Camera Decoration Plate Structure for Housing Protrusion Clearance

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Solution Overview

Problem

The increase in camera size on electronic devices leads to a thickness discrepancy, necessitating a protection structure that cuts into the decoration rendering on the camera's mounting surface, compromising the overall aesthetic effect.

Innovation Solution

A camera decoration part comprising a first and second plate, where the second plate has a through-hole and recessed avoidance area to accommodate the protrusion, ensuring a flat mounting surface for the first plate, maintaining the decoration rendering's completeness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If avoidance cutting is performed on the mounting surface to accommodate the protection structure, then the camera can be protected, but the decoration rendering is cut off and the overall effect is affected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecamera protectionVSAvoiddecoration rendering completeness
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting surface is divided into a connection area and an avoidance area. The avoidance area is recessed to accommodate the protection structure, while the connection area maintains the decoration rendering. This segmentation allows the decoration rendering to remain complete while providing protection for the camera.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting surface has different properties in different areas: the connection area has a flat surface for decoration rendering, while the avoidance area is recessed to accommodate the protection structure. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction between protection and aesthetic completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Device complexity

If a single plate is used for the camera decoration part, then the structure is simple, but the mounting surface cannot accommodate both the protection structure and maintain a flat surface for decoration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedecoration part structureVSAvoidmounting surface adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The single plate is divided into two separate plates: a first plate for the connection area with decoration rendering, and a second plate for the avoidance area that accommodates the protection structure. This segmentation enables the mounting surface to adapt to both protection requirements and aesthetic requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The solution moves from a two-dimensional single plate to a three-dimensional multi-plate structure, where the second plate is positioned at a different height level to accommodate the protection structure while the first plate maintains a flat mounting surface for decoration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS12438969B2Camera decoration part, fabrication method, and electronic device
Publication Date: 2025.10.07 HONOR DEVICE CO LTD
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AI summary

A camera decoration part, fabrication method, and electronic device. The camera decoration part includes a first plate and a second plate; a first surface of the first plate has a decoration rendering; a second through-hole corresponding to a first through-hole is disposed on the second plate; a first surface of the second plate includes a connection area and an avoidance area, where the avoidance area is formed by recessing the first surface of the second plate to a second surface of the second plate by a first depth, a thickness of the second plate is greater than or equal to a height of a protrusion on a housing of the electronic device, the first depth is greater than or equal to the height of the protrusion, and a projection of the protrusion is in a projection area of the avoidance area.