Patent Description:
<CIT>, <CIT>, <CIT> and <CIT> disclose examples of doors with gear hinges.

More specifically, in a door hinge in which a gear hinge unit is provided between the first support bracket fixedly connected to the supporting frame side of the door frame and the second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side, by minimizing a compressive stress generated in a lower gear hinge unit under a neutral axis of the door and a tensile stress generated in a upper gear hinge unit above the neutral axis of the door induced by a rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit through the second support bracket due to a load of the door, the present invention relates to a rotational actuation guide device of the gear hinge unit of the rotary door not only for ensuring and maintaining accurate opening and closing performance of the door, but also for minimizing damage to parts caused by friction or friction noise in the door hinge.

In general, in a rotary door, one side of a door is fixedly installed in a supporting frame of a door frame in which the door is installed, and a door hinge part having a rotating shaft is installed between this installation surfaces in one side of a door and one side of the supporting frame of the door frame, in order to enable horizontal rotation of the door, so that the door can be opened and closed.

Products having various shapes and structures of the door hinge part have been developed and used. In the case of using a general hinge part having a pin-type hinge rod, which is most commonly used, if deformation does not occur in a hinge frame supporting the hinge rod, and if rigidity of a fixing means for fixing and connecting the hinge frame to the door or to the supporting frame of the door frame is sufficient, a vertical displacement by a vertical load of the door generally does not occur significantly. In this case, there is a problem in that it is difficult to enlarge the door, so when the door is enlarged, size and rigidity of the hinge part and size and rigidity of its fixing means (anchor) must also be increased, because rigidity to resist the rotational moment on the vertical plane occurring between the top and bottom of the door is weak. Furthermore, a demand that the cross-sectional size of the door (or the cross-sectional size of the door frame supporting the glass window constituting the door) should be minimized to meet the demand of consumers who want to slim it while increasing the size of the door, is conflict to a demand to increase the size of the fixing means (anchor). Therefore, there is a technical limitation that it is difficult to find a solution that satisfies all such conflicting demands (needs).

As a structure different from the general hinge part using such a pin-type hinge rod, a gear hinge unit shown in the accompanying drawings <FIG> has been developed and used as a structure that can minimize a rotational moment occurring between a top and bottom of the door on the vertical surface of the door in accordance with the tendency of the door to be enlarged.

Hereinafter, in order to help the understanding of the present invention, a detailed configuration of such a gear hinge unit and an example of use of a rotary door using the same will be first described by using drawings of <FIG>. Reference may be made to the contents of <CIT> and <CIT>.

In a rotary door 100U shown in <FIG>, a first support bracket <NUM> constituting a gear hinge unit <NUM> is attached to a vertical frame on one side of a door supporting frame <NUM> of a door frame by a screw 30a. A second support bracket <NUM> constituting the gear hinge unit <NUM> is fixedly connected to one side of a door <NUM> by a screw 30a, and a gear portions 31a and 32a respectively formed in the longitudinal direction are provided on opposite surfaces of the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> to engage with each other. Between the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM>, a rotation supporting frame <NUM> (see <FIG>) for supporting the gear portions 31a and 32a from a rear direction is provided for the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> to enable rotating with being folded each other while positions of meshing gear teeth continue to change during that the gear portions 31a and 32a of the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> maintain their meshing state with each other.

On the other hand, the gear hinge unit <NUM> has a planar rotation structure that provides smooth rotation action and high resistance to rotation moment as shown in <FIG>. As shown in <FIG>, a rotation shaft support pockets 31b and 32b are provided at one end of the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> , i.e. on opposite sides of the gear portions 31a and 32a that engage with each other, and a hinge shaft protrusion 33a provided by being bent from both ends of the rotation supporting frame <NUM> is rotatably fitted into the rotation shaft support pockets 31b and 32b. Therefore, as shown in <FIG> and <FIG>, each of the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> rotates around the hinge shaft protrusions 33a of both ends of the rotation supporting frame <NUM> as a rotation axis. For example, if the first support bracket <NUM> is fixed to the door supporting frame <NUM> of the door frame and the second support bracket <NUM> is fixed to the door <NUM>, as shown in <FIG>, the second support bracket <NUM> can be rotated relative to the fixed first support bracket <NUM>.

Here, as shown in <FIG>, a limit of an axial rotation of the second support bracket <NUM> is determined by a structure in which excessive rotation is blocked by an outer corners bent at both ends of the rotation supporting frame <NUM> being accommodated inside the rotation shaft support pockets 31b and 32b formed on the outer surfaces of the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> rotating outwardly.

In the case of the structure shown in the drawings of <FIG>, a structure in which the second support bracket <NUM> can be rotated by about <NUM> degrees with respect to the first support bracket <NUM> is exemplified.

