulated, is equipped with on the face-piece 2 to cooperate with bracing piece 4 and be used for preventing the stopper 5 that breaks away from between face-piece 2 and the bracing piece 4, is equipped with on the stopper 5 with bracing piece 4 complex limit structure.
According to the instrument convenient to overhaul and maintain, the top of the face shell is hinged with the main shell, so that the face shell can be turned upwards relative to the main shell, and the position interference between the face shell and other equipment is avoided; through set up supporting component between the face-piece and the main casing body, utilize bearing and bracing piece to make the face-piece keep opening the state in the upset for the main casing body, and through setting up the stopper, can avoid breaking away from between the face-piece and the main casing body, even if touch the face-piece carelessly in the maintenance process of overhauing promptly, also can not lead to breaking away from between face-piece and the bracing piece and drop, thereby can improve the security, the personal safety of the protection maintenance personnel.
Specifically, stopper 5 is close to face shell 2 and is equipped with interior fender wall 5a for the one side of the axis of main casing body 1 upset, stopper 5 and the adjacent both sides of interior fender wall 5a are equipped with side fender wall 5b respectively, stopper 5 and the relative one side of interior fender wall 5a are equipped with outer separation blade 5c, and interior fender wall 5a, outer separation blade 5c and two side fender walls 5b that are located both sides enclose into limit structure jointly. Preferably, the end of the supporting rod 4 of this embodiment is provided with a positioning slot 6 matching with the outer blocking piece 5c, and when the end of the supporting rod 4 is located between the inner blocking wall 5a, the outer blocking piece 5c and the two side blocking walls 5b, the outer blocking piece 5c is located in the positioning slot 6, so as to realize the positioning of the supporting rod 4.
Preferably, a handle 7 is provided on a side wall of the face housing 2 for easy holding, so that the maintenance personnel can hold the handle to drive the face housing 2 to turn upward relative to the main housing 1.
The connecting end 8b of the embodiment is detachably connected with the face shell 2 by a screw 9. Be equipped with connecting seat 10 on the face casing 2 of this embodiment, be equipped with connecting plate 11 on the control operation subassembly 8, be equipped with mounting hole 12 on the connecting seat 10, correspond with mounting hole 12 on the connecting plate 11 and be equipped with connecting hole 13, be equipped with on the inner wall of mounting hole 12 with screw 9 complex internal thread, screw 9 passes behind the connecting hole 13 with the internal thread fit of mounting hole 12, can install control operation subassembly 8 detachably on face casing 2.
The inner wall of the connecting hole 13 of the embodiment is provided with an internal thread matched with the screw 9, and the screw 9 is simultaneously matched with the internal thread of the connecting hole 13 and the internal thread of the mounting hole 12, so that the technical purpose of detachably mounting the control operation assembly 8 on the face shell 2 can be met. Preferably, the screw 9 includes a screw head 9a and a screw column, the screw column includes a large diameter section 9b and a small diameter section 9c, the small diameter section 9c is located between the large diameter section 9b and the screw head 9a, and the outer diameter of the large diameter section 9b is larger than that of the small diameter section 9 c. The large-diameter section 9c is provided with external threads which are matched with the internal threads of the mounting hole 12 and the internal threads of the connecting hole 13.
The mounting hole 12 of the present embodiment includes a threaded section 12a and a unthreaded hole section 12b, the threaded section 12a is located on the inner side of the unthreaded hole section 12b, the inner diameter of the threaded section 12a is smaller than the inner diameter of the unthreaded hole section 12b, the internal thread of the mounting hole 12 is arranged on the inner wall of the threaded section 12a, and the axial length of the unthreaded hole section 12b is greater than or equal to the axial length of the large-diameter section 9 b. By providing the threaded section 12a and the unthreaded section 12b in the mounting hole 12, the helical length of the screw 9 tightened into place can be reduced. The large-diameter section 9b and the small-diameter section 9c are arranged on the screw column of the screw 9, the external thread is arranged on the large-diameter section 9b, and the internal thread is respectively arranged on the inner walls of the connecting hole 13 and the threaded section 12a, so that the large-diameter section 9b of the screw 9 can be in threaded fit with the connecting hole 13 and the threaded section 12a at the same time, the axial length of the smooth hole section 12b is set to be more than or equal to that of the large-diameter section 9b, and during connection, the large-diameter section 9b firstly completely passes through the connecting hole 13 through the thread fit relation and then is in threaded fit with the threaded section 12a, so that the connecting end of the control operation assembly 8 can be installed on the face shell 2, and the problem that the connecting hole 13 and the threaded spiral line of the threaded section 12a are staggered to cause jamming or even cannot be screwed in is avoided; during the dismantlement, it can to twist screw 9 and make big footpath section 9a break away from with screw thread section 12a, and owing to the spacing relation of big footpath section 9a and connecting hole 13, screw 9 can not drop from connecting plate 11 this moment to avoid overhauing the problem that screw 9 lost easily among the maintenance process.
