Decorative component and article including the same
AssigneeCrossfor Co., Ltd.
InventorHidetaka Dobashi
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Abstract
A decorative component includes: a frame fixed to an article; a body-to-be-suspended; and a suspending portion provided to the frame. The suspending portion suspends the body-to-be-suspended such that the body-to-be-suspended is swingable about an imaginary swing axis. The body-to-be-suspended and the suspending portion are held in contact with each other at two contact points located on the imaginary swing axis. The frame covers a part of a periphery of one of the two contact points in one of outer ranges, and covers a part of a periphery of another one of the two contact points in another one of the outer ranges, the parts being not covered with the article.
Claims12
A decorative component that decorates an external appearance of an article, the decorative component comprising:
- a frame fixed to the article;
- a body-to-be-suspended including two first ring portions;
- and
- a suspending portion provided to the frame and including two second ring portions,
- one of the two first ring portions and one of the two second ring portions being coupled to each other and held in contact with each other at one of two contact points,
- another one of the two first ring portions and another one of the two second ring portions being coupled to each other and held in contact with each other at another one of the two contact points,
- the suspending portion suspending the body-to-be-suspended such that the body-to-be-suspended is swingable about an imaginary swing axis,
- the body-to-be-suspended and the suspending portion being held in contact with each other at the two contact points located on the imaginary swing axis,
- predetermined two planes that are located between the two contact points and that are perpendicular to the imaginary swing axis dividing three ranges including two ranges which respectively include one of the two contact points and the other one of the two contact points and which are respectively defined as outer ranges,
- the frame
- covering one of the two contact points as viewed from one of the outer ranges, the one of the two contact points being included in the one of the outer ranges, the one of the two contact points being not covered with the article, and
- covering the other one of the two contact points as viewed from another one of the outer ranges, the other one of the two contact points being included in the other one of the outer ranges, the other one of the two contact points being not covered with the article;
- wherein an attachable/detachable portion of the frame includes
- an attachable/detachable-portion body that overall has a shape formed by bisecting a doughnut-shaped hollow body along a plane parallel to a radial direction, and
- a ring-shaped first coupling portion fixed to a rim of a cut surface of the plane of the attachable/detachable-portion body,
- a base portion of the frame includes
- a recess portion recessed in a columnar shape, and
- a ring-shaped second coupling portion formed along a rim of an opening portion of the recess portion,
- the attachable/detachable-portion body includes an opening portion that allows a part of the body-to-be-suspended to be exposed to an outside;
- and
- wherein, when one of directions perpendicular to the imaginary swing axis is defined as an upper-and-lower direction,
- when a direction parallel to the imaginary swing axis is defined as a lateral direction, and
- when a direction perpendicular to the upper-and-lower direction and the lateral direction is defined as a front-and-rear direction,
- the opening portion allows the part of the body-to-be-suspended to be exposed forward, and
- a rim of the opening portion that allows the part of the body-to-be-suspended to be exposed forward protrudes backward on the inner surface side of the frame that covers the two contact points.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.