HOUSING FOR A MONITOR WITH OR WITHOUT A KEYBOARD

• US 20130154456A1
• Filed: 12/02/2010
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hans Haase, Thomas Zimmer
• Original Assignee: Hans Haase, Thomas Zimmer
• Inventors: Haase, Hans, Zimmer, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US13/513,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20130154456A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 312/223.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/06 Hermetically-sealed casings specially adapted for small components H05K5/0095
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/061 sealed by a gasket held between a removable cover and a body, e.g. O-ring, packing

Abstract

The invention comprises a shell-like upper housing part and a shell-like lower housing part. The two-part housing is formed such that it can be sealed tightly against any external environmental influences (gases, vapors, moisture, liquids, dust, chemicals and bacteria) without any ventilation to dissipate the heat developed in the housing. The two-part housing is formed completely without any rim on the outside and has a continuously smooth, joint-free surface, which is designed such that it can be sealed with a coating in the nanometre range that repels contamination and bacteria.

Claims

1. A housing for an electronic device, in particular a personal computer (all-in-one PC) or a screen or monitor or keyboard with or without a keypad, characterized in that the housing composed of a shell-like upper housing part and a shell-like lower housing part and tightly sealable against external environmental influences without any ventilation is formed without a rim on the outside, and has a continuously smooth, joint-free surface.

2. The housing according to claim 1, characterized in that the housing is designed to be sealed with a thin, protectively repellant coating in the nanometer range.

3. The housing according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper housing part of the housing exhibits a flat, transparent surface section that adjoins the face of the PC or screen in the housing from below.

4. The housing according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper housing part exhibits a flat, transparent surface section that adjoins the face of the PC or screen in the housing from below, and along with an adjacent second flat, transparent surface section adjoins the exterior side of the keyboard for the PC or screen from below.

5. The housing according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the face of the PC or screen (with or without the keypad) is situated on the lower side of the flat, transparent surface section of the upper housing part in a detachably fixed manner.

6. The housing according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the face of the PC or screen (with or without keypad) is detachably fixed in the lower housing part in such a way that the rear of the upper housing part adjoins the face of the PC or screen (with or without keypad) with its flat, transparent surface section.

7. The housing according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the lower housing part exhibits a dual floor, wherein a heat-absorbing means is situated in the gap between the floors.

8. The housing according to claim 7, characterized in that electronic software and/or hardware in conjunction with the screen and/or PC is detachably secured to the dual floor in the shell-like lower housing part.

9. The housing according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 8, characterized in that a continuous lateral rim on the upper housing part and a lateral continuous rim on the lower housing part are positively joined together to form a smooth, joint-free outer surface that is continuous around the housing.

10. The housing according to claim 9, characterized in that at least one annular, continuous, elastically deformable gasket is arranged between the contrary, overlapping sections on the rims on both sides of the upper and lower housing parts, which is in the junction position of the two housing parts under exposure to a sealing pre-stress.

11. The housing according to claim 10, characterized in that the detachable connection of the lateral rims on both sides of the housing parts is designed as an elastic snap-lock.

12. The housing according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least the upper housing part consists of aluminum.

13. The housing according to claim 1, characterized in that the transparent section of the upper housing part can be covered with a privacy film.