Electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9848511-B2
Application number	US-201514836205-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 26, 2015
Priority date	Sep 18, 2014
Publication date	Dec 19, 2017
Grant date	Dec 19, 2017

Abstract

A base plate for a circuit board assembly, to which an electronic component is soldered, has a through-hole. A screw hole is formed in a housing, to which the base plate is fixed by screw members. Multiple screw-fixing portions are formed in an electronic device, so that each of the screw members is inserted through each of the through-holes of the base plate and fixed to the housing in each of the screw-fixing portions. Two projections are formed at a first casing of the housing in each of the screw-fixing portions, so that the base plate is in contact with the first casing at two contacting points formed by the projections. The projections are symmetrically formed with respect to a center of the screw hole.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a base plate, which has multiple through-holes and to which multiple electronic components are soldered;
a housing having multiple screw holes and accommodating the base plate; and
multiple screw members, each of which is inserted through each of the through-holes of the base plate and screwed into each of the screw holes of the housing for fixing the base plate to the housing, wherein:
the electronic device has multiple screw-fixing portions, at each of which the base plate is respectively fixed to the housing by the screw member,
in each of the screw-fixing portions, two projections are formed at one of the base plate and the housing,
the two projections are separately formed from each other in order that the screw member and the base plate, or the base plate and the housing, are in contact with each other at two contacting points respectively formed by the two projections,
in each of the screw-fixing portions, the two projections are located at such positions, which are symmetric with respect to a screw-hole center of the screw hole, and
the two projections in each of the screw-fixing portions are located at such positions, which are symmetric with respect to a line connecting a base-plate center and the screw-hole center.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the two projections are located on an alignment line passing over the screw-hole center, in each of the screw-fixing portions,
each of the two projections is elongated on a plane of a surface, on which the projections are formed, in a direction different from the alignment line of the projections, and
each of the two projections is in a surface-contact with an opposing member, which is composed of the screw member, the base plate or the housing.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the two projections is made of a metal layer and/or a solder resist layer, and
the metal layer is made of material, which is the same to that for electric wiring patterns formed on the base plate.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein
the number of the projections is solely two, and
each of the two projections does not enter the base plate, or the housing, or the screw member, depending on where the projections are formed.

5. An electronic device comprising:
a base plate, which has multiple through-holes and to which multiple electronic components are soldered;
a housing having multiple screw holes and accommodating the base plate; and
multiple screw members, each of which is inserted through each of the through-holes of the base plate and screwed into each of the screw holes of the housing for fixing the base plate to the housing, wherein:
the electronic device has multiple screw-fixing portions, at each of which the base plate is respectively fixed to the housing by the screw member,
in each of the screw-fixing portions, a first and a second projections are formed at one of the base plate and the housing,
the first and the second projections are separately formed from each other in order that the screw member and the base plate, or the base plate and the housing, are in contact with each other at two contacting points respectively formed by the first and the second projections, and
in each of the screw-fixing portions, the first and second projections are located at such positions, which are symmetric with respect to a line connecting a base-plate center of the base plate and a screw-hole center of the screw hole, so that a first distance between the first projection and the base-plate center and a second distance between the second projection and the base-plate center are equal to each other.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5 , wherein
the number of the projections is solely two, and
each of the two projections does not enter the base plate, or the housing or the screw member, depending on where the projections are formed.

7. An electronic device comprising:
a base plate, which has multiple through-holes and to which multiple electronic components are soldered;
a housing having multiple screw holes and accommodating the base plate; and
multiple screw members, each of which is inserted through each of the through-holes of the base plate and screwed into each of the screw holes of the housing for fixing the base plate to the housing, wherein:
the electronic device has multiple screw-fixing portions, at each of which the base plate is respectively fixed to the housing by the screw member,
in each of the screw-fixing portions, a first, a second and a third projections are formed at one of the base plate and the housing,
the first, the second, and the third projections are separately formed from one another in order that the screw member and the base plate, or the base plate and the housing, are in contact with each other at three contacting points respectively formed by the first to the third projections, and
in each of the screw-fixing portions, the first and the second projections are located at such positions, which are symmetric with respect to a line connecting a base-plate center of the base plate and a screw-hole center of the screw hole, and the third projection in the same screw-fixing portion is located at such a position on the line connecting the base-plate center and the screw-hole center.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7 , wherein
the number of the projections is solely three, and
each of the three projections does not enter the base plate or the housing or the screw member, depending on where the projections are formed.

9. An electronic device comprising:
a base plate, which has multiple through-holes and to which multiple electronic components are soldered;
a housing having multiple screw holes and accommodating the base plate; and
multiple screw members, each of which is inserted through each of the through-holes of the base plate and screwed into each of the screw holes of the housing for fixing the base plate to the housing, wherein:
the electronic device has multiple screw-fixing portions, at each of which the base plate is respectively fixed to the housing by the screw member,
in each of the screw-fixing portions, two projections are formed on a board surface of the base plate,
the two projections are separately formed from each other in order that the screw member and the base plate are in contact with each other at two contacting points respectively formed by the two projections,
in each of the screw-fixing portions, the two projections are located at such positions, which are symmetric with respect to a center of the through-hole formed in the base plate, and
the two projections in each of the screw-fixing portions are located at such positions, which are symmetric with respect to a line connecting a base-plate center and the screw-hole center.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9 , wherein
the number of the projections is solely two, and
each of the two projections does not enter the housing or the screw member.

11. An electronic device comprising:
a base plate, which has multiple through-holes and to which multiple electronic components are soldered;
a housing having multiple screw holes and accommodating the base plate;
multiple screw members, each of which is inserted through each of the through-holes of the base plate and screwed into each of the screw holes of the housing for fixing the base plate to the housing; and
multiple washers, each of which is attached to each of the screw members, wherein:
the electronic device has multiple screw-fixing portions, at each of which the base plate is respectively fixed to th

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Umeno Masafumi
• Yamauchi Satoshi

Classifications

• H05K7/20409 Primary

  Outer radiating structures on heat dissipating housings, e.g. fins integrated with the housing · CPC title

• H05K5/006

  characterized by features for holding the PCB within the housing · CPC title