Wire-winding device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9840394-B2
Application number	US-201414555512-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2014
Priority date	Nov 26, 2013
Publication date	Dec 12, 2017
Grant date	Dec 12, 2017

Abstract

A wire-winding device comprising: an upper cover having a bottom surface and a slot deviating from a center of the bottom surface; a rotary base having an annular track on a top surface thereof, the annual track and the slot of the upper cover constituting an orbit; a spiral spring received in the rotary base; a transmission line winding around the rotary base; a lower cover assembled with the upper cover; and an elastic positioning element having a base and a positioning part extruding from the lower surface of the base, the base having an elastic part and a respective fixed part at each of two ends thereof, the elastic positioning element being moveable along the orbit in response to a rotational movement of the rotary base to avoid the transmission line to be tied a knot.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wire-winding device assembly comprising:
cover means defining a receiving space therein;
a stationary slot formed in the cover means;
a rotary base located around the receiving space and rotatable with regard to the cover means, said rotary base defining an annular track;
a torsion spring fixed to both said cover means and said rotary base to constantly urge the rotary base back to move to an original position;
a transmission wire winding around the rotary base and adapted to actuate the rotary base to rotate when said transmission wire is pulled outwardly; and
an elastic positioning element defining a first section received within and moveable along said slot and a second section received within and moveable along the annular track; wherein
a depth of said annular track varies in a vertical direction to guide the second section of the elastic positioning element to move therealong up and down in the vertical direction to comply with the variant depth of said annular track.

2. The wire-winding device assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the slot is linear.

3. The wire-winding device assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the annular track includes an inner annular path and an outer annular path linked to each other with therebetween a joint which defines a latching position where the elastic positioning element resists the torsion spring to have the rotary base be in a working position instead of the original position.

4. The wire-winding device assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the elastic positioning element forms an elongated piece, and the first section forms two spaced parts around two opposite ends thereof while the second section forms one part around a middle portion thereof for elastic deformation of the elastic positioning element between the slot and the annular track.

5. The wire-winding device assembly as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cover means define a circular body and two opposite protrusions diametrically, and two opposite ends of the transmission wire extend outwardly via said two protrusions.

6. A wire-winding device assembly comprising:
cover means defining a receiving space therein;
a rotary base located in the receiving space and rotatable with regard to the cover means, said rotary base defining an annular track;
a torsion spring fixed to both said cover means and said rotary base to constantly urge the rotary base back to move to an original position;
a transmission wire winding around the rotary base and adapted to actuate the rotary base to rotate when said transmission wire is pulled outwardly; and
an elastic positioning element defining a protruding section received within and moveable along the annular track so as to be moveable relative to the cover means correspondingly; wherein
a depth of said annular track varies in a vertical direction to guide the protruding section of the elastic positioning element to move therealong, and said elastic positioning element deforms elastically in the vertical direction to comply with the variant depth of said annular track during moving along the annular track; and
the annular track includes an inner annular path and an outer annular path linked to each other with therebetween a joint which defines a latching position where the elastic positioning element resists the torsion spring to have the rotary base be in a working position instead of the original position.

7. The wire-winding device assembly as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the elastic positioning element is moveable relative to the cover means linearly.

8. The wire-winding device assembly as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the elastic positioning element is of a slender type extending along a horizontal direction perpendicular to said vertical direction.

9. The wire-winding device assembly as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the cover means define a circular body and two opposite protrusions diametrically, and two opposite ends of the transmission wire extend laterally outwardly via said two protrusions.

10. The wire-winding device assembly as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the cover means defines lateral openings to expose an outermost wind of the transmission wire to an exterior.

Assignees

• Foxconn Interconnect Technology Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Chi-Ming
• Yang kai-feng

Classifications

• B65H75/4434 Primary

  actuated by pulling on or imparting an inclination to the material · CPC title

• B65H2701/34

  electric cords or electric power cables · CPC title