JP4828351B2 - Desk with lighting device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a desk with an illuminating device, in which an illuminating device is provided on a top board so that it can be moved up and down between a use position and a non-use position.

As such a desk with a lighting device, for example, there is one described in Patent Document 1.
JP-A-7-184721

In the desk with a lighting device described in the above-mentioned patent document, a lifting platform that can be raised and lowered to a use position and a non-use position is a U-shaped front-facing U-shaped by an upper and lower horizontal plate (shelf plate) and a back plate. Because the lighting fixture is attached to the lower surface of the upper horizontal plate,
When raising the platform to the use position, the back plate blocks the rear view, narrows the field of view and gives a feeling of pressure, makes it difficult to communicate with the user of the desk that faces it, etc. bad.
Further, since the back plate blocks the illumination light to the rear side of the top plate by the lighting tool, the rear portion of the top plate becomes dark.
Furthermore, since the lighting fixture is fixedly attached to the lifting platform, it is impossible to effectively illuminate the front side of the top board.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and even when the lighting device is raised to the use position, the rear view is not obstructed and the rear and front portions of the top plate can be effectively illuminated. The object is to provide a desk with a lighting device.

According to the present invention, the above problem is solved as follows.
(1) In a desk with an illuminating device in which an illuminating device is provided on the top plate so that the illuminating device can be moved up and down between a use position and a non-use position; In addition, a pillar supporting the one end thereof is used to form an inverted L-shape when viewed from the front, and a recess is provided on the top surface of the top plate to accommodate the illuminator when not in use. The support column is inserted into an insertion hole formed in the top plate so as to be continuous with the end, and the support column is slidably supported by support means provided on the lower surface of the top plate.

(2) In the above item (1), a mounting hole is provided in the top plate, and a mounting frame having a recess, an insertion hole, and support means is fitted into the mounting hole.

(3) In the above item (1) or (2), the support means has a pair of clamping pieces that elastically clamp at least two side surfaces facing the front and rear of the support column.

(4) In the above item (3), a guide ridge facing in the vertical direction is fitted to one of the opposing surfaces of the support column and the sandwiching piece, and the other is fitted to the guide ridge so as to be slidable in the vertical direction. Provide a groove.

(5) In any one of the above items (1) to (4), by attaching a support column to the other side end of the illuminating device, the illuminating device has a U-shape in a downward direction when viewed from the front.

(6) In any one of the above items (1) to (5), the upper surface of at least one side end portion of the illuminating device is recessed, and a finger hooking portion is provided in the center of the upper surface.

(7) In any one of the above items (1) to (6), the luminaire is pivotally attached to the support so that the light projecting surface on the lower surface thereof faces obliquely forward and downward.

(8) In any one of the above items (1) to (7), on the inner bottom surface of the recess, a switch that is turned off when the lighting fixture is received in the recess and turned on when the lighting fixture is lifted from the recess. Provide.

(9) In any one of the above items (1) to (8), the power line wired in the illuminator is inserted into the inside of the column and pulled out below the top plate from its lower end.

(10) In any one of the above items (1) to (9), the illuminator and the column have the same cross-sectional shape.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the lighting device has an inverted L-shape when viewed from the front by the lighting fixture facing in the left-right direction and the support supporting one side end thereof, so that the lighting device is raised to the use position. However, the rear view of the top plate is not obstructed, and the field of view is not narrowed or a feeling of pressure is not exhibited.
Further, when the lighting device is not used, the lighting device is accommodated in the recess of the top plate, so that the top plate surface can be widely used.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the concave portion, the insertion hole, and the supporting means are all provided in the mounting frame, the lighting device is attached to the mounting frame in advance, and the mounting frame is fitted into the mounting hole of the top plate. It is only necessary to do this, and the attachment work of the lighting device to the top plate becomes easy.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the column is elastically held by the pair of holding pieces, there is no possibility that the illuminating device used as the use position will be lowered.

  According to invention of Claim 4, a support | pillar and an illuminating device can be raised / lowered stably.

  According to invention of Claim 5, since it has a pair of right and left support | pillars, an illuminating device can be raised / lowered stably.

  According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to easily pull up the lighting device at the non-use position by pinching the finger hook portion.

  According to invention of Claim 7, the front part side of a top plate can be effectively illuminated as needed.

