MAGNETIC BUILDING BLOCK STRUCTURE WITH REASONABLE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of magnetic building blocks, and in particular to a magnetic building block structure with reasonable spatial distribution.

BACKGROUND

As a toy with strong playability and expansibility, building block toys are widely liked by children. In the building block toys in the prior art, building blocks are connected by arranging magnets in the building blocks, which is convenient for stacking. It is retrieved that a magnetic building block is provided in Chinese patent CN220834120U. An inner cavity of a barrel shell of the magnetic building block is divided into multiple accommodation grooves by a main rib structure, where magnet grooves located on at least four corner positions of the barrel shell can be used for accommodating magnets, and a strip groove located between two adjacent magnet grooves can be also used for accommodating the magnets. However, spatial distribution of the foregoing structure for storing the magnets is unreasonable, and the building blocks with the foregoing structure have the problem of nonuniform magnetic force distribution of the magnets, and in addition, a neodymium magnet with higher cost is needed to achieve better magnetic attraction effect, which is easy to increase production cost.

SUMMARY

An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a magnetic building block structure with reasonable spatial distribution, thereby solving the problems that existing magnetic building blocks mentioned in the foregoing background have nonuniform magnetic force distribution of magnets and are easy to increase production cost.

To achieve the foregoing objective, the present disclosure provides a magnetic building block structure with reasonable spatial distribution, which includes a main body, and cover bodies connected to two ends of the main body. An inner cavity of the main body is divided by multiple plates to form multiple accommodation grooves capable of accommodating magnets. The accommodation grooves include first groove bodies and second groove bodies, and the number of the first groove bodies is twice that of the second groove bodies. Multiple first groove bodies are uniformly distributed along edges of sides at the two ends of the main body, and each first groove body can limit a magnet to a position adjacent to the cover body. Multiple second groove bodies are uniformly distributed at corner positions of the main body. One side of each cover body is provided with an insertion block at a position corresponding to the second groove body, and the insertion block is detachably fastened into the second groove body.

As a preferred solution, a bottom wall of each first groove body is provided with at least one abutment block in a direction extending toward an end portion; and the abutment block is configured to abut against the magnet to limit the magnet to a position adjacent to the cover body.

As a preferred solution, a support plate is arranged between the multiple first groove bodies at each end portion of the main body, a central recess of the support plate forms a first positioning portion, the cover body protrudes corresponding to the first positioning portion to form a second positioning portion, and the second positioning portion is fitted within the first positioning portion.

As a preferred solution, each end portion of the support plate is provided with a first insertion portion, the first insertion portion is adjacently arranged outside the first groove body or adjacently arranged between the multiple first groove bodies, the cover body is provided with a second insertion portion corresponding to the first insertion portion, and the second insertion portion is in insertion fit with the first insertion portion.

As a preferred solution, when one first groove body is arranged along the edge of each side of the main body, each second groove body penetrates through the two ends of the main body, and a depth of each second groove body is equal to a sum of lengths of two insertion blocks and a length of one first groove body.

As a preferred solution, when two first groove bodies are arranged along the edge of each side of the main body, bottom walls of each second groove body and the other second groove body connected thereto each are provided with a limiting block in a direction extending toward the end portion, and the limiting block is configured to abut against the magnet.

As a preferred solution, a depth of each second groove body is equal to a sum of a length of one insertion block, a length of one limiting block and a length of one first groove body.

As a preferred solution, the main body is of a polygonal prism structure, and one magnet is rotatably connected into each of the first groove body and the second groove body.

As a preferred solution, the magnet is a ferrite magnet.

According to technical means provided by the present disclosure, the present disclosure can obtain the following effects described briefly: in the magnetic building block structure with reasonable spatial distribution provided by the present disclosure, multiple accommodation grooves in the main body are divided into first groove bodies and second groove bodies, where the number of the first groove bodies is twice that of the second groove bodies, and the first groove bodies are uniformly distributed along edges of sides at two ends of the main body, and the second groove bodies are uniformly distributed at corner positions of the main body. The first groove body can limit a magnet to a position adjacent to the cover body. Based on spatial distribution of the foregoing groove bodies, an equal number of magnets can be uniformly arranged on each contact surface of the main body of the magnetic building block structure provided by the present disclosure, and the magnetic building block structure has the advantages of reasonable spatial distribution, uniform magnetic force distribution and quick perception of magnetic force. Based on the foregoing advantages, the magnetic building block structure provided by the present disclosure can achieve good magnetic attraction effect even when a ferrite magnet with relatively small magnetic energy product is employed. This helps reduce production cost.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram of a magnetic building block structure according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of a magnetic building block structure in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram of a main body in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a sectional diagram of a magnetic building block in FIG. 1 from a first perspective;

FIG. 5 is a sectional diagram of a magnetic building block in FIG. 1 from a second perspective;

FIG. 6 is a diagram of a magnetic building block structure according to a second embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a diagram of a main body in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a sectional diagram of a magnetic building block in FIG. 6 from a first perspective;

FIG. 9 is a sectional diagram of a magnetic building block in FIG. 6 from a second perspective.

