Electronic device having a can housing and method for producing the same

• US 8,408,945 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2009
• Issued: 04/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Schober, Franz
• Primary Examiner(s): Duverne, Jean F
• Application Number:
  US13/123,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20110256777A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 439/660, 439/76.1, 439/76.2, 439/74
• US Class Current: 439/660
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0039 having a tubular housing wherein the PCB is inserted longitudinally
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/069 Other details of the casing, e.g. wall structure, passage for a connector, a cable, a shaft
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49147 Assembling terminal to base

Abstract

An electronic device (1) has a can housing (3) and a method for producing the same. The can housing (3) has an open end face (4). A plug-in unit (5) can be inserted into the can housing (3) through the end face (4). The plug-in unit (5) has a populated circuit board (6) and a multicontact connector (7). The can housing (3) has an integrated connector collar (8), which integrally extends the can housing (3) and surrounds the multicontact connector (7) and contact elements (9). The connector collar (8) forms a fit for a mating connector. The insert has the circuit board (6) and a contact carrier (10) having the multicontact connector (7) without the connector collar (8). The outer contour (11) of the contact carrier (10) is at least partially matched to the inner contour (12) of the connector collar (8).

Claims

1. An electronic device having a can housing having:

a can housing with an open end face via which a plug-in unit can be inserted into the can housing, wherein the plug-in unit comprises a populated printed circuit board and a multicontact connector including a contact carrier that carries contact elements electrically connected to the printed circuit board,

wherein the can housing has an integrated connector collar which integrally extends the can housing and which defines an opening sized and shaped to receive the populated printed circuit board and multicontact connector of the plug-in unit during insertion of the plug-in unit into the can housing, such that in an inserted position of the plug-in unit, the integrated connector collar surrounds the multicontact connector having the contact elements, and

wherein the plug-in unit is formed as a physically separate component from the can housing having the connector collar, and

wherein an outer contour of the contact carrier is at least partially matched to an inner contour of the connector collar.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the interior of the can housing has guide ramps for insertion of the printed circuit board into an end position.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the connector collar has an opening with dimensions which correspond to the width of the plug-in unit composed of the printed circuit board with the contact carrier.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the can housing has an interior which has clamping regions and locking regions for the printed circuit board.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the can housing has, in the interior, lateral guide grooves which are in engagement with edge regions of the printed circuit board.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a device of a vehicle.

14. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the electronic device has a device of the group consisting of electronic parking brake, electronic guidance device, engine control device, transmission control device, antilock braking device and electronic safety control device.

7. An electronic device having a housing comprising

an open end face via which a plug-in unit having a printed circuit board and a multicontact connector including a contact carrier that carries contact elements electrically connected to the printed circuit board can be inserted into the housing, and

an integrated connector collar which integrally extends the housing and which defines an opening sized and shaped to receive the populated printed circuit board and multicontact connector of the plug-in unit during insertion of the plug-in unit into the housing, such that in an inserted position of the plug-in unit, the integrated connector collar surrounds the multicontact connector having the contact elements, and wherein the plug-in unit is formed as a physically separate component from the housing having the connector collar, wherein an outer contour of the contact carrier is at least partially matched to an inner contour of the connector collar.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein the interior of the housing has guide ramps for insertion of the printed circuit board into an end position.

9. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein the connector collar has an opening with dimensions which correspond to the width of the plug-in unit composed of the printed circuit board with the contact carrier.

10. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein the housing has an interior which has clamping regions and locking regions for the printed circuit board.

11. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein the housing has, in the interior, lateral guide grooves which are in engagement with edge regions of the printed circuit board.

12. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein the electronic device is a device of a vehicle.

13. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the electronic device has a device of the group consisting of electronic parking brake, electronic guidance device, engine control device, transmission control device, antilock braking device and electronic safety control device.