CN210984805U

CN210984805U - Battery compartment structure and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN210984805U
Application number: CN201922158876.XU
Authority: CN
Inventors: 齐新; 于彦; 李麟
Original assignee: Neusoft Corp
Current assignee: Neusoft Corp
Priority date: 2019-12-05
Filing date: 2019-12-05
Publication date: 2020-07-10
Anticipated expiration: 2029-12-05

Abstract

The utility model discloses a battery compartment structure and electronic equipment, including the battery compartment body and battery cabin cover, the battery compartment body is equipped with the battery cabin inner chamber that is used for holding the battery, battery cabin cover is used for fixing the battery in the battery cabin inner chamber of the battery compartment body, be equipped with in the hatch department of battery cabin inner chamber in circumference closed and can be by the sealed first elastomer of battery cabin cover pressure, be equipped with the second elastomer that is used for supporting the battery from the bottom in an elastic manner and/or be used for supporting the third elastomer of battery from the side in an elastic manner in the inside of battery cabin inner chamber; the second elastic body and/or the third elastic body are connected with the first elastic body into a whole, and the first elastic body, the second elastic body and/or the third elastic body are integrally formed with the battery cabin body. The battery compartment structure can improve the stability of the battery after being installed, can improve the waterproof effect of the battery compartment, and can save the cost and reduce the assembly difficulty.

Description

Battery compartment structure and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of the battery installation technique and specifically relates to a battery compartment structure that is used for installing the battery on the electronic equipment. The utility model discloses still relate to and be equipped with the electronic equipment of battery compartment structure.

Background

At present, most electronic devices need to use a battery to provide power to be used and operated normally, so a battery compartment is usually designed in the electronic devices to install a rechargeable battery which can be used for one time or repeatedly charged, some battery compartments are provided with detachable battery covers, some battery compartments are not provided with battery covers, and the battery is directly packaged in the electronic devices by a shell of the electronic device, which is equivalent to using the shell as the battery covers at the same time.

In either type of battery compartment, because the dimensional tolerance of the battery is large, it is difficult to ensure the stability of the battery after installation by managing the size of the battery compartment, and therefore additional measures are generally required to ensure the stability and no play of the battery after installation.

The existing battery fixing schemes mainly comprise the following steps: one is to wind compressible foam outside the battery, so that the battery is more stable in the cabin after being installed; the other is that compressible foam is added on the inner surface of the battery cover to ensure the stability of the battery in the cabin; and in addition, structures such as a resin elastic sheet are added in the battery compartment, so that the stability of the battery after installation is ensured. However, the battery is fixed by using foam or resin spring plates, which increases the assembly difficulty and cost, and the spring plate structure is easy to break after the environmental vibration experiment and has poor stability.

In addition, because the battery compartment needs to have certain waterproof performance, the existing battery compartment is mostly waterproof by additionally installing a sealing ring or wrapping a layer of soft material on the outer side of the hard body of the battery cover, and the sealing structure only can play a single waterproof role and also has the problems of high assembly difficulty and high cost.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a battery compartment structure. The battery compartment structure can improve the stability of the battery after being installed, can improve the waterproof effect of the battery compartment, and can save the cost and reduce the assembly difficulty.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device having the battery compartment structure.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a battery compartment structure, including a battery compartment body and a battery compartment cover, wherein the battery compartment body is provided with a battery compartment inner cavity for accommodating a battery, the battery compartment cover is used for fixing the battery in the battery compartment inner cavity of the battery compartment body, a first elastic body which is closed in the circumferential direction and can be tightly pressed and sealed by the battery compartment cover is arranged at a hatch of the battery compartment inner cavity, and a second elastic body for elastically supporting the battery from the bottom and/or a third elastic body for elastically supporting the battery from the side are arranged in the battery compartment inner cavity; the second elastic body and/or the third elastic body are connected with the first elastic body into a whole, and the first elastic body, the second elastic body and/or the third elastic body are integrally formed with the battery cabin body.

Preferably, the third elastic body is located at one end or two ends of the second elastic body, the lower end of the third elastic body is connected with the second elastic body into a whole, and the upper end of the third elastic body is connected with the first elastic body into a whole.

Preferably, the battery compartment comprises a plurality of second elastic bodies and a plurality of third elastic bodies which are strip-shaped, and the plurality of second elastic bodies and the plurality of third elastic bodies are mutually parallel and distributed at intervals in the inner cavity of the battery compartment.

Preferably, the first elastic body, the second elastic body and the third elastic body are integrally formed with the battery compartment body by a two-color molding injection molding process.

Preferably, the first, second and third elastomers are thermoplastic elastomeric materials.

Preferably, the first elastic body is in a rectangular frame shape, and includes a rectangular base portion and a rectangular protruding portion located at an inner side edge of the base portion, and the protruding portion is higher than the base portion and has a width smaller than that of the base portion.

