CN209897468U

CN209897468U - Sealing structure and electronic device

Info

Publication number: CN209897468U
Application number: CN201920399180.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李书星
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-03-27
Filing date: 2019-03-27
Publication date: 2020-01-03
Anticipated expiration: 2029-03-27

Abstract

The utility model provides a sealing structure and an electronic device; the sealing structure is applied to electronic equipment and comprises a shell and a functional assembly, wherein the shell is provided with an opening, and the functional assembly can be contained in the shell in a driving manner or is exposed out of the shell through the opening; the functional assembly comprises a bracket and a sealing element, and the sealing element is sleeved on the outer wall of the bracket; the casing is including being used for supplying the chamber is acceptd in the function block activity, the opening intercommunication accept the chamber, it is formed with the recess on the inner wall in chamber to accept, the sealing member at least part accept in the recess and with the cell wall and/or the tank bottom butt of recess. The utility model provides a technical scheme has solved the relatively poor problem of waterproof dustproof performance of current telescopic functional component.

Description

Sealing structure and electronic device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the field of communication technology, especially, relate to a seal structure and electronic equipment.

Background

At present, electronic devices such as mobile communication terminals, tablet computers, PDAs (Personal Digital assistants), and notebook computers have become one of the indispensable devices in daily life. In order to achieve a high screen ratio of a display screen, it has become a common design method to design functional components such as a camera or a speaker in a telescopic manner. However, in order to ensure the smoothness of the movement of the telescopic functional assembly, the functional assembly and the housing are not completely connected in a sealing manner, and a certain gap is usually formed between the functional assembly and the housing, so that dust, moisture and the like are easily introduced into the housing of the electronic device.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An embodiment of the utility model provides a seal structure and electronic equipment to solve the relatively poor problem of waterproof dustproof performance of current telescopic functional assembly.

In order to solve the above problem, the utility model discloses a realize like this:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a sealing structure applied to an electronic device, where the sealing structure includes a housing and a functional component, where the housing is provided with an opening, and the functional component can be contained in the housing in a driven manner or be exposed outside the housing through the opening; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the functional component comprises a bracket and a sealing element, and the sealing element is sleeved on the outer wall of the bracket;

the casing is including being used for supplying the chamber is acceptd in the function block activity, the opening intercommunication accept the chamber, it is formed with the recess on the inner wall in chamber to accept, the sealing member at least part accept in the recess and with the cell wall and/or the tank bottom butt of recess.

In a second aspect, the embodiment of the present invention further provides an electronic device, including the sealing structure in the first aspect.

The utility model provides a technical scheme, be equipped with the chamber of acceping that supplies the function block activity in seal structure's the casing, be formed with the recess on acceping the inner wall in chamber, and the cover is equipped with the sealing member on the lateral wall of support among the function block, the at least part of sealing member is acceptd in the recess, and sealing member and recess butt, the sealing member is also exactly press from both sides and establish between support and the inner wall of acceping the chamber, and like this, there is not the gap for support and acceping between the intracavity wall, just also can prevent the dust, small material such as liquid gets into the inner space of casing, seal structure's waterproof.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the description of the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive labor.

Fig. 1 is an exploded view of a sealing structure provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a receiving cavity in the housing of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of the sealing structure provided in the embodiment of FIG. 1 applied to an electronic device with functional components housed in a housing;

fig. 4 is a partial sectional view of the sealing structure provided in the embodiment of fig. 1 applied to an electronic device with functional elements exposed outside the housing.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, of the embodiments of the present invention. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, fig. 1 is an exploded view of a sealing structure according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a receiving cavity in the housing of FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of the sealing structure provided in the embodiment of FIG. 1 applied to an electronic device with functional components housed in a housing; fig. 4 is a partial sectional view of the sealing structure provided in the embodiment of fig. 1 applied to an electronic device with functional elements exposed outside the housing.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the sealing structure provided by the embodiment of the present invention is applied to an electronic device, the sealing structure includes a housing 10 and a functional module 20, an opening is disposed on the housing 10, and the functional module 20 can be drivingly accommodated in the housing 10 or exposed outside the housing 10 through the opening. The functional component 20 comprises a bracket 21 and a sealing element 22, wherein the sealing element 22 is sleeved on the outer wall of the bracket 21; the housing 10 includes a receiving cavity 12 for the functional module 20 to move, the opening communicates with the receiving cavity 12, a groove 11 is formed on the inner wall of the receiving cavity 12, and the sealing member 22 is at least partially received in the groove 11 and abuts against the groove wall and/or the groove bottom of the groove 11.

