Abstract:
The present invention is to provide a test mechanism for testing a connection port of an electronic apparatus comprising a support platform on which at least one slideway is disposed, two mobile grasping components mounted respectively on these slideways such that these grasping components are able to push against both sides and one corresponding surface of the electronic apparatus and fix the electronic apparatus onto the support platform, for testing and estimating whether the connection port with a load object connected thereto in various angles meets with anticipated quality requirement.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
   1. Field of the Invention 
   The present invention relates to a test mechanism, more particularly to a test mechanism for testing a connection port of an electronic apparatus in order to estimate whether the connection port is able to bear with a load object connected thereto in various angles and meet with the anticipated quality requirement. 
   2. Prior Art 
   With gradual progress of science and technology, it may be said that commercial electronic apparatuses tend to get mature types and comprise everything that one expects to find day by day. For example, there are many kinds of mobile phone, digital camera, notebook computer, etc, which provide with powerful functions and exquisite appearances, and competitions among manufacturers are becoming more and more intense. As a result, various trade products that provide with warranties are now available in the market. Every manufacturer also demands more and more strict quality control for their products. No matter what kind of electronic product is provided, various connection ports, for example, a universal series bus (USB), a monitor-out port, an Internet connection port, etc, are usually mounted on side faces of the electronic product. Moreover, it is worthy to pay much attention to the quality issue to realize puling forces of the load object that the connection port of the electronic apparatus in various angles can bear with without fall. 
   As a result, there are more and more consumers want to know the load rotation lifetime of a connection port of an electronic apparatus, which load rotation indicates that a load object is connected to the connection port of the electronic product, and the electronic apparatus is further rotated for testing the connection port of the electronic apparatus in various angles to realize that whether the connection port is able to stand for the test and also estimate that whether the connection port is qualified. But, there is no commercial experimental machine that provides with this function since no similar test is previously disclosed. Nevertheless, there are various conventional test mechanism s at present that test various apparatuses particularly in a plug-in and plug-out manner. Even if it is different from the purpose of testing the load rotation lifetime of the connection port of the electronic apparatus that the consumers want to realize, they have something in common, wherein these two have differences in that test mechanism with the plug-in and plug-out manner is to test the number of times that the connection port of the electronic apparatus can be plugged in and out, which is adopted to determine whether the electronic apparatus is qualified or not; and the load rotation lifetime test of the connection port of the electronic apparatus is to test the load pulling force that the connection port of the electronic apparatus can bear with, which is also adopted to determine whether the electronic apparatus is qualified or not. Besides, these two are identical in that both of them want to realize that whether the electronic apparatus is durable and qualified in accordance with the test results. 
   Since these two have something in common and there is no commercial test mechanism that can be applied to test the load rotation lifetime of the connection port of the electronic apparatus, a test mechanism of the present invention is disclosed in view of this demand so as to satisfy the requirement of consumers. 
   SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
   The present invention has been accomplished in view of the aforementioned circumstances so as to enable consumer to test the load rotation lifetime of a connection port of an electronic apparatus for further realizing the load pulling force that the connection port of the electronic apparatus can bear with in various angles. As a result, the inventor has been made sustained researches and experiments to eventually develop a test mechanism for testing a connection port of an electronic apparatus of the present invention in accordance with the inventor&#39;s accumulated experience and skill in the art. 
   According to one aspect of the present invention, a test mechanism for testing a connection port of an electronic apparatus is provided for testing the load pulling force that the connection port of the electronic apparatus can bear with in various angles so as to estimate that whether the connection port of the electronic apparatus provides with anticipated quality requirement, wherein the manner of fixing the connection port of the electronic apparatus on the test mechanism is to provide with a support platform on which at least one slideway is disposed. Two mobile grasping components are mounted respectively on these slideways such that these grasping components are able to slide along the corresponding slideways and against both sides of the electronic apparatus while fixing the electronic apparatus onto the support platform. At this moment, a slide base provided on one end of each grasping component is fixed and locked on both sides of the electronic apparatus. Thereafter, a grasping member penetrates a grasping arm that is provided on the other end of each grasping component for pushing against one corresponding surface of the electronic apparatus. As a result, the electronic apparatus is firmly fixed on the support platform. 
   According to another aspect of the present invention, the support platform is disposed on the rotation shaft adjacent to the transmission control box in a position eccentric to the rotation shaft. 
   According to still another aspect of the present invention, the test mechanism utilizes a sensor to sense that whether the load object mounted on the connection port of the electronic apparatus falls or not. If the load object falls, the sensor transmits a signal to stop the test mechanism from performing experiment. 
   According to still another aspect of the present invention, in order to provide user with a test mechanism that can be operated easily and comprises several selectable action modes, a man-machine interface is disposed on one side of the test mechanism. As a result, the test mechanism is capable of using various rotation modes to test the connection port of the electronic apparatus by assigning various parameter values. 
   The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description taken with the accompanying drawings. 

   
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       FIG. 1  is a schematic view of a test mechanism for testing a connection port of an electronic apparatus in accordance with the present invention. 
       FIG. 2  is a schematic view showing the test status of the present invention that fixes a notebook computer on a support platform of a machine body. 
       FIG. 3  is a schematic view showing another test status of the present invention that fixes a notebook computer on a support platform of a machine body. 