  According to the eighth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to save the trouble of turning on and off the lighting device by hand at each of the use position and the non-use position, and never forget to turn off the lighting device when not in use. .

  According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, since the power supply line is not exposed to the outside when the lighting device is used, the appearance is good.

  According to the invention described in claim 10, since the illuminator and the support column can be formed by one kind of member, it is possible to reduce the cost and make the design common.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of a desk with a lighting device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the lighting device, FIG. 3 is a vertical side view taken along line III-III of FIG. 2, and FIG. FIG. 5 is an enlarged front view of the lighting device mounting portion when the lighting device is not used, and FIG.

  The desk (1) is a pair of left and right legs consisting of a base leg (2) that faces in the front-rear direction (hereinafter, described with the left front of FIG. 1 as the front) and a pedestal (3) that stands up from its rear end. The top of the bodies (4), (4) and (4) consists of a rectangular top plate (5) which is long in the left-right direction. (6) is a curtain plate attached to the upper part of the rear end of the left and right pedestals (3), and (7) is an accessory case that opens to the front and is attached to the lower surface of the top plate (5).

As shown in FIG. 2, the illuminating device (8) includes a lighting device (9) having a horizontally long flat rectangular tube in which an illuminating lamp (not shown) such as an LED is housed while the lower surface forms a light projecting surface. ), A support column (10) for supporting the same, and a connecting tool (11) for connecting one end (right end) of the lighting tool (9) and the upper ends of the support pillar (10) to each other. The right end surface of the lighting device (9) is fixed to the upright piece (11a) by bolts (12) and (12), and the bent piece (11b) which forms an inverted L-shape of the connecting device (11). The column (10) is attached so as to be relatively rotatable by a bolt (13) inserted from the outside so that the upper surface and the outer surface of the column (10) are in contact with each other.
Thereby, the illuminating device (8) is assembled | attached so that a front view inverted L shape may be made.

As shown in FIG. 6, the support column (10) can be attached or detached with a transparent or translucent translucent plate (10b) at the inner opening of the channel member (10a) having an inwardly U-shaped cross section in plan view. By fitting to, the left and right dimensions are rectangular sections that are shorter than the front and rear dimensions.
Although illustration is omitted, the illuminator (9) is also the same as the cross-sectional shape of the column (10), and is used with the translucent plate facing downward. Therefore, for example, by cutting the channel material (10a) and the translucent plate (10b) formed to be long into appropriate dimensions, the illuminator (9) and the support post (10) are formed with one kind of member. It is possible to reduce the cost and make the design common.
Moreover, since an illuminating lamp can also be accommodated in the support | pillar (10), the upper surface of a top plate (5) can be illuminated more brightly.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the rear end of the upper end of the column (10) is formed with an inclined surface (14) inclined at 45 ° rearward and downward, and the inclined surface (14) is bent at the connector (11). Until the lower surface of the piece (11b) abuts, the illuminator (9), as shown by a two-dot chain line, together with the connector (11) is viewed in the clockwise direction when viewed from the side, that is, the light projecting surface on the lower surface faces obliquely forward and downward. , And can be rotated up to 45 °.

  At the center of the upper surface of the bent piece (11b) of the connector (11), a finger-hanging ridge (15) having a substantially inverted trapezoidal shape when viewed from the side is projected and aligned with the upper surface of the lighting device (9). The lighting device (8) can be pulled out from the non-use position to the use position by picking it up with a finger and pulling it up. (16) is a power line connected to the illuminating lamp in the illuminating device (11), which is inserted through the inside of the column (10) and drawn downward.

  Three lighting devices (8) having the same structure are provided at the rear end of the top plate (5). Since each lighting device (8) has the same mounting structure, the following description will be given. There is only one thing.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a mounting hole (17) having a rectangular shape extending in the left-right direction is formed at the rear end of the top plate (5) so as to penetrate vertically. 17) includes an aluminum alloy or synthetic resin mounting frame (18) having a bottom plate (18a), an outward flange (18b) formed on the periphery of the upper end, and mounting holes on the top surface of the top plate (5). It is fitted in contact with the opening edge of (17). The bottom plate (18a) is provided with a rectangular hole (19) that is long in the left-right direction for dropping dust or the like accumulated on the bottom plate (18a) downward.
In addition, the shape of the recessed part (18c) of the attachment frame (18) is substantially the same as the shape of the illuminator (9), and the depth is substantially equal to the vertical dimension of the illuminator (9).

