JP2007057080A - Door panel mounting structure - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent damage due to application of an external force in a door panel mounting structure having a simple structure for mounting a door panel on a device body of an electronic device. <P>SOLUTION: A controller of a transmission in the door panel mounting structure for mounting the door panel 12 on the device body 11 is provided with a hole part 20 opening in a different direction from the insertion direction of the door panel 12 into the device body 11, and a mounting part 33 on the door panel 12 for engaging with the hole part 20. The mounting part 33 has an engagement claw part 35 for entering inside the hole part 20 and detachably engaging with the device body 11 by turning the door panel 12 with the engaged position of a corner part 34 engaged with the device body 11 and the device body 11 as the center. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a door panel mounting structure, and more particularly to a door panel mounting structure for mounting a door panel to a device body such as an electronic device.

  For example, various switches and display devices for operating the electronic device are arranged on the front panel of the device main body constituting the electronic device. In addition, switches that are not normally used, insertion / removal portions of recording media, and the like are formed in the front panel by forming an opening that is recessed by one step, and disposed in this opening. Further, in order to prevent the inside of the opening from being seen from the outside when not in use, a door panel is generally attached to the opening.

Conventionally, as a structure for attaching this door panel to an apparatus main body, for example, as shown in Patent Document 1, a structure is provided in which a bearing is provided on either the door panel or the apparatus main body, and a shaft portion supported by the bearing is provided on the other. It is common. By attaching the shaft part to the bearing part,
A door panel becomes a structure which can be rotated with respect to an apparatus main body centering | focusing on a shaft part.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-177257

  However, in the conventional door panel mounting structure, when a closed door panel (an unexpected force or the like by the user) is applied, all of this force is concentrated on the engaging portion between the shaft portion and the bearing. . Further, in the conventional door panel mounting structure, the shaft portion and the bearing are strongly engaged, and the structure is complicated so that the shaft portion or the bearing is not damaged when a strong external force is applied. Specifically, a member provided with a reinforcing member (reinforcing lever or reinforcing claw) for engaging the door panel with the apparatus main body at a position separated from the engaging portion between the shaft portion and the bearing has been proposed. However, this structure complicates the door panel mounting structure, which causes problems that the production becomes troublesome and the cost increases.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a door panel mounting structure having a simple structure and capable of preventing damage due to application of external force.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention is characterized by the following measures.

The invention described in claim 1
In the door panel mounting structure that attaches the door panel to the device body,
While providing a hole that opens in a direction different from the insertion direction of the door panel in the device body,
A first engaging portion that engages with the device main body when the door panel is inserted into the door panel, and the door panel is centered on an engagement position between the first engaging portion and the device main body. In this case, an attachment portion including a second engagement portion that enters into the hole portion and detachably engages with the device main body is provided.

  According to the above invention, the door panel is attached to the door panel by the second engaging portion detachably engaging with the hole of the door panel. At this time, since the second engaging portion is detachably engaged with the hole of the door panel, when a strong external force is applied to the door panel, the second engaging portion may be detached from the hole of the door panel. It becomes possible. As a result, when a strong external force is applied as in the prior art, the device body or the door panel can be prevented from being damaged, and the reliability of the mounting structure can be improved.

The invention according to claim 2
The door panel mounting structure according to claim 1,
The first engaging portion is constituted by a corner portion formed on the door panel.

  According to the above invention, since the first engaging portion is constituted by the corner portion formed on the door panel, the structure can be simplified.

The invention according to claim 3
The door panel mounting structure according to claim 1 or 2,
The second engaging portion is constituted by a claw portion protruding from an edge portion of the door panel.

  According to the above invention, since the second engaging portion is configured by the claw portion protruding from the edge portion of the door panel, the structure can be simplified, and when a strong external force is applied, It can be set as the structure which detaches | leaves comparatively easily.

The invention according to claim 4
The door panel mounting structure according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
While providing the mounting portion on both sides of the edge of the door panel,
A third engagement portion that engages with the device main body is provided at a central position of the other edge portion of the door panel.

  According to the above invention, since the center position of the door panel is engaged with the device main body by the third engaging portion, both sides of the door panel are held by the device main body by the mounting portion, and the central portion is held by the third engaging portion. Since it is held by the device body, it is possible to prevent the door panel from being warped.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, while being able to simplify the attachment structure to the apparatus main body of a door panel, it can prevent that an apparatus main body or a door panel is damaged when a strong external force is applied.

