Electronic-cigarette box, LED light guide piece and box body
10036548 ยท 2018-07-31
Assignee
Inventors
Cpc classification
F21V33/0004
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21W2111/10
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Y02E60/10
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
H01M10/425
ELECTRICITY
F21V17/16
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21V23/0414
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
H01M10/488
ELECTRICITY
International classification
F21V33/00
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21V23/04
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F21V17/16
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
B65D25/10
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
H01M10/48
ELECTRICITY
Abstract
An electronic-cigarette box including a box body, wherein, a first printed circuit board is accommodated in the box body, an LED lamp for displaying electric quantity and a push-button switch for controlling the LED lamp are disposed on the first printed circuit board, two or more through holes are disposed in the side wall of the box body, and the cigarette box also includes an LED light guide piece which comprises a substrate, with one side of the substrate extending outward and forming light guide cylinder and push-button corresponding to the through holes, wherein the light guide cylinder corresponds to the LED lamp, the push-button corresponds to the push-button switch. The LED light guide piece has a simple structure and is easy to be installed.
Claims
1. An electronic-cigarette box including a box body, wherein, a first printed circuit board is accommodated in the box body, more than two light emitting diode (LED) lamps for displaying electric quantity and a push-button switch for controlling the LED lamps are disposed on the first printed circuit board, more than two through holes are disposed in one side wall of the box body, and the cigarette box also includes an LED light guide piece which comprises a substrate, with one side of the substrate extending outward and forming light guide cylinders and a push-button corresponding to the through holes, wherein the light guide cylinders correspond to the LED lamps, the push-button corresponds to the push-button switch; a baffle provided in the box body extends along a lengthwise direction of the side wall, wherein the baffle has a shape of strip and forms an import slot together with the side wall; the LED light guide piece is assembled in the box body along the import slot, the light guide cylinders on the LED light guide piece are aligned to the LED lamps of the first printed circuit board in one-to-one correspondence, and the push-button on the LED light guide piece is aligned to the push-button switch of the first printed circuit board, the light guide cylinders and the push-button are aligned to the through holes in the box body respectively; the substrate with the light guide cylinders and the push-button thereon forms an integrated LED light guide piece; the LED lamps are arranged at intervals on the first printed circuit board with uniform length and direction, the light guide cylinders on the LED light guide piece are arranged at intervals on the substrate with uniform length and direction correspondingly, and accommodate the LED lamps one-to-one correspondingly; the cigarette box includes a main bracket which is accommodated inside the box body; the cigarette box includes a cover body; the cigarette box includes a semi-automatic clamshell mechanism and a vice bracket the semi-automatic mechanism comprises a cam, a sliding block and a damping element the vice bracket defines an accommodation cavity, in which both of the sliding block and the damping element are disposed; the cam is rotatably fixed to the main bracket, the sliding block is connected between the cam and the damping element; the damping element has one end thereof abutting against a bottom end of the sliding block, and the other end abutting against a bottom wall of the accommodation cavity; the vice bracket is located at one side of the main bracket and installed on top of the other side wall of the box body; the sliding block is provided with a convex block on top thereof, the cam remains point contact with the first convex block at any time; the sliding block and the damping element are capable of performing linear reciprocating motion in the accommodation cavity; the damping element is compressed downward via an external force acting on the cover body to drive the cam rotating, and the semi-automatic clamshell mechanism is capable of automatically opening or closing the cover body under an upward force of the compressed damping element without the external force, whereby to realize the semi-automatic clamshell performance.
2. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 1, wherein, a bottom wall of the box body is provided with a positioning bone, one end of the LED light guide piece is snap-fitted in the space formed between the positioning bone and the side wall of the box body.
3. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 2, wherein, the positioning bone is configured on the bottom wall of the box body by integrally molding.
4. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 1, wherein the LED light guide piece in the import slot is disposed between the box body and the main bracket, an inside of the main bracket is provided with a rechargeable battery, which is electrically connected with the first printed circuit board, and a remaining electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is shown via a lightening status of the LED lamp.
5. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 4, wherein, the first printed circuit board is provided with four monochrome LED lamps of same color, which in order are first LED lamp, second LED lamp, third LED lamp and fourth LED lamp from top to bottom, the first LED lamp, the second LED lamp, the third LED lamp and the fourth LED lamp are arranged at intervals on the first printed circuit board with uniform length and direction.
6. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 5, wherein, under a control of the push-button switch, the first, second, third and fourth LED lamps are all lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 76% to 100%; the first, second and third LED lamps are all lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 51% to 75%; the first and second LED lamps are both lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 26% to 50%; the first LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is 25%.
7. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 5, wherein, under a control of the push-button switch, the fourth LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 76% to 100%; the third LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 51% to 75%; the second LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is from 26% to 50%; the first LED is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery is 25%.
8. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 4, wherein the cover body is rotatably fixed to the box body by a shaft.
9. An electronic-cigarette box including a box body, wherein, a first printed circuit board is accommodated in the box body, more than two light emitting diode (LED) lamps for displaying electric quantity and a push-button switch for controlling the LED lamps are disposed on the first printed circuit board, more than two through holes are disposed in one side wall of the box body, and the cigarette box also includes an LED light guide piece which comprises a substrate, with one side of the substrate extending outward and forming light guide cylinders and a push-button corresponding to the through holes, wherein the light guide cylinders corresponds to the LED lamps, the push-button corresponds to the push-button switch; the cigarette box includes a main bracket which is accommodated inside the box body; the cigarette box includes a cover body, the cover body is rotatably fixed to the box body by a shaft; wherein the cigarette box includes a semi-automatic clamshell mechanism and a vice bracket; the semi-automatic mechanism comprises a cam, a sliding block and a damping element; the vice bracket defines an accommodation cavity, in which both of the sliding block and the damping element are disposed; the cam is rotatably fixed to the main bracket, the sliding block is connected between the cam and the damping element; the damping element is a compression spring, or is made from elastic rubber; the damping element has one end thereof abutting against a bottom end of the sliding block, and the other end abutting against a bottom wall of the accommodation cavity; the vice bracket is located at one side of the main bracket and installed on top of the other side wall of the box body; the sliding block is provided with a convex block on top thereof, the cam remains point contact with the first convex block at any time; the sliding block and the damping element are capable of performing linear reciprocating motion in the accommodation cavity; the damping element is compressed downward via an external force acting on the cover body to drive the cam rotating, and the semi-automatic clamshell mechanism is capable of automatically opening or closing the cover body under an upward force of the compressed damping element without the external force, whereby to realize the semi-automatic clamshell performance.
10. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 4, wherein the cigarette box includes a second printed circuit board, the second printed circuit board is fixed to the main bracket by means of screw or snapping, and the second printed circuit board is provided with a charging port, via the charging port an external power source provides power for the rechargeable battery.
11. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 10, wherein the second printed circuit board is provided with an output port, the rechargeable battery provides power for an external device via the output port.
12. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 11, wherein, the charging port and the output port are both USB interfaces.
13. The electronic-cigarette box as described in claim 4, wherein, the main bracket is provided with at least one battery rod accommodation cavity, a battery rod is recharged by the rechargeable battery when the battery rod is inserted in the battery rod accommodation cavity.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
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(8) In a specific embodiment, combining
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(10) A) as opening the cover body 2 by hand, the cover body 2 drives the cam 42 to rotate and compress the spring downward, and the cam 42 will automatically rotate and drive the cover body 2 to open automatically under the upward force of the compression spring and the sliding block 43 after reaching a certain angle, meanwhile the cam 42 may hit against the cover body 2 and generate a sound of Ka Ka; b) as closing the cover body 2, the cover body 2 drives the cam 42 to rotate and compress the spring downward, and the cam 42 will automatically rotate and drive the cover body 2 to close automatically under the upward resilience force of the compression spring and the sliding block 43 after reaching a certain angle, meanwhile the cam 42 may hit against the cover body 2 and generate a sound of Ka Ka.
(11) By configuring the semi-automatic clamshell mechanism 4, it is capable of opening or closing of the cover body 2 by external force, which can realize the semi-automatic clamshell performance and thus improve operational interest.
