Assembly structure of housing for portable communication device

• US 6,591,088 B1
• Filed: 01/10/2000
• Issued: 07/08/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Watanabe, Yohsuke
• Primary Examiner(s): MAUNG, NAY AUNG
• Application Number:
  US09/480,115
• Time in Patent Office: 1,275 Days
• Field of Search: 455/90, 455/550, 455/575, 455/348, 235/472.01, 235/472.02, 379/428.01, 379/429, 379/433.01, 379/433.07, 379/433.08, 379/440
• US Class Current: 455/90.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3833 Hand-held transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0249 Details of the mechanical connection between the housing parts or relating to the method of assembly

Abstract

A portable communication device has a plurality of projections formed on one or both of an upper casing and a lower casing; a plurality of through holes formed on at least a printed circuit board, on which various types of electronic parts are mounted, housed in a housing so to allow the projections to pierce through them; and the projections designed to pierce through the through holes of the printed circuit board to fix the printed circuit board between the upper casing and the lower casing.

Claims

1. A portable communication device having a key operation section, a display, a mouthpiece and a receiver on a housing comprising an upper casing and a lower casing, said device comprising:

a plurality of projections formed on and extending away from an inside surface of one or both of said upper casing and said lower casing;

a printed circuit board; and

a plurality of through holes formed in at least said printed circuit board to allow the projections to pierce through the holes,

wherein said projections pierce through said through holes of said printed circuit board to fix said printed circuit board between said upper casing and said lower casing, and

wherein a plurality of holes are formed on said key operation section in the form of a sheet housed in the housing to allow said projections to pierce through the holes.

2. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein said projections formed on said upper casing are pierced through said through holes of said printed circuit board, and fixing screws are screwed into said projections through holes formed on said lower casing at positions where the leading ends of the projections come into contact so to integrate said upper casing and said lower casing into one body to fix said printed circuit board between said upper casing and said lower casing.

3. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein said projections formed on said lower casing are pierced through said through holes of said printed circuit board, and fixing screws are screwed into said projections through holes formed on said upper casing at positions where the leading ends of said projections come into contact so to integrate said upper casing and said lower casing into one body to fix said printed circuit board between said upper casing and said lower casing.

4. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein said projections formed on said upper casing and said lower casing are pierced through the holes formed on said printed circuit board, and protrusions formed on the leading ends of said projections on either of said upper casing or said lower casing are inserted into recesses formed on the leading ends of said projections of the other casing so to integrate said upper casing and said lower casing into one body to fix said printed circuit board between said upper casing and said lower casing.

5. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein said projections formed on said upper casing and said lower casing are pierced through the holes formed on said printed circuit board, and fixing screws inserted from recesses formed in said projections of either of said upper casing or said lower casing are screwed into the leading ends of said projections of the other casing to integrate said upper casing and said lower casing into one body to fix said printed circuit board between said upper casing and said lower casing.

6. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein holes are formed on the casing to allow said projections to pierce through the holes, said projections formed on said upper casing are pierced through said through holes of said printed circuit board and also the holes of said lower casing, and fixing screws are screwed into said projections from the outside of the holes of said lower casing to integrate said upper casing and said lower casing into one body so to fix said printed circuit board between said upper casing and said lower casing.

7. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein the structure is applied to a portable telephone.

8. A portable communication device having a key operation section, a display, a mouthpiece and a receiver on a housing comprising an upper casing and a lower casing, said device comprising:

a plurality of projections formed on and extending away from an inside surface of one or both of said upper casing and said lower casing;

a printed circuit board; and

a plurality of through holes formed in at least said printed circuit board to allow the projections to pierce through the holes,

wherein said projections pierce through said through holes of said printed circuit board to fix said printed circuit board between said upper casing and said lower casing, and

a battery, wherein said battery is disposed between said upper casing and said lower casing, said battery forming a-structural member for strengthening said upper and lower casings.

9. A portable communication device having a key operation section, a display, a mouthpiece, and a receiver, comprising:

a housing including an upper casing and a lower casing;

at least one printed circuit board, on which various types of electronic parts are mounted, housed within said housing and including a plurality of through holes formed in said at least one printed circuit board,

a plurality of first projections formed on and extending independently from an inside surface of said upper casing; and

a plurality of second projections formed on and extending independently from an inside surface of said lower casing;

wherein at least one of said plurality of first and second projections pierce through one of said holes in said printed circuit board to secure and support said printed circuit board within said housing, and

wherein said plurality of first and second projections secure and support said upper casing and said lower casing.

10. The portable communication device according to claim 9, wherein said plurality of first and second projections are mutually joined at a position that is substantially between said upper casing and said lower casing.

11. The portable communication device according to claim 9, wherein at least one of said plurality of projections includes:

a protrusion at a leading edge of at least one of said plurality of projections; and

a recess at a leading edge of a corresponding projection;

wherein said protrusion is inserted into said recess for securing said upper casing to said lower casing.

12. The portable communication device according to claim 11, wherein at least one of said plurality of projections further includes:

a through hole formed on the leading edge of said projection; and

a screw for securing said projection to a corresponding projection.