ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELD STRUCTURE OF ELECTRONICS HOUSING

• US 20100208447A1
• Filed: 02/12/2010
• Published: 08/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishihata, Yosuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,149,594 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/818
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/002 with localised screening

Abstract

An electromagnetic shield structure of an electronics housing includes a terminal having a protrusion for external connection; a substrate having the terminal disposed thereon and electrically connected to the terminal; a housing made of resin, enclosing the substrate and having an opening at a position corresponding to the protrusion of the terminal on a front surface side where the protrusion of the terminal is located; and an electromagnetic shield disposed so as to surround the substrate inside the housing, having an opening at the position corresponding to the protrusion of the terminal, and electromagnetically shielding the substrate. The electromagnetic shield has a bent portion formed on the front surface side for filling a gap between the terminal and the housing.

Claims

1. An electromagnetic shield structure of an electronics housing, comprising:

a terminal having a protrusion for external connection;

a substrate having said terminal disposed thereon and electrically connected to said terminal;

a housing made of resin, enclosing said substrate and having an opening at a position corresponding to said protrusion of said terminal on a front surface side where said protrusion of said terminal is located; and

an electromagnetic shield disposed so as to surround said substrate inside said housing, having an opening at the position corresponding to said protrusion of said terminal, and electromagnetically shielding said substrate,

said electromagnetic shield having a bent portion formed on said front surface side for filling a gap between said terminal and said housing.

2. The electromagnetic shield structure of an electronics housing according to claim 1, wherein said bent portion formed in said electromagnetic shield is bent toward a front surface side of said housing so as to surround said protrusion of said terminal.

3. The electromagnetic shield structure of an electronics housing according to claim 1, wherein

said electromagnetic shield includes a first shield member disposed below said substrate, a second shield member disposed above said substrate, and a third shield member having said opening and disposed at a position of said substrate where said terminal is connected, and

said third shield member has said bent portion formed on a peripheral region around said opening.

4. The electromagnetic shield structure of an electronics housing according to claim 1, wherein

said electromagnetic shield includes a first shield member disposed below said substrate, a second shield member disposed above said substrate, and a third shield member having said opening and disposed at a position of said substrate where said terminal is connected, and

said first shield member has said bent portion formed to face a lower surface of said protrusion of said terminal, said second shield member has said bent portion formed to face an upper surface of said protrusion of said terminal, and said third shield member has each said bent portion formed to face a corresponding one of side surfaces of said protrusion of said terminal.

5. The electromagnetic shield structure of an electronics housing according to claim 4, wherein an inner edge of said opening of said third shield member and an outer periphery of said protrusion of said terminal are pressed against each other to bias said third shield member toward a front surface side of said electromagnetic shield, so as to bring said first shield member and said second shield member into close contact with said third shield member.

6. The electromagnetic shield structure of an electronics housing according to claim 5, wherein said outer periphery of said protrusion of said terminal is formed in a tapered shape.

7. The electromagnetic shield structure of an electronics housing according to claim 5, wherein a curved portion is formed at a basal portion of said protrusion of said terminal.