Electronic housing for an auxiliary unit
AssigneeBrose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Würzburg
InventorsSteve Eberlein, Peter Sudermann, Peter Buckmüller
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Abstract
An electronics housing for an auxiliary unit of a motor vehicle has a metal lead frame with at least one connection contact. The lead frame is encapsulated as an insert with a plastic material of a housing part. At least sections of the connection contact project out of the housing part. The connection contact is enclosed by a potting pocket formed integrally on the housing part. A hardened potting compound is filled into the potting pocket. The connection contact has a form-fit contour which creates a form-fit between the connection contact and the potting compound so that shear forces and/or tensile forces occurring during thermal expansion are reduced between the connection contact and the potting compound.
Claims7
1-6. (canceled)
An electronics housing for an auxiliary unit of a motor vehicle, the electronics housing comprising:
- a housing part formed of plastic material;
- a metal lead frame encapsulated as an insert in said plastic material of said housing part;
- said metal lead frame having at least one terminal contact projecting at least partially from said housing part;
- said terminal contact being surrounded by a potting pocket molded integrally on said housing part;
- a cured potting compound filling said potting pocket;
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- said terminal contact being formed with a form-fitting contour that effects a form fit between said terminal contact and said potting compound to thereby reduce shearing forces and/or tensile forces between said terminal contact and said potting compound that occur in a course of thermal expansion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.