Ball pen

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9545813-B2
Application number	US-201314405661-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 7, 2013
Priority date	Jun 7, 2012
Publication date	Jan 17, 2017
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017

Abstract

A ballpoint pen wherein an outer member ( 50 ) covering the outer circumference of a holder ( 21 ) covers a section that reaches as far as a narrowed section ( 23 ) of the holder ( 21 ) and has an outer member tip end portion ( 51 ). An ink spreads between the writing ball ( 30 ) and the contact section of the writing surface and between the outer member tip end portion ( 51 ) and the contact section of the writing surface, in which the writing ball ( 30 ) and the outer member tip end portion ( 51 ) are in contact with the writing surface at the same time. The relative position of the outer member ( 50 ) and the holder ( 21 ) can be changed from a holder protruding position to a holder retracted position wherein the writing ball ( 30 ) and the tip section of the outer member ( 50 ) can be in contact with the writing surface at the same time.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A ballpoint pen configured to be capable of writing drawn lines of different widths using two writing portions; comprising:
a writing ball;
a first writing portion holding the writing ball by a narrowed portion with a narrowed tip end;
an ink supply portion supplying ink to the first writing portion;
a shaft tube storing the ink supply portion therein; and
a second writing portion covering an outer circumference of the first writing portion, a part of the second writing portion and a part of the first writing portion holding the writing ball being exposed from a tip end portion of the shaft tube;
a displacement means capably changing a relative positional relation in an axial direction between the first writing portion and the second writing portion;
the displacement means being formed so that, when a relative position of the first writing portion in relation to the second writing portion is at a retracting position of the first writing portion, a tip end portion of the first writing portion and a tip end portion of the second writing portion can make contact with the writing surface simultaneously.

2. The ballpoint pen according to claim 1 , wherein the displacement means is an elastic member disposed on a rear side of the first writing portion and is capable of displacing the relative position of the first writing portion in relation to the second writing portion between a retracting position of the first writing portion at which the tip end portion of the second writing portion covers a portion of the writing ball reaching the narrowed portion and a protruding position of the first writing portion at which the tip end portion of the second writing portion is located closer to the rear side than the retracting position of the first writing portion; and
the displacement means is formed so that, when load is applied to the first writing portion from the tip end thereof at an initial position at which the first writing portion is at the protruding position, the elastic member is compressed and deformed, whereby the first writing portion is moved toward the rear side and the first writing portion is moved to the retracting position of the first writing portion.

3. The ballpoint pen according to claim 1 , wherein the displacement means is a feeding mechanism provided in the tip end portion of the shaft tube; and
the feeding mechanism is so formed as to capably move the second writing portion between the protruding position of the first writing portion and the retracting position of the first writing portion according to a predetermined operation.

4. The ballpoint pen according to claim 3 , wherein the ink has such viscosity that the ink can diffuse between a contact portion of the writing ball with a writing surface and a contact portion of the tip end portion of the second writing portion with the writing surface in a state where the writing ball and the tip end portion of the second writing portion are in contact with the writing surface simultaneously.

5. A ballpoint pen configured to be capable of writing drawn lines of different widths using two writing portions, comprising:
a writing ball;
a first writing portion holding the writing ball by a narrowed portion with a narrowed tip end;
an ink supply portion supplying ink to the first writing portion;
a shaft tube storing the ink supply portion therein; and
a second writing portion molded together with the shaft tube to form a tip end portion of the shaft tube and covering an outer circumference of the first writing portion, a part of the first writing portion holding the writing ball being exposed from a tip end portion of the second writing portion;
a displacement means capably changing a relative positional relation in an axial direction between the first writing portion and the second writing portion;
the displacement means being formed so that, when a relative position of the first writing portion in relation to the second writing portion is at a retracting position of the first writing portion, a tip end portion of the first writing portion and a tip end portion of the second writing portion can make contact with the writing surface simultaneously.

6. The ballpoint pen according to claim 5 , wherein the displacement means is an elastic member disposed on a rear side of the first writing portion and is capable of displacing the relative position of the first writing portion in relation to the second writing portion between a retracting position of the first writing portion at which the tip end portion of the second writing portion covers a portion of the writing ball reaching the narrowed portion and a protruding position of the first writing portion at which the tip end portion of the second writing portion is located closer to the rear side than the retracting position of the first writing portion; and
the displacement means is formed so that, when load is applied to the first writing portion from the tip end thereof at an initial position at which the first writing portion is at the protruding position, the elastic member is compressed and deformed, whereby the first writing portion is moved toward the rear side and the first writing portion is moved to the retracting position of the first writing portion.

7. The ballpoint pen according to claim 5 , wherein the displacement means is a feeding mechanism provided in the tip end portion of the shaft tube; and
the feeding mechanism is so formed as to capably move the second writing portion between the protruding position of the first writing portion and the retracting position of the first writing portion according to a predetermined operation.

8. The ballpoint pen according to claim 7 , wherein the ink has such viscosity that the ink can diffuse between a contact portion of the writing ball with a writing surface and a contact portion of the tip end portion of the second writing portion with the writing surface in a state where the writing ball and the tip end portion of the second writing portion are in contact with the writing surface simultaneously.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Pencil Co

Inventors

• Fukumoto Takeo
• Maruyama Seiichi
• Furukawa Kazuhiko

Classifications

• B43K23/12

  for pens {(caps co-operating with retractable nibs B43K5/165)} · CPC title

• B43K1/08 Primary

  with ball points; Balls or ball beds {(B43M11/085 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B43K7/12

  with retractable ball points (mechanisms for retracting or locking ball points B43K24/00) · CPC title

• B43K7/00 Primary

  Ball-point pens ({B43M11/085 takes precedence}; multiple-point writing implements B43K27/00) · CPC title

• B43K24/023

  with a deformable barrel · CPC title