Rearview mirror ball socket assembly tool
By designing the rearview mirror ball and socket assembly tooling, and automatically stretching the spring hoop with the pressing mechanism and conical rod, the problems of low assembly efficiency and high labor intensity in the prior art are solved, and automatic and efficient assembly is achieved.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202422604767.7
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-10-28
- Publication Date
- 2025-08-29
- Estimated Expiration
- 2034-10-28
AI Technical Summary
In the prior art, the assembly efficiency of rearview mirror balls and sockets is low and the labor intensity is high, mainly because the spring hoop is stretched to require manual operation.
A rearview mirror ball and socket assembly tool is designed. Using the pressing mechanism and a conical rod to cooperate, the spring hoop is automatically opened and connected to the ball and socket. The installation sleeve is lifted and lowered in the vertical direction by driving the telescopic cylinder to achieve automatic assembly.
It reduces labor intensity, improves assembly efficiency, and realizes an automated assembly process without manual openers.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] The utility model mainly relates to the technical field of rearview mirror parts and accessories, and in particular to a rearview mirror ball and socket assembly tool. Background Art
[0002] The rearview mirror ball socket is usually located inside the adjuster cover, with a concave spherical structure in the center. The bottom of the ball socket is usually provided with a connecting column for connecting to a floating plate or other connecting parts. The floating plate is provided with a ball bowl that matches the ball socket. The ball bowl can be embedded in the ball socket and fixed and adjusted in angle through the connecting column.
[0003] The rearview mirror ball socket needs to be installed with a spring hoop to provide a continuous and uniform pre-tightening force to ensure a tight fit between the rearview mirror ball socket and the connecting parts. This pre-tightening force helps prevent the rearview mirror from loosening or shaking during use, thereby ensuring the stability and reliability of the rearview mirror. The spring hoop needs to be stretched open before it can be put on the ball socket. In the existing technology, the spring hoop is usually stretched open by hand using a stretcher, which is labor-intensive and has low overall assembly efficiency. Utility Model Content
[0004] 1. Technical problems to be solved by the utility model:
[0005] The utility model provides a rearview mirror ball socket assembly tool, which is used to solve the technical problems existing in the above background technology.
[0006] 2. Technical solution:
[0007] In order to achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the technical solution provided by the utility model is: a rearview mirror ball socket assembly tool, including an assembly seat, a mold limiting groove is provided on the top of the assembly seat, a ball socket body is matched and placed in the mold limiting groove, a slot is provided at the bottom of the mold limiting groove, a plug rod is inserted in the slot, the plug rod passes through the center of the ball socket body, and a conical rod is fixedly installed on the top, the conical rod sleeve is provided with a spring hoop, and a mounting sleeve matching it is provided on the top, the mounting sleeve is connected to a pressing mechanism, and is driven by the pressing mechanism to rise and fall in the vertical direction.
[0008] Furthermore, the pressing mechanism includes a support frame, a telescopic cylinder is mounted on the support frame, the telescopic end of the telescopic cylinder is vertically downward and is fixedly mounted with a movable plate, and the end of the mounting sleeve is fixedly mounted on the bottom of the movable plate.
[0009] Furthermore, the pressing mechanism also includes a movable rod extending in the vertical direction. There are two movable rods, which are relatively distributed on both sides of the telescopic cylinder and are slidingly connected to the support frame. One end of the movable rod is fixedly installed with a limit block, and the other end is fixedly connected to the top of the movable plate.
[0010] Furthermore, the side wall of the tapered rod is provided with a plurality of guide grooves arranged along the circumference of the center of the cone rod. The guide grooves extend in a vertical direction and are slidably connected to the guide members provided on the inner wall of the mounting sleeve.
[0011] Furthermore, a plurality of blocking blocks arranged along the central circumference of the ball and socket body are provided on the top of the ball and socket body.
[0012] Furthermore, the bottom of the tapered rod is provided with a plurality of assembly grooves arranged along the center and circumference thereof, and the assembly grooves match the blocking blocks.
