UNIFORMLY LUMINOUS BASEBALL BAT

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202422936945.6, filed on November 29, 2024, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of sports equipment, and in particular to a uniformly luminous baseball bat.

BACKGROUND

A baseball bat is a tool used by players to hit a ball in a baseball game. Common baseball bat materials include wood, aluminum alloy, and composite materials.

A baseball bat made of a traditional material does not emit light by itself. To ensure visibility of the baseball bat in a process of swinging the baseball bat, sufficient lighting in a baseball field is required to play baseball normally. At night, people cannot play baseball in relatively dim outdoor environments, due to significant limitations by field conditions and environments. Similar toy-like luminous baseball bats have emerged on the market. However, in such a luminous baseball bat, lamp beads and a lamp panel are directly arranged at light-emitting positions. In the process of hitting a baseball, the baseball bat experiences significant impact. Such structural arrangement easily damages an internal lamp bead structure. Therefore, such baseball bats can only be used as props and cannot be used to play baseball normally.

SUMMARY

To solve the above problems, the present disclosure provides a uniformly luminous baseball bat.

The technical solution adopted by the present disclosure is as follows: a uniformly luminous baseball bat, including:

a baseball bat body of a hollow cavity structure, where at least part of a side wall of the cavity is made of a translucent or semi-translucent material; the baseball bat body includes a first connector;

a light-emitting module, where the light-emitting module is arranged at the first connector of the baseball bat body, and the light-emitting module is detachably connected to the baseball bat body; and

the light-emitting module emits light, and the light propagates inside the cavity structure and penetrates through the translucent or semi-translucent material.

A plurality of optional implementations are also provided below, but they are merely further supplemental or preferred implementations, and are not intended to constitute additional limitations to the above overall solution. In the absence of technical or logical contradictions, each optional implementation can be combined separately with the overall solution, or a plurality of optional implementations can be combined together.

Preferably, the light-emitting module includes:

a mounting base, with one end thereof inserted into the baseball bat body;

a light source unit, which is mounted on the mounting base and arranged in the hollow cavity together with the mounting base;

a fastening unit, which is connected with the first connector; and

both the mounting base and the light source unit are arranged between the fastening unit and the baseball bat body.

Preferably, the light source unit includes:

a condensing lens, which is mounted on the mounting base and located inside the baseball bat body; and

a spotlight assembly, which is mounted inside the mounting base, and includes a light-emitting lamp, where light emitted by the light-emitting lamp penetrates through the condensing lens and enters the hollow cavity structure.

Preferably, the baseball bat further includes:

a cover, where the cover is arranged at one end of the baseball bat body away from the first connector, and a reflective surface is arranged on an inner wall of the cover; and an optical path is formed between the reflective surface and the condensing lens.

Preferably, at least one first clamping clip is arranged along an inner edge of one end of the mounting base, an annular convex column is arranged at one end of the condensing lens, at least one second clamping clip is arranged on an outer side of the annular convex column, and the condensing lens, by means of the first clamping clip and the second clamping clip, is fixed to an end portion of the mounting base in a clamped manner.

Preferably, a charging connector is arranged at one end of the spotlight assembly away from the baseball bat body, and the fastening unit is provided with a first receding opening for placing the charging connector.

Preferably, an insulation sheet is arranged at one end of the spotlight assembly away from the baseball bat body, and the fastening unit is provided with a second receding opening for placing the insulation sheet.

Preferably, the fastening unit is mounted on the first connector through threaded connection, the baseball bat body is provided with an extending ring edge that extends outward, the fastening unit abuts against the extending ring edge, a second connector is arranged at a tail end of the baseball bat body, and the cover is mounted on the second connector through threaded connection.

Preferably, the mounting base is provided with a through opening for fitted insertion of the light-emitting module, an end portion of the mounting base away from the baseball bat body is provided with an external baffle ring for better abutting against the first connector, a plurality of anti-slip patterns are arranged on an outer side face of the fastening unit, and a plurality of convex ribs are arranged on an outer side face of the mounting base.

More preferably, one end of the condensing lens is provided with a groove for insertion of the light-emitting lamp through snap-in connection.

Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure has the following beneficial effects:

1. The spotlight assembly arranged at a gripping end of the baseball bat body, when the light-emitting lamp emits condensed light, cooperates with the condensing lens to further enhance a light condensing effect, such that most of the light can be projected in an extension direction of the baseball bat body. Further, the reflective surface at the tail end of the baseball bat body is capable of reflecting the light penetrating through the tail end of the baseball bat body back into the baseball bat body, thereby ensuring that part of the baseball bat body close to the tail end thereof also emits light uniformly, such that dimness is avoided. To sum up, the entire baseball bat body is capable of emitting light uniformly.

2. Because the spotlight assembly is arranged at the gripping end of the baseball bat body, an internal structure of the spotlight assembly will not be affected in the process of hitting a baseball, thereby ensuring a long service life.

3. In a relatively dim environment, the baseball bat of the present disclosure, in combination with a luminous baseball, makes it possible to play baseball as usual, thereby meeting more usage needs.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly describe the technical solutions in the examples of the present disclosure or in the prior art, a brief introduction to the accompanying drawings required for the description of the examples or the prior art will be made below. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description are merely some embodiments of the present disclosure, and those of ordinary skill in the art would also be able to derive other drawings from the structures illustrated in these drawings without making creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a first view of an overall structure according to an example of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a second view of an overall structure according to an example of the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a first view of an overall structure of all assemblies after explosive separation according to an example of the present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a second view of an overall structure of all assemblies after explosive separation according to an example of the present disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a structural schematic diagram of a mounting base according to an example of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a structural schematic diagram of a condensing lens according to an example of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an overall structure of a fastening unit screwed out according to an example of the present disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a structural schematic diagram of assembly of a standard condensing lens and a spotlight assembly according to an example of the present disclosure.

FIG. 9 is a structural schematic diagram of a condensing lens according to an example of the present disclosure.

Reference numerals in the accompanying drawings: 1-baseball bat body, 11-first connector, 12-extending ring edge, 13-second connector, 2-mounting base, 21-through opening, 22-first clamping clip, 23-limiting block, 24-convex rib, 25-external baffle ring, 3-condensing lens, 31-annular convex column, 32-second clamping strip, 33-groove, 4-spotlight assembly, 41-light-emitting lamp, 42-charging connector, 43-insulation sheet, 5-fastening unit, 51-first receding opening, 52-second receding opening, 53-anti-slip pattern, 6-cover, and 61-reflective surface.

The realization of the objective, functions, features and advantages of the present disclosure, will be further explained in combination with the embodiments and drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below in combination with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure. Apparently, the embodiments described are merely some rather than all of the embodiments of the present disclosure. Based on the embodiments of the present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without making creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.

It should be noted that directional indications such as "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front" and " rear" in the examples of the present disclosure are only for explaining the relative positional relationship, motion state and the like of each component at a specific posture as shown in the accompanying drawings, and when the specific posture changes, the directional indication will also accordingly change.

Moreover, the terms such as "first" and "second" and the like in the present disclosure are only used for descriptive purposes and should not be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined with "first" and "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the features. Further, the technical solutions between various embodiments of the present disclosure may be combined with one another on the basis that they may be implemented by those of ordinary skill in the art. When leading to contradiction or failing in implementation, the combination between the technical solutions should be deemed non-existent, and falls outside the scope of protection of the present disclosure.

Specific implementation solution: with reference to FIGS. 1-9, the present disclosure is a uniformly luminous baseball bat, including:

a baseball bat body 1 of a hollow cavity structure, where at least part of a side wall of the cavity structure is made of a translucent or semi-translucent material; the baseball bat body 1 includes a first connector 11;

a light-emitting module, where the light-emitting module is arranged at the first connector 11 of the baseball bat body 1, and the light-emitting module is detachably connected to the baseball bat body 1; and

the light-emitting module emits light, and the light propagates inside the cavity structure and penetrates through the translucent or semi-translucent material.

As a preferred implementation of the present disclosure, the light-emitting module includes:

a mounting base 2, with one end thereof inserted into the baseball bat body 1;

a light source unit, which is mounted on the mounting base 2 and arranged in the hollow cavity structure together with the mounting base 2;

a fastening unit 5, which is connected with the first connector 11; and

both the mounting base 2 and the light source unit are arranged between the fastening unit 5 and the baseball bat body 1.

