Housing and methods of producing a housing
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorKurt Weiblen
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Abstract
A housing, in particular a housing for electronic components, which includes a housing part which is made of plastic and has at least one opening, and a lid part for closing off the opening. It is proposed that the lid part is produced as a metal punched part, the punched edge of the lid part having a punch ridge on a first side of the lid part and a punch indentation on a second side opposite the first side, and the lid part being pressed into the opening of the housing part via the second side so that the lid part comes to rest against assigned sections of the inner wall of the opening via at least two edge sections that are distributed around the perimeter of the lid part and bites into the assigned sections of the inner wall in a barb-like manner via the punch ridge.
Claims15
A housing, comprising:
- a housing part made of plastic and including at least one opening;
- and
- a lid part produced as a punched metal part and for closing off the at least one opening, wherein:
- a punched edge of the lid part includes a punch ridge on a first side of the lid part and a punch indentation on a second side opposite the first side, and
- the lid part is pressed into the at least one opening of the housing part via the second side so that the lid part comes to rest against corresponding sections of an inner wall of the at least one opening via at least two edge sections that are distributed around a perimeter of the lid part and bites into the corresponding sections of the inner wall in a barb-like manner via the punch ridge.
A method of producing a housing in which a housing part made of plastic and including an opening is closed off via a lid part, the method comprising the steps of:
- producing the lid part via a punching operation performed on a metal sheet, an edge of the lid part including a punch ridge on a first side of the lid part and a punch indentation on a second side opposite the first side;
- and
- subsequently pressing the lid part into the opening of the housing part via the second side, the lid part coming to rest against assigned sections of an inner wall of the opening via at least two edge sections that are distributed around a perimeter of the lid part and biting into the assigned sections in a barb-like manner via the punch ridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.