Seal structure, electronic device, portable device, and seal method

• US 8,642,886 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2011
• Issued: 02/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Shingo, Watanabe, Satoshi, Choraku, Kohei, Fujii, Shigehiro, Adachi, Katsumi, Fukata, Yoshito
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hoa C
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, BINH BACH THANH
• Application Number:
  US13/034,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20110209890A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,076 Days
• Field of Search: 174/50.5, 174/50.51, 174/50.56, 174/50.57, 174/50.58, 174/50.59, 174/50.61, 174/50.62, 174/50.63, 174/50.64, 174/74.R, 277/650, 455/575.1, 455/575.5, 455/575.8
• US Class Current: 174/50.5
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/069 Other details of the casing, e.g. wall structure, passage for a connector, a cable, a shaft

Abstract

In a seal structure sealing a housing for passing a signal line therethrough, the seal structure includes: a first case; a second case joined to the first case to define the housing, and provided with a recess portion through which the signal line passes at a joining surface joining the first case; a first seal member arranged on a bottom surface of the recess portion, and mounting the signal line; a second seal member including a gelatinous composition arranged to cover the signal line arranged on the first seal member; and a third seal member arranged between the first and second cases, and pushing the second case.

Claims

1. A seal structure sealing a housing for passing a signal line therethrough, the seal structure comprising:

a first case;

a second case joined to the first case to define the housing, and provided with a recess portion through which the signal line passes at a joining surface joining the first case;

a first seal member having size so as to be located in the recess portion, arranged on a bottom surface of the recess portion, and mounting the signal line;

a second seal member having size so as to be located in the recess portion, including a gelatinous composition arranged in the recess portion to cover the signal line arranged on the first seal member; and

a third seal member between the first and second cases, and including a normal width portion and an expanding portion, the normal width portion facing the joining surface, the expanding portion being wider than the normal width portion, the expanding portion facing and pushing the second seal member.

2. The seal structure of claim 1, wherein a degree of hardness of the third seal member is higher than that of the second seal member.

3. The seal structure of claim 1, wherein the first seal member is discontinuous foam or includes discontinuous foam.

4. The seal structure of claim 1, wherein front and rear surfaces of the first seal member are respectively provided with adhesive layers.

5. The seal structure of claim 1, wherein the first seal member includes a width greater than a width of the signal line.

6. The seal structure of claim 1, wherein the third seal member includes a portion, facing the second seal member, different in thickness from the normal thickness portion.

7. An electronic device comprising an seal structure sealing a housing for passing a signal line therethrough, the seal structure comprising:

a first case;

a second case joined to the first case to define the housing, and provided with a recess portion through which the signal line passes at a joining surface joining the first case;

a first seal member having size so as to be located in the recess portion, arranged on a bottom surface of the recess portion, and mounting the signal line;

a second seal member having size so as to be located in the recess portion, including a gelatinous composition arranged in the recess portion to cover the signal line arranged on the first seal member; and

a third seal member between the first and second cases, and including a normal width portion and an expanding portion, the normal width portion facing the joining surface, the expanding portion being wider than the normal width portion, the expanding portion facing and pushing the second seal member.

8. A portable device comprising an seal structure sealing a housing for passing a signal line therethrough, the seal structure comprising:

a first case;

a second case joined to the first case to define the housing, and provided with a recess portion through which the signal line passes at a joining surface joining the first case;

a first seal member having size so as to be located in the recess portion, arranged on a bottom surface of the recess portion, and mounting the signal line;

a second seal member having size so as to be located in the recess portion, including a gelatinous composition arranged in the recess portion to cover the signal line arranged on the first seal member; and

a third seal member between the first and second cases, and including a normal width portion and an expanding portion, the normal width portion facing the joining surface, the expanding portion being wider than the normal width portion, the expanding portion facing and pushing the second seal member.