Electronic device and fixing structure thereof

• US 8,538,497 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2011
• Issued: 09/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Ming-Hui, Chen, Chia-Chen, Yang, Shih-Hsun, Chu, Pin-Chang, Chang, Chih-Chia, Ho, Cheng-Tai
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Duc M
• Application Number:
  US13/239,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20120329408A1
• Time in Patent Office: 726 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575.5, 455/575.7, 455/575.8, 455/41.1, 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 340/702
• US Class Current: 455/575.7
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/12 Supports; Mounting means
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A fixing structure including a metal housing and a fixing base is disclosed. The housing has a carrying plane and the fixing base having a first contact end and, opposite, a second contact end is disposed on the housing. The perpendicular distance from the first contact end to the carrying plane is greater than that from the second contact end to the carrying plane. A wireless transmission device is disposed on the fixing base and in contact with the first contact end and the second contact end, so that a perpendicular distance from an antenna end of the wireless transmission device to the carrying plane is greater than a perpendicular distance from a fixed end of the wireless transmission device to the carrying plane. Therefore, a relatively great distance is kept between the antenna end and the housing for preventing the antenna end from being interfered by the metal housing.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a housing, having a carrying plane;

a fixing base disposed on the housing, the fixing base having a first contact end and a second contact end opposite to each other, and a perpendicular distance from the first contact end to the carrying plane being greater than a perpendicular distance from the second contact end to the carrying plane; and

a wireless transmission device disposed on the fixing base and contacting the first contact end and the second contact end, the wireless transmission device having a fixing end and an antenna end opposite to each other, and a perpendicular distance from the antenna end to the carrying plane being greater than a perpendicular distance from the fixing end to the carrying plane.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the fixing base has a first side wall and a second side wall located on two opposite sides of the fixing base, and two opposite sides of the electronic device respectively abutted the first side wall and the second side wall.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the fixing base further has a positioning post located between the first contact end and the second contact end, the fixing end of the electronic device has a positioning hole, and the positioning post passes through the positioning hole.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a fixing cover disposed on the housing, the fixing cover having a fixing surface, the fixing surface contacts a surface of the wireless transmission device, and an acute angle is formed between a normal vector of the fixing surface and a normal vector of the carrying plane.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the wireless transmission device further has a positioning hole, on two opposite sides of the fixing base are a first side wall and a second side wall, the fixing base further has a positioning post located between the first side wall and the second side wall, two opposite sides of the wireless transmission device respectively abut the first side wall and the second side wall, the positioning post is inserted into the positioning hole, and the electronic device further comprises a fixing cover disposed on the second side wall, the fixing cover has a fixing surface, the fixing surface is attached to a surface of the wireless transmission device, and an acute angle is formed between a normal vector of the fixing surface and a normal vector of the carrying plane.

6. A fixing structure, applicable to fixing a wireless transmission device, comprising:

a housing, having a carrying plane; and

a fixing base disposed on the housing, the fixing base having a first contact end and a second contact end opposite to each other, a perpendicular distance from the first contact end to the carrying plane being greater than a perpendicular distance from the second contact end to the carrying plane, and the first contact end and the second contact end being used for abutting by the wireless transmission device, so that the wireless transmission device are disposed on the fixing base.

7. The fixing structure according to claim 6, wherein the fixing base further has a first side wall and a second side wall located on two opposite sides of the fixing base.

8. The fixing structure according to claim 6, wherein the fixing base further has a positioning post located between the first contact end and the second contact end.

9. The fixing structure according to claim 6, further comprising a fixing cover disposed on the housing, the fixing cover having a fixing surface spaced from the fixing base by a distance, and an acute angle is formed between a normal vector of the fixing surface and a normal vector of the carrying plane.

10. The fixing structure according to claim 6, wherein the fixing base has a first side wall and a second side wall located on two opposite sides of the fixing base, the fixing base further has a fixing post, the fixing post is located between the first side wall and the second side wall, the fixing structure further comprises a fixing cover disposed on the second side wall, the fixing cover has a fixing surface, the fixing surface is spaced from the fixing base by a distance, and an acute angle is formed between a normal vector of the fixing surface and a normal of the carrying plane.