US 2002/0159239 A1Published application

PC card

AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

InventorsMasaki Amie, Fujio Arai, Yukinari Inoue, Hidenori Takeuchi

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Abstract

A PC card includes a frame, a board mounted on the frame, and an upper cover and a lower cover for respectively covering an upper side and a lower side of the frame, slits formed to be penetrated from an abutting plane between the upper cover and the side portion of the frame up to another abutting plane between the lower cover and the side portion of the frame, claws used for the upper cover and the lower cover provided on inner wall surfaces of the slits, insertion projections respectively provided on the upper cover and the lower cover and inserted into the slits, and holes respectively formed in the insertion projections of the upper cover and the lower cover and inserted into the slits so as to be engaged with the claws.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A PC card to be inserted into an electronic appliance, comprising:

a frame made of synthetic resin;
a board held by said frame, on which a circuit component and a connector connectable with the electronic appliance are mounted;
an upper cover made of metal, said upper cover which covers an upper side of said flame;
a lower cover made of metal, said lower cover which covers a lower side of said frame;
slits formed to be penetrated from an abutting plane between said upper cover and side portions of said frame up to another abutting plane between said lower cover and the side portions of said frame;
engaged portions for said upper cover and said lower cover, provided on inner wall surfaces of said slits;
insertion projections provided on said upper cover and said lower cover, respectively, and said insertion projections inserted into said slits;
and
engaging portions provided on said insertion projections of said upper cover and said lower cover, respectively, and said engaging portions inserted into said slits to be engaged with said engaged portions.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.