Structure for mounting two printed circuit boards to one case

• US 6,249,442 B1
• Filed: 11/17/1999
• Issued: 06/19/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hideki
• Primary Examiner(s): Gandhi, Jayprakash N.
• Application Number:
  US09/441,597
• Time in Patent Office: 580 Days
• Field of Search: 361/728, 361/736, 361/752, 361/753, 361/758, 361/759, 361/796, 361/801, 361/807, 174/50, 174/52.1, 174/138.G, 220/4.02
• US Class Current: 361/801
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/142 Spacers not being card guides

Abstract

A printed circuit board mounting structure is disclosed wherein first and second printed circuit boards are mounted by mounting projections formed on a case. Since the mounting projections can be used in common for both first and second printed circuit boards, the printed circuit board mounting structure of the invention is simple in the mounting work, high in productivity and low in cost as compared with a conventional like structure wherein first and second printed circuit boards are mounted to different mounting projections.

Claims

1. A printed circuit board mounting structure comprising:

a case formed by molding a synthetic resin;

a plurality of mounting projections formed on said case;

first and second printed circuit boards having electrically conductive patterns and holes;

spacers interposed between said first and second printed circuit boards and having holes;

a mounting body having holes and constituting a chassis; and

screws for mounting said first and second printed circuit boards to said mounting body,

wherein said mounting projections are inserted into the holes of said first and second printed circuit boards and the holes of said spacers, and said screws are inserted into the holes of said mounting body and are threaded into the tops of said mounting projections to push said first and second printed circuit boards and said spacers to said case by the mounting body.

2. A printed circuit board mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein, with said mounting projections not inserted through the holes of said second printed circuit board disposed on said mounting body, the tops of the mounting projections are positioned in proximity to said mounting body and a part of the mounting body is brought into abutment against the second printed circuit board, causing the mounting body to push the second printed circuit board.

3. A printed circuit board mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein said spacers are formed using a metallic material and end portions of the spacers are brought into abutment with said electrically conductive patterns formed on said first and second printed circuit boards to provide a connection between said patterns on both said printed circuit boards through said spacers.

4. A printed circuit board mounting structure according to claim 3, wherein said mounting body is formed using a metallic material, electrically conductive patterns are formed on both sides of said second printed circuit board, connecting conductors are provided in through holes formed in the second printed circuit board to connect the electrically conductive patterns formed on both sides of the second printed circuit board with each other, one electrically conductive pattern is brought into abutment with said mounting body and the other brought into abutment with end portions of said spacers, to connect earth electrodes on the first and second printed circuit boards to said mounting body.