   

   DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
   As shown in  FIG. 1 , the present invention relates to a test mechanism for testing a connection port of an electronic apparatus on which a machine body  1  is disposed. The machine body  1  comprises a transmission control box  2  and a support platform  11 . A rotation shaft  3  is mounted inside the transmission control box  2 , wherein one end of the rotation shaft  3  extends from a surface of the transmission control box  2 . Moreover, a connection piece  4  receives and connects to the end of the rotation shaft  3 , which is extended from the transmission control box  2 . One end of the connection piece  4  is connected to one side of the support platform  11 , which is disposed on the rotation shaft  3  through the connection piece  4  adjacent to the transmission control box  2  in a position eccentric to the rotation shaft  3 . As a result, because of the mounting relationship between the connection piece  4  and the support platform  11 , the connection piece  4  drive and rotate the support platform  11  smoothly when the rotation shaft  3  is rotated. 
   According to the present invention, at least one slideway  12  is disposed on the support platform  11 . Two mobile grasping components  13  are mounted respectively on these slideways  12 . Each one of these grasping components  13  includes a main body  14 . A slide base  15  is provided on one end of the main body  14  and slidablely inserted into the slideway  12 . A grasping arm  16  is provided on the other end of the main body  14 . The slide base  15  and the grasping arm  16  are arranged in opposite directions. As a result, the grasping component  13  is able to slide freely on the slideway  12  by means of the slide base  15 . 
   Besides, please refer to  FIG. 1  again, each slide base  15  comprises a regulating button  17  for fixing up these grasping components  13  on the slideways  12  when these slide bases  15  are slid to predetermined positions. Moreover, a grasping member  19  penetrates through the grasping arm  16 . A hole  18  is formed on each grasping arm  16  corresponding to a place where the grasping member  19  has been passed, wherein an anti-loosing member  20  is screwed into the hole  18  respectively on two opposite sides of the hole  18  for locking up these grasping members  19  to prevent them from loosing when they are extended downward to predetermined positions. 
   In addition, a man-machine interface  30  and its related operation buttons  31  are provided on one side of the machine body  1 . By means of a machine-actuated screen and these operation buttons  31  on the man-machine interface  30 , it is able to assign the transmission control box  2  to an action mode, control and choose the action mode to make a round-trip test or a unilateral test (the former is to test the clockwise and counterclockwise rotations, the latter is to test the unidirectional rotation), or assign parameter settings such as values of rotation rate (the rotation rate is set to rotation number per minute), sway angle (zero degree through 360 degree), retention time between sways (unit: second), action number (a round-trip sway indicates one time), and dot adjustment (it is applied to set the direction of off-center sway, wherein the positive value indicates that the off-center sway is in a clockwise direction and the negative value indicates that the off-center sway is in a counterclockwise direction). As a result, the support platform  11  performs the related and required tests and its rotation is provided with more variations. 
   According to the aforementioned components, it is apparent that when load rotation lifetimes of a long side and a short side of a connection port on an electronic apparatus is to be tested, as shown in  FIG. 2 , a connection port  41  of a notebook computer  40  is adopted as a testing object in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. First, the notebook computer  40  is put on the support platform  11  to enable the connection port  41  of the notebook computer  40 , which desires to be tested, to align exactly with the rotation shaft  3 . Next, these grasping components  13  push against both side surfaces of the notebook computer  40  along these slideways  12  (as shown in  FIG. 1 ). Next, these slide bases  15  are moved against both side surfaces of the notebook computer  40  to prevent it from moving by adjusting these regulating buttons  17 . At this moment, these grasping members  19  are shifted downward to press exactly on one surface of the notebook computer  40  and the anti-loosing members  20  are applied to lock these grasping members  19  to prevent them from loosing. As a result, the notebook computer  40  is capable of being firmly fixed onto the support platform  11 . Moreover, a load connector  42  is plugged into the connection port  41 , wherein a replaceable load object  43  is mounted on the other end of the load connector  42  and a sensor  44  is mounted in a position corresponding to the load object  43  for the purpose of transmitting test signal. 
   Before performing the test, the related parameters settings, for example, dot adjustment, rotation rate, sway angle, action number, retention time, etc, can be set by means of the operation buttons  31  and the machine-actuated screen on the man-machine interface  30 . Next, the action mode of the machine body  1  is set to make a round-trip test or a unilateral test. In this preferred embodiment, the machine body  1  is set to make a round-trip test. Finally, the machine body  1  is actuated, wherein an initial test status is shown in  FIG. 2 , which shows the test status of two long sides of the connection  41  that bears a vertical force. After the retention time reaches a predetermined time, which is preset in the parameter setting, the support platform  11  will be rotated in an angle according to the preset sway angle in the parameter setting. Referring to  FIG. 3  of this preferred embodiment, which shows the test status of two short sides of the connection  41  that bears a vertical force. If the retention time reaches a predetermined time, which is preset in the parameter setting, the support platform  11  will be rotated back to its original state (as shown in  FIG. 2 ) since the action mode of this preferred embodiment is set to make the round-trip test. Moreover, the action number of the support platform  11  will count this action in, and the support platform  11  repeats the previous action until the counted action number reaches a predetermined number, which is preset in the parameter setting. However, if the load object  43  falls down during the test, the sensor  44  will transmit a signal to the machine body  1 . Since the action number does not reach the predetermined number of the setting, the machine body  1  will stop the test automatically. As a result, load rotation lifetime of the connection port  41  will be acquired by merely replacing with various load objects  43  to perform tests. 
   While the invention has been described by means of specific embodiments, numerous modifications and variations could be made thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention set forth in the claims.