As shown in <FIG>, since the rotation supporting frame <NUM> supporting the meshing rotation of the gear portions 31a and 32a formed in a longitudinal direction on both sides of the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> that are rotated and folded in this way, and the rotation supporting frame <NUM> supporting the meshing rotation of the gear portions 31a and 32a, provides a structure in which the teeth of the gear formed elongated in the longitudinal direction are meshed with each other while providing smooth rotation between the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> on a horizontal plane, even if the door <NUM> is enlarged and the rotational moment generated between a top and a bottom of the door on a vertical surface of the door increases, it can sufficiently counteract the increased rotational moment. Therefore, it provides structural stability that can minimize a possibility of distortion in an installation direction or a position of the door.

On the other hand, in the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> rotate in a state of being engaged with each other by the gear portions 31a and 32a formed in the longitudinal direction on both sides, as shown in <FIG>, since the second support bracket <NUM> fixedly connected to the door <NUM> has a cross-sectional structure that can be displaced in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first support bracket <NUM> fixedly connected to the supporting frame <NUM> of the door frame, in order to prevent such displacement, as shown in <FIG>, openings 31c and 32c facing each other are formed in the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM>, respectively, and then a vertical locking means <NUM> is commonly inserted into the opposing openings 31c and 32c as shown in <FIG>, and further, the vertical locking means <NUM> is fixed to an inner surface of the rotation supporting frame <NUM> through a fastening means <NUM>, therefore one end of the vertical engaging means <NUM> is received while conforming to the inner space of the rotation supporting frame <NUM> integrally to form the gear hinge unit <NUM>.

An upper surface and a lower surface of the vertical locking hole <NUM> provided to suppress a longitudinal displacement occurring between the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> are provided to support an end face in which the opposing openings 31c and 32c are formed at the gear portions 31a and 32a on both sides of the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> when the door is rotated to open and close while rubbing against the end face. Therefore, unlike the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> that are generally made of a metal material such as an aluminum alloy material, the vertical locking hole <NUM> is made of a synthetic resin material having a low coefficient of friction to prevent friction noise.

However, in an actual situation in which a large scale door <NUM> is installed and used in the supporting frame <NUM> of the door frame through the gear hinge unit <NUM> described so far, as shown in <FIG>, the downward displacement induced to the second support bracket <NUM> fixedly connected to the door <NUM> side due to a load ("W") of the door <NUM>, a frictional force at a contact end face with the vertical locking hole <NUM> is increased. Therefore, friction noise is excessively generated when the door is rotated open and closed, and the friction noise generated from such a large scale door has a problem in that it is difficult to avoid it only with the material solution described above.

Furthermore, in actual situation as shown in <FIG>, which the door <NUM> having an enlarged width ("Wd") as described above is installed on the supporting frame <NUM> of the door frame through the gear hinge unit <NUM> described so far and is rotated and opened through the opening and closing actuation of the door handle <NUM>, it becomes a cantilever support structure, and when the door <NUM> is opened, a rotational moment generated between a top and a bottom of the door on a vertical plane is increased. Therefore, a tensile stress is generated in the gear hinge unit <NUM> upper a neutral axis a-a' corresponding to a neutral axis (see <FIG>), and a compression stress is generated in the gear hinge unit <NUM> below the neutral axis a-a' (<FIG>). In particular, in the case of the door <NUM> including a triple glazing glass <NUM>, since the degree of increase in the door weight W according to the increase in the door width Wd is large, when the door <NUM> is rotationally opened from the closed state of the door <NUM> as shown in <FIG> to the open state of the door <NUM> as shown in <FIG>, an amount of deformation due to tensile or compressive stress generated in the gear hinge unit <NUM> may be increased. This increased amount of deformation increases the possibility of noise generation during opening and closing of the door <NUM> (closed section: <FIG> & open section: <FIG> / upper section, <FIG> / lower section), and furthermore if an amount of permanent deformation increases over time, it is difficult to close accurately.

In particular, when the door <NUM> is rotated and opened, as shown in the lower section of <FIG>, amount of compression deformation due to the compression stress generated in the gear hinge unit <NUM> below the a-a' neutral axis may be increased in proportion to the increase in door load. Therefore, if permanent compression deformation occurs in the meshing gear teeth in a state in which the gear portions 31a and 32a of the first support bracket <NUM> and the second support bracket <NUM> are meshed with each other, there is a problem in that a rotational actuation trajectory of the door itself gradually changes over time, and furthermore, there is a high possibility that an actuation noise is increased when the door is rotated.

Up to now, while explaining the problems of the prior art regarding the door hinge of a rotating door, examples of using the gear hinge unit have been mainly described, but if it has a structure that can generate excessive compressive stress or tensile stress according to the increase of the rotational moment occurring between the upper and lower sides of the door, it is reasonable to view that another hinge type door also has a technical problem substantially equal to the technical problem of the gear hinge unit even if the specific configuration of the hinge parts constituting the door hinge of the rotating door is different.