In order to achieve the above another object, the present invention provides an electronic device, including a butt-jointed housing, a battery compartment formed on one of the housings, and an electronic device disposed inside the housing, wherein the battery compartment is provided with the battery compartment structure as described in any one of the above.

Preferably, a fourth elastic body which is closed in the circumferential direction and can be pressed and sealed by the other shell is arranged on the butt joint surface of the shell provided with the battery compartment; the fourth elastic body is connected with the first elastic body into a whole, and the fourth elastic body and the shell are integrally formed.

Preferably, the fourth elastic body is provided with at least one semicircular part and/or at least one U-shaped part corresponding to the interface of the electronic device.

Preferably an in-vehicle telematics processor.

The utility model provides a battery compartment structure is equipped with first elastomer in the hatch department of battery compartment inner chamber, be equipped with second elastomer and/or third elastomer in the inside of battery compartment inner chamber simultaneously, second elastomer and/or third elastomer can be followed bottom and/or side and are supported the battery, thereby fix the battery in the battery compartment inner chamber, it is firm after guaranteeing the battery installation, no drunkenness, and, second elastomer and/or third elastomer and first elastomer are even as an organic whole, with battery compartment body integrated into one piece, do not need in addition to process separately and make, then assemble again, avoided adopting extra structure and spare part to carry out waterproof and improve the installation stability of battery, the cost is saved, the degree of difficulty of equipment has been reduced.

The utility model also provides an electronic equipment, because the battery compartment structure has above-mentioned technological effect, then the electronic equipment that the battery compartment was equipped with this battery compartment structure should also have corresponding technological effect.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is an isometric view of a T-BOX housing with a battery compartment structure disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention disposed thereon;

FIG. 2 is a partial schematic view of A-A of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a top view of the T-BOX housing shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the T-BOX housing shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 5 is a schematic overall structure view of the first elastic body, the second elastic body, the third elastic body and the fourth elastic body connected together.

In the figure:

1. the battery cabin body 2, the battery cabin cover 3, the battery cabin inner cavity 4, the connecting lug 5, the connecting hole 6, the first elastic body 7, the second elastic body 8, the third elastic body 9, the shell 10, the fourth elastic body 11, the semicircular part 12, the U-shaped part 13 and the connecting part

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical field better understand the solution of the present invention, the following detailed description of the present invention is provided with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description.

In this document, terms such as "upper, lower, left, right" and the like are established based on positional relationships shown in the drawings, and the corresponding positional relationships may vary depending on the drawings, and therefore, they are not to be construed as absolute limitations on the scope of protection; moreover, relational terms such as "first" and "second," and the like, may be used solely to distinguish one element from another element having the same name, without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such elements.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, fig. 1 is an isometric view of a T-BOX housing, on which a battery compartment structure disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention is disposed; fig. 2 is a partial schematic view of a-a of fig. 1.

As shown in the drawings, in an embodiment, a battery compartment structure is provided, which includes a battery compartment body 1 and a battery compartment cover 2, the battery compartment body 1 is provided with a battery compartment inner cavity 3 for accommodating a battery, and the battery compartment cover 2 is used for fixing the battery in the battery compartment inner cavity 3 of the battery compartment body 1, which may be applied to various electronic devices requiring power supply of the battery, such as a vehicle-mounted Telematics (T-BOX), and the battery compartment structure is further described below mainly by taking the battery compartment provided on the T-BOX casing as an example.

Specifically, the casing (only half casing provided with a battery compartment is shown in the figure, the other half casing is not shown) of the T-BOX is generally rectangular and has a certain thickness, two ends of the casing are provided with connecting lugs 4 for connection and fixation, connecting holes 5 are formed in the lugs, the inner side of the casing is a cavity for accommodating an electric device, the outer side of the casing is provided with a rectangular part recessed inwards in a region close to one side edge to form a battery compartment inner cavity 3 for accommodating the battery, and after the battery is loaded, the battery compartment inner cavity 3 can be closed by a rectangular battery compartment cover 2 to fix the battery.

Be equipped with first elastomer 6 in the hatch department of battery compartment inner chamber 3, first elastomer 6 is the rectangle frame shape closed on circumference, can compress tightly sealed by battery compartment lid 2, be equipped with second elastomer 7 and third elastomer 8 in the inside of battery compartment inner chamber 3, second elastomer 7 is used for supporting the battery with the elastic mode from the bottom, third elastomer 8 is used for supporting the battery with the elastic mode from the side, second elastomer 7 links as an organic whole through third elastomer 8 and first elastomer 6, second elastomer 7 and third elastomer 8 and battery compartment 1 integrated into one piece.

