Sliding cover with inclined-plane seal for weather sealed consumer electronics device

A camera comprising:

• a housing with an opening formed in a rear wall thereof, the opening lying in a first plane of the rear wall and defining a battery compartment within the housing, the opening being bordered by a lip extending rearwardly of the first plane;
• an electronics lens mounted in the housing;
• a seal mounted on the housing in an overlying relationship with the lip, the seal having a front edge extending along the first plane and a rear surface opposite the front edge and extending along a second plane that is acute to the first plane;
• a cover releasably movable relative to the housing between a first, opened position and a second, closed position;
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• a sealing area that extends from the front edge of the seal to the rear surface of the seal and that is compressed along a planar surface when the cover is in the second, closed position;
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• wherein the rear surface of the seal that is compressed along the planar surface is non-parallel to the front edge when the cover is in the closed position thereof.

A method of installing a cover onto a housing of a consumer electronics device comprising the steps of:

• locating a front edge of a compressible seal adjacent to an opening in a wall of the housing defining a first plane,
• orienting the cover in a first, opened position directly adjacent the wall of the housing, wherein a rear surface of the compressible seal, opposite the front edge, extends along a second plane that is acute to the first plane when the cover is in the opened position there;
• sliding the cover relative to the housing and the compressible seal to a second, closed position of the cover;
• during the sliding, compressing the rear surface of the compressible seal along a planar surface between the housing and the cover;
• forming an environmental seal between the housing and the cover in the closed position of the cover with the rear surface of the compressible seal compressed along the planar surface that is non-parallel to the front edge;
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• releasably locking the cover relative to the housing in the closed position of the cover.