ZIPPER TAB ASSEMBLY WITH EXHAUSTING/INFLATING FUNCTIONS

• US 20200132062A1
• Filed: 01/14/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Trim Supply
• Original Assignee: Universal Trim Supply
• Inventors: Yang, Shih-Sheng
• Granted Patent: US 11,156,216 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/262 Pull members; Ornamental attachments for sliders
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 35/04 the means being electric
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 37/00 Pumps having pertinent characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B25/00 - F04B35/00
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/121 Casings
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/123 Fluid connections

Abstract

The present invention discloses a zipper tab assembly with exhausting and/or inflating functions. The zipper tab assembly includes a housing, an electric air pump disposed inside the housing and configured to exhaust or inflate, and a power terminal having an input port and an output port. The input port protrudes out of the housing, and the output port is disposed inside the housing and electrically connected to the electric air pump. The zipper tab assembly further includes a hook disposed outside the housing and connected to the housing. The zipper tab assembly of the present invention has exhausting and/or inflating functions and has the advantages of practicability, convenient utilization, small size, light weight, convenient wearing and convenient carrying.

Claims

1. A zipper tab assembly with at least one of exhausting and inflating functions, the zipper tab assembly comprising:

a housing;

an electric air pump disposed inside the housing and configured to exhaust or inflate;

a power terminal comprising an input port and an output port, the input port protruding out of the housing, and the output port being disposed inside the housing and electrically connected to the electric air pump; and

a hook disposed outside the housing and connected to the housing.

2. The zipper tab assembly of claim 1, wherein the electric air pump comprises at least one of a vacuum extraction nozzle and an inflation nozzle, and the vacuum extraction nozzle and the inflation nozzle are communicated with an exterior of the housing.

3. The zipper tab assembly of claim 2, wherein the housing comprises a first shell wall, a second shell wall, a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall, the first shell wall and the second shell wall are parallel to each other and formed in an isosceles trapezoid shape, an upper edge of each of the first shell wall and the second shell wall is less than 30 mm, a lower edge of each of the first shell wall and the second shell wall is less than 40 mm, a height of each of the first shell wall and the second shell wall is less than 110 mm, the first lateral wall is connected around the first shell wall, the second lateral wall is connected around the second shell wall, a power interface is disposed on sides of the first lateral wall and the second lateral wall corresponding to the upper edges of the first shell wall and the second shell wall, an exhausting and inflating interface is disposed on sides of the first lateral wall and second lateral wall corresponding to the lower edges of the first shell wall and the second shell wall, the vacuum extraction nozzle and the inflation nozzle of the electric air pump protrude out of the housing through the exhausting and inflating interface, and the input port of the power terminal protrudes out of the housing through the power interface.

4. The zipper tab assembly of claim 3, further comprising a protecting cover sheathing with the housing, the protecting cover being a hollow structure enclosed by a first cover wall, a second cover wall, a third cover wall and a fourth cover wall, the first cover wall and the second cover wall being disposed opposite to each other and located outside the first shell wall and the second shell wall, the protecting cover being rotatably connected to the housing via a rotary mechanism, and when the protecting cover rotates to a position where the third cover wall covers the power interface, the fourth cover wall covers the exhausting and inflating interface, and the first cover wall and the second cover wall respectively cover the first shell wall and the second shell wall.

5. The zipper tab assembly of claim 4, two arc notches are formed on the first cover wall and the second cover wall and located in positions corresponding to each other.

6. The zipper tab assembly of claim 1, wherein a total weight of the zipper tab assembly is less than 50 grams.

7. The zipper tab assembly of claim 1, wherein the electric air pump has a suitable volume of less than 10 L, a maximum inflation pressure of less than 10 psi, a minimum vacuum negative pressure of no more than −

10 psi, and a maximum flow rate of less than 5 L/min.

8. The zipper tab assembly of claim 1, wherein the input port of the power terminal is a micro-USB plug, a Lighting plug or a Type-C plug.

9. The zipper tab assembly of claim 8, wherein when the electric air pump is powered by a 3V power supply, an average current is less than 450 mA and a maximum current is less than 600 mA, and when the electric air pump is powered by a 5V power supply, the average current is less than 250 mA and the maximum current is less than 350 mA.

10. The zipper tab assembly of claim 1, wherein the hook is a clasp detachably connected to the housing.