In the drawings: 100-main body; 110-first groove body; 111-abutment block; 120-second groove body; 121-limiting block; 130-support plate; 131-first positioning position; 132-first insertion portion; 200-cover body; 210-insertion block; 220-second positioning portion; 230-second insertion portion; 300-magnet.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

Preferred embodiments of the present disclosure are further described below with reference to accompanying drawings.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below. Examples of the embodiments are shown in the accompanying drawings, and same or similar numbers throughout this specification represent same or similar elements or elements having same or similar functions. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are examples and are intended to explain the present disclosure, but cannot be construed as limiting the present disclosure.

In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that an orientation or positional relationship indicated by terms “center”, “longitudinal”, “transverse”, “length”, “width”, “thickness”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “back”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inside”, “clockwise”, “counterclockwise” and the like is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the accompanying drawings only for convenience of description of the present disclosure and simplification of description rather than indicating or implying that a device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operate in a particular orientation, and thus are not to be construed as limiting the present disclosure.

Furthermore, the terms “first” and “second” are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implying the number of the indicated technical features. Therefore, a feature limited by “first”, “second”, or the like may explicitly or implicitly include one or more features.

In the present disclosure, unless expressly specified and limited otherwise, the terms “install”, “couple”, “connect” and “fix” should be interpreted broadly. For example, a connection may be a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integrated connection. A connection may be a mechanical connection, or electrical connection. A connection may be a direct connection, an indirect connection via an intermediate medium, or a communication of insides of two elements. For those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meanings of the foregoing terms in the present disclosure can be understood on a case-by-case basis.

In the present disclosure, unless otherwise specified and limited, a first feature above or below a second feature may include that the first feature is in direct contact with the second feature, or may include that the first feature and the second feature are in contact with each other through other features therebetween rather than direct contact. Moreover, the first feature “above”, “on” and “over” the second feature includes that the first feature is above and at an inclined top of the second feature, or only indicates that a horizontal height of the first feature is higher than that of the second feature. The first feature “below”, “under” and “beneath” the second feature includes that the first feature is below and at an inclined bottom of the second feature, or only indicates that a horizontal height of the first feature is lower than that of the second feature.

With reference to FIG. 1 to FIG. 5, a magnetic building block structure with reasonable spatial distribution provided by a first embodiment is shown, including a main body 100, and cover bodies 200 connected to two ends of the main body 100. An inner cavity of the main body 100 is divided by multiple plates to form multiple accommodation groves capable of accommodating magnets 300.

The main body 100 is of a polygonal prism structure. In this embodiment, the main body 100 is configured as a cube. In other implementations of the present disclosure, the main body 100 may also be of other polygonal prism structures, such as a triangular prism, a pentagonal prism, and a hexagonal prism.

The accommodation grooves include first groove bodies 110 and second groove bodies 120, the number of the first groove bodies 110 is twice that of the second groove bodies 120, and the multiple first groove bodies 110 are uniformly distributed along edges of sides at the two ends of the main body 100, and the second groove bodies 120 are uniformly distributed at the corner positions of the main body 100.

In this embodiment, the number of the first groove bodies 110 is eight, the eight first groove bodies 110 are uniformly distributed along the edges of the sides of the main body 100, that is, one first groove body 110 is arranged along the edge of each side at the two ends of the main body 100. The number of the second groove bodies 120 is four, the four second groove bodies 120 are uniformly distributed at the corner positions of the main body 100, and each second groove body 120 penetrates through the two ends of the main body 100. In other implementations of the present disclosure, the number of the first groove bodies 110 may be six, ten, twelve, and the like, and the number of the corresponding second groove bodies may be three, five, six, and the like.

Each first groove body 110 can limit the magnet 300 to a position adjacent to the cover body 200. In this embodiment, it is implemented by arranging multiple abutments blocks 111 on a bottom wall of each first groove body 110 in a direction extending toward an end portion. The multiple abutment blocks 111 are spaced part between two sidewalls of the first groove body 110 and have different shapes. The abutment block 111 is used to abut against the magnet 300 to limit the magnet 300 to the position adjacent to the cover 200. In addition, the abutment block 111 can also play a role in reinforcing structural strength of the first groove body 110. In other implementations of the present disclosure, there may be no abutment block 111 in the first groove body 110, in this case, a depth of the first groove body 110 is slightly greater than a width of the magnet 300, so that the first groove body 110 can limit the magnet 300 to the position adjacent to the cover body 200.

To improve overall structural strength of the main body 100, in this embodiment, a support plate 130 is arranged between the multiple first groove bodies 110 at each end portion of the main body 100, where the support plate 130 is of a cruciform structure. A central recess of the support plate 130 forms a first positioning portion 131 to cooperate with the cover body 200, thereby playing a role of positioning. Each end portion of the support plate 130 is further provided with a first insertion portion 132, the first insertion portion 132 is adjacently arranged outside the first groove body 110 to cooperate with the cover body 200, thereby playing a role of fastening. In other implementations of the present disclosure, there may be no support plate 130 in the main body 100. Similarly, the support plate 130 may be other structures, such as a #-shaped structure. There may be no first positioning portion 131 and/or first insertion portion 132 on the support plate 130.

