HOUSING FOR ENCLOSING INSTRUMENTS AND THE LIKE TO BE MOUNTED ON INSTRUMENT PANEL OF AUTOMOBILE

• US 3,590,136 A
• Filed: 12/02/1969
• Issued: 06/29/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kawade Yoshihiro, Kunishi Takeshi, Takani Ryozo, Yamakita Koiti, Yamanaka Katuhiro
• Original Assignee: Kawade Yoshihiro, Kunishi Takeshi, Takani Ryozo, Yamakita Koiti, Yamanaka Katuhiro
• Inventors: KUNISHI TAKESHI, KAWADE YOSHIHIRO, YAMAKITA KOITI, TAKANI RYOZO, YAMANAKA KATUHIRO
• Application Number:
  US04/881,373
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• US Class Current: 174/50
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0284 Details of three-dimensional rigid printed circuit boards H05K1/119 takes precedence; shaping of the substrate H05K3/0014
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09118 Moulded substrate
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/0999 Circuit printed on or in housing, e.g. housing as PCB; Circuit printed on the case of a component; PCB affixed to housing
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10287 Metal wires as connectors or conductors
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/103 by bonding or embedding conductive wires or strips

Abstract

A housing for enclosing instruments such as meters, a radio, gages, control units for an air-conditioning system, etc. and the like to be mounted on a front instrument panel of an automobile, in the partitioned chambers molded together with said housing made of a synthetic resin. The housing is provided with electric conductors embedded therein for electrical connections of said instruments and the like with their corresponding exterior instruments, machines and the like.

Claims

1. A housing for enclosing instruments such as meters, a radio, control units for an air-conditioning system and the like to be mounted on a front instrument panel of an automobile, comprising a box made of a synthetic resin and provided with a plurality of chambers partitioned by partition walls integrally molded with said box for enclosing therein instruments, such as meters, the radio, control units for the air-conditioning system and the like to be mounted on the instrument panel of the automobile, and a plurality of electric conductors embedded in the walls of said box where electrical connection is required.

2. A housing as set forth in claim 1 wherein the outer wall of said box comprises an inner and outer layers each made of synthetic resins, and said conductors are embedded between said inner and outer layers.

3. A housing as set forth in claim 1 wherein means for electrically connecting said instruments and the like are provided at the inner surfaces of said box.

4. A housing for enclosing instruments of an automobile instrument panel comprising:

an outer box made of a synthetic resin, said outer box having an open side and a plurality of sidewalls;

at least one partition wall integrally molded with said box for providing a plurality of chambers within said box separated from one another by said at least one partition wall;

at least one of said chambers being open at said open side of said outer box for receiving said instruments; and

electrical conductors embedded in at least one of said walls where electrical connection is required for said instruments;

said sidewalls each comprising an inner and an outer layer each made of synthetic resin, and said electrical conductors being embedded between said inner and outer layers of said at least one wall.

5. A housing as in claim 4, wherein said at least one wall having said electrical conductors embedded is further provided with through-holes for electrical connection between said instruments and said conductors.

6. A housing as in claim 5 wherein said at least one wall having said conductors embedded therein further includes on said inner layer side means connected to said conductors for electrically connecting said conductors and said instruments.