  Next, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows the front of an electronic device 10 to which a door panel mounting structure according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied. The electronic device 10 is, for example, a tuner device, and has a configuration in which a display unit 14, a dial 15, a switch 16, and the like are provided on a front panel 13 of the device body 11.

  The display unit 14 is a liquid crystal display device on which various information necessary for operating the electronic device 10 is displayed. The dial 15 is a tuning dial, and is a dial that selects a channel by turning. The switch 16 is a mode selection switch, and can be selectively switched by pressing.

  An opening 17 is formed on the left side of the front panel 13 in FIG. FIG. 3 is a cross section of the device main body 11 taken along line AA in FIG. 1, and thus shows a cross section of the opening 17. As shown in the figure, the opening 17 is configured to be recessed by one step from the surface of the front panel 13.

  A normally unused switch, a slot portion into which a recording medium is inserted and removed, and the like are disposed in the opening portion 17. In addition, a door panel 12 is attached to the opening 17, and when the switch or the slot is not used, the door 17 covers the opening 17 so that the inside of the opening 17 cannot be seen from the outside. .

  The door panel attachment structure according to this embodiment is applied when the door panel 12 is attached to the opening 17. Hereinafter, a door panel attachment structure for attaching the door panel 12 to the opening 17 will be described.

  A rectangular hole 20 is formed at both upper side positions of the opening 17. As shown in FIG. 3A, the hole portion 20 forms a vertical wall end portion 23 which is a lower end portion (Z2 direction end portion) of the vertical wall portion 22 constituting the front panel 13 and an opening portion 17. It is formed between the horizontal wall portion 24 and the horizontal wall end portion 25 which is the end portion in the arrow Y2 direction in the figure.

  The hole 20 is configured to open in a direction different from the direction in which the door panel 12 is inserted into the opening 17 (arrow Y1 direction in the figure) when the door panel 12 is mounted in the opening 17. Specifically, in this embodiment, the hole 20 is configured to open in the direction of the arrow Z1 in the figure, which is orthogonal to the insertion direction (Y1 direction) of the door panel 12. In addition, a guide portion 26 having a substantially quarter circle shape is formed at a lower position of the hole portion 20. The guide portion 26 is not necessarily provided.

  On the other hand, a first locking claw portion 21 is formed at the lower center position of the opening 17. The first locking claw portion 21 extends in the direction of the arrow Y2, and the second locking claw portion formed on the door panel 12 in a state where the door panel 12 is attached to the opening 17 as will be described later. 37 is engaged.

  Next, the door panel 12 attached to the opening 17 having the above-described configuration will be described with reference to FIG. 2 in addition to FIGS. The door panel 12 is resin-molded and has a configuration in which attachment portions 33 are provided on both side portions of the upper edge portion 31 of the panel body 30.

  As shown in FIGS. 2D, 2E, and 3A, the panel main body 30 has a shape that is bent in a substantially letter shape in a side view. A second locking claw portion 37 and a finger hook portion 38 are formed at the center position of the lower edge portion 32 of the panel body 30.

  The second locking claw portion 37 is formed to extend in the arrow Y2 direction in the figure. The second locking claw portion 37 is engaged with a second locking claw portion 37 formed on the door panel 12 to be described later, thereby locking the door panel 12 attached to the opening portion 17 so as not to be detached. The function to perform is performed. In addition, the finger hanging portion 38 is provided to easily remove the door panel 12 attached to the opening portion 17 by hooking a finger when the door panel 12 is removed from the device main body 11.

  Next, the attachment part 33 will be described. The mounting portion 33 includes a corner portion 34 (corresponding to a first engaging portion described in claims) and an engaging claw portion 35 (corresponding to a second engaging portion described in claims). It has been configured. The attachment portion 33 can be formed collectively at the time of resin molding of the door panel 12 and can be easily formed.

  The corner portion 34 is formed as a part of the upper edge portion 31 and has a substantially right-angle shape in a side view. Further, the engaging claw portion 35 is formed to extend upward from a position slightly deviated inward (right side in FIG. 2E) from the formation position of the corner portion 34. Here, the extending direction of the engaging claw portion 35 is configured to coincide with the same direction (arrow Y1 direction) as the direction in which the door panel 12 is inserted into the opening portion 17.

