Height adjustment mechanism, platform and method

• US 10,264,877 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2016
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Designa, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Designa, Inc.
• Inventors: Hu, Yajun, Zhou, Chuyao
• Primary Examiner(s): Ing, Matthew W
• Application Number:
  US15/224,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20170290413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 995 Days
• Field of Search: 108147
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0041 Height adjustable table top with parallel link arms
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 9/02 with balancing device, e.g. by springs, by weight
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 9/16 with means for, or adapted for, inclining the legs of the table for varying the height of the top, e.g. with adjustable cross legs

Abstract

A height adjustment mechanism is provided. The height adjustment mechanism includes a lifting arm, a driving mechanism configured to drive and lock the lifting arm, and a control switch configured to control the driving mechanism; the driving mechanism is coupled to the lifting arm, and an angle is formed between the driving mechanism and the lifting arm. A height adjustment platform and method is also provided. The height adjustment platform includes a first working table, a bottom bracket, a lifting arm, a driving mechanism configured to drive and lock the lifting arm, and a control switch configured to control the driving mechanism; two opposite ends of the lifting arms are separately coupled to the first working table and the bottom bracket, the driving mechanism is coupled to the lifting arm, and the angle is formed between the driving mechanism and the lifting arm.

Claims

1. A height adjustment platform, comprising:

a first working table;

a bottom bracket;

at least one lifting arm comprising;

a first elongate portion and a second elongate portion, wherein the first and second elongate portions have a same shape and are displaced parallel to each other;

a first joint device and a second joint device, wherein the first and second joint devices have a same shape and are displaced parallel to each other and are perpendicular to the first working table, wherein opposite ends of each of the first elongate portion and the second elongate portion are coupled to the first joint device and the second joint device, respectively;

wherein the first and second elongate portions and the first and second joint devices are configured to move in a same plane during motion of the table height adjustment;

at least one driving mechanism configured to drive and lock the lifting arm, wherein a first end of the driving mechanism is connected to the first elongate portion of the lifting arm and a second end of the driving mechanism is connected to the second elongate portion of the lifting arm; and

at least one control switch configured to control the driving mechanism;

wherein an angle θ

is formed between the driving mechanism and the lifting arm;

wherein the first joint device is coupled to the first working table at a fixed location along the first working table;

wherein the second joint device is coupled to the bottom bracket at a fixed location along the bottom bracket; and

wherein each of the ends of the first and second elongate portions attached to the first joint device are in vertical alignment and each of the ends of the first and second elongate portions attached to the second joint device are in vertical alignment such that an angle α

ranging from 0 to 60 degrees is formed between the lifting arm and the bottom bracket.

2. The height adjustment mechanism of claim 1, wherein the first elongate portion and the second elongate portion are two parallel rods;

the two rods, the first joint device, and the second joint device are coupled end to end to cooperatively form a parallelogram structure.

3. The height adjustment mechanism of claim 2, wherein the driving mechanism is positioned in the parallelogram structure, and the angle θ

is formed between the driving mechanism and the parallel rods of the lifting arm.

4. The height adjustment mechanism of claim 1, wherein a power device is integrated with a locking device to form the driving mechanism, or the driving mechanism comprises the power device and the locking device positioned apart from the power device.

5. The height adjustment mechanism of claim 1, wherein the driving mechanism is a self-locking gas spring, the self-locking gas spring comprises a base body, a releasing rod, and a releasing head coupled to the base body via the releasing rod.

6. The height adjustment mechanism of claim 5, wherein the control switch comprises a control wire, a fasten member, and a handle mounted on the fasten member;

a first end of the control wire is coupled to the handle, a second end of the control wire is coupled to the releasing head of the self-locking gas spring.

7. The height adjustment platform of claim 1, wherein the lifting arm is rotatably coupled to the first working table and the bottom bracket via the first joint device and the second joint device, respectively;

when in use, the lifting arm and the bottom bracket rotate relative to one another to form the angle α

ranging from 0 to 60 degrees.

8. The height adjustment platform of claim 1, comprising two lifting arms and at least one connecting rod, wherein the two lifting arms are positioned on opposite sides between the first working table and the bottom bracket, the connecting rod is positioned between the two lifting arms, and two opposite ends of the connecting rod are coupled to the two lifting arms.

9. The height adjustment platform of claim 1, further comprising a second working table positioned below the first working table, wherein the second working table is coupled to the bottom of the first working table via at least one support arm.

10. The height adjustment platform of claim 9, wherein an area of the second working table is more than a half of the area of the first working table.

11. A height adjustment method comprising:

applying a first working table, a bottom bracket, at least one lifting arm comprising a first elongate portion and a second elongate portion, at least one driving mechanism configured to drive and lock the lifting arm, and at least one control switch configured to control the driving mechanism, wherein a first end of the driving mechanism is connected to the first elongate portion of the lifting arm and a second end of the driving mechanism is connected to the second elongate portion of the lifting arm, wherein the first and second elongate portions have a same shape and are displaced parallel to each other;

wherein two ends of the lifting arm are respectively coupled to the first working table and the bottom bracket at a fixed location along the first working table and the bottom bracket, respectively;

wherein an angle θ

is formed between the driving mechanism and the lifting arm;

wherein two ends of the first and second elongate portions are attached to a first joint device in vertical alignment and two ends of the first and second elongate portions are attached to a second joint device in vertical alignment such that an angle α

ranging from 0 to 60 degrees is formed between the lifting arm and the bottom bracket;

wherein the first and second joint devices have a same shape and are displaced parallel to each other and are perpendicular to the first working table; and

wherein the first and second elongate portions and the first and second joint devices are configured to move in a same plane during motion of the table height adjustment.

12. The height adjustment method of claim 11, further comprising:

controlling the driving mechanism to start, and lifting or pressing the first working table, such that the driving mechanism can jack up or move down the first working table; and

controlling the driving mechanism to close after the first working table moves to a predetermined position which is located between the lowest point and the highest point of the first working table, and locking the first working table to the predetermined position.

13. The height adjustment method of claim 11, wherein the first joint device is coupled to the first working table;

and the second joint device is coupled to the bottom bracket.