Stepless Adjustable Supporting Device

• US 20080099637A1
• Filed: 10/19/2006
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chih-Tang Pai
• Original Assignee: Chih-Tang Pai
• Inventors: Pai, Chih-Tang
• Application Number:
  US11/550,885
• Publication Number:
  US 20080099637A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/157
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/30 with co-moving side-struts
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/048 for balancing translational movement of the undercarriage

Abstract

A stepless adjustable supporting device includes a base, a lifting arm, a transmission wheel assembly and an elastic module. The present invention employs the lever principle that the product of the load force and the load force arm is equal to the product of the applied force and the applied force arm. Further, with the structure in which a transmission wheel of the transmission wheel assembly is configured to have an eccentric groove, the applied torque generated by the supported article such as displayer with respect to the supporting device is kept to be equal to the load torque generated by the supporting device. In this way, the supporting device can perform a stepless adjustment of various heights while exhibit a supporting effect.

Claims

1. A stepless adjustable supporting device, comprising:

a base having an accommodating space therein, an opening formed on the top of the accommodating space;

a lifting arm comprising a first arm body fixed within the accommodating space and a second arm body slidably lifting on the first arm body, the second arm body extending from the opening;

a transmission wheel assembly comprising a transmission wheel pivoted to the base and a driving piece operatively connected with the transmission wheel, the driving piece fixed on the second arm body, a lifting/lowering action of the second arm body driving the transmission wheel to rotate; and

an elastic module comprising an elastic element and a swinging rod connected to one end of the elastic element, the other end of the elastic element positioned on the base,

wherein the transmission wheel is provided with an eccentric groove thereon, the swinging rod has a swinging portion connected onto the eccentric groove, so that the swinging portion is movable on the eccentric groove when the transmission wheel rotates, and

wherein the applied torque generated by the supported article with respect to the supporting device is kept equal to the load torque generated by the supporting device, thereby to achieve a stepless adjustment of various lengths and a supporting effect.

2. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 1, wherein a fixing plate is respectively provided at the front and rear ends of the base adjacent to the opening, so that the transmission wheel is pivoted onto the two fixing plates.

3. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 1, wherein the lifting arm has two elongated arm bodies opposing to each other.

4. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 1, wherein the inside of the first arm body of the lifting arm is formed with a vertically oriented sliding trough for slidably disposing the second arm body into the sliding trough.

5. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission wheel of the transmission wheel assembly is a gear, and the driving piece is a rack engaged with the gear.

6. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission wheel of the transmission wheel assembly is a pulley, and the driving piece is a traction rope, one end of the traction rope is fixed to the periphery of the pulley, and the other end thereof is fixed onto the second arm body after finishing winding around the periphery of the pulley.

7. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 1, wherein the elastic element of the elastic module is a tension spring.

8. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 1, wherein the swinging rod of the elastic module penetrates the swinging portion and the eccentric portion with a shaft rod.

9. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 8, wherein a fixing plate is respectively provided at the front and rear ends of the base adjacent to the opening, the two fixing plates are provided with displacing holes thereon, and both ends of the shaft rod protrude into the displacing holes of the two fixing plates.

10. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 1, further comprising a fixing piece for positioning the other end of the elastic element onto the base.

11. The stepless adjustable supporting device according to claim 10, wherein the fixing piece is constituted of a connecting sleeve and a supporting rod connected onto the connecting sleeve, the outer periphery of the connecting sleeve is provided with propeller-like side wings, the connecting sleeve is inserted into the other end of the elastic element and connected thereto, and the supporting rod penetrates through the base and then into the connecting sleeve to form one body.