[0013] 3.Beneficial effects:
[0014] The technical solution provided by the utility model has the following beneficial effects compared with the existing technology: when the pressing mechanism drives the installation sleeve to be sleeved on the tapered rod, the spring hoop can be pressed to slide on the tapered rod, and gradually expands during the movement until it is sleeved on the ball socket body to complete the assembly. There is no need to manually use a spreader to spread the spring hoop, which not only reduces labor intensity but also improves assembly efficiency. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0015] Figure 1 It is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of the utility model;
[0016] Figure 2 This is a schematic diagram of a partial explosion structure of the utility model;
[0017] Figure 3 This is a schematic diagram of the ball and socket body and spring hoop structure of the utility model;
[0018] Figure 4 This is a schematic diagram of the ball and socket body and tapered rod structure of the utility model.
[0019] Reference numerals:
[0020] 1. Assembly seat; 11. Mold limit groove; 12. Slot; 2. Ball and socket body; 21. Stop block; 3. Insert rod; 4. Tapered rod; 41. Guide groove; 42. Assembly groove; 5. Spring hoop; 6. Mounting sleeve; 61. Guide slide; 7. Pressing mechanism; 71. Support frame; 72. Telescopic cylinder; 73. Movable plate; 74. Movable rod; 75. Limit block. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0021] To facilitate understanding of the present invention, the present invention will be described more comprehensively below with reference to the relevant drawings. Several embodiments of the present invention are given in the drawings. However, the present invention can be implemented in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. On the contrary, the purpose of providing these embodiments is to make the disclosure of the present invention more thorough and comprehensive.
[0022] In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "up", "down", "front", "back", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "page", "bottom", "inside", "outside", "clockwise", "counterclockwise" and the like to indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the accompanying drawings, and are only for the convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore should not be understood as a limitation on the present invention.
[0023] Furthermore, the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and should not be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly specifying the number of the technical features being referred to. Thus, a feature specified as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of such features. In the description of this utility model, "plurality" means two or more, unless otherwise specifically defined.
[0024] In this utility model, unless otherwise specified or limited, the terms "installed," "connected," "connected," "fixed," "provided with," etc. should be understood in a broad sense. For example, they can refer to fixed connection, detachable connection, or integral connection; mechanical connection or electrical connection; direct connection or indirect connection through an intermediate medium; or internal communication between two components. Those skilled in the art will understand the specific meanings of the above terms in this utility model based on specific circumstances. Example
[0025] Refer to the attached Figure 1-4 A rearview mirror ball socket assembly tool comprises an assembly seat 1, a mold limiting groove 11 is provided on the top of the assembly seat 1, a ball socket body 2 is matched and placed in the mold limiting groove 11, a slot 12 is provided at the bottom of the mold limiting groove 11, an insertion rod 3 is inserted in the slot 12, the insertion rod 3 passes through the center of the ball socket body 2, and a tapered rod 4 is fixedly installed on the top, the tapered rod 4 is provided with a spring hoop 5, and a mounting sleeve 6 matching it is provided on the top, the mounting sleeve 6 is connected to a pressing mechanism 7, and is driven by the pressing mechanism 7 to rise and fall in the vertical direction.
[0026] In this embodiment, the ball socket body 2 is first placed in the mold limiting groove 11, and then the insertion rod 3 is aligned with the slot 12 and inserted, and then the spring hoop 5 to be installed is put on the tapered rod 4, and finally the pressing mechanism 7 drives the installation sleeve 6 to descend so that the installation sleeve 6 is put on the tapered rod 4, and the spring hoop 5 can be pressed to slide on the tapered rod 4, and gradually expands during the movement until it is fixed on the ball socket body 2 to complete the assembly. There is no need to manually use a spreader to spread the spring hoop 5, which not only reduces the labor intensity but also improves the assembly efficiency.
[0027] The pressing mechanism 7 includes a support frame 71, on which a telescopic cylinder 72 is mounted. The telescopic end of the telescopic cylinder 72 is vertically downward and is fixedly mounted with a movable plate 73. The end of the mounting sleeve 6 is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the movable plate 73. After the telescopic cylinder 72 is started, the movable plate 73 can be driven to rise and fall, and the mounting sleeve 6 fixedly connected to it can be kept rising and falling synchronously.