One side of each cover body 200 is provided with an insertion block 210 at a position corresponding to the second groove body 120, the insertion block 210 can be detachably fastened into the second groove body 120 to achieve connection between the cover body 200 and the main body 100. In this embodiment, the cover body 200 protrudes from a position which is on a same side of the insertion block 210 and corresponds to the first positioning portion 131 to form a second positioning portion 220, and the second positioning part 220 is fitted within the first positioning part 131. The cover body is provided with a second insertion portion 230 at a position which is on the same side of the insertion block 210 and corresponds to the first insertion portion 132, and the second insertion portion 230 is in insertion fit with the first insertion portion 132. In other implementations of the present disclosure, a specific structure of the cover body 200 can be correspondingly adjusted according to the arrangement of the support plate 130, for example, there is no second positioning portion 220 and/or second insertion portion 230.

One magnet 300 is rotatably connected into each of the first groove body 110 and the second groove body 120. To make distribution of multiple magnets 300 in the main body 100 more uniform and reasonable, in this embodiment, a depth of each second groove body 120 is equal to a sum of lengths of two insertion blocks 210 and a length of one first groove body 110. Through the foregoing arrangement, after the insertion blocks 210 of the two cover bodies 200 are inserted into the second groove bodies 120, there is still a length approximately same as the first groove body 110 in each second groove body 120, which is convenient for connecting the magnet 300. In addition, the magnet 300 can be limited to a middle position of a top corner line of the main body 100, so that the magnets 300 can be uniformly and approximately distributed at middle portions of edge lines of the main body 100, which is beneficial to uniform distribution of a magnetic force.

It should be noted that after the magnets 300 are correspondingly stored in the first groove body 110 and the second groove body 120, an equal number of magnets can be uniformly arranged on each contact surface of the main body 1 of the magnetic building block structure provided by this embodiment, and the magnet 300 on each contact surface is adjacent to a housing, so that the magnetic building block structure has the advantages of reasonable spatial distribution, uniform magnetic force distribution and quick perception of magnetic force. Based on the foregoing advantages, even if the magnet 300 is a ferrite magnet with relatively small magnetic energy product, good magnetic attraction effect can also be achieved, which is beneficial to reducing the production cost.

With reference to FIG. 6 to FIG. 9, a magnetic building block structure with reasonable spatial distribution provided by a second embodiment is shown, a main difference from the first embodiment is that in this embodiment, the number of the first groove bodies 110 is sixteen, the sixteen first groove bodies 110 are uniformly distributed along edges of various sides of the main body 100, that is, two first groove bodies 110 are arranged along the edge of each side at the two ends of the main body 100. The number of the second groove bodies 120 is eight, the eight second groove bodies 120 are uniformly distributed at corner positions of the main body 100, that is, the each of four corner positions of the main body 100 is provided with two groove bodies 120.

In this embodiment, to make the distribution of the multiple magnets 300 in the main body 100 more uniform and reasonable, the first inserting portion 132 at each end portion of the support plate 130 is adjacently arranged between the two first groove bodies 110, so that the two first groove bodies 110 located at a same edge of the end portion of the main body 100 can be spaced part, thereby separating the two magnets 300 at the same edge of the end of the main body 100. In addition, bottom walls of each second groove body 120 and the other second groove body 120 connected thereto each are provided with a limiting block 121 in a direction extending toward the end portion, and the limiting block 121 is configured to abut against the magnet 300, and a depth of each second groove body 120 is equal to a sum of a length of one insertion block 210, a length of one limiting block 121 and a length of one first groove body 110. Through the foregoing arrangement, the magnets 300 in the two second groove bodies 120 on the same top corner line of the main body 100 can be spaced apart, and after the insertion blocks 210 of the two cover bodies 200 are respectively inserted into the two second groove bodies 120, there is still a length approximately same as the first groove body 110 in each second groove body 120, which is convenient for connecting the magnet 300, so that the two magnets 300 can be uniformly distributed in a spaced manner along each edge line at both ends of the main body 100 and on each top corner line, and the magnetic force can be uniformly distributed.

In other implementations of the present disclosure, each side of the main body 100 may be also provided with more than three first groove bodies 110, the multiple first groove bodies 110 on the same side are spaced apart, in this case, the same number of second groove bodies 120 are correspondingly distributed on each top corner line of the main body 100, and the multiple second groove bodies 120 on the same top corner line are also spaced apart, and the second groove body 120 at a middle portion may employ a flip structure to achieve the assembly and disassembly of the magnet 300.

It should be noted that after the magnets 300 are correspondingly stored in the first groove body 110 and the second groove body 120, an equal number of magnets can be uniformly arranged on each contact surface of the main body 1 of the magnetic building block structure provided by this embodiment, and the magnetic building block structure also has the advantages of reasonable spatial distribution, uniform magnetic force distribution and quick perception of magnetic force.

For the sake of clarity, some features described in separate embodiments of the present disclosure can be combined and used in a single embodiment. In addition, various features of the present disclosure described in a single embodiment can also be used separately or in any suitable form in sub-combinations.