Waterproof electronic equipment and assembly method thereof
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsIsao AZUMI, Koji HASHIMOTO
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Abstract
Seal surfaces in three directions of a base and a cover are mutually fitted as a first seal part in combination of concave threads and convex threads, and sandwich three sides of a circuit board between an innermost peripheral part convex thread at the base side and an innermost peripheral part concave thread at the cover side. A connector member having a second seal part is fixed to one side of the circuit board, a concavo-convex seal surface between the base and the connector member is located on a low step surface, and the concave and convex threads on the seal surface of the connector member provided on the base pass the concave and convex threads of the seal surface in the three directions each other to be continuous.
Claims12
Waterproof electronic equipment comprising:
- a connector member having external connection terminals connected to a circuit board, a base provided to cover a rear surface of the circuit board and a lower part of an outer peripheral seal part of the connector member with the external connection terminals exposed to the outside and forms a first part of a casing, and a cover provided to cover a front surface of the circuit board and the rest of the outer peripheral seal part of the connector member and forms a second part of the casing, and a first seal part in which outer peripheral parts of the base and the cover are directly opposed and water-tightly sealed and a second seal part in which the outer peripheral parts are water-tightly sealed via the outer peripheral part of the connector member, having two intersection parts with the first seal part, the water-tight seals having concavo-convex surfaces including concavo threads and convex threads respectively formed on the opposed surfaces in close contact to mesh with each other via seal materials,
- wherein the circuit board is sandwiched by an innermost peripheral part convex thread at the base side and an innermost peripheral part concave thread at the cover side in the first seal part, and
- a convex thread forming the second seal part provided on the base are biased to be continuous to a concave thread forming the first seal part provided on the base in the intersection parts, and a seal surface step by which heights of a bottom surface of the concave thread and a top surface of the convex thread from an inner bottom surface of the base are nearly equal to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.