US6830385B2
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Package having lock mechanism
Assignee: Proterial Ltd
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Filing: 2003-06-04
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Granted: 2004-12-14
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Expires: 2023-06-04
Abstract
Abstract A package having lock mechanism which enable easy lock releasing and easy extraction and insertion of package is provided. A package having lock mechanism, comprising, a package main body provided with a nearly rectangular shaped body portion and a head portion positioned longitudinal front end of said body portion, a lever and a lever turning axis provided beneath bottom of said head portion, said lever is provided so as to make a projection appeared and disappeared in a bottom plane of said body portion, with an acting end which having a projection and is extended to the body portion, and a forcing end existing at front end of said head portion and is located at the opposite side of said acting end relative to said lever turning axis, a crank axis extending to width direction of said package main body along bottom of said head portion, and fitting said forcing end of said lever to a crank portion, an arm which is integrated with said crank axis and is turnable along side plane of said head portion, and a lever prolonging to width direction of said package main body from said arm, when said lever is positioned over the head portion, said projection is exposed out of bottom plane of said body portion, and when said lever is positioned front of said head portion, said projection is accommodated in bottom plane of said body portion.
Inventors
- 👤 Yoshiaki Ishigami
- 👤 Yoshinori Sunaga
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 16:10
CPC Classifications
G; G02; G02B; G02B6/00; G02B6/24; G02B6/42; G02B6/4292; G02B6/36; G02B6/38; G02B6/3807; G02B6/3897; G02B6/4201; G02B6/4256; G02B6/426; G02B6/4261
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 30
Claim 1
Independent Claim
256 words
A package having a lock mechanism, comprising: a package main body provided with a nearly rectangular shaped body portion and a head portion positioned at a longitudinal front end of said body portion; a lever and a lever turning axis provided at a bottom of said head portion, said lever being provided with an acting end including a projection and with a forcing end which is provided at a front end of said head portion and is located at the opposite side of said acting end relative to said lever turning axis, so as to make the projection pass through and not pass through a bottom plane of said body portion; a crank axis extending in a width direction of said package main body along the bottom of said head portion, the crank axis being provided with a crank portion that is engaged inside a U-shaped portion of the forcing end of said lever while being surrounded by the U-shaped portion in the forward, up and down directions of the head portion; an arm which is integrated with said crank axis and is rotatable along a side plane of said head portion; and an arm lever extending from said arm in a width direction of said package main body, wherein when said arm lever is positioned over the head portion, said projection passes through said bottom plane of said body portion, and when said arm lever is positioned in front of said head portion, said projection is accommodated in the bottom plane of said body portion.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
256 words
A package having a lock mechanism, comprising: a package main body provided with a nearly rectangular shaped body portion and a head portion positioned at a longitudinal front end of said body portion; a lever and a lever turning axis provided at a bottom of said head portion, said lever being provided with an acting end including a projection and with a forcing end which is provided at a front end of said head portion and is located at the opposite side of said acting end relative to said lever turning axis, so as to make the projection pass through and not pass through a bottom plane of said body portion; a crank axis extending in a width direction of said package main body along the bottom of said head portion, the crank axis being provided with a crank portion that is engaged inside a U-shaped portion of the forcing end of said lever while being surrounded by the U-shaped portion in the forward, up and down directions of the head portion; an arm which is integrated with said crank axis and is rotatable along a side plane of said head portion; and an arm lever extending from said arm in a width direction of said package main body, wherein when said arm lever is positioned over the head portion, said projection passes through said bottom plane of said body portion, and when said arm lever is positioned in front of said head portion, said projection is accommodated in the bottom plane of said body portion.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
36 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: a concave portion which is a movement space of said acting end of said lever is provided on a bottom of said body portion.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
25 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: a lever projection which holds said lever is provided on said head portion.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
42 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: a forward turning stopper which restricts turning of said arm so as to prevent said lever from moving to a lower location with respect to said head portion is provided.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
42 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: a backward turning stopper which restricts turning of said arm so as to prevent said lever from moving to a lower location with respect to said head portion is provided.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
28 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: said arm is provided on each side of said head portion and integrated with said lever.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
18 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: said arm comprises processed plate material.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
26 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: a convex swelling is formed smoothly faced with said head portion on said arm.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
36 words
A package having lock a mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: a bearing is provided at a bottom of said head portion, and a lever crank axis is inserted to into said bearing from below.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
36 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: the package is configured such that a forcing end of said lever is fixed to said crank portion by folding back said crank portion.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
75 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: said head portion is provided with a fixing article which fixes said lever together with said lever turning axis by pressing them to a bottom of said head portion, said fixing article is provided with!hook portion along both sides of said head portion, and both sides of said head portion are provided with a fixing article projection which engages to said hook portion.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
