Structure of magnetic buckle
AssigneeTaiwan Industrial Fastener Corporation
InventorYao-Tsu Chung
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Abstract
A magnetic buckle. The magnetic buckle includes a male buckle having a magnetic element, and a female buckle having a magnetic element. The magnetic elements of the male and female buckles facilitate the alignment of the male buckle with the female buckle when they are positioned horizontally opposite to each other, as well as the steady insertion of the male buckle into the fit-in groove of the female buckle under the influence of the magnetic attraction. The male buckle can be prevented from slipping off vertically from the female buckle even under an external force, and this arrangement further provides a stronger resistance to the buckled state against any horizontal pulling force.
Claims5
A structure of magnetic buckle, comprising:
- a male buckle comprising a first base portion, a first buckling portion formed at a side flange of said first base portion, the first buckling portion comprises a first buckling element and a first magnetic element, said first buckling element of said male buckle comprises a buckling block;
- a female buckle comprising a second base portion, a second buckling portion and a fit-in groove disposed between the second base portion and the second buckling portion for fitting and positioning said buckling element of said male buckle, said fit-in groove of said female buckle comprises an indented buckling groove, a second magnetic element positioned in the second buckling portion for attracting the first magnetic element of said male buckle, wherein an attraction of the magnetic elements of said male and female buckles will move said male buckle and said female buckle in a direction transverse to the longitudinal length of the magnetic buckle towards each other, to position said buckling block of said first buckling element of said male buckle steadily into said indented buckling groove of said fit-in groove of said female buckle;
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- wherein a reserved space is formed between the first base portion of said male buckle and the second base portion of said female buckle when said male buckle and said female buckle are in a buckled state, and the magnetic buckle resists external forces that are perpendicular to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.