  That is, as will be described later, when the door panel 12 is mounted on the device main body 11, the door panel 12 is first inserted into the opening 17. It is set to be the same direction as the insertion direction.

  Further, as will be described later, the engaging claw portion 35 enters the hole portion 20 formed in the opening portion 17 and engages with the device main body 11. In order to easily enter the hole portion 20, the tip portion of the attachment portion 33 has a curved shape (a shape having an R). A curved portion 36 is formed on the side of the engaging claw portion 35. The curved portion 36 has a shape corresponding to the guide portion 26 formed in the opening 17 described above.

  Next, a specific operation for attaching the door panel 12 to the device main body 11 in the door panel attachment structure having the above configuration will be described mainly with reference to FIG.

  In order to attach the door panel 12 to the device main body 11, first, the door panel 12 is positioned with respect to the device main body 11. At this time, as shown in FIG. 3A, positioning is performed so that the attachment portion 33 of the door panel 12 and the formation position of the hole portion 20 of the opening portion 17 are substantially opposed to each other.

  Subsequently, the door panel 12 is moved in the horizontal direction (in the direction of arrow Y <b> 1 in the drawing) toward the device main body 11, and the attachment portion 33 is inserted into the opening portion 17. At this time, the extending direction of the engaging claw portion 35 and the inserting direction for inserting the door panel 12 into the device main body 11 (opening portion 17) are made to coincide with each other.

  When the corner portion 34 constituting the attachment portion 33 is inserted to a position where it faces the vertical wall end portion 23 of the vertical wall portion 22, the door panel 12 is moved counterclockwise as shown in FIG. Rotate. At this time, the corner portion 34 engages with the vertical wall end portion 23, and the door panel 12 rotates about the engagement position between the corner portion 34 and the vertical wall end portion 23 as the rotation center.

  In this embodiment, the guide portion 26 is formed in the opening portion 17, and the curved portion 36 having a shape corresponding to the guide portion 26 is formed in the attachment portion 33. For this reason, when the bending portion 36 slides in the guide portion 26, the door panel 12 is rotated by being guided by the guide portion 26. Thereby, rotation of the door panel 12 can be performed stably.

  As described above, when the door panel 12 rotates with respect to the device main body 11, the engaging claw portion 35 constituting the attachment portion 33 enters the hole portion 20. As described above, the hole 20 opens upward (in the direction of the arrow Z1). In other words, the hole 20 is configured to be opened in a direction orthogonal to the direction (Y1 direction) in which the door panel 12 is inserted into the opening 17.

  Therefore, the engagement claw portion 35 does not enter the hole portion 20 simply by inserting the door panel 12 into the opening portion 17. However, the engaging claw portion 35 engages with the device main body 11 by rotating the door panel 12. Specifically, by rotating the door panel 12, the engaging claw portion 35 engages with the vertical wall end portion 23 and the horizontal wall end portion 25.

  Further, when the door panel 12 is rotated, as shown in FIG. 3C, the extending direction of the engaging claw portion 35 coincides with the opening direction of the hole portion 20 and the second formed on the door panel 12. The locking claw portion 37 engages with the first locking claw portion 21 provided in the opening portion 17. In this engaged state, the engaging claw portion 35 has completely entered the hole portion 20 and is engaged with the device main body 11. Further, the upper edge portion 31 of the panel body 30 is in a state of facing the vertical wall end portion 23 of the vertical wall portion 22.

  Thus, in a state where the door panel 12 is attached to the device main body 11, the door panel 12 is engaged with the device main body 11 by the attachment portions 33 on both sides of the upper edge portion 31 of the panel main body 30, and the lower edge portion of the panel main body 30. The central portion of 32 is engaged (locked) with the device body 11 by the first and second locking claws 21 and 37.

  Thus, since both the upper edge part 31 and the lower edge part 32 of the door panel 12 are engaged with the apparatus main body 11, the door panel 12 can be reliably attached to the apparatus main body 11 (opening part 17), and it is easy. There is no such thing as leaving. Therefore, the door panel 12 can be attached to the device main body 11 with high reliability while having a simple configuration in which the hole portion 20 is formed in the opening portion 17 and the attachment portion 33 is formed in the door panel 12.

