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US 2014/0230189 A1Published application
Hinge device
AssigneeSugatsune Kogyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuyoshi Oshima, Ken Shinmura
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Abstract
In a hinge device 1, a door-side mounting member 6 is rotatably connected to a housing-side mounting member 3 via an inner link 4 and an outer link 5. To prevent the inner link 4 and the outer link 5 from being rattled, one protrusion 72 of a torsion coil spring 7 as a rotationally biasing mechanism is pressed against one side plate 41 of the inner link 4 via a cam member 91 and the other protrusion 73 of the torsion coil spring 7 is pressed against the other side plate 52 of the outer link 5.
Claims18
A hinge device comprising:
- a housing-side mounting member;
- a first link having one end portion thereof rotatably supported by the housing-side mounting member via a first central shaft;
- a second link having one end portion thereof rotatably supported by the housing-side mounting member via a second central shaft;
- the first central shaft and the second central shaft are parallel to each other;
- a door-side mounting member, an other end portion of the first link rotatably connected to the door-side mounting member via a third central shaft, an other end portion of the second link rotatably connected to the door-side mounting member via a fourth central shaft;
- the third central shaft and the fourth central shaft are parallel to the first central shaft and the second central shaft;
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- a torsion spring rotatably biasing the door-side mounting member,
- wherein one end portion of the torsion spring is engaged with a side portion of the first link located at an end side in axial directions of the first central shaft, the second central shaft, the third central shaft and the fourth central shaft so that the torsion spring may rotatably bias the door-side mounting member via the first link and the second link;
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- wherein an other end portion of the torsion spring is engaged with a side portion of the second link located at an other end side in the axial directions of the first central shaft, the second central shaft, the third central shaft and the fourth central shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.