The present invention is to solve the common problems of the prior art described above, and a technical object of the present invention is to achieve a door support structure through a simple device which is possible to minimize the occurrence of rotational moment between the upper and the bottom of the door with overcoming the phenomenon that the tendency to increase the rotational moment between the upper side and bottom side of the door on the vertical surface of the door hinge around the horizontal directional neutral axis of the door hinge during the door rotation opening/closing actuation due to the load of the door constituting the rotating door, intensifies.

In particular, another technical object of the present invention is to provide a device by which the compressive stress and deformation occurring between the gear portions on the side of the second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side and the gear portions on the side of the first support bracket fixedly connected to the door supporting frame side to constitute the gear hinge unit of the rotating door can be minimized, and by which not only ensures and maintains accurate opening/closing performance of the door, but also minimizes damage to parts caused by friction or friction noise generated by the door hinge.

In order to solve the above-described technical problem, the present invention provides an apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door between a first support bracket fixedly connected to a supporting frame side of a door frame and the second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side in the gear hinge unit constituting the rotating door,
in order to minimize a tensile stress generated in an upper part of the gear hinge unit above a neutral axis a-a' of the door and a compressive stress generated in a lower part of the gear hinge part under the neutral axis a-a' of the door by a rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit through the second support bracket due to the load of the door, comprising:.

Herein, the present invention provides the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door, characterized in that in case that the first vertical contact surfaces provided to the first vertical support are convex contact surfaces, the second vertical contact surfaces provided to the second vertical support is formed by a concave contact surface; and in case that the first vertical contact surfaces provided to the first vertical support are concave contact surfaces, the second vertical contact surfaces provided to the second vertical support is formed by a convex contact surface.

And so, the apparatus characterized in that, through a rotation opening/closing process of the door, a change distance of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the first vertical contact surfaces provided in the first vertical support is formed to be larger than a change distance of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the second vertical contact surfaces provided in the second vertical support, is provided as a preferred example of the present invention.

Furthermore, it is preferable that the first vertical contact surfaces provided on the first vertical support are provided with both the concave contact surface and the convex contact surface, and the second vertical contact surfaces provided on the second vertical support are provided with both the convex contact surface and the concave contact surface corresponding to the first vertical contact surfaces, respectively.

Herein, it will be even more useful to improve the fixing force in the closed state of the door that the concave contact surface of the first vertical contact surfaces provided to the first vertical support is formed to contact the convex contact surface of the second vertical contact surfaces provided to the second vertical support in a door closed state, and in an inflection section passing an inflection point at which a contact portion is changed from the concave contact surface to the convex contact surface in the first vertical contact surfaces provided to the first vertical support, the inflection section is formed such that contact stress of the line contact portion is reduced due to an increase in a number of contact line as the contact portion is changed.

According to the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door to which the present invention is applied, it can have the following effects.

According to the basic configuration of the present invention, it is possible to guide a stable rotation actuation between the first support bracket fixedly connected to the supporting frame side of a door frame and the second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side in the gear hinge unit constituting the rotating door, and it is possible to minimize a tensile stress and deformation generated in an upper part of the gear hinge unit above a neutral axis a-a' of the door and a compressive stress and deformation generated in a lower part of the gear hinge unit under the neutral axis a-a' of the door by a rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit through the second support bracket due to the load of the door by reducing the rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit through the second support bracket due to the load of the door. Therefore, in particular, if an amount of compressive deformation generated by the compressive stress in the gear hinge unit at the lower end of the horizontal neutral axis of the door is reduced, in the state that the gear parts of the first support bracket and the second support bracket are meshed with each other, a permanent compressive deformation induced in the meshing gear tooth portion is reduced, and it is possible to maintain the rotational actuation trajectory of the door for a longer period of time while providing the effect of reducing friction noise.

In particular, according to the preferred example of the present invention, by virtue of combining the double concave and convex surfaces by which the first vertical contact surfaces provided on the first vertical support are provided with both the concave contact surface and the convex contact surface, and the second vertical contact surfaces provided on the second vertical support are provided with both the convex contact surface and the concave contact surface corresponding to the first vertical contact surfaces, respectively, it is possible to prevent an overload condition caused by a single line contact when the door is rotated, and an effect of obtaining a more stable fixing holding force in a state close to closing of the door is provided.

In addition, according to the more preferred example of the present invention, through a rotation opening/closing process of the door, by which a change distance of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the first vertical contact surfaces provided in the first vertical support is formed to be larger than a change distance of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the second vertical contact surfaces provided in the second vertical support, the rotation actuation guide of the door proceeds more smoothly as the door progresses to the open state rather than the closed state.

