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US 10,219,396 B2Granted
Card tray and method of making the same
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorYong-Qi Wang
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Abstract
A card tray includes a base portion having a receiving cavity; an operating portion located at a rear end of the base portion; and a metal shell riveted to the operating portion. The operating portion together with the metal shell is insert-molded with the base portion to affix the operating portion to the base portion. The metal shell has plural legs affixed to the operating portion and embedded in the base portion.
Claims10
An electronic card tray comprising:
- an insulative base portion essentially extending in a horizontal plane defined by a front-to-back direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to each other, said base portion forming frame portion with a receiving cavity therein for receiving an electronic card;
- a metallic operating portion made by a die-casting process and integrally formed and located at a front end of the base portion via an insert-molding process so as to have the base portion protectively grasping a portion of the operating portion circumferentially, wherein
- said operating portion defines along the transverse direction a transverse dimension larger than another transverse dimension defined by the base portion in said transverse direction, and further defines, along a vertical direction perpendicular to said horizontal plane, a vertical dimension larger than another vertical dimension defined by the base portion;
- and
- a metallic shell made from sheet metal and mechanically secured to the operating portion before the base portion is applied thereon, wherein
- said shell includes a plurality of bending tabs grasping the operating portion for securing thereto, and said bending tabs are sandwiched between the base portion and the operating portion.
3 more elements
An electronic card tray comprising:
- a metallic operating portion made by die-casting and having different thicknesses on different portions;
- a metallic shell made from sheet metal with a constant thickness thereof, located behind the operating portion in a front-to-back direction, and having a front end secured to the operating portion;
- and
- an insulative base portion integrally formed with both said operating portion and said shell via an insert-molding process;
- wherein
- the shell includes a sheet body with a bending tab extending therefrom and cooperating the sheet body to sandwich a protrusion of the operating portion therebetween;
- and
- said bending tab is further sandwiched between the protrusion of the operating portion and the base portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.