# US 10,310,625 B2 · Shell structure and manufacturing method thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,310,625 B2 - Document ID: US10310625B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/979,563 - Filed: 2015-12-28 - Published: 2016-07-21 - Granted: 2019-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2014-12-26 - Assignees: Compal Electronics, Inc. - Applicants: Bar-Long Denq; Chun-Ping Li; Chih-Wen Chiang; Chien-Chu Chen - Inventors: Bar-Long Denq; Chun-Ping Li; Chih-Wen Chiang; Chien-Chu Chen - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10310625B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/0202: {Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the input device} - B29C 43/006: {Pressing and sintering powders, granules or fibres} - H04M 1/0202: {Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets (constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03)} - H05K 5/0217: {Mechanical details of casings (covers, lids, hoods or members for covering apertures H05K5/03)} - H04M 1/23: Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof (by improving visibility H04M1/22) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00) - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS ## Abstract A shell structure including a casing and a frame is provided. The casing includes an elastic material structure and a fiber structure, wherein the fiber structure is intermixed with the elastic material structure, and the casing has at least two sides adjacent to each other. The frame is wrapped by the casing, wherein the casing and the frame have at least one buffering space therebetween, and the buffering space is aligned to a border between the two sides. In addition, a manufacturing method of the shell structure is also provided. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A shell structure, comprising: a casing, comprising an elastic material structure and a fiber structure, wherein the fiber structure is intermixed with the elastic material structure, and the casing has at least two sides adjacent to each other; and a frame, wrapped by the casing, wherein the casing and the frame have at least one buffering space therebetween, the buffering space is aligned to a border of the two sides. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The shell structure as recited claim 1, wherein the fiber structure is a woven fiber layer. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The shell structure as recited claim 1, wherein the elastic material structure comprises an outer layer structure and an inner layer structure, and the fiber structure is wrapped between the outer layer structure and the inner layer structure. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The shell structure as recited claim 3, wherein a hardness of the outer layer structure is greater than a hardness of the inner layer structure. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The shell structure as recited claim 1, wherein the frame has at least one notch, and the notch is aligned to the border of the two sides. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The shell structure as recited claim 1, further comprising a buffer structure, wherein the buffer structure is disposed in the buffering space. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The shell structure as recited claim 6, wherein the buffer structure is a porous elastic body. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The shell structure as recited claim 6, wherein the buffer structure is a honeycomb structure. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The shell structure as recited claim 1, wherein a thickness of the casing at the border of the two sides is smaller than a thickness of other part of the casing. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The shell structure as recited claim 1, wherein the number of the at least two sides is four, the sides are sequentially connected and comprises two first sides opposite to each other and two second sides opposite to each other, a distance between the two first sides is a maximum width of the shell structure, and a distance between the two second sides is a maximum length of the shell structure. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The shell structure as recited claim 1, wherein the frame is encircled by the casing. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The shell structure as recited claim 1, the fiber structure is wrapped in a periphery of the casing. ### Claim 13 A shell structure, comprising: a casing, comprising an elastic material structure, wherein the casing has at least two sides adjacent to each other; and a frame, wrapped by the casing, wherein the casing and the frame have at least one buffering space therebetween, the frame has at least one notch, and the buffering space and the notch are aligned to a border of the two sides. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The shell structure as recited in claim 13, wherein the casing further comprises a fiber structure, and the fiber structure is intermixed with the elastic material structure. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The shell structure as recited in claim 14, wherein the fiber structure is a woven fiber layer. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The shell structure as recited in claim 14, wherein the elastic material structure comprises an outer layer structure and an inner layer structure, and the fiber structure is wrapped between the outer layer structure and the inner layer structure. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The shell structure as recited in claim 16, wherein a hardness of the outer layer structure is greater than a hardness of the inner layer structure. ### Claim 18 (depends on 13) The shell structure as recited in claim 13, further comprising a buffer structure, wherein the buffer structure is disposed in the buffering space. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The shell structure as recited in claim 18, wherein the buffer structure is a porous elastic body. ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The shell structure as recited in claim 18, wherein the buffer structure is a honeycomb structure. ### Claim 21 (depends on 13) The shell structure as recited in claim 13, wherein a thickness of the casing at the border of the two sides is smaller than a thickness of other part of the casing. ### Claim 22 (depends on 13) The shell structure as recited in claim 13, wherein the number of the at least two sides is four, the sides are sequentially connected and comprise two first sides opposite to each other and two second sides opposite to each other, a distance between the two first sides is maximum width of the shell structure, and a distance between the two second sides is a maximum length of the shell structure. ### Claim 23 (depends on 13) The shell structure as recited in claim 13, wherein the casing has a plurality of nicks at the border of the two sides. ### Claim 24 A manufacturing method of a shell structure, comprising: providing an elastic material structure and a fiber structure, and foil ling a casing with the elastic material structure and the fiber structure by performing a first hot-pressing process; providing a frame, and combining the casing to the frame by performing a second hot-pressing process; and when performing the first hot-pressing process or the second hot-pressing process, enabling the fiber structure to be wrapped at a periphery of the casing. ### Claim 25 (depends on 24) The manufacturing method of the shell structure as recited in claim 24, wherein the step of forming the casing with the elastic material structure and the fiber structure by performing the first hot-pressing process comprises: providing an inner layer structure and a fiber structure, wherein the inner layer structure is combined to a side of the fiber structure; and providing an outer layer structure at another side of the fiber structure, and combining the outer layer structure to the another side of the fiber structure and forming the casing with the outer layer structure, the inner layer structure and the fiber structure by performing the first hot-pressing process, wherein the elastic material structure comprises the outer layer structure and the inner layer structure. ### Claim 26 (depends on 24) The manufacturing method of the shell structure as recited in claim 24, wherein the step of forming the casing with the elastic material structure and the fiber structure by performing the first hot-pressing process comprises: providing an outer layer structure, an inner layer structure and a fiber structure, wherein the outer layer structure and inner layer structure are respectively combined to two opposite sides of the fiber structure; and forming the casing with the outer layer structure, the inner layer structure and the fiber structure by performing the first hot-pressing process. ### Claim 27 (depends on 24) The manufacturing method of the shell structure as recited in claim 24, wherein the step of forming the casing with the elastic material structure and the fiber structure comprises: performing the first hot-pressing process with a first mold. ### Claim 28 (depends on 27) The manufacturing method of the shell structure as recited in claim 27, wherein the first mold has a concave portion at the periphery of the casing, and the step of enabling the fiber structure to be wrapped at the periphery of the casing comprises: enabling a portion of the elastic material structure to go into the concave portion so as to wrap the fiber structure at the periphery of the casing. ### Claim 29 (depends on 24) The manufacturing method of the shell structure as recited in claim 24, wherein the step of combining the casing to the frame comprises: performing the second hot-pressing process with a second mold. ### Claim 30 (depends on 29) The manufacturing method of the shell structure as recited in claim 29, wherein the second mold has a concave portion at the periphery of the casing, and the step of enabling the fiber structure to be wrapped by the elastic material structure at the periphery of the casing comprises: providing a buffer structure, and combining the buffer structure to the frame by performing the second hot-pressing process; and enabling a portion of the buffer structure to go into the concave portion so as to wrap the fiber structure at the periphery of the casing.