In this example, the light source unit includes:

a condensing lens 3, which is mounted on the mounting base 2 and located inside the baseball bat body 1; and

a spotlight assembly 4, which is mounted inside the mounting base 2, and includes a light-emitting lamp 41, where light emitted by the light-emitting lamp 41 penetrates through the condensing lens 3 and enters the hollow cavity structure.

The baseball bat further includes:

a cover 6, where the cover 6 is arranged at one end of the baseball bat body 1 away from the first connector 11, and a reflective surface 61 is arranged on an inner wall of the cover 6; and an optical path is formed between the reflective surface 61 and the condensing lens 3.

With reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, it can be seen that the condensing lens 3 is mounted on an end portion of the mounting base 2 that extends into the baseball bat body 1, and the light-emitting lamp 41 is arranged on a side of the spotlight assembly 4 close to the condensing lens 3.

Further, with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6, it can be seen that in this example, at least one first clamping clip 22 is arranged along an inner edge of one end of the mounting base 2, an annular convex column 31 is arranged at one end of the condensing lens 3, at least one second clamping clip 32 is arranged on an outer side of the annular convex column 31, and the condensing lens 3, by means of the first clamping clip 22 and the second clamping clip 32, is fixed to the end portion of the mounting base 2 in a clamped manner.

A principle of mounting the mounting base 2 and the condensing lens 3 is as follows: to mount the condensing lens 3 on the mounting base 2 as needed, the annular convex column 31 of the condensing lens 3 is inserted into the mounting base 2, in this case, the first clamping clip 22 and the second clamping clip 32 are misaligned, and then the condensing lens 3 is rotated by hand and the second clamping clip 32 is rotated to a position below the first clamping clip 22, to complete assembly of the condensing lens 3 and the mounting base 2.

It should be noted that with reference to FIG. 5, it can be seen that a limiting block 23 is arranged below an end portion of the first clamping clip 22, and the limiting block 23 is configured for limiting a rotation angle of the condensing lens 3 during mounting, which facilitates the mounting.

With reference to FIG. 3, it can be seen that a charging connector 42 is arranged at one end of the spotlight assembly 4 away from the baseball bat body 1, and the fastening unit 5 is provided with a first receding opening 51 for placing the charging connector 42.

The spotlight assembly 4 is provided with a battery, a circuit board, and a vibration switch, where the light-emitting lamp 41, the vibration switch and the battery are all mounted on the circuit board, and the battery supplies power to the light-emitting lamp 41 through the circuit board. When the vibration switch detects shaking of the baseball bat, a signal is sent to the circuit board, and the circuit board controls the light-emitting lamp 41 to emit light. The spotlight assembly 4 belongs to the prior art, so details are not described herein again.

In practical applications, the charging connector 42 can also be arranged on a side face of the spotlight assembly 4, such that a speaker can be arranged at a bottom of the spotlight assembly 4. The speaker is mounted on the circuit board, and when the baseball bat hits a baseball, the speaker is capable of playing a sound in real time, which enhances a user's baseball experience.

In this example, an insulation sheet 43 is arranged at one end of the spotlight assembly 4 away from the baseball bat body 1, and the fastening unit 5 is provided with a second receding opening 52 for placing the insulation sheet 43.

The insulation sheet 43 is inserted to cut off current of the circuit board to the vibration switch, so as to cause the vibration switch to stop working. Before logistics transportation, the insulation sheet 43 needs to be inserted into the spotlight assembly 4 to prevent the light-emitting lamp 41 from emitting light due to any collision or vibration.

Before use, the user can remove the insulation sheet 43, such that the circuit board restores power supply to the vibration switch and the vibration switch resumes working normally, and in this case, when hitting baseball with the baseball bat, the vibration switch senses the vibration and sends a sensing signal to the circuit board, and the circuit board controls the light-emitting lamp 41 to emit light.

