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US 8,800,117 B2Granted
Magnetic locking device
AssigneeFidlock GmbH
InventorJoachim Fiedler
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Abstract
A magnetic locking device for closing preferably handbags and similar objects. includes connecting modules each provided with a guide piece having a tubular or trough-like cross section, wherein the guide pieces are formed so as to be fittable into one another, and permanent magnets are arranged at the bottoms thereof, wherein the permanent magnet in the first guide piece is fixedly arranged and the permanent magnet in the guide piece is movably arranged so that, when the device is closed, it is automatically adjusted to the other permanent magnet and brought into an attraction position.
Claims8
A magnetic locking device, comprising:
- two connecting modules;
- at least one magnet means arranged in each of the two connecting modules, with a magnetic attraction between the modules being at least attenuated by a turning movement of the two connecting modules with respect to each other about a turning axis,
- wherein each of the two connecting modules comprises a tubular guide piece and a recess, said guide piece having a circular cross section, wherein the guide piece of a first one of the two connecting modules is fittable into the recess of a second one of the two connecting modules and the guide piece of the second one of the two connecting modules is fittable into the recess of the first one of the two connecting modules along the turning axis,
- wherein each of the two connecting modules further comprises a bottom section encircled by the guide piece of the connecting module, the guide piece protruding beyond the bottom section in a direction along the turning axis, and wherein the magnet means of the first one of the two connecting modules and the magnet means of the second one of the two connecting modules are arranged on the bottom section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.