The above-mentioned embodiments are merely preferred embodiments for fully illustrating the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto. The equivalent substitution or change made by the technical personnel in the technical field on the basis of the utility model is all within the protection scope of the utility model. The protection scope of the utility model is subject to the claims.

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1. An instrument shell convenient for overhauling and maintaining comprises a main shell (1), wherein a face shell capable of being turned upwards relative to the main shell is arranged on the front side surface of the main shell (1); the method is characterized in that:
the face shell (2) is provided with a control operation assembly (8); one end of the control operation assembly (8), which is close to the upward turning axis of the face shell (2) relative to the main shell (1), is a hinged end (8a), and the hinged end (8a) is hinged with the face shell (2); the control operation assembly (8) and the end opposite to the hinged end (8a) are connecting ends (8b), and the connecting ends (8b) are detachably connected with the face shell (2).
2. The service easy and maintenance instrument housing of claim 1, wherein: the top of face shell (2) with main casing body (1) is articulated to be connected, just face shell (2) with be equipped with between main casing body (1) be used for supporting when face shell (2) for main casing body (1) upturns the support assembly of face shell (2).
3. The service and maintenance facilitated instrument housing of claim 2, wherein: the supporting component comprises a supporting seat (3) and a supporting rod (4), the supporting seat (3) is fixedly installed, the supporting rod (4) is connected in a hinged mode, a limiting block (5) is arranged on the face shell (2), the supporting rod (4) is matched with the supporting rod and used for preventing the face shell (2) from being separated from the supporting rod (4), and a limiting structure matched with the supporting rod (4) is arranged on the limiting block (5).
4. The service easy and maintenance instrument housing of claim 3, wherein: stopper (5) are close to face-piece (2) for one side of the axis of main casing body (1) upset is equipped with interior fender wall (5a), stopper (5) with the both sides that interior fender wall (5a) are adjacent are equipped with side fender wall (5b) respectively, stopper (5) with the relative one side of interior fender wall (5a) is equipped with outer separation blade (5c), interior fender wall (5a), outer separation blade (5c) and two side fender walls (5b) that are located both sides enclose jointly limit structure.
5. The service easy and maintenance instrument housing of claim 4, wherein: the end part of the support rod (4) is provided with a positioning groove (6) matched with the outer baffle (5 c).
6. The service easy and maintenance instrument housing of claim 3, wherein: the supporting seat (3) and the supporting rod (4) are respectively and correspondingly provided with a band tying hole (14).
7. The service easy and maintenance instrument housing of claim 1, wherein: a buckle (7) convenient to hold is arranged on the side wall of one side of the face shell (2); the control operation component (8) adopts a touch display screen or a control panel.
8. An instrument housing for facilitating service and maintenance according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein: the connecting end (8b) is detachably connected with the face shell (2) through a screw (9).
9. The service easy and maintenance instrument housing of claim 8, wherein: the novel multifunctional face-piece is characterized in that a connecting seat (10) is arranged on the face shell (2), a connecting plate (11) is arranged on the control operation assembly (8), a mounting hole (12) is formed in the connecting seat (10), a connecting hole (13) is formed in the connecting plate (11) and corresponds to the mounting hole (12), and internal threads matched with the screw (9) are formed in the inner wall of the mounting hole (12).
10. The service easy and maintenance instrument housing of claim 9, wherein: and the inner wall of the connecting hole (13) is provided with an internal thread matched with the screw (9).
11. The service easy and maintenance instrument housing of claim 10, wherein: the screw (9) comprises a screw head (9a) and a screw column, the screw column comprises a large-diameter section (9b) and a small-diameter section (9c), the small-diameter section (9c) is positioned between the large-diameter section (9b) and the screw head (9a), and the outer diameter of the large-diameter section (9b) is larger than that of the small-diameter section (9 c); and the large-diameter section (9b) is provided with an external thread matched with the internal thread of the mounting hole (12) and the internal thread of the connecting hole (13).
12. The service easy and maintenance instrument housing of claim 11, wherein: the mounting hole (12) comprises a threaded section (12a) and a unthreaded hole section (12b), the threaded section (12a) is located on the inner side of the unthreaded hole section (12b), the inner diameter of the threaded section (12a) is smaller than that of the unthreaded hole section (12b), the internal thread of the mounting hole (12) is arranged on the inner wall of the threaded section (12a), and the axial length of the unthreaded hole section (12b) is greater than or equal to that of the large-diameter section (9 b).
13. An instrument convenient to overhaul and maintain, which is characterized in that: comprising an instrument housing facilitating service maintenance as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 12.
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