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CN1650484A - Improvements relating to cordless electrical appliances - Google Patents

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CN1650484A
CN1650484A CN 03809929 CN03809929A CN1650484A CN 1650484 A CN1650484 A CN 1650484A CN 03809929 CN03809929 CN 03809929 CN 03809929 A CN03809929 A CN 03809929A CN 1650484 A CN1650484 A CN 1650484A
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R24/00Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure
    • H01R24/38Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure having concentrically or coaxially arranged contacts
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/62Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
    • H01R13/629Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances
    • H01R13/631Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances for engagement only
    • H01R13/6315Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances for engagement only allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating connection
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/66Structural association with built-in electrical component
    • H01R13/70Structural association with built-in electrical component with built-in switch
    • H01R13/713Structural association with built-in electrical component with built-in switch the switch being a safety switch
    • H01R13/7137Structural association with built-in electrical component with built-in switch the switch being a safety switch with thermal interrupter

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Abstract

Cordless electrical appliances, kettles and hot water jugs in particular, are known which have 360 DEG connector sets incorporating spring contacts which have to be carefully designed. To avoid this necessity, the invention proposes a 360 DEG connector set consisting of a plug part having three triangularly arranged pin terminals and a socket part having three complementary coaxial terminals, the plug and socket terminals all being fixed components. The socket part is resiliently mounted in the base unit of the cordless appliance so as to be able to adjust its position to accommodate tolerance variations and/or misalignments between the two parts of the connector set.

Description

Relate to the improvement of wireless electric equipment
Technical field
The present invention relates to the improvement of wireless (with wired relative) equipment, wherein, power to apparatus body by wired base unit (also can be called as power source base in addition), apparatus body can removably be placed on this base unit, so that the coupling electric connector that is arranged in apparatus body and the base unit is bonded with each other, to power to apparatus body by base unit.Next, by the wireless liquid heating apparatus of reference, particularly, though be not unique, the equipment that adds hot water such as kettle and hot-water bottle is described the present invention, should be appreciated that the present invention has application widely.
Background technology
Wireless insulating pot and hot-water bottle are known.The coupling electric connector of these equipment is so shaped that at first this apparatus body can only be placed on its pedestal with a specific direction, recently, the matching connector device of 360 degree becomes generally, and the electrical connector of 360 degree makes apparatus body to be placed on any relative direction on its pedestal.Our CS2 electrical connector is the example that need pre-determine the electrical connector of direction, it is described in GB-A-2 241 390, our CS4/CP7 electrical connector is the example of the electrical connector of 360 degree, its basic identical with described in GB-C-2 285 716, and the similar system that makes and sell by Strix Ltd, its basic identical with described in WO-A-9508204.
Intrinsic tolerance when at present, the connector of wireless device relies on resilient contact to come the absorption equipment body to cooperate with its power source base.Under the P72 360 of Strix degree wireless condition, adopt following form to realize elasticity, that is, three discrete installations have been arranged in the power source base contact of spring, it cooperates with three fixing ring contacts in the equipment.Under our CS2 (conventional wireless) and the situation of CS4 (360 degree) system, adopt following form to realize elasticity, that is, the contact of spring has been installed on the axle of level, has moved, and on the rigid contact that cooperates, had sliding action.On CS2, this elasticity is in base component, and on CS4, this elasticity is in equipment unit.The contact that these elasticity are installed trends towards some and is easy to damage, and may be damaged in the assembling process of the use of equipment or product.This is that to avoid excessive coordinate force, excessive coordinate force may trend towards equipment is pushed open from its pedestal, perhaps may stop equipment to break away from reposefully owing to need the low coefficient of elasticity of maintenance, causes power source base to block and together be lifted with equipment.
Summary of the invention
Main order of the present invention ground is exactly solution or reduces above-mentioned problem at least fully.
According to one aspect of the present invention, the 360 degree electrical connectors that are used for wireless electric equipment comprise equipment connector and dock connector, this equipment connector has three pin terminals that stretch out regularly with rounded projections arranged, this dock connector comprises center terminal and two stationary positioned concentric ring terminal therein, one of pin terminal of equipment connector is fit to the center terminal of contact dock connector, two other pin terminal of equipment connector is fit to contact ring terminal respectively, this equipment and dock connector are fit to be combined together, and this dock connector is fit to be resiliently mounted in the base unit of wireless device, so that can adapt to the misalignment to a certain degree between equipment and base unit and/or they electric component separately.
Aspect above and that also have of the present invention will be illustrated in the accompanying Claim book, and can next better understand the detailed description of typical embodiment by consideration, and this embodiment shows in the accompanying drawings.
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Fig. 1 shows the oblique view of upper surface of the female component of this embodiment;
Fig. 2 shows this female component bottom oblique view;
Fig. 3 is similar to Fig. 1, and the lid of contact and seal are removed to show the contact;
Fig. 4 shows the sectional view by female component;
Fig. 5 shows the sectional view by the female component in the upper mould product that is installed in power source base;
Fig. 6 shows the bottom view of the male component of this embodiment;
Fig. 7 shows the cross section by male component;
Fig. 8 shows male component and power source base engages preceding sectional view; And
Fig. 9 shows the sectional view of male component and power source base joint.
Embodiment
The female component of present embodiment comprises the main carrier moulded parts (1) that is formed and held the central contact (4) of the ring contact (2,3) of two rigidity and rigidity by plastic material.See well that in Fig. 4 the ring contact is contained in the groove (5), and has lid (6), it provides necessary electrical security, and restriction allows the narrow cutter of the equipment male component of cooperation to arrive from top arrival contact simultaneously.Each contact is provided with the ligulate terminal (11,12,13) that stretches out under the carrier moulded parts.The optional seal (7) that is formed by simple rubber (perhaps elastomer) packing ring provides additional protection to leaking, and the interior shape of this contact carrier is very open, drains fast to promote the water that may enter, thereby avoids the electrical safety problem.
Carrier moulded parts assembly and its contact are positioned on the spiral compression spring (8), and this spring upwards keeps this assembly below the upper surface of power source base.Spring is supported by the lower cover of power source base, and this lower cover is not illustrated.This socket has conical skirt section (9), and it is positioned in the parts of cooperation of power source base moulded parts, as can seeing well in Fig. 5, and has anti-rotation groove (10) on the rib (invisible) that is positioned on the power source base moulded parts (14).This spring allows carrier module vertically move-usually in 3 millimeter, also can swing among a small circle, so that the plane of its upper surface can be rotated general 3 degree in any direction from level.This rotation amount enough adapts to the misalignment of great majority expection usually, still, because have elasticity, bigger if desired rotation amount, it also can provide so.
The mated plug parts of this embodiment can be one of two kinds of forms.It can be the X2 element protection controller described as among the GB-A-2 283 156, and its terminal comprises the ground connection tongue, and directed downwards vertically, and distortion is to be positioned on the arc of axle that its center is the ground connection tongue.Perhaps, it also may simply be the carrier moulded parts, and this carrier moulded parts has three tongues of arranging with same structure, and is provided for being connected to the terminal of device interior line.Fig. 6 to 9 shows the independent plug of this form in back.In these structures any all provides the cutter (11) under one group of three sensing, these three cuttves are arranged as and make their axis coplane not, their bigger flat surface is with vertical with the radius of the axis of ground connection tongue by its axis, and their length (stretching out) is roughly the same.Fig. 6 and 7 shows the cutter-contact point (11) that is installed in this housing (12), and this housing comprises guide member, cooperates in mode loose relatively and that easily take apart with the plug and socket parts that promote electrical connector.
Three contacts of the pin of coplane in can alignment socket not, and can the commensurate structure tolerance, female component is floated so that aligning to be provided.Under situation of the present invention, can the contact, design centre be earthing contact.In fact, the connection of contact can be as required, but is to use the X2 controller will be ground owing to its geometry limits central contact as the base portion of male component.
The structure of shown plug and socket is similar a bit to the Strix P72 device of reversing.The ring of P72 is on the equipment plug, and has replaced the spring contact of base socket with the cutter of rigidity.Have ring though our device is shown as in pedestal, they also can form plug contacts, and the cutter-contact point of rigidity can be arranged in the base socket that spring has been installed.Shown device is preferred, because its parts are comparatively cheap.
Advantage of the present invention provides the simple assemblies that is made of rigid element, and it is easy to make more, and in use more durable.Socket is floated in power source base provides necessary compliance, and adapting to manufacturing tolerance, and this compliance can increase as required, and can not influence further feature, as the height of contact force and product.
Invention has been described with reference to typical embodiment in the front, but should be realized that, can under not leaving as the situation of the spirit of the present invention illustrated in the accompanying Claim book and scope it be modified and change.

