Closing device having a winding element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11805865-B2
Application number	US-202217731582-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2022
Priority date	Feb 28, 2017
Publication date	Nov 7, 2023
Grant date	Nov 7, 2023

Abstract

A fastener device includes a first fastener part and a second fastener part which can be mounted on one another along a closing direction and are held against one another in a closed position, and are releasable from one another in order to open the fastener device. The second fastener part has a winding element on which a tension element can be arranged and which is rotatable relative to the first fastener part in order to wind up the tension element on the winding element in a winding direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fastener device, having
a first fastener part and a second fastener part which are mountable on one another along a closing direction, are held against one another in a closed position, and are separable from one another in order to open the fastener device,
wherein the second fastener part comprises a winding element for receiving a tension element, the winding element being rotatable relative to the first fastener part in order to wind up the tension element on the winding element along a winding direction, wherein an axis of rotation for the winding element extends substantially parallel with the closing direction,
wherein the first fastener part and the second fastener part each comprise at least one magnet element, the at least one magnet element of the first fastener part and the at least one magnet element of the second fastener part being configured to provide a magnetic attraction force when mounting the first fastener part and the second fastener part on one another, and
wherein one of the fastener parts has a cylinder collar, which engages into the other of the fastener parts for a rotatable mounting of the fastener parts on one another.

2. The fastener device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the following:
the winding element is rotatable relative to the first fastener part around the closing direction,
the winding element, in the closed position, is rotatable relative to the first fastener part,
the winding element, in the closed position, is rotatable relative to the first fastener part in the winding direction but not counter to the winding direction, and
the winding element, in the closed position, is not rotatable relative to the first fastener part.

3. The fastener device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the winding element has a toothing means which, in the closed position, engages with a toothing means of the first fastener part.

4. The fastener device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein at least one of the following:
the toothing means of the winding element, in the closed position, is movable relative to the toothing means of the first fastener part in the winding direction, but a movement counter to the winding direction is locked, and
at least one of the toothing means has at least one toothing element which, in an event of rotation of the winding element in the winding direction, can be forced aside transversely with respect to the winding direction.

5. The fastener device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first fastener part and the second fastener part are, in the closed position, mechanically detained together in order to hold the fastener parts against one another counter to the closing direction.

6. The fastener device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein one of the fastener parts has a detent means with at least one movable detent element which, in a detained position, engages into a detent recess of the other fastener part and thus holds the fastener parts against one another counter to the closing direction.

7. The fastener device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein at least one of the following:
the detent means moves automatically into the detained position during the mounting of the fastener parts,
the at least one movable detent element is spring-preloaded in a direction of the detained position, and
the detent means has an operating element which can be actuated in order to disengage the at least one movable detent element from the detent recess.

8. The fastener device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second fastener part has a housing element which, in the closed position, is arranged on the first fastener part and on which the winding element is rotatably mounted.

9. The fastener device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the first fastener part has at least one first undercut element and the housing element of the second fastener part has at least one second undercut element, wherein the at least one first undercut element and the at least one second undercut element engage with one another during the mounting of the fastener parts, such that the fastener parts are, in the closed position, held on one another counter to the closing direction.

10. The fastener device as claimed in claim 9 , wherein at least one of the following:
at least two first undercut elements are arranged, offset with respect to one another transversely with respect to the closing direction, on a main body of the first fastener part, and/or at least two second undercut elements are arranged, offset with respect to one another transversely with respect to the closing direction, on the housing element of the second fastener part, and
the at least one first undercut element and/or the at least one second undercut element, viewed in a plane transverse with respect to the closing direction, are arcuate or V-shaped.

11. The fastener device as claimed in claim 9 , wherein one of the fastener parts has a blocking element for safeguarding an engagement between the at least one first undercut element and the at least one second undercut element in the closed position of the fastener parts.

12. The fastener device as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the blocking element, in a blocking position in which the engagement between the at least one first undercut element and the at least one second undercut element is safeguarded in the closed position of the fastener parts, faces toward a component of the other fastener part such that the at least one first undercut element and the at least one second undercut element are held in the engagement.

13. A fastener device, comprising:
a first fastener part and a second fastener part which are mountable on one another along a closing direction, are held against one another in a closed position, and are separable from one another in order to open the fastener device,
wherein the second fastener part comprises a winding element for receiving a tension element, the winding element being rotatable relative to the first fastener part in order to wind up the tension element on the winding element along a winding direction,
wherein the first fastener part and the second fastener part each comprise at least one magnet element, the at least one magnet element of the first fastener part and the at least one magnet element of the second fastener part being configured to provide a magnetic attraction force when mounting the first fastener part and the second fastener part on one another,
wherein the second fastener part has a housing element which, in the closed position, is arranged on the first fastener part and on which the winding element is rotatably mounted, and
wherein the second fastener part has a locking assembly which, in a locked state, locks the winding element such that the winding element is rotatable relative to the housing element in the winding direction but not counter to the winding direction.

14. The fastener device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein at least one of the following:
the locking assembly can be unlocked from the locked state, such that the winding element is rotatable relative to the housing element counter to the winding direction, and
the locking assembly is automatically unlocked during an opening of the fastener device.

15. The fastener device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the locking assembly has an actuating element which is arranged rotatably on the housing element.

16. The fastener device as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the housing element and the actuating element are operatively connected by a freewheel means, such that the actuating element is rotatable relative to the hou

Assignees

• Fidlock Gmbh

Inventors

• Fiedler Joachim
• Botkus Breido
• Buettner Heiko

Classifications

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• A44B99/00 Primary

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• A43C11/165

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• A44D2203/00

  Fastening by use of magnets · CPC title