More specifically, the third elastic body 8 is located at one end (or two ends) of the second elastic body 7, the lower end of the third elastic body is connected with the second elastic body 7 into a whole, the upper end of the third elastic body is connected with the first elastic body 6 into a whole, the three strip-shaped second elastic bodies 7 and the three strip-shaped third elastic bodies 8 are mutually parallel and distributed at intervals in the inner cavity of the battery compartment, and the supporting surface of the third elastic bodies, which is in contact with the battery, is higher than the inner surface of the inner cavity 3 of the battery compartment, so that the third elastic bodies can be in full contact with the battery and generate enough elastic deformation to.

Of course, the second elastic body 7 and the third elastic body 8 are not limited to the shapes shown in the drawings, and may be determined according to the shape of the battery, as long as they can conform to the shape of the battery and provide sufficient elastic support after compression. For example, the second elastic body 7 and the third elastic body 8 may be offset from each other, or the second elastic body 7 may have a mesh shape, or the third elastic body 8 may have a circular arc shape to accommodate a battery having a circular outer profile.

In some embodiments, the first Elastomer 6, the second Elastomer 7, and the third Elastomer 8 are all Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE), and the first Elastomer 6, the second Elastomer 7, and the third Elastomer 8 are integrally formed with the battery compartment 1 by a two-color plastic molding process. The two-color plastic molding process is a prior art, and refers to a molding process in which two different materials are injected into the same set of mold, so that an injected part is formed by the two materials, some materials are different in hardness and some materials are different in color, and therefore, the process is conventionally called as a two-color plastic molding process in the industry.

In other embodiments, the first elastic body 6 has a rectangular base portion and a rectangular protruding portion located at the inner edge of the base portion, the protruding portion is higher than the base portion and has a smaller width than the base portion, and the first elastic body has a stepped shape in cross section so as to better fit with the battery compartment cover 2, and the two have good sealing performance after being compressed.

Referring to fig. 3, 4 and 5, fig. 3 is a top view of the T-BOX housing shown in fig. 1; FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the T-BOX housing shown in FIG. 1; fig. 5 is a schematic overall structure view of the first elastic body, the second elastic body, the third elastic body and the fourth elastic body connected together.

In addition to the above battery compartment structure, the present invention further provides an electronic device, which may specifically be a Telematics processor (T-BOX), and the electronic device has two butt-jointed housings 9, and the two housings 9 are provided with an electronic device inside, and one of the housings 9 is provided with a battery compartment, and the battery compartment adopts the above battery compartment structure.

As a further improvement, a fourth elastic body 10 closed in the circumferential direction is provided on the abutting surface of the housing 9 provided with the battery compartment, and after the two housings 9 are abutted, the fourth elastic body 10 can be compressed and sealed by the two housings 9, so that the telematics device has good waterproof performance.

Similarly, the fourth elastic body 10 is made of a thermoplastic elastic body material, and is connected with the first elastic body 6 into a whole through a whole rectangular connecting part 13 made of the same material, one end of the second elastic body 7 is also connected with the rectangular connecting part into a whole, and like the first elastic body 6, the second elastic body 7 and the third elastic body 8, the fourth elastic body 10 is also integrally formed with the battery compartment body 1 through a two-color plastic forming process. If the first elastic body 6, the second elastic body 7, the third elastic body 8 and the fourth elastic body 10 are peeled off the battery compartment 1 and the outer casing 9, the overall shape is a member which is connected as a whole as shown in fig. 5, the plane of the first elastic body 6 is parallel to the plane of the main body of the fourth elastic body 10, the first elastic body 6 is positioned above the main body of the fourth elastic body 10, the upper edge of the connecting part 13 is connected with the first elastic body 6 as a whole, the lower edge is connected with the fourth elastic body 10 as a whole, the third elastic body 8 is parallel to the connecting part 13, and the second elastic body 7 is perpendicular to the connecting part 13.

In order to effectively seal the interface, the fourth elastic body 10 is provided with three semicircular parts 11 and a "U" shaped part 12 corresponding to the interface of the electronic device, the shape of the semicircular parts conforms to the outer contour of the interface component, and the semicircular parts can better match with the interface component, so that the sealing performance is improved, and the sealing weak point at the interface part is prevented. It is understood that the shape and number of the sealing portions of the fourth elastic body 10 corresponding to the electronic device interface may be changed according to the interface components.

Similarly to the first elastic body 6, the fourth elastic body 10 also has a rectangular base portion and a rectangular protruding portion located at the inner side edge of the base portion, the protruding portion is higher than the base portion and has a smaller width than the base portion, and in the cross section, the fourth elastic body 10 is in a step shape so as to better match with the other housing 9, so that the two housings 9 have good sealing performance after being compressed. The difference is that the convex part of the first elastic body 6 is convex outwards, and the convex part of the fourth elastic body 10 is convex outwards, and the convex directions of the two parts are just opposite.

The T-BOX is one of four major parts in the car networking system. The vehicle networking system comprises a host, a vehicle-mounted T-BOX, a mobile phone APP and a background system, wherein the host is mainly used for controlling various functions in a vehicle, and the vehicle-mounted T-BOX is mainly used for communicating with the background system and the mobile phone APP, so that the functions of obtaining vehicle information and controlling the vehicle by the mobile phone APP are realized.

After a user sends a control instruction through the mobile phone APP, the background system sends a monitoring request to the vehicle-mounted T-BOX, and after the vehicle obtains the control instruction, the vehicle sends a control message through the CAN bus and realizes the control of the vehicle, and then the operation result is fed back to the mobile phone APP. Through this function, the user can carry out operations such as starting, opening and closing the window, opening and closing the air conditioner to the vehicle in long-range, in addition, can also carry out long-range vehicle location, inquiry car condition information through it, and the urgent help of vehicle warning etc. please refer to prior art for the rest of structures about T-BOX, and this text is no longer repeated.

The above embodiments are merely preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not limited thereto, and different embodiments can be obtained by performing targeted adjustment according to actual needs. For example, the battery compartment cover 2 is formed directly from the housing 9 of the electronic device, or the third elastic body 8 supports the battery from both sides, or the fourth elastic body 10 is directly integrated with the first elastic body 6, and so on. This is not illustrated here, since many implementations are possible.

Because the first elastic body 6 is arranged at the hatch of the inner cavity 3 of the battery compartment, and the second elastic body 7 and the third elastic body 8 are arranged inside the inner cavity 3 of the battery compartment, and a fourth elastic body 10 positioned outside the battery compartment is provided, the second elastic body 7 and the third elastic body 8 can support the battery from the bottom and the side, thereby fixing the battery in the inner cavity of the battery compartment, ensuring the stability and no play after the battery is installed, ensuring the sealing performance after the shell 9 is connected by the fourth elastomer 10, moreover, the second elastic body 7, the third elastic body 8 and the fourth shell 10 are connected with the first elastic body 6 into a whole and are integrally formed with the battery cabin body 1 without separate processing and manufacturing, then assemble, avoided adopting extra structure and spare part to carry out waterproof and improve the installation stability of battery, practiced thrift the cost, reduced the degree of difficulty of equipment.

It is right above that the utility model provides a battery compartment structure and electronic equipment have carried out detailed introduction. The principles and embodiments of the present invention have been explained herein using specific examples, and the above descriptions of the embodiments are only used to help understand the core concepts of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the principle of the present invention, the present invention can be further modified and modified, and such modifications and modifications also fall within the protection scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. A battery compartment structure comprises a battery compartment body and a battery compartment cover, wherein the battery compartment body is provided with a battery compartment inner cavity for accommodating batteries, and the battery compartment cover is used for fixing the batteries in the battery compartment inner cavity of the battery compartment body; the second elastic body and/or the third elastic body are connected with the first elastic body into a whole, and the first elastic body, the second elastic body and/or the third elastic body are integrally formed with the battery cabin body.

2. The battery compartment structure of claim 1, wherein the third elastic body is located at one or both ends of the second elastic body, and has a lower end integrally connected to the second elastic body and an upper end integrally connected to the first elastic body.

3. The battery compartment structure of claim 2, comprising a plurality of the second elastic bodies and the third elastic bodies in strip shapes, wherein the plurality of the second elastic bodies and the plurality of the third elastic bodies are parallel to each other and are distributed at intervals in the inner cavity of the battery compartment.

4. The battery compartment structure of claim 3, wherein the first, second, and third elastomers are integrally formed with the battery compartment using a two-color plastic molding process.

5. The battery compartment structure of claim 4, wherein the first, second, and third elastomers are thermoplastic elastomer materials.

6. The battery compartment structure according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the first elastic body has a rectangular frame shape, and includes a rectangular base portion and a rectangular protrusion portion located at an inner side edge of the base portion, the protrusion portion being higher than the base portion and having a smaller width than the base portion.

7. An electronic device comprising opposing housings, a battery compartment formed in one of the housings, and an electronic device disposed within the housing, wherein the battery compartment is provided with a battery compartment structure as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein a fourth elastic body which is closed in a circumferential direction and can be press-sealed by the other housing is provided on a mating face of the housing provided with the battery compartment; the fourth elastic body is connected with the first elastic body into a whole, and the fourth elastic body and the shell are integrally formed.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the fourth elastic body is provided with at least one semicircular part and/or at least one U-shaped part corresponding to the interface of the electronic device.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, being an in-vehicle telematics processor.