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US 12,439,541 B2Granted
Sealed electronic module
AssigneeEM Microelectronic-Marin SA
InventorFabien Malacarne
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Abstract
A sealed electronic module (1) including at least one actionable part (2), the module (1) including a case (2) having: a watertight compartment (4) containing a printed circuit board (5), the compartment (4) being formed by a housing (13) with a unique opening (20), the housing (13) including the printed circuit board (5), and a sealing element (6a, 6b) configured for closing tightly the unique opening (20) by being fixed to the housing (13) and the printed circuit board (5).
Claims11
A sealed electronic module comprising at least one actionable part, the module including a case comprising:
- a watertight compartment containing a printed circuit board, said compartment being formed by a housing with only one opening, the housing containing the printed circuit board, and
- a sealing element comprising a flexible element that is fixed directly to the housing and the printed circuit board, and is entirely covering the opening,
- wherein the housing comprises an enclosure delimited by a bottom and a peripheral inner wall, wherein a surface opposite to the bottom is delimited by the opening,
- wherein the housing includes ribbings extending on a surface of the peripheral inner wall from the bottom toward the opening, an extension of the ribbings being configured to arrange in the enclosure a peripheral part of a backside face of the printed circuit board in a same plane as a part of a surface of an edge of the opening, and
- wherein the at least one actionable part is formed by a metal dome switch arranged in the printed circuit board and a part of the sealing element covering the metal dome switch, the metal dome being arranged with a convex side facing the sealing element.
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