Slide rail

• US 8,371,667 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2010
• Issued: 02/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Yu, Mo-Ming, Chen, Ze-Hong, Gu, Guang-Hua
• Primary Examiner(s): HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE
• Application Number:
  US12/770,685
• Publication Number:
  US 20110142383A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: 312/330.1, 312/334.1, 312/334.7, 312/334.8, 312/334.14, 312/334.16, 312/334.22, 384/20, 384/22
• US Class Current: 312/334.8
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/49 with double extensible guides or parts

Abstract

A slide rail includes a first rail, a second rail, and a third rail. The first rail defines two recesses. The second rail forms two first sliding portions and two second sliding portions. The third rail defines two slide channels for slidably receiving the first sliding portions. The second sliding portions of the second rail are received in the recesses of the first rail.

Claims

1. A slide rail comprising:

a first rail comprising a main wall and two sidewalls symmetrically extending from two sides of the main wall;

a second rail slidably attached to the first rail and comprising a main body and two side parts symmetrically disposed on opposite sides of the main body, each of the side parts comprises a first deformed portion connected to the main body, a second deformed portion, a third deformed portion, and a fourth deformed portion connected end to end in that order, a first sliding portion formed on an outer surface of a corner between the first deformed portion and the second deformed portion, a second sliding portion formed on an outer surface of a corner between the third deformed portion and the fourth deformed portion; and

a third rail slidably attached to the second rail;

wherein the first sliding portions of the second rail slidably engage with the third rail, the second sliding portions of the second rail slidably engage with the sidewalls of the first rail respectively.

2. The slide rail of claim 1, wherein the second rail further comprises a fifth deformed portion extended upward from a distal end of the fourth deformed portion, the first to fifth deformed portions form a C-shape.

3. The slide rail of claim 1, wherein the first rail comprises a main wall and two sidewalls symmetrically extending from opposite sides of the main wall, each sidewall defines an arc-shaped recess for receiving a corresponding second sliding portion of the second rail.

4. The slide rail of claim 3, wherein the curvature of the second sliding portion is the same as the curvature of the recess of the first rail.

5. The slide rail of claim 3, wherein each sidewall comprises an inclined portion slantingly connected a corresponding side of the main wall.

6. The slide rail of claim 1, wherein the two side parts are integrally extending from the main body.

7. The slide rail of claim 6, wherein the main body comprises two wing portions, a flat plate, and two connection portions slantingly connected between the wing portions and the flat plate, the wing portions are disposed on two sides of the flat plate, and parallel with the flat plate, which is parallel with the main wall of the first rail.

8. The slide rail of claim 7, wherein the connection portions slantingly connect the wing portions and opposite sides of the flat plate, respectively.

9. The slide rail of claim 7, wherein the wing portions are closer to the main wall of the first rail than the flat plate.

10. The slide rail of claim 1, wherein the third rail comprises an installation plate and two curved portions symmetrically disposed on two opposite longitudinal sides of the installation plate, each curved portion defines an arc-shaped sliding channel in an outer surface, the sliding channels slidably engages with the first sliding portions of the second rail respectively.

11. The slide rail of claim 10, wherein the sliding channel has a same curvature as the first sliding portion of the second rail.

20. The slide rail of claim 1, wherein the first deformed portion extends toward the third rail from a side of the main body, the second deformed portion extends from a distal end of the first deformed portion to form an arc-shape together with the first deformed portion, the third deformed portion extends toward a corresponding sidewall of the first rail from an end of the second deformed portion opposite to the first deformed portion to form an arc-shape together with the second deformed portion, the fourth deformed portion extends toward the main wall of the first rail from an end of the third deformed portion opposite to the second deformed portion to form an arc-shape together with the third deformed portion.

12. A slide rail comprising:

a first rail comprising a main wall and two sidewalls symmetrically extending from two sides of the main wall, wherein each sidewall defines an arc-shaped recess;

a second rail slidably attached to the first rail and comprising a main body and two side parts symmetrically disposed on two sides of the main body, each of the side parts comprises a plurality of deformed portions, a first sliding portion formed on an outer surface of a corner between two adjacent deformed portions of the plurality of deformed portions, a second sliding portion formed on an outer surface of a corner between another two adjacent deformed portions, the first sliding portion opposite to the second sliding portion; and

a third rail slidably attached to the second rail, the third rail comprising an installation plate and two curved portions symmetrically disposed on two sides of the installation plate respectively, an arc-shaped sliding channel is defined in an outer surface of each curved portion;

wherein the first sliding portions of the second rail are slidably received in the sliding channels of the third rail, the second sliding portions of the second rail are slidably received in the recesses of the first rail.

13. The slide rail of claim 12, wherein the curvature of the second sliding portions is the same as the curvature of the recesses of the first rail.

14. The slide rail of claim 12, wherein the sliding channel have a same curvature as the first sliding portions of the second rail.

15. The slide rail of claim 12, wherein each side part comprises a first deformed portion connected to the main body, a second deformed portion, a third deformed portion, a fourth deformed portion, and a fifth deformed portion connected in order, the first to fifth deformed portion form a generally C-shape.

16. The slide rail of claim 15, wherein the first sliding portion is arc-shaped and formed on an outer surface of a corner between the first deformed portion and the second deformed portion, the second sliding portion is arc-shaped and formed on an outer surface of a corner between the third deformed portion and the fourth deformed portion.

17. The slide rail of claim 15, wherein the main body comprises a flat plate, and two wing portions disposed on two sides of the flat plate, and parallel with the flat plate, the first deformed portion is acutely extended upward and away from the first rail, from the corresponding wing portion of the main body.

18. The slide rail of claim 17, wherein the second deformed portion is slantingly extended downward from a distal end of the first deformed portion, away from the first rail, the third deformed portion is slantingly extended downward from the second deformed portion, toward the first rail, the fourth deformed portion is slantingly extended upward from the third deformed portion, toward the first rail.

19. The slide rail of claim 17, wherein the wing portions are closer to the main wall of the first rail than the flat plate.