Procedure for manufacturing a radio telephone chassis and a chassis manufactured according to this procedure

• US 5,045,973 A
• Filed: 01/31/1990
• Issued: 09/03/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Saarela, Matti J., Salo, Heikki A. J., Uronen, Lasse J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Arbes, Carl J.
• Application Number:
  US07/473,922
• Time in Patent Office: 580 Days
• Field of Search: 174/52.1, 174/35 R, 361/394, 361/395, 361/399, 361/421, 361/412, 361/424, 334/85, 29/600, 29/830, 72/379.2, 72/379.4
• US Class Current: 361/814
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/034 Portable transmitters
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 174/34 PCB in box or housing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49016 Antenna or wave energy "plumbing" making
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49126 Assembling bases

Abstract

A procedure for manufacturing a radio telephone chassis and for mounting circuit boards on the chassis, and a radio telephone chassis produced according to the procedure. The chassis is made from a sheet metal blank by suitably die cutting and bending it into a box-shaped body, the circuit boards attached thereto constitute one set of walls. Before mounting the circuit boards, the metal board is coated with a thin layer of tin.

Claims

1. A radio telephone chassis on which a first and second circuit board with components fixed thereto are mounted, comprising:

a box-like body formed by cutting off square areas at the corners of a rectangular board blank to form marginal parts and bending the marginal parts by 90 degrees in the same direction, whereby a first set of side walls is formed;

the box-like body having a bottom formed by strip-like parts created by punching out areas of the board blank and bending nearly the entire the part of the remaining material strips 90 degrees about their longitudinal axes so that said parts are parallel to at least one side wall, the first circuit board being mounted on said bent strip-like parts; and

the height of said strip-like parts is equal to or greater than the height of the component extending farthest from the surface of the first circuit board.

2. A radio telephone chassis according to claim 1 wherein the box-like body is coated with a thin tin layer.

3. A radio telephone chassis according to claim 2 wherein the corners defined by the first set of side walls are formed by soldering the marginal parts together along the corners defined by the cut-out areas.

4. A radio telephone chassis according to claim 3 wherein at least one of said first set of side walls is provided with notches.

5. A radio telephone chassis according to claim 4 wherein at least a second of said first set of side walls is provided with protrusions and tongues extending toward the interior of the box-like body, the distance of the protrusions from the related tongue being substantially the same as the thickness of a circuit board.

6. A radio telephone chassis according to claim 5 wherein a first circuit board mounted on the bottom of said box-like body and a second circuit board mounted on the protrusions and tongues of the first set of side walls form a second set of side walls.

7. A radio telephone chassis according to claim 6 wherein the first and second circuit boards are covered with one or several shield covers.

8. A procedure for manufacturing a radio telephone chassis and for mounting circuit boards on the chassis, comprising the steps of:

cutting off square areas at the corners of a rectangular board blank outside of an imaginary line connecting inner corners on the board blank to form side and end marginal areas;

punching out areas of the board blank within the imaginary line such that only strip-like parts are left over in the board blank in that area;

bending the entire surface of the strip-like parts 90 degrees about their longitudinal axis so that said parts are parallel to at least one edge of the board blank; and

bending the marginal parts by 90 degrees in the same direction as the strip like parts, whereby a box-like radio telephone chassis with side walls formed by the side and end marginal parts and a bottom with strip-like parts is created.

9. A procedure according to claim 8 further comprising the step of forming notches in one of said marginal parts of the board blank between the imaginary line and at least one edge of the board blank.

10. A procedure according to claim 9 further comprising the step of punching out a plurality of tongues in at least another of said marginal areas along the edge of the board blank and punching out a plurality of protrusions in the other marginal area of the board blank between the imaginary line and edge of the board blank, perpendicular to the one edge, the difference in the distance of the protrusions from the related imaginary line and the distance of the tongues from the related imaginary line being substantially the same as the thickness of a circuit board.

11. A procedure according to claim 10 further comprising the step of coating the board blank with a thin tin layer.

12. A procedure according to claim 11 further comprising the steps of:

supporting a first circuit board with connector means and components fixed thereto on the bottom of the boxed-like chassis by means of the strip-like parts and the side walls;

soldering, at least in part, the circuit board to the strip-like parts and to the side walls;

soldering the marginal parts together along the corners defined by the cut-out areas;

soldering a cooling fin to the outer surface of one of the side walls;

placing a second circuit board within the box-like chassis, said second circuit board having connector means and a component carrying side which is placed so that it will rest on the protrusions; and

bending the tongues over the second circuit board, whereby the second circuit board is interposed between the pairs of tongues and protrusions and against the side walls.

13. A procedure according to claim 12 further comprising the step of coupling the connector means on the second circuit board with the respective connector means on the first circuit board.

14. A procedure according to claim 13 further comprising the step of covering the first and second circuit boards with one or more shield covers, the shield covers shielding said circuit board against electromagnetic radiation.