  In the present embodiment, the center portion of the lower edge portion 32 of the panel body 30 is engaged with the device body 11 by the second locking claw 37 in a state where the door panel 12 is mounted on the device body 11. 30 has a shape that is long in the left-right direction (X1 and X2 directions, so that the center portion is likely to warp during mounting. However, a second locking claw 37 is provided at a position where this warpage is likely to occur. By adopting a configuration in which the second locking claw 37 is engaged with the first locking claw 21, the rigidity at the center portion of the panel body 30 can be increased, and warpage of the door panel 12 can be prevented. Can do.

  By the way, as shown in FIG.3 (C), the case where the strong external force F as shown by the arrow F in the figure is applied in the state with which the door panel 12 was mounted | worn with the apparatus main body 11 is assumed. Here, the “strong external force” refers to an unexpected force or the like by the user, and is larger than a normal force that the operator applies to the door panel 12 using the finger hook portion 38 when the door panel 12 is removed from the device main body 11. It means power.

  In the door panel mounting structure according to the present embodiment, the engagement claw 35 is engaged with the hole 20 of the device main body 11 at the upper edge 31 of the door panel 12 as described above, and at the lower edge 32. The door panel 12 is attached to the device main body 11 by the engagement of the first locking claw portion 21 and the second locking claw portion 37.

  In such engagement using the claw portions 35, 21, and 37, when a strong external force is applied, the engagement is released by elastic deformation of the claw portions 35, 21, and 37. That is, in the door panel mounting structure according to this embodiment, when a strong external force is applied to the door panel 12, all or part of the engagement by the claw portions 35, 21, and 37 is released. Leave.

  At the time of detachment, the claw portions 35, 21, and 37 are elastically deformed. However, when the door panel 12 is detached from the device main body 11 (by applying external force), the original state is restored. For this reason, when the door panel 12 is detached from the device main body 11, the claw portions 35, 21, 37 or the hole portion 20 are not damaged.

  The panel body 30 has a shape that is bent into a substantially square shape, and is easily deformed elastically when an external force is applied. Therefore, also by this, when external force is applied, the engagement of the claw portions 35, 21, and 37 can be smoothly released. This also suppresses the occurrence of damage to the claw portions 35, 21, 37 and the opening 20 when an external force is applied.

  In the present embodiment, even if an unexpected external force is applied to the door panel 12 as described above, the device main body 11 or the door panel 12 can be reliably prevented from being damaged. Therefore, according to the door panel mounting structure according to the present embodiment, the mounting reliability of the door panel 12 to the device body 11 can be increased. Moreover, since the door panel mounting structure according to the present invention is simple as described above, the cost can be reduced.

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an electronic apparatus to which a door panel mounting structure according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied. 2A and 2B are views for explaining a door panel, in which FIG. 2A is a plan view, FIG. 2B is a front view, FIG. 2C is a bottom view, FIG. 2D is a right side view, and FIG. It is sectional drawing which follows the BB line in. FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the operation of mounting the door panel on the device main body (shown in a cross section taken along the line AA in FIG. 1).

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Electronic device 11 Device main body 12 Door panel 13 Front panel 17 Opening part 20 Hole part 21 First locking claw part 22 Vertical wall part 23 Vertical wall edge part 24 Horizontal wall part 25 Horizontal wall edge part 30 Panel main body 30a Bending part 31 Upper edge portion 32 Lower edge portion 33 Attaching portion 34 Corner portion 35 Engaging claw portion 36 Bending portion 37 Second locking claw portion

Claims (4)

In the door panel mounting structure that attaches the door panel to the device body,
While providing a hole that opens in a direction different from the insertion direction of the door panel in the device body,
A first engaging portion that engages with the device main body when the door panel is inserted into the door panel, and the door panel is centered on an engagement position between the first engaging portion and the device main body. The door panel mounting structure is provided with a mounting portion including a second engaging portion that enters into the hole portion by rotating with respect to the device body and is detachably engaged with the device main body.   The door panel mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the first engaging portion is constituted by a corner portion formed on the door panel.   The door panel mounting structure according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the second engaging portion is constituted by a claw portion protruding from an edge portion of the door panel. While providing the mounting portion on both sides of the edge of the door panel,
The door panel mounting structure according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a third engagement portion that engages with the device main body is provided at a central position of the other edge portion of the door panel.

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