A horizontal piece (20a) of an inverted L-shaped bracket (20) viewed from the front is fixed to the lower surface of the right end portion of the bottom plate (18a) of the mounting frame (18) with screws (21). Insertion holes (22) and (22) through which the column (10) can be inserted are formed in the right end of the bottom plate (18a) and the right end of the horizontal piece (20a).
As shown in FIG. 6, a pair of front and rear vertical sandwiching pieces (23, 23) on the inner side surface of the downward piece (20 b) of the bracket (20) It is fixed by 24). On the opposing surface of the free end (inner end) of both the sandwiching pieces (23), guide ridges (25) and (25) facing upward and downward are projected inward. In addition, the dimension between the opposing surfaces of both clamping pieces (23) is set to be slightly smaller than the front-rear dimension of the support column (10).

  To attach the lighting device (8) to the top plate (5), with the lighting fixture (9) facing above the mounting frame (18), the support column (10) is attached to the mounting frame (18) and the bracket ( 20) is inserted into the insertion hole (22) from above, and is inserted between the front and rear clamping pieces (23) by elastically deforming them in an outward-opening manner, and formed on both front and rear surfaces of the column (10). The concave grooves (26) and (26) facing in the vertical direction are fitted to the guide protrusions (25) and (25) of the front and rear clamping pieces (23).

As a result, the support column (10) is elastically clamped by the front and rear clamping pieces (23) and slides up and down in contact with the inner surface of the downward piece (20b) of the bracket (20). can do. A stopper member (10C) is attached to the lower end of the column (10) to stop the column (10) at the upper limit position by contacting the lower end of the lower clamping piece (23).
When the support column (10) is slid up and down, the front and rear holding pieces (23) are elastically pressed against both front and rear surfaces of the support column (10). There is no fear of moving.

The power line (16) led out below the column (10) is connected to a through hole (27) at the right end of the bottom plate (18a) of the mounting frame (18) by a micro switch (29) attached with a bracket (28). )It is connected to the. The operating piece (29a) on the upper surface of the micro switch (29) is pressed by the lower surface when the lighting fixture (9) is housed in the mounting frame (18) and is not in use, and the switch (29) is turned off. Thus, the illuminator (9) is automatically turned off.
Further, when the illuminator (9) is pulled up and put into use, the operating piece (29a) rotates upward and the illuminating lamp is automatically turned on.
(30) is a connector for connecting to a power source.

As described above, in the desk with the lighting device of the first embodiment, the lighting fixture (9) is placed in the recess (18c) of the bottomed mounting frame (18) in the non-use position shown in FIG. Since it is housed and is substantially flush with the top surface of the top plate (5), the top plate surface can be used widely.
FIG. 7 shows the state when the lighting device (8) is pulled up to the upper limit use position. However, since the lighting device (8) has an inverted L shape when viewed from the front, the front view is not obstructed. , It does not narrow the field of view or present a feeling of pressure.

In addition, communication with other desk users facing each other can be easily achieved.
Furthermore, since both the front and rear surfaces of the illuminating device (9) are released, the illumination light thereby diffuses in the front and rear direction, and the rear portion of the top plate (5) is also illuminated.
The illuminator (9) can be rotated 45 ° clockwise in a side view so that the light projecting surface of the lower surface can be directed obliquely forward and downward, so that the front side of the top plate (5) can be effectively Can be illuminated.

  Since the illuminating device (8) and all the members supporting it are attached to the mounting frame (18), each member is assembled in advance to the mounting frame (18), and the mounting holes ( The illuminating device (8) can be easily attached by a simple operation of simply attaching the attachment frame (17) to 17).

8 and 9 show a second embodiment of the desk with a lighting device of the present invention.
In this embodiment, the upper end of the column (10) similar to that of the first embodiment is also attached to the left end of the lighting device (9) so as to be relatively rotatable by the same connecting device (11). ) Is a U-shape (gate type) facing downward. The structure for attaching the left support column (10) to the top plate (5) is the same as that of the right support column (10) and is symmetrical, and is not shown.

