Battery cover assembly for portable electronic device

• US 8,795,866 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2010
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: FIH (Hong Kong) Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industrial Company Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: FIH (Hong Kong) Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industrial Company Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liang, Shi-Xu
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilliam, Barbara
• Assistant Examiner(s): HARRIS, GARY D
• Application Number:
  US12/819,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20110244290A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,506 Days
• Field of Search: 429/97
• US Class Current: 429/97
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0262 for a battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A portable electronic device includes a housing, a battery cover, a positioning element, and a latching element. The positioning element is mounted on the housing. The latching element is retained by the positioning element and configured for securing the battery cover to the housing. The battery cover is electrically connected to the positioning element by the latching element.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device comprising:

a housing defining a latching groove and a receiving slot;

a battery cover forming a projection;

a positioning element; and

a latching element detachably received in the receiving slot of the housing, the latching element and the positioning element being two separate elements, the positioning element detachably assembled to the receiving slot of the housing to prevent the latching element from separating from the housing, the latching element extending into the latching groove and latching with the projection to secure the battery cover to the housing;

the battery cover electrically connecting to the latching element and the positioning element.

2. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the latching element forms a stopping protrusion, the projection includes a latching portion, the latching portion resists the stopping protrusion.

3. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the housing defines a cutout communicating with the latching groove, in which the projection is received, the stopping protrusion is received in the cutout and extends into the latching groove.

4. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the housing includes a first resisting plate and a second resisting plate and the receiving slot is defined between the first and second resisting plates, the cutout is defined in the first resisting plate.

5. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the positioning element includes a fixing portion and two supporting portions extending from the fixing portion to resist the latching element, the fixing portion defines at least one positioning groove, at least one latching block projects from the bottom surface of the receiving slot, the latching block is received in the positioning groove.

6. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein two stepped supporting projections project from the bottom surface of the receiving slot, a supporting block projects from each supporting portion, the supporting portions engage the supporting projections.

7. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein a rib projects from the bottom surface of the receiving slot so that the receiving slot is divided into two cavities by the rib, a resisting block projects from each bottom surface of the cavities, the latching element resists the resisting blocks.

8. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the projection includes a guiding surface formed one side of the latching portion, the guiding surface guides the projection in disassembly.

9. A portable electronic device comprising:

a housing defining a first latching slot, a latching groove and a second latching slot at each of opposite sides thereof, the latching groove defined between the first latching slot and the second latching slot;

a battery cover forming a first protrusion, a projection and a second protrusion at each of opposite sides thereof;

a positioning element; and

a latching element detachably received in the receiving slot of the housing, the latching element and the positioning element being two separate elements, the positioning element detachably assembled to the receiving slot of the housing to prevent the latching element from separating from the housing, the latching element extending into the latching groove, the first protrusion latched in the first latching slot, the second protrusion latched in the second latching slot, and the latching element latching with the projection, to secure the battery cover to the housing;

the battery cover electrically connecting to the latching element and the positioning element.