BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE

The invention relates to a decelerated hinge for doors of furniture or the like, in particular a hinge of the type with a wide opening angle which has an articulation system that comprises seven articulation axes, and which is provided with a deceleration device that is adapted to decelerate the closing movement of the hinge.

In the furniture sector, items of furniture are commonly made which have doors that are supported, so as to oscillate, by hinges that comprise a fixed part which can be connected to the body of the item of furniture and a moveable part, constituted by a box, which can be connected to the door, such parts being mutually articulated so as to oscillate, for example by way of an articulation system that comprises a plurality of connecting levers.

The hinges likewise comprise adapted elastic means, for example flat springs or wire springs, in order to push the door in the closing direction.

However, owing to the presence of such elastic means, the door leaf, in the closed position, slams against the body of the item of furniture with force, causing unwanted noise.

In order to overcome such problem, it has been variously proposed to adopt deceleration devices, for example associated with one of the parts of the hinge, in order to damp the closing movement of the hinge, and such devices can be of the linear type or of the rotating type and use a fluid or a grease as braking means.

For example, a deceleration device of the grease-operated rotary type is known from EP 1809843, and is in the form of an assembly that can be mounted on an external side of the bottom and side walls of the moveable part of the hinge; such device uses a deceleration disk which can be actuated by means of a slider and a cam that is integral with one of the connecting levers of the hinge.

However, applying the deceleration device externally to the box of the hinge entails an increase in the overall height of the box, preventing its use on doors of reduced thickness.

In order to overcome such limitation, in hinges with an articulation system that comprises four connecting levers and seven articulation axes, for example in WO 2011/095323, it has been proposed the use of a deceleration device of the fluid-operated linear type in the fixed part of the hinge, such device being actuated by an extra oscillating lever in addition to those of the articulation system; in particular such extra lever is supported so as to oscillate by the fixed part of the hinge and has a first end which is connected by adapted means to the linear damper and a second end which comes into contact with one of the levers of the articulation system along part of the closing movement of the hinge, in order to actuate the damper.

Such solution however, owing to the presence of the additional lever and of the corresponding means for connection with the damper, is complex from the point of view of construction and assembly.

Also known for such type of hinges, for example from WO 2006/053364, is the use of a linear deceleration device on the back of an intermediate lever of the articulation system, such lever being supported so as to oscillate with respect to the part connected to the item of furniture by way of another two levers of that system; by virtue of such arrangement, the actuation of the linear damper can come about by way of the thrust exerted on a movable element of the damper by one of the connecting levers of the system which is adjacent to the aforementioned intermediate lever, or by a part that is integral with the door of the item of furniture.

Such a solution however entails an increase in the space occupation of the hinge inside the item of furniture, owing to the positioning of the deceleration device on one of the intermediate levers of the articulation system; furthermore, it cannot be applied to all types of hinges that have seven articulation axes.

Therefore there is a need to be able to apply a deceleration device to a hinge in a simple manner, having at the same time small space occupation and retaining optimal operation in the braking phase.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE

The principal aim of the present invention is therefore to provide a hinge for doors of furniture or the like that is provided with a linear deceleration device, which is simple in construction and which is suitably configured to provide an effective decelerating action.

Within this aim, an object of the present invention is to provide a hinge for doors of items of furniture or the like that has a deceleration device of the linear type, has a reduced space occupation inside the item of furniture, comparable to that of a non-decelerated hinge, and which has a moveable part of reduced height so as to permit its use even on doors of reduced thickness.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a hinge for doors of furniture or the like that is highly reliable, easily and practically implemented and of low cost.

This aim and these and other objects which will become better apparent hereinafter are achieved by a decelerated hinge for supporting, so as to oscillate, a door of an item of furniture or the like, which comprises:a first hinge part which can be affixed to a fixed part of the item of furniture;a second hinge part which can be affixed to a door of the item of furniture and connected to the first hinge part by way of an articulation system which comprises a plurality of connecting levers and at least five articulation axes;elastic means that act in the closing direction of the hinge; anda deceleration device which comprises an actuating member that can move linearly according to an axis,

characterized in that said actuating member of the deceleration device is moveably arranged in a first connecting lever which is selected from among said plurality of connecting levers of the articulation system, and

in that at least one actuation surface for the actuating member of said deceleration device is provided inside a second connecting lever which is adjacent to said first connecting lever of the articulation system.

Further characteristics of the present invention are further defined in the dependent claims.

