Patent ID: 6990711
Filing Date: 2006-01-31
Classification: E05D,E05Y,H04M,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A hinge assembly comprising a first hinge member and a second hinge member, where said first hinge member and said second hinge member are not integrally formed from a body of a device and not integrally fanned from a cover of a device, said first hinge member being non-turnably inserted into one of connection cylinder parts which are formed on said body of the device and said cover of the device and said second hinge member being non-turnably inserted into the other, said first hinge member and second hinge member turnably connected to each other through a hinge pin, a movable member into which said hinge pin between said first and second hinge member is turnably inserted and which is connected to said first hinge member such that said movable member is unable to turn about said hinge pin but able to move in an axial direction of said hinge pin, a hammer member into which said hinge pin between said movable member and said second hinge member is turnably inserted, and bias means for urging said movable member against said hammer member, a force conversion mechanism being disposed between contact surfaces of said movable member and hammer member and adapted to convert a biasing force of said bias means to a force for turning said hammer member, an abutment projection and an abutment recess being formed at said second hinge member and hammer member, said abutment projection and said abutment recess, which engaged with each other, causing said hammer member to turn following movement of said second hinge member, a width of said abutment recess in a circumferential direction being set larger than a width of said abutment projection in a circumferential direction so that said hammer member can relatively turn by a small angle with respect to said second hinge member and said abutment projection can abut with a side surface of said abutment recess, by this a click sound is generated.