(12) With continued reference to
(13) Furthermore, the bottom wall 11 of the box body 1 is provided with a positioning bone 182, one end (as the end marked as 94 shown in
(14) Furthermore, as shown in
(15) In the above embodiment, disposing the light guide cylinders 92 and the push-button 93 on the substrate 91 to form an integrated LED light guide piece 9, the LED light guide piece 9 has a simple structure with no need of installing the light guide 92 and the push-button 93 separately and step by step. The installation can be achieved by merely inserting the LED light guide piece 9 in whole and corresponding the correspondent components on the LED light guide piece 9 to the through holes 19 in the side wall 10 of box body 1 one-to-one, which can facilitate the installation and improve production efficiency. Moreover, the integrated design of LED light guide piece 9 is not easy to appear the problem of installation alignment error, and thus improves the reliability of products.
(16) Continuing to refer to
(17) Specifically, continuing to refer to
(18) Furthermore, the rechargeable battery 311 shows the remaining electric quantity thereof through the lightening status of the LED lamps 53. Of course, on the first printed circuit board 5 there should also be disposed a detection circuit (not shown) for detecting the remaining electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311. Generally, by collecting repeatedly the voltage values of the rechargeable battery 311 at different times and getting the average value thereof, the detection circuit calculates the correspondent remaining electric quantity and then provides the same to the LED lamp 53 to perform the corresponding display, which would not be repeated much herein.
(19) In a specific application implementation, continuing to refer to
(20) When performing the display of electric quantity, it is capable of showing the remaining electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 by the following 2 ways:
(21) (1) pressing the push-button 93 to trigger the push-button switch 54, the first, second, third and fourth LED lamps are all lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is from 76% to 100%; the first, second and third LED lamps are lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is from 51% to 75%; the first and second LED lamps are lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is from 26% to 50%; and the first LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is 25%.
(22) (2) pressing the push-button 93 to trigger the push-button switch 54, the fourth LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is from 76% to 100%; the third LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is from 51% to 75%; the second LED lamp is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is from 26% to 50%; and the first LED is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is 25%.
(23) In another specific application embodiment, the first printed circuit board 5 can be provided with only one LED lamp 53 thereon, and in the LED lamp 53 there are at least two LED chips with different colors. Pressing the push-button 93 to trigger the push-button switch 54, the LED chip with different color that corresponds to the different electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 will be lightened. Such as, the inside of the LED lamp 53 are provided with four colors of red, yellow, green and purple, the red LED chip is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is from 76% to 100%, the yellow LED chip is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is from 51% to 75%, the green LED chip is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is from 26% to 50%, and the purple LED chip is lightened when the electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 is 25%.
(24) Of course, the configuration of number and type of the LED lamp 53, as well as the displaying method of remaining electric quantity of the rechargeable battery 311 can be designed according to the needs. No excessive restrictions are made herein.
(25) Furthermore, continuing to refer to
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(27) In the above embodiments, the charging port 51 and the output port 52 may both be designed as generic USB interfaces, which makes it more compatible and thus improve the competitiveness of products.
(28) Also, please continue to refer to
(29) The present invention also provides an LED light guide piece fitting in the electronic-cigarette box. The LED light guide piece includes a substrate, one side of the substrate extends outward and forms light guide cylinder and push-button corresponding to the through holes provided in the side wall of the outside box body, wherein the light guide cylinder corresponds to the LED lamp on the first printed circuit board which is provided within the outside box body, and the push-button corresponds to the push-button switch on the first printed circuit board which is provided within the outside box body. For details please refer to the LED light guide piece described in any one of the above embodiments.
(30) The present invention also provides a box body for electronic-cigarette box, wherein, the box body accommodates a first printed circuit board therein, and the first printed circuit board is provided with a LED lamp for displaying electric quantity and a push-button switch for controlling the LED lamp; the side wall of the box body is provided with two or more through holes for separately corresponding to the light guide cylinder and push-button which are disposed on the outer LED light guide piece. It is possible to refer to the box body described in any one of the above embodiments.
(31) The above description discloses the specific embodiments of the present invention. Note that those skilled in the art will appreciate multiple modifications and variations in light of the features of the present invention, and those modifications and variations shall be deemed within the scope of this invention.