Integrated Gasket Sealing Structure for Miniaturized Electronic Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sealing structures for electronic devices, such as portable apparatuses, face challenges in miniaturization due to the thickness and width requirements of signal lines, cable cases, and O-rings, leading to increased housing thickness and complex sealing processes that hinder productivity and workability.
Innovation Solution
A sealing structure that uses a sealing member between housings with overlapping signal lines bonded by an adhesive material, allowing the signal lines to penetrate through the sealing member, which is integrated with the gasket to minimize dimensions and enhance air-tightness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a cable case and O-ring are used to seal signal lines between housings, then sealing performance is improved, but housing thickness increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the sealing function directly into the gasket material itself, merging the previously separate components (cable case, O-ring, and gasket) into a single integrated sealing structure. The gasket includes a sealing portion with an inner circumferential surface that directly contacts and seals the signal line, eliminating the need for additional cable cases and O-rings, thereby reducing housing thickness while maintaining sealing performance.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple signal lines are forced through a sealing structure, then functionality is improved, but the sealing structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The gasket's sealing portion is designed with a universal structure that can accommodate multiple signal lines of different sizes and configurations. The inner circumferential surface of the sealing portion provides a flexible sealing interface that adapts to various signal line arrangements, allowing the same gasket design to seal one or multiple signal lines without requiring additional complex components or structures.
3Reliability
If a cable case and O-ring configuration is used, then sealing is achieved, but the manufacturing process becomes more complex and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the sealing function into the gasket itself, eliminating the need for separate cable cases and O-rings. This integration simplifies the assembly process as the gasket can be directly installed between housings without requiring additional steps to attach separate sealing components, thereby reducing manufacturing complexity and improving productivity while maintaining effective sealing.
4Reliability
If signal lines are individually sealed with separate structures, then sealing reliability is improved, but the occupied width increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the sealing function for multiple signal lines into a single integrated gasket structure. The sealing portion of the gasket provides a continuous sealing interface that simultaneously seals multiple signal lines within a compact width, eliminating the need for separate sealing structures for each signal line, thereby reducing the total occupied width while maintaining sealing reliability.
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
This configuration achieves effective waterproofing and air-tightness while reducing the occupying dimensions of signal lines, facilitating miniaturization and flattening of electronic devices, and simplifying the sealing process, thereby improving productivity and cost-effectiveness.
Implementation Method 1
an adhesive material disposed between the signal lines penetrating the sealing member to bond the signal lines to be overlapped
Implementation Method 2
a sealing structure that uses a sealing member between housings with overlapping signal lines bonded by an adhesive material, allowing the signal lines to penetrate through the sealing member, which is integrated with the gasket to minimize dimensions and enhance air-tightness
Data Source
AI summary
A sealing structure to seal housings includes a sealing member disposed between housings to be bonded to allow penetration of at least one signal line; and an adhesive material disposed between the signal lines penetrating the sealing member to bond the signal lines to be overlapped.