With reference to FIG. 7, it can be seen that in this example, the fastening unit 5 is mounted on the first connector 11 through threaded connection, the baseball bat body 1 is provided with an extending ring edge 12 that extends outward, and the fastening unit 5 abuts against the extending ring edge 12.

With reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, it can be seen that in this example, a second connector 13 is arranged at a tail end of the baseball bat body 1, and the cover 6 is mounted on the second connector 13 through threaded connection.

Further, in this example, the mounting base 2 is provided with a through opening 21 for fitted insertion of the spotlight assembly 4, an end portion of the mounting base 2 away from the baseball bat body 1 is provided with an external baffle ring 25 for better abutting against the first connector 11, a plurality of anti-slip patterns 53 are arranged on an outer side face of the fastening unit 5, and a plurality of convex ribs 24 are arranged on an outer side face of the mounting base 2.

More specifically, one end of the condensing lens 3 is provided with a groove 33 for insertion of the light-emitting lamp 41 through snap-in connection.

The anti-slip patterns 53 are arranged on the outer side face of the fastening unit 5, to facilitate rotation of the fastening unit 5. The convex ribs 24 on the mounting base 2 ensure that the mounting base 2 can be inserted into the baseball bat body 1 more tightly, such that during the swinging of the baseball bat, the mounting base 2 and any components mounted on the mounting base 2 will not get loosened, that is, a more stable structure is available.

A process of assembling the baseball bat: First, the condensing lens 3 is connected to the end portion of the mounting base 2 in a snap-in manner; then, the mounting base 2 is inserted into the baseball bat body 1, and in this case, the condensing lens 3 is placed inside the baseball bat body 1; next, the spotlight assembly 4 is inserted into the mounting base 2; and afterwards, the first receding opening 51 on the fastening unit 5 is aligned with the charging connector 42, the second receding opening 52 is aligned with the insulation sheet 43, and the fastening unit 5 is rotated and screwed tightly to fix on the first connector 11 (it should be noted that during the rotation of the fastening unit 5, the spotlight assembly 4 will also rotate, and when the fastening unit 5 is tightened through rotation, an end portion of the spotlight assembly 4 will abut against a bottom of the mounting base 2, to fix the spotlight assembly 4). Regarding assembly of the cover 6, the cover 6 can be directly tightened through rotation to fix on the second connector 13.

Working principle: the spotlight assembly 4 arranged at a gripping end of the baseball bat body 1, when the light-emitting lamp 41 emits condensed light, cooperates with the condensing lens 3 to further enhance a light condensing effect, such that most of the light can be projected in an extension direction of the baseball bat body 1. Further, the reflective surface 61 at the tail end of the baseball bat body 1 is capable of reflecting the light penetrating through the tail end of the baseball bat body 1 back into the baseball bat body 1, thereby ensuring that part of the baseball bat body 1 close to the tail end thereof also emits light uniformly, such that dimness is avoided. To sum up, the entire baseball bat body 1 is capable of emitting light uniformly.

With reference to FIGS. 8 and 9, the condensing lens 3 can be a convex lens described above, or a standard condensing lens of the prior art. The condensing lens 3 is an optical lens with a degree of 5-8° and a light transmittance of over 80%. In this example, the groove 33 for the insertion of the light-emitting lamp 41 through the snap-in connection is arranged at a bottom of the condensing lens 3. Therefore, the condensing lens 3 can be mounted through the snap-in connection of the groove 33 of the condensing lens 3 with the light-emitting lamp 41. It should be noted that after the mounting, an edge of the condensing lens 3 will abut against an inner wall of the mounting base 2 to further limit the condensing lens 3.

In this example, an overall weight of the baseball bat is 525-535 g, and the translucent material of the baseball bat body 1 consists of 90% PC and 10% glass fiber, and formed through injection molding. A bearing pressure of a finished baseball bat is 80-90 kg/ cm².

The above description of the uniformly luminous baseball bat of the present disclosure is merely a preferred example of the present disclosure and is not intended to limit the patent scope of the present disclosure. Any equivalent structural transformations made by using the description of the present disclosure and the contents of the accompanying drawings on the premise of not deviating from the inventive concept of the present disclosure, or directly or indirectly used in other related technical fields, are all similarly included in the scope of patent protection of the present disclosure.