ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SEALED STRUCTURE

• US 20130242477A1
• Filed: 12/22/2012
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FCNT LLC
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: HATTORI, Ryo
• Granted Patent: US 9,338,910 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/026 Details of the structure or mounting of specific components
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0262 for a battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/18 Telephone sets specially adapted for use in ships, mines, or other places exposed to adverse environment H04M1/19 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/061 sealed by a gasket held between a removable cover and a body, e.g. O-ring, packing
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/062 sealed by a material injected between a non-removable cover and a body, e.g. hardening in situ
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/069 Other details of the casing, e.g. wall structure, passage for a connector, a cable, a shaft
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/13 Hollow or container type article [e.g., tube, vase, etc.]

Abstract

An electronic device includes a first housing member having an opening that houses a housed object; a second housing member that is mated with the first housing member; a cover member that covers the opening; and a sealing member that is integrated with the first housing member by two-color molding, seals a seam between a perimeter of the opening of the first housing member and the cover member as well as a seam between the first housing member and the second housing member, and contacts side surfaces of the housed object when the housed object is housed in the opening.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a first housing member having an opening that houses a housed object;

a second housing member that is mated with the first housing member;

a cover member that covers the opening; and

a sealing member that is integrated with the first housing member by two-color molding, seals a seam between a perimeter of the opening of the first housing member and the cover member as well as a seam between the first housing member and the second housing member, and contacts side surfaces of the housed object when the housed object is housed in the opening.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing member partially contacts the side surfaces of the housed object, at multiple sites.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing member can contact the sides of the housed object along an entire perimeter or along substantially the entire perimeter of the side surfaces of the housed object.

4. A sealed structure, wherein

a seam between a first housing member and a second housing member mated with the first housing member as well as a seam between a perimeter of an opening disposed in the first housing member and a cover member covering the opening are sealed by a sealing member, and

the sealing member contacts side surfaces of a housed object housed in the opening.

5. The sealed structure according to claim 4, wherein the sealing member partially contacts the side surfaces of the housed object, at multiple sites.

6. The sealed structure according to claim 4, wherein the sealing member contacts the side surfaces of the housed object along an entire perimeter or along substantially the entire perimeter of the side surfaces.