Latch-type locating device
AssigneeFivetech Technology Inc.
InventorsTing-Jui Wang, Ming-De Wu
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Abstract
A latch-type locating device including an outer sleeve having an annular engaging section formed at a front end thereof; an inner sleeve movably telescoped in the outer sleeve; a linking unit including a connecting rod located in the outer sleeve, an actuating rod connected to a front end of the connecting rod and fitted in the inner sleeve to interfere with the same, and a flange formed at a rear end of the connecting rod; a cap member being engaged with the flange of the linking unit; and an elastic element fitted around the connecting rod of the linking unit. The inner sleeve may be driven by the cap member and linking unit to extend from or retract into the outer sleeve to thereby lock an article in place or release the article.
Claims3
A latch-type locating device, comprising:
- an outer sleeve having two flat sections oppositely formed on an outer circumference of the outer sleeve, and an annular engaging section outward extended from a front end of the outer sleeve;
- an inner sleeve movably telescoped in the outer sleeve;
- a linking unit including a connecting rod located in the outer sleeve, an actuating rod connected to a front end of the connecting rod and fitted in the inner sleeve to interfere with the same, and a flange formed at a rear end of the connecting rod;
- a cap member being engaged with the flange of the linking unit, and having two protruded sections oppositely formed on an inner circumference of the cap member corresponding to the two flat sections of the outer sleeve;
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- an elastic element being positioned within the outer sleeve and fitted around the connecting rod of the linking unit, and two ends of the elastic element being respectively abutted against a rear inner end of the outer sleeve and a rear outer end of the inner sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.