PORTABLE SILICA GEL NOCTILUCENT CUP

• US 20160257464A1
• Filed: 10/07/2015
• Published: 09/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zhejiang Sorbo Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Wenzhou Shengbo Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: WU, Jianjun, LIU, Zhanfeng, ZHOU, Gang, ZHANG, Guocheng
• Granted Patent: US 9,706,831 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0516 Portable handheld communication devices, e.g. mobile phone, pager, beeper, PDA, smart phone
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0583 Beverage vessels, e.g. bottles
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/021 to the belt
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/10 Handles for carrying purposes

Abstract

A portable silica gel noctilucent cup, which can be used as lighting equipment, is energy-saving and environment-friendly, and convenient to carry, overcoming defects in the prior art. The cup comprises: a cup body made of transparent or semitransparent silica gel, an opening portion of which is fixedly provided with a first fixed ring for supporting itself; a cup cover covered on the cup body, at least one face of the cup body towards the opening portion being transparent; and a light-emitting assembly comprising a light source, a solar battery panel mounted to a top portion of the cup cover, and a storage battery, which are electrically connected to the light source; wherein, a holding cavity for holding the battery and the light source is arranged on the cup cover, and at least a wall face of the holding cavity towards the opening portion transmits light.

Claims

1. A portable silica gel noctilucent cup, comprising:

a cup body, which is made of silica gel and has certain transparency, wherein, an opening portion of the cup body is fixedly provided with a first fixed ring for supporting the opening portion;

a cup cover, which is configured to be covered and fixed on the cup body detachably; and

a light-emitting assembly, which comprises a solar battery panel, a storage battery, and a light source, wherein, the solar battery panel, the storage battery, and the light source are electrically connected thereamong;

wherein, a holding cavity for holding the storage battery and the light source of the light-emitting assembly is arranged on the cup cover, and at least a wall face of the holding cavity towards the opening portion of the cup body is able to transmit light; and

wherein, the solar battery panel is mounted to a top portion of the cup cover.

2. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 1, wherein, the opening portion of the cup body is further provided with a second fixed ring corresponding to the first fixed ring, and the first fixed ring and the second fixed ring are arranged inside and outside the opening portion respectively.

3. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 1, wherein, the cup cover comprises:

a circumferential wall, a lower side of which is configured to be connected with the opening portion of the cup body;

an intermediate end wall, which is substantially located at an intermediate position of the circumferential wall, and divides the circumferential wall into an upper cavity chamber and a lower cavity chamber; and

an upper cover, which is sealed and covered at an upper end of the upper cavity chamber, and forms, with the upper cavity chamber, the holding cavity for holding the storage battery and the light source of the light-emitting assembly.

4. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 1, wherein, the cup cover comprises:

an inner cover, which has a circumferential wall and an end wall, wherein, an outer periphery of the circumferential wall is provided with a first clamping portion;

an outer cover, which has a circumferential wall and an upper end wall, wherein, an inner side of the circumferential wall is provided with a second clamping portion, which is configured to be matched with the first clamping portion at a clamping position, thus limiting axial separating of the inner cover from the outer cover, and wherein, the outer cover is sleeved outside the inner cover, is matched with the inner cover at a clamping position through the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion, and forms, with the inner cover, the holding cavity for mounting the storage battery and the light source; and

a sealing piece, which is arranged between the inner cover and the outer cover to seal the holding cavity.

5. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 4, wherein, the end wall of the inner cover is substantially located at an intermediate position of the circumferential wall, and an upper end face of the end wall forms, with the circumferential wall, a concave cavity which forms the holding cavity with a lower end face of the upper end wall of the outer cover.

6. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 4, wherein, the sealing piece is arranged between an upper end face of the circumferential wall of the inner cover and a lower end face of the upper end wall of the outer cover.

7. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 6, wherein, the sealing piece is a sealing ring having, in a cross section thereof, a downward notch, and the sealing piece is sleeved on the upper end face of the circumferential wall of the inner cover through the notch.

8. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 4, wherein, the first clamping portion is a clamping bulge which is convex radially along the outer periphery of the circumferential wall of the inner cover, and the second clamping portion is a clamping groove which is concave radially along the inner side of the circumferential wall of the outer cover.

9. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 8, wherein, an upper end face of the clamping bulge is a inclined face.

10. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 8, wherein, a plurality of the clamping bulges are distributed evenly and circumferentially along the inner cover, and correspondingly, a plurality of the clamping grooves are distributed evenly and circumferentially along the outer cover.

11. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 4, wherein, the circumferential wall of the inner cover comprises an upper circumferential wall, an intermediate circumferential wall, and a lower circumferential wall, the first clamping portion is located outside the intermediate circumferential wall, a circular-arc boss or a circular-arc concave groove is arranged outside the lower circumferential wall, and correspondingly, a circular-arc concave groove or a circular-arc boss is arranged inside the circumferential wall of the outer cover.

12. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 11, wherein, a plurality of the circular-arc bosses or the circular-arc concave grooves of the inner cover are distributed circumferentially along the inner cover, and also a plurality of the circular-arc concave grooves or the circular-arc bosses, which are correspondingly arranged inside the circumferential wall of the outer cover, are distributed circumferentially along the outer cover.

13. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 11, wherein, an outer diameter of the upper circumferential wall is less than that of the intermediate circumferential wall, and the sealing piece is sleeved on the upper circumferential wall.

14. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 13, wherein, the sealing piece is a sealing ring having, in a cross section thereof, a downward notch, and the sealing piece is sleeved on the upper circumferential wall through the notch.

15. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 13, wherein, a certain distance exists between a lower end face of the sealing piece and an upper end face of the intermediate circumferential wall, and a plurality of reinforcing convex ribs (215) are arranged on a circumferential face of the upper circumferential wall corresponding to the distance.

16. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 1, wherein, a connection terminal for externally connecting a power source is further arranged on the cut cover, and the connection terminal is electrically connected to the storage battery.

17. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 3, wherein, a connection terminal for externally connecting a power source is further arranged on the circumferential wall at a position corresponding to the upper cavity chamber, and the connection terminal is electrically connected to the storage battery.

18. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 4, wherein, a connection terminal for externally connecting a power source is arranged on the upper end wall of the outer cover, and the connection terminal is electrically connected to the storage battery.

19. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 18, wherein, a via-hole is arranged on the upper end wall of the outer cover, a clamping boss is arranged on an radial wall of the connection terminal, and the connection terminal is inserted into the via-hole and matched through the clamping boss at a clamping position.

20. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 16, wherein, the connection terminal is made of a magnetic conducting material.

21. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 1, further comprising:

a hand-carrying belt, which is arranged at one side of the opening portion of the cup body, wherein, a hanging hook and a buckling hook are arranged on the hand-carrying belt, and the buckling hook is arranged at the other side of the opening portion of the cup body to be matched with the hanging hook in a buckling way.

22. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 21, further comprising a lantern ring, which is sleeved at the opening portion of the cup body, wherein, the hand-carrying belt and the buckling hook are both arranged on the lantern ring.

23. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 2, further comprising:

a lantern ring, which is sleeved at the opening portion of the cup body and located below the second fixed ring, wherein, an inner diameter of the lantern ring is less than an outer diameter of the second fixed ring;

a hand-carrying belt, which is arranged at one side of the lantern ring, wherein, a hanging hook is arranged on the hand-carrying belt; and

a buckling hook, which is arranged at the other side of the lantern ring to be matched with the hanging hook in a buckling way.

24. The portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 21, wherein, a length of the hand-carrying belt added with a length of the buckling hook is far less than a length from a root portion of the hand-carrying belt, through one side wall, a bottom portion, and the other side wall of the cup body, to the buckling hook.

25. A storage method of the portable silica gel noctilucent cup according to claim 24, comprising steps of extruding the cup body upwards from the bottom portion;

and then bundling the cup body by allowing the hand-carrying belt to bypass the bottom portion of the cup body and buckling the hanging hook to the buckling hook.