35 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 11 , wherein: said fixing article is provided with a cover which covers, from below, a movement space of said forcing end side of said lever.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
19 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 12 , wherein: said fixing article comprises processed plate material.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
61 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 11 , wherein: a level difference edge portion having a level difference to a radial direction from said crank axis is provided on said arm, and wherein the package is adapted so that the turning of said arm is regulated by intervention of said level difference edge portion to said fixing article.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
102 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein: an opening to which an optical fiber connector is inserted is provided on a front end of said head portion, an optical element faced with said opening is provided within said body portion, a connecting terminal group of said optical element for an electric signal is provided at a back end of said body portion, and said body portion is inserted to into a box cage front end an opening in the box case at its front end and provided on a substrate mounted with an electrical signal processing circuit.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
87 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 15 , wherein: a window is provide at a predetermined distance apart from said open end of a bottom of said cage, said window is a triangular window of which base is facing said open end of said cage and vertex is facing a back end of said cage, and length and position of said lever is configured to engage a projection exposed past the outer of a bottom surface of said body portion with said triangular window.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
27 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 16 , wherein: said projection comprises two nails facing respectively with two different sides of said triangular window.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
34 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 17 , wherein: said nail has a slope which closes to a center of said triangular window as closer to a vertex of said nail.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
35 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 15 , wherein: said lever is adapted to prevent insertion of an optical fiber connector when said lever is positioned in front of said head portion.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
48 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 15 , wherein: said opening comprises two successive openings to which two successive optical connectors are inserted, and wherein a transmitting optical element is faced with one opening and a receiving optical element is faced with an other opening.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
117 words
A package having a lock mechanism, comprising: a package provided with an opening at a front end of the package; a lever provided at a tip with a projection which alternately passes through and does not pass through a bottom plane of said package; a crank axis provided with a crank portion to which a rear end of said lever is connected; a first arm connected to said crank axis and rotatable around said crank axis; a second arm provided at a free end of said first arm and foldable toward said first arm, the second arm having a similar shape to the first arm; and a sub-lever provided at a free end of said second arm.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
117 words
A package having a lock mechanism, comprising: a package provided with an opening at a front end of the package; a lever provided at a tip with a projection which alternately passes through and does not pass through a bottom plane of said package; a crank axis provided with a crank portion to which a rear end of said lever is connected; a first arm connected to said crank axis and rotatable around said crank axis; a second arm provided at a free end of said first arm and foldable toward said first arm, the second arm having a similar shape to the first arm; and a sub-lever provided at a free end of said second arm.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
38 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 21 , wherein: an acting article which returns a free end of said second arm toward said first arm is provided between said second arm and said first arm.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
21 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 21 , wherein: said acting article is comprised of a coil spring.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
32 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 21 , wherein: a free end of said second arm is positioned near a lower hem of a face plane of said package.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
42 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 21 , wherein: said sub-lever is provided with an intervening portion which intervenes with a face end of said package and a protruding portion which protrudes below the face end of said package.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
29 words
A package having a lock mechanism according to claim 21 , wherein: a free end of said first arm adapted to be positioned above said openings of said package.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
152 words
A package having a lock mechanism, comprising: a package provided with an opening at a front end of the package; a lever provided at its tip with a projection which alternately passes through and does not pass through a bottom plane of said package; a crank axis provided with a crank portion to which a rear end of said lever is connected; an arm connected to said crank axis and rotatable around said crank axis; and an arm lever provided to at a free end of said arm; wherein said arm lever is provided with a foldable joint portion between said crank axis and said free end of said arm such that said arm has a sub-arm that extends from the foldable joint portion to said free end, and the sub-arm has a similar shape to a remaining portion of said arm and is foldable toward the remaining portion of said arm.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
152 words
A package having a lock mechanism, comprising: a package provided with an opening at a front end of the package; a lever provided at its tip with a projection which alternately passes through and does not pass through a bottom plane of said package; a crank axis provided with a crank portion to which a rear end of said lever is connected; an arm connected to said crank axis and rotatable around said crank axis; and an arm lever provided to at a free end of said arm; wherein said arm lever is provided with a foldable joint portion between said crank axis and said free end of said arm such that said arm has a sub-arm that extends from the foldable joint portion to said free end, and the sub-arm has a similar shape to a remaining portion of said arm and is foldable toward the remaining portion of said arm.
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| 11.5 Years (Year 12) | 2015-12-14 | 2016-06-14 | 2016-12-14 | $7700.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |