Housing assembly
AssigneeHERE Global B.V.
InventorPertti Kalevi Kujala
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Abstract
A method including bending an electronic apparatus housing member, where the housing member is a substantially rigid one-piece member, where the bending comprises a bending jig bending the housing member from a first shape to a second shape, where the bending elastically bends the housing member to form an electronic component path of insertion into the housing member through a front aperture of the housing member, where a shape of the front aperture is changed by the bending; inserting an electronic component assembly as a singular module into the housing member through the path; and allowing the housing member to resiliently deflect back to the first shape, where the housing member substantially closes the path.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- bending an electronic apparatus housing member, where the housing member is a substantially rigid one-piece member, where the bending comprises a bending jig bending the housing member from a first shape to a second shape, where the bending elastically bends the housing member to form an electronic component path of insertion into the housing member through a front aperture of the housing member, where a shape of the front aperture is changed by the bending;
- inserting an electronic component assembly as a singular module into the housing member through the path;
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- allowing the housing member to resiliently deflect back to the first shape to prevent the electronic component assembly from exiting the front aperture.
An apparatus comprising:
- a housing comprising a one-piece member having a first aperture therethrough into a receiving area inside the housing;
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- an electronic component assembly located inside the housing, where the electronic component assembly is larger than the first aperture, where the electronic component assembly is inserted into the receiving area through the first aperture as a singular module,
- where the one-piece member is substantially rigid,
- and where the one-piece member was resiliently bent to change a shape of the first aperture from a first shape to a different second shape for insertion of the electronic component assembly into the first aperture and the one-piece member was released to allow the one-piece member to resiliently bend back such that the first aperture has the first shape to capture the electronic component assembly in the receiving area and prevent the electronic component assembly from exiting the first aperture.
A method comprising:
- bending an electronic apparatus housing, where the housing is substantially rigid, where the bending comprises a bending jig bending the housing from a first shape to a second shape, where the bending elastically bends the housing to form an electronic component path of insertion into the housing through a front aperture of the housing, where a shape of the front aperture is resiliently changed by the bending, where the housing comprises a one-piece member forming a unibody including a back, a front and sides between the back and the front with no hinges and which forms an internal electronic component receiving area;
- inserting an electronic component assembly as a singular module into the housing through the path;
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- allowing the housing to resiliently deflect back to the first shape to prevent the electronic component assembly from exiting the front aperture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.