Closure device for fastening an object to a carrier element and fastener for fastening an object to a carrier element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10179548-B2
Application number	US-201615238080-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 16, 2016
Priority date	Aug 25, 2015
Publication date	Jan 15, 2019
Grant date	Jan 15, 2019

Abstract

A closure device for fastening an object, for example an electronic instrument, to a carrier element includes a first closure part and a magnet device which acts in a magnetically attracting manner between the first closure part and the second closure part. At least one thread is arranged on one of the connection portions and at least one engagement element is arranged on the other of the connection portions. The connection portions are screw-connectable together by rotation with respect to one another as a result of the at least one engagement element running onto the at least one thread. The first closure part includes at least one first anti-rotation portion and the second closure part includes at least one second anti-rotation portion. The at least one first anti-rotation portion and the at least one second anti-rotation portion (33) are non-rotatably connected together when the connection portions are screw-connected, and at least one of the connection portions of one closure part is rotatable relative to the anti-rotation portion of the closure part.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A closure device for fastening an object to a carrier element, said closure device having
a first closure part which comprises a first connection portion,
a second closure part which comprises a second connection portion and is mountable onto the first closure part in a closing direction and
a magnet device which, when the closure parts are placed together, acts in a magnetically attracting manner between the first closure part and the second closure part,
wherein at least one thread is arranged on one of the connection portions and at least one engagement element is arranged on the other of the connection portions, and the connection portions are screw-connectable together by rotation with respect to one another around the closing direction as a result of the at least one engagement element running onto the at least one thread,
wherein
the first closure part includes at least one first anti-rotation portion and the second closure part includes at least one second anti-rotation portion, wherein the at least one first anti-rotation portion and the at least one second anti-rotation portion are non-rotatably connected together when the connection portions are screw-connected, and at least one of the connection portions of one closure part is rotatable relative to the anti-rotation portion of said closure part.

2. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein the first connection portion is arranged so as to be rotatable around the closing direction relative to the at least one first anti-rotation portion or in that the second connection portion is arranged so as to be rotatable around the closing direction relative to the at least one second anti-rotation portion.

3. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one first anti-rotation portion and the at least one second anti-rotation portion are in positive locking engagement with one another to produce a non-rotatable connection when the connection portions are screw-connected.

4. The closure device according to claim 3 , wherein at least one anti-rotation portion of a closure part comprises at least one positive locking element which extends longitudinally along the closing direction and one anti-rotation portion of the other closure part comprises at least one recess which extends longitudinally along the closing direction for receiving the at least one longitudinally extended positive locking element.

5. The closure device according to claim 4 , characterized in wherein the positive locking element and/or the recess is formed conically with respect to the closing direction at least in portions.

6. The closure device according to claim 4 , wherein there are provided several positive locking elements or recesses which are spaced apart from one another, along a peripheral line about the closing direction on the associated anti-rotation portion.

7. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one thread comprises such a pitch that when the closure parts are placed together, on account of the magnetically attracting action of the magnet device, the at least one engagement element and the at least one thread run onto one another and the connection portions are automatically rotated with respect to one another around the closing direction.

8. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one further thread, which realizes the at least one engagement element, is arranged on the other of the connection portions.

9. The closure device according to claim 8 , wherein the threads of the connection portions of the two closure parts are realized and matched to one another in such a manner that in a connected state in which the connection portions are screw-connected together, the threads mesh in a play-free manner.

10. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein the engagement element realizes an end face which faces the other connection portion and is rounded or beveled with reference to the closing direction and/or the at least one thread is bordered by a thread web with an end face which faces the other connection portion and is rounded or beveled with reference to the closing direction.

11. The closure device according to claim 10 , wherein the rounded end face or the end face beveled with reference to the closing direction is realized in such a manner that a flat dead center region of the end face, which extends transversely with respect to the closing direction and against which the connecting portion of the other closure part is able to abut and by means of which it is blocked against displacement in the closing direction, comprises an extension length of less than 2 mm along a peripheral line about the closing direction.

12. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein the connection portions comprise in each case at least one sliding surface and at least one blocking region in such a manner that
the connection portions are screw-connectable together along their sliding surfaces as a result of rotation around the closing direction, when the two connection portions fitted together are pressed together in the closing direction by a force and
in a connected state in which the connection portions are screwed together, a rotation of the two connection portions with respect to one another about the closing direction is blocked by the blocking regions, located next to one another, of the first connection portion and of the second connection portion, when a tensile force, which points away from one of the connection portions, acts on the other of the connection portions.

13. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one connection portion, which is rotatable relative to the associated anti-rotation portion, is pre-tensioned in relation to said anti-rotation portion in a direction of rotation.

14. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein a locking device is provided by means of which the at least one connection portion, which is rotatable relative to the associated anti-rotation portion, is locked in a predetermined relative position in relation to said anti-rotation portion, when the two closure parts are separated from one another.

15. The closure device according to claim 13 , wherein the locking device is actuatable by a magnetic force which is effective during or after the two closure parts are placed next to one another in order to disengage a locking of the pre-tensioned, rotatable connection portion and to release the connection portion for rotation under the effect of a pre-tensioning force.

16. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein the first closure part comprises a first fastening portion which is connected to the first connection portion for fastening the first closure part to the carrier element, wherein the first fastening portion is non-rotatably connected to the at least one first anti-rotation portion.

17. The closure device according to claim 16 , wherein the first fastening portion is realized for fastening the first closure part to a tubular carrier element, in particular to a bicycle handlebar.

18. The closure device according to claim 1 , wherein the second closure part comprises a second fastening portion which is connected to the second connection portion for fastening an electronic instrument to the second closure part, wherein the second fastening portion is non-rotatably connected to the at least one second anti-rotation portion.

19. A fastener for fastening an object to a two-wheeler or three-wheeler having a closure device according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Fidlock Gmbh

Inventors

• Fiedler Joachim
• Richter Friedemann
• Botkus Breido

Classifications

• F16M13/00

  Other supports for positioning apparatus or articles (heads thereof F16M11/02 {; undercarriages thereof F16M11/20} ; adapted to be stuck in the ground A45F3/44 {; sockets or holders for poles or posts E04H12/22}); Means for steadying hand-held apparatus or articles {(supports for measuring instruments G01D11/30; supports for casings of remote control switching devices H01H9/025)} · CPC title

• F16B39/32

  Locking by means of a pawl or pawl-like tongue · CPC title

• F16B21/02

  Releasable fastening devices locking by rotation (with snap-action F16B21/06; studs or coupling pins with resilient protrusions F16B21/08) · CPC title

• B60R2011/0057

  using magnetic means · CPC title

• F16M13/02

  for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle · CPC title