JP2013544996A5 - - Google Patents

Description

In the description of the figures below, terms such as upper, lower, left side, right side, front side, rear side, etc. represent expressions selected in respective exemplary drawings such as closing / vibration control devices, energy storage devices, deflectors, etc. It is only a reference to the position. These terms are not limiting, and these representations may change accordingly if the working position is different or the arrangement is symmetrical, such as a mirror arrangement.
In FIG. 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a closing / control for the sliding door 15 that can be replaced with a movable part of the furniture according to the embodiment of the present invention, in particular, a part of the furniture main body 12 shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. The whole vibration device is shown. Further, as can be seen from FIGS. 1 and 2, the closing / vibration control device 1 is provided with a driver 4. When the closing / vibration control device 1 is attached to the furniture body 12, the activator disposed on the sliding door 15 engages with the driver 4. When the sliding door 15 is opened and the energy storage 6 is extended, the activator pushes the driver 4 along the guide slots 23 and 33 of the housing of the closing and damping device 1. The energy store 6, which is preferably provided as a tension spring, has a first end 61 attached to the housings 2, 3. The other end 62 of the energy accumulator 6 is taut during the operation of opening the movable part of the furniture, for example, the sliding door 15 shown in FIG. 7, and is accumulated in the energy accumulator 6. The energy is used as an aid in pulling the sliding door 15 back to the final closed position during the next closing operation. The other end 62 of the energy store 6 is coupled to the deflector 5. The deflector 5 basically includes a gear 52, a toothed rack 51 that meshes with the gear 52, and a holding device 53 that is non-rotatably disposed on the gear 52.

In this way, by reducing the resistance when the sliding door is opened, the driver 4 is in the opening movement from the state where the driver 4 is engaged with the activator of the sliding door to the state where the sliding door is released. The sliding door moves smoothly. In the conventional known solution, the resistance is abruptly reduced when the activator is released from the driver 4.
According to the embodiment described in FIGS. 1 to 4, the holding device 53 is attached to the gear 52 so that the energy accumulator rides on the helical bearing 531 when wound around the holding device 53. The helical shape is oriented so that the distance of the bearing 531 from the rotation center point 521 of the gear 52 is maximized when the gear 52 or the holding device 53 is in the closed position. Decreases as it is wound around the holding device 53 gradually.
The closing / damping device 1 is further provided with a damping device 7. Specifically, the damping device 7 is provided as a gas or hydraulic damping device, and one end of the push rod 71 extends into the tightly sealed housing of the damping device. The other end of 71 is fixed to the housings 2 and 3 of the closing and damping device 1. The housing of the damping device 7 is coupled to the toothed rack 51 and is carried along when the driver 4 is displaced along the guide slots 24, 34 of the housing 2, 3 of the closing and damping device 1. Yes. Preferably, the toothed rack 51 is guided in the guide slots 24 and 34 by two guide pins 513 engaged with the guide slots 24 and 33 of the housings 2 and 3 of the closing and damping device 1. These two guide pins 513 are molded or attached to the toothed rack 51.
It is preferable that the two housings 2 and 3 forming the housing of the closing and damping device 1 are screwed together. For this configuration, threaded openings are preferably formed at the four corners of the rectangular housings 2 and 3 and the halves of the housings 2 and 3 can be connected by screwing in the screws 11. It can be done. The closing and damping device 1 can be screwed to the furniture using two further openings 25, 35 of the housings 2, 3.

6 and 7 show the closing / vibration control device 1 in a state of being attached to furniture. 6 and 7 show a part of the sliding door cabinet. A sliding door 15 is suspended from the rail 13 by a roller 16, and when the sliding door 15 is in the closed position, the roller 16 is connected to the rail 13. It has been shown that it can be secured to the restraining device 14 at the end.
8 to 11 show a closing / vibration control device 1 according to another embodiment of the present invention. According to FIGS. 8 to 11, although the spiral bearing is not provided in the holding device 53, the holding device 53 basically has a circular shape in which the tongue-shaped holding portion 532 extends along the radial direction. It is served as a board. The second end 62 of the energy accumulator 6 is attached to this circular plate. Preferably, the energy accumulator 6 is rotatably mounted on a deflector 5, in particular a rotation axis oriented parallel to the rotation axis of the gear 52.
As can be seen from FIGS. 10 and 11, when the closing and damping device moves from the closed position to the open position and the driver 4 is displaced by the coupling 8 of the toothed rack 51 that engages the gear 52, the energy storage. The entire vessel 6 is swung downwardly about the energy storage suspension point at the first end 61 of the energy storage. This causes the energy accumulator 6, preferably serving as a tension spring, to bend for a shorter distance than for the entire distance that the toothed rack 51 is displaced. This is because the second end 62 of the energy store 6 is connected to a holding device 53, specifically a tongue-like holding 532 that extends radially outward. Therefore, it moves so as to draw a circle rather than linearly displace.