Housing having a recess for locating part of a sealing material

Abstract

A housing (3), especially for the electromagnetically shielded location of electronic components, with a first and second housing part (1, 2) and a sealing profile (8) arranged between the first and second housing parts and sealing off the inner space of the housing, made of an elastically hardened sealing material (7) consisting of the substance applied in an initial pasty state or foamed from an initial liquid state and tightly adhered to the housing, whereby the first housing part has a defined receiving area (9), especially a recess, for the locating of a part of the sealing material applied thereto in the area of an initial, final or bifurcation point of the sealing profile embodied with a raised cross section in relation to the rest of the longitudinal extension of the sealing profile.

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