Electronic Housing with Parallel Appearance Layers
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of assembling electronic apparatus housings with multiple components, such as front and rear panels and intermediate frames, leads to difficulties in achieving both shatter and compression resistance, elegant appearance, and good hand feeling.
Innovation Solution
A housing design with a side wall divided into multiple appearance layers, where borderlines between layers are parallel, allowing for reduced assembly complexity and enhanced aesthetics and usability, achieved through injection molding and multilayer color techniques.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If a housing is constructed with multiple components (front panel, rear panel, intermediate frame), then the appearance and hand feeling can be enhanced, but the assembling process becomes complex and difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the front panel, rear panel, and intermediate frame into a single integrated housing component. This merging eliminates the complexity of assembling multiple separate parts while maintaining the aesthetic appearance and ergonomic hand feeling that the multi-component design originally provided.
2Shape
If multiple components are used for housing, then appearance quality can be improved, but assembly difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating the housing as a single piece, the patent eliminates assembly operations entirely. The integrated design preserves the high appearance quality achieved through multi-component construction while making the device trivial to assemble (simply insert components into the housing).
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional multi-component housing is used, then manufacturing flexibility is maintained, but production efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated housing can be manufactured using injection molding or similar high-volume processes, enabling single-step mass production. This eliminates the need for separate manufacturing and assembly steps for each component, dramatically improving production efficiency while maintaining flexibility to modify the entire housing design as a unified structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution simplifies the production process, improves the appearance and hand feeling of electronic apparatus housings by eliminating the need for intermediate frames and back casings, while maintaining mechanical integrity and visual appeal.
Implementation Method 1
forming a first frame body by injection moulding in a first mold
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus and a method for producing a housing, which relate to a technical field of electronics. The electronic apparatus comprises: a housing comprising a side wall forming an accommodating space and having an outer surface which is divided into K appearance layers, where K is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3, and wherein borderlines between adjacent layers in the K appearance layers are parallel to each other.