Also in the second embodiment, the lighting device (8) has a U-shape when viewed from the front, so that the front view of the top plate (5) may be blocked or a feeling of pressure may be exerted in use. There is nothing to do, and the rear part of the top plate (5) is also illuminated.
Moreover, since it has the support | pillar (10) on both right and left sides, an illuminating device (8) can be raised / lowered stably.

In the above-described embodiment, the mounting hole (17) is provided in the top plate (5), and the lighting device (8) is attached to the bottomed mounting frame (18) fitted thereto. ) Is provided with a recess into which the lighting fixture (9) is fitted and an insertion hole for the column (10), and the mounting frame (18) may be omitted.
In the above embodiment, a pair of front and rear holding pieces (23) are mounted on the bracket (20) side by side to support the column (10). A member may be used, and in this way, the number of parts can be reduced.

It is a perspective view of 1st Embodiment in the desk with an illuminating device of this invention. Similarly, it is a perspective view of an illuminating device. It is the III-III line enlarged vertical side view of FIG. It is a top view of the principal part of the top plate at the time of non-use of an illuminating device. It is the VV line vertical front view of FIG. FIG. 6 is an enlarged vertical plan view taken along line VI-VI in FIG. 5. It is a vertical front view at the time of use of an illuminating device. It is a perspective view of the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. Similarly, it is a perspective view of an illuminating device.

Explanation of symbols

(1) Desk
(2) Base leg
(3) pedestal
(4) Leg
(5) Top plate
(6) Curtain board
(7) Accessories case
(8) Lighting device
(9) Lighting equipment
(10) Prop
(10a) Channel material
(10b) Translucent plate
(10C) Stopper member
(11) Connector
(11a) Standing piece
(11b) Folded piece
(12) Bolt
(13) Bolt
(14) Inclined surface
(15) Finger hook (finger hook)
(16) Power line
(17) Mounting hole
(18) Mounting frame
(18a) Bottom plate
(18b) outward facing
(18c) Recess
(19) Square hole
(20) Bracket
(20a) Horizontal piece
(20b) Downward piece
(21) Screw
(22) Insertion hole
(23) Nipping piece
(24) Screw
(25) Guide ridge
(26) Concave
(27) Through hole
(28) Bracket
(29) Micro switch
(29a) Actuating piece
(30) Connector

Claims (10)

  In a desk with an illuminating device in which an illuminating device is provided on a top board so that the illuminating device can be moved up and down between a use position and a non-use position, the illuminating device includes an illuminator that faces the left-right direction with the lower surface forming a light projecting surface, It is assumed that it has an inverted L-shape when viewed from the front by a supporting column that supports the side end, and a recess is provided on the top surface of the top plate to accommodate the lighting device when not in use. As described above, the support column is inserted into the insertion hole formed in the top plate, and the support column is supported by a support means provided on the lower surface of the top plate so as to be slidable up and down. Desk with lighting device.   The desk with an illuminating device according to claim 1, wherein a mounting hole having a recess, an insertion hole, and a supporting means is fitted into the mounting hole.   The desk with an illuminating device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the support means includes a pair of clamping pieces that elastically clamp at least two side surfaces facing the front and rear of the column.   4. A guide ridge facing in the up-and-down direction is provided on one of the opposing surfaces of the support column and the sandwiching piece, and a recess is formed on the other to be fitted in the guide ridge so as to be slidable up and down. Desk with lighting equipment.   The desk with an illuminating device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the illuminating device is formed in a U-shape in a front view downward by attaching a support post to the other end of the illuminating device.   The desk with an illuminating device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein an upper surface of at least one side end portion of the illuminating device is recessed, and a finger-hanging portion is projected from the center of the upper surface.   The desk with an illuminating device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the illuminating device is pivotally attached to the support so that the light projecting surface on the lower surface thereof faces obliquely forward and downward.   The lighting device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein a switch is provided on the inner bottom surface of the concave portion so that the lighting device is turned off when the lighting device is accommodated in the concave portion and turned on when the lighting device is pulled up from the concave portion. desk.   The desk with an illuminating device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein a power line wired in the luminaire is inserted into the inside of the column and pulled out below the top plate from the lower end thereof. The desk with an illuminating device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the illuminator and the support column have the same cross-sectional shape.

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