Patent EP-3957204-A1 (EP)
Inventor: CHENG MANQUN
IPC: A47D13/02
Filed: 2018-12-07
Abstract: The present invention concerns a magnetic buckling assembly (100, 100a, 100b, 100c, 100d) comprising a male buckling component (2) and a female buckling component (1); it also concerns a baby carrier equipped with the magnetic buckling assembly (100, 100a, 100b, 100c, 100d). A first locking portion (1a) is disposed on the female buckling component (1) for engagement with a second locking portion (2a) along a connection direction disposed on the male buckling component (2) and including an abutting structure (21) and an engaging structure (22). A first magnetic component (4) is disposed on the female buckling component (1) for magnetically cooperating with a second magnetic component (5) disposed on the male buckling component (2). The first locking portion (1a) includes at least one resilient arm (11) and at least one engaging head (12) connected thereto in an integrally formed structure, so that the resilient arm (11) can reliably drive the engaging head (12) to move. The at least one resilient arm (11) biases the at least one engaging head (12) to engage with the engaging structure (22), the abutting structure (21) pushes the at least one engaging head (12) to resiliently deform the at least one resilient arm (11) during the connecting process of the male buckling component (2) and the female buckling component (1) along the connection direction, so that the engaging head (12) slides to engage with the engaging structure (22). A first installation chamber (13) is formed inside the middle portion of the female buckling component (1) and the first magnetic component (4) is installed therein. A second installation chamber (23) is formed inside the second locking portion (2a) and the second magnetic component (5) is installed into the second installation chamber (23). An operating component (3) is movably disposed on the female buckling component (1) and designed in such a way that it can be operated to resiliently deform the at least one resilient arm (11) to disengage the at least one engaging head (12) from the engaging structure (22) of the second locking portion (2a). The first magnetic component (4) magnetically attracts or magnetically repulses the second magnetic component (5) during a connecting process of the male buckling component (2) and the female buckling component (1) along the connection direction, and the first magnetic component (4) magnetically attracts the second magnetic component (5) for preventing separation of the male buckling component (2) and the female buckling component (1) or magnetically repulses the second magnetic component (5) for promoting the separation of the male buckling component (2) and the female buckling component (1) when the operating component (3) is operated to disengage the first locking portion (1a) from the second locking portion (2a) for allowing the separation of the male buckling component (2) and the female buckling component (1). The female buckling component (1) can include a resilient component (7) for providing a recovering resilient force to recover the operating component (3), which may be a resilient structure made of plastic material.