Methods and systems for reconditioning remote controls
Assigneefm marketing gmbh
InventorFerdinand MAIER
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for reconditioning a remote control (1) with a housing consisting of an upper shell (2) and a lower shell (3), and a printed circuit board (21) carrying raised keys (5) for triggering control signals by pressure, the raised keys (5) penetrating the upper shell (2), said method comprising: removing (52) the upper shell (2) and the lower shell (3); blasting (55) at least one of the raised keys (5) on the printed circuit board (21) with an antibacterial abrasive; and inserting (58) the printed circuit board (21) with the raised keys (5) supported thereon between a new upper shell (2) and a new lower shell (3).
Claims11
A method for reconditioning a remote control (1) with a housing comprising an upper shell (2) and a lower shell (3), the remote control (1) further comprising a printed circuit board (21) carrying raised buttons (5) for triggering control signals by pressure, the raised buttons (5) penetrating the upper shell (2), said method comprising:
- removing (52) the upper shell (2) and the lower shell (3);
- blasting (55) at least the raised buttons (5) on the printed circuit board (21) with an antibacterial abrasive, and
- inserting (58) the printed circuit board (21) with the raised buttons (5) supported thereon between a new upper shell (2) and a new lower shell (3).
A remote control (1) comprising a housing and a printed circuit board (21), the housing comprising an upper shell (2) and a lower shell (3), the printed circuit board (21) comprising raised buttons (5) for triggering control signals by pressure, the raised buttons (5) penetrating the upper shell (2), wherein the remote control has been reconditioned by a method comprising:
- removing (52) the upper shell (2) and the lower shell (3);
- blasting (55) at least the raised buttons (5) on the printed circuit board (21) with an antibacterial abrasive;
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- inserting (58) the printed circuit board (21) with the raised buttons (5) supported thereon between a new upper shell (2) and a new lower shell (3).
A device (63) to be used when reconditioning a remote control (1), the remote control (1) comprising a housing and a printed circuit board (21), the housing comprising an upper shell (2) and a lower shell (3), the printed circuit board (21) comprising raised buttons (5) for triggering control signals by pressure, the raised buttons (5) penetrating the upper shell (2), wherein the remote control has been reconditioned by a method comprising removing (52) the upper shell (2) and the lower shell (3), blasting (55) at least the raised buttons (5) on the printed circuit board (21) with an antibacterial abrasive, and inserting (58) the printed circuit board (21) with the raised buttons (5) supported thereon between a new upper shell (2) and a new lower shell (3), the device (63) comprising
- a loading station (64) for inserting the printed circuit board (21) with the raised buttons (5) supported thereon,
- a blasting station (70) adjoining the loading station (64) for blasting the raised buttons (5) on the printed circuit board (21) with an antibacterial abrasive, and
- an unloading station (64) adjoining the blasting station (70) for removing the printed circuit board (21) after blasting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.