[0028] The pressing mechanism 7 also includes a movable rod 74 extending in the vertical direction. There are two movable rods 74, which are relatively distributed on both sides of the telescopic cylinder 72 and are slidingly connected to the support frame 71. One end of the movable rod 74 is fixedly installed with a limit block 75, and the other end is fixedly connected to the top of the movable plate 73. When the mounting sleeve 6 follows the movable plate 73 to keep synchronous lifting, it can cooperate with the sliding connection between the movable rod 74 and the support frame 71 to make the overall movement more stable.
[0029] The side wall of the tapered rod 4 is provided with a plurality of guide grooves 41 arranged along the circumference of its center. The guide grooves 41 extend in the vertical direction and are slidably connected to the guide slides 61 provided on the inner wall of the mounting sleeve 6. When the mounting sleeve 6 is connected to the tapered rod 4, the guide slides 61 will slide in the guide grooves 41.
[0030] The top of the ball socket body 2 is provided with a plurality of blocking blocks 21 arranged along its central circumference. The spring hoop 5 is assembled on the ball socket body 2. Even if the spring hoop 5 slips and slides on the ball socket body 2, it can be limited by the circumferentially arranged blocking blocks 21.
[0031] The bottom of the tapered rod 4 is provided with a plurality of assembly grooves 42 arranged along the center circumference thereof. The assembly grooves 42 match the blocking block 21 to ensure that the bottom of the tapered rod 4 is in horizontal contact with the top of the socket body 2 .
[0032] The above-mentioned embodiments only express a certain implementation method of the utility model, and the description thereof is relatively specific and detailed, but it cannot be understood as limiting the scope of the patent of the utility model. It should be pointed out that for ordinary technicians in this field, several variations and improvements can be made without departing from the concept of the utility model, which all fall within the scope of protection of the utility model. Therefore, the scope of protection of the utility model patent shall be based on the attached claims.
[0033] It should be noted that the above content belongs to the technical knowledge scope of the inventor. Since the technical content in this field is vast and too complicated, the above content of this application does not necessarily constitute prior art.
Claims
1. A rearview mirror ball socket assembly tool, characterized by: The utility model comprises an assembly seat (1), wherein a mold limiting groove (11) is provided on the top of the assembly seat (1), a ball socket body (2) is matched and placed in the mold limiting groove (11), a slot (12) is provided on the bottom of the mold limiting groove (11), an insertion rod (3) is inserted in the slot (12), the insertion rod (3) passes through the center of the ball socket body (2), and a tapered rod (4) is fixedly installed on the top, the tapered rod (4) is provided with a spring hoop (5), and a matching mounting sleeve (6) is provided on the top, the mounting sleeve (6) is connected to a pressing mechanism (7) and is driven by the pressing mechanism (7) to rise and fall in the vertical direction.
2. The rearview mirror ball socket assembly tool according to claim 1, characterized in that: The pressing mechanism (7) comprises a support frame (71), a telescopic cylinder (72) is mounted on the support frame (71), the telescopic end of the telescopic cylinder (72) is vertically downward and fixedly mounted with a movable plate (73), and the end of the mounting sleeve (6) is fixedly mounted on the bottom of the movable plate (73).
3. The rearview mirror ball socket assembly tool according to claim 2, characterized in that: The pressing mechanism (7) further includes a movable rod (74) extending in the vertical direction. The movable rods (74) are two in number and are relatively distributed on both sides of the telescopic cylinder (72) and are slidably connected to the support frame (71). One end of the movable rod (74) is fixedly mounted with a limit block (75), and the other end is fixedly connected to the top of the movable plate (73).
4. The rearview mirror ball socket assembly tool according to claim 1, characterized in that: The side wall of the tapered rod (4) is provided with a plurality of guide grooves (41) arranged along the circumference of the center of the cone rod (4). The guide grooves (41) extend in a vertical direction and are slidably connected to guide slide members (61) provided on the inner wall of the mounting sleeve (6).
5. The rearview mirror ball and socket assembly tool according to claim 1, characterized in that: The top of the ball and socket body (2) is provided with a plurality of blocking blocks (21) arranged along the central circumference thereof.
6. The rearview mirror ball socket assembly tool according to claim 5, characterized in that: The bottom of the tapered rod (4) is provided with a plurality of assembly grooves (42) arranged along the center and circumference of the tapered rod, and the assembly grooves (42) match the blocking block (21).