Chip Card Securing Assembly Single Opening Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic devices with multiple openings for chip cards and connectors compromise their uniform appearance, necessitating a solution to securely and elegantly integrate these components.
Innovation Solution
A chip card securing assembly featuring a tray with latch portions and a pushing member that allows for secure insertion and removal of chip cards and connectors while maintaining a unified appearance by using a single opening, with the tray and connector being electrically connected to the circuit board.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple openings are provided for chip cards and connectors, then functional accessibility is improved, but appearance uniformity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the chip card slot and USB connector into a single integrated opening on the electronic device. The tray structure allows both the chip card and connector to be accessed through one unified opening, merging what would traditionally be separate access points into a single location, thus maintaining appearance uniformity while preserving functional accessibility
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested arrangement where the connector is positioned within the same opening space as the chip card slot. The tray structure enables the connector to be nested alongside the chip card, allowing both components to share a single opening rather than requiring separate openings, thereby resolving the contradiction between functional accessibility and appearance uniformity
Data Source
AI summary
A chip card securing assembly detachably received in a body of an electronic device, the chip card securing assembly includes a tray and a connector. The tray includes a receiving portion and a holding portion. The receiving portion includes a first end and a second end, the second end defines a receive slot. The holding portion extends from the first end and configured to hold a chip card. The connector is received in the receiving portion and exposed from the receive slot. An electronic device applying the chip card securing assembly is also provided.