Hereinafter, embodiments that are easily performed by those skilled in the art will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the embodiments of the present invention may be achieved in several different forms and are not limited to the embodiments described herein.

<FIG> is a perspective view of the lower part of the door in a closed state of the rotating door showing a preferred embodiment of the present invention; <FIG> is an enlarged view of the gear hinge unit (Part H) of the rotating door shown in <FIG>; and <FIG> is an enlarged view of the rotational actuation guide device part (Part G) installed under the gear hinge unit, and additionally includes a cross-sectional view of the coupling state between the first vertical support and the second vertical support in the closed state of the door.

Also, reference may be made to <FIG> as views respectively corresponding to <FIG> as views of a state in which the door is opened by about <NUM>°. In addition, as a view of a state in which the door is opened by about <NUM>°, reference may be made to <FIG> as views respectively corresponding to <FIG> or <FIG> above.

First, a preferred embodiment of the rotation actuation guide device of the rotating door according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in <FIG>, a preferred embodiment of the present invention provide an apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door between a first support bracket <NUM> fixedly connected to a supporting frame <NUM> side of a door frame and the second support bracket <NUM> fixedly connected to the door <NUM> side in the gear hinge unit <NUM> constituting the rotating door <NUM>,
in order to minimize a tensile stress generated in an upper part of the gear hinge unit <NUM> above a neutral axis a-a' of the door <NUM> and a compressive stress generated in a lower part of the gear hinge unit <NUM> under the neutral axis a-a' of the door <NUM> by a rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit <NUM> through the second support bracket <NUM> due to the load of the door <NUM>, comprising:.

Here, the rotation actuation guide device <NUM> of the gear hinge unit is well shown in <FIG>, <FIG>, <FIG>, <FIG>, <FIG>, <FIG>, and <FIG>, the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door is characterized in that,.

In addition, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in <FIG>, which shows an enlarged view of the first vertical support and the second vertical support for about <NUM> ° door rotation range shown in <FIG>, the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door is characterized in that, through a rotation opening/closing process of the door <NUM>, a change distance Ro of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the first vertical contact surfaces 1510a and 1510b provided in the first vertical support <NUM> is formed to be larger than a change distance Lo of a contact line in which a line contact is made on the second vertical contact surfaces 1520a and 1520b provided in the second vertical support <NUM>.

Furthermore, the apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door is characterized in that the first vertical contact surfaces 1510a and 1510b provided on the first vertical support <NUM> are provided with both the concave contact surface 1510a and the convex contact surface 1510b, and the second vertical contact surfaces 1520a and 1520b provided on the second vertical support <NUM> are provided with both the convex contact surface 1520b and the concave contact surface 1520a corresponding to the first vertical contact surfaces 1510a and 1510b, respectively.

Claim 1:
An apparatus for guiding a stable rotating actuation of a gear hinge unit in a rotating door between a first support bracket (<NUM>) fixedly connected to a supporting frame (<NUM>) side of a door frame and a second support bracket (<NUM>) fixedly connected to a door (<NUM>) side in the gear hinge unit (<NUM>) constituting the rotating door (<NUM>),
in order to minimize a tensile stress generated in an upper part of the gear hinge unit (<NUM>) above a neutral axis a-a' of the door (<NUM>) and a compressive stress generated in a lower part of the gear hinge unit (<NUM>) under the neutral axis a-a' of the door (<NUM>) by a rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit (<NUM>) through the second support bracket (<NUM>) due to the load of the door (<NUM>), comprising:
a fixed first vertical support (<NUM>) installed at a lower end of the supporting frame (<NUM>) of the door frame, comprising a fixed end (<NUM>) fixedly installed to the supporting frame (<NUM>) of the door frame, and a first rotational guide body being placed in a center part of a trajectory arc of the rotational actuation of a gear portion (1250a) of the second support bracket (<NUM>) of the door (<NUM>) and having a first vertical contact surface (1510a, 1510b) corresponding to a trajectory arc of a rotational actuation of the gear portion (1250a) of the second support bracket (<NUM>) of the door (<NUM>); and
a rotating second vertical support (<NUM>) installed at a lower end of the door (<NUM>), comprising a fixed end (<NUM>) fixedly installed to the door (<NUM>), and a second rotational guide body being placed on the trajectory arc of the rotational actuation of the gear portion (1250a) of the second support bracket (<NUM>) of the door (<NUM>) and having a second vertical contact surface (1520a, 1520b) in line contact with a first vertical contact surface (1510a, 1510b) corresponding to the trajectory in the arc of the rotational actuation of the gear portion (1250a) of the second support bracket (<NUM>) of the door (<NUM>).