Claims (7)

1. a wireless electric equipment comprises apparatus body and power source base, and the electric connector of the coupling on apparatus body and the power source base, connector on this power source base is flexibly installed, so that can adapt to tolerance variation, and the misalignment that reduces two connectors.
2. the wireless electric equipment described in claim 1, wherein, the electric connector of described coupling comprises 360 degree electrical connectors, comprising the plug and socket parts, one in the described plug and socket parts comprises three concentric terminals, in the described plug and socket parts another comprises the pin terminal, this pin terminal not conllinear ground is arranged, contact each concentric terminal when joining to together respectively at plug and socket, one in the described plug and socket parts is securely fixed in the apparatus body, another flexibly is installed in the power source base of this wireless device, thereby can adapt to the misalignment to a certain degree between the plug and socket parts.
3. wireless electric equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein, described 360 degree electrical connectors comprise equipment connector and power source base connector, this equipment connector have three with rounded projections arranged regularly from its pin terminal that stretches out, this power source base connector comprises center terminal and two stationary positioned concentric ring terminal wherein, a center terminal that is fit to the contact dock connector in the pin terminal of equipment connector, two pin terminals of other of equipment connector are fit to respectively, and contact respectively encircles terminal.
4. the wireless electric equipment described in claim 2 or 3 wherein, describedly comprises that the electric connector of three concentric terminals is flexibly to be installed in the power source base.
As the claim of any front described in wireless electric equipment; wherein; connector component on the described equipment comprises the heating element overtemperature protection controller that integrally forms, and it is fit to the electric energy supply that the detected heating element overheat condition of response is cut to equipment.
6. as the wireless electric equipment described in the claim of any front, wherein, it is to make rotation to a certain degree except that inclination is to a certain degree moved is provided that each connector component is installed in the elasticity on the power source base.
As the claim of any front described in wireless electric equipment, wherein, connector on the described power source base has conical skirt portion, this power source base has pockets, this groove has the conical part of coupling, and spring assembly promotes the conical skirt portion of connector to the conical part of power source base coupling.
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