It should be noted that the functional component 20 may refer to a functional module for implementing some specific functions of the electronic device, for example, the functional component 20 may be a camera component, a speaker component, a card holder component, and the like.

Referring to fig. 3 and 4, in the embodiment of the present invention, the functional component 20 is a camera component, the electronic device applying the sealing structure in the embodiment may be a mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal further includes a battery cover 40 and a display screen 50 tightly connected to the housing 10. The functional assembly 20 includes a support 21 and a sealing member 22, the support 21 is provided with a camera 30, and may also be provided with a sensor (one or more of various types of sensors, such as an infrared sensor, a distance sensor, a light sensor, etc.), a photosensitive element, and other components for realizing shooting. At least one camera 30 can be arranged on the bracket 21, and the camera 30 can at least realize the shooting of the image at the side of the display screen 50 of the electronic equipment; of course, the support 21 may also be driven to rotate to capture images at different angles. The functional component 20 can be accommodated in the housing 10 in a driven manner or exposed outside the housing 10, for example, the bracket 21 can be connected with a driving mechanism, so that the camera 30 component in the electronic device does not occupy the display space of the display screen 50 any more, which is beneficial to the development of the electronic device toward a high screen occupation ratio.

The components of the camera 30 can be contained in the housing 10 in a driven manner or exposed outside the housing 10, or the functional component 20 or the bracket 21 can be driven to rotate, and the driving principle and the shooting principle of the camera 30 can refer to the design principle of the existing telescopic camera, which is not described in detail in this embodiment.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, the housing 10 includes a receiving cavity 12 for the functional element 20 to move, the receiving cavity 12 is communicated with an opening of the housing 10, so that the functional element 20 is driven to perform a telescopic motion in a depth direction of the receiving cavity 12, and moves outwards to be exposed outside the housing 10 through the opening or moves inwards to be received in the housing 10. The size of the functional component 20 in the depth direction of the accommodating cavity 12 is larger than the depth size of the accommodating cavity 12, that is, when the functional component 20 is accommodated in the housing 10, a part of the structure may be accommodated in the accommodating cavity 12, so as to reduce the contact area between the functional component 20 and the accommodating cavity 12 as much as possible, and reduce the frictional resistance of the accommodating cavity 12 to the functional component 20; for example, the bracket 21 may be received in the receiving cavity 12, and other structures of the functional component 20, such as the driving mechanism, may be located outside the receiving cavity 12.

In the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the inner wall of the receiving cavity 12 is formed with a groove 11, and at least a part of the sealing member 22 is received in the groove 11, that is, the notch of the groove 11 faces the bracket 21; and the sealing element 22 abuts against the groove 11, for example, the sealing element 22 may abut against the groove bottom of the groove 11, so that the sealing element 22 is clamped between the bracket 21 and the accommodating cavity 12 of the housing 10, and the arrangement of the sealing element 22 can prevent micro substances such as dust and liquid from entering the inner space of the housing 10, thereby ensuring that the sealing structure has better waterproof and dustproof performances, and ensuring the service life and the operation performance of components accommodated in the inner space of the housing 10.

In addition, the functional component 20 can be drivingly accommodated in the housing 10 or exposed outside the housing 10, that is, the functional component 20 is movable relative to the housing 10, and the bracket 21 is also movable, so that the movement of the bracket 21 will drive the sealing member 22 sleeved on the outer wall thereof to move together; at least a part of the sealing member 22 is accommodated in the groove 11, which means that the groove 11 has a larger size, so that the sealing member 22 can move in the groove 11, thereby ensuring the smooth implementation of the moving function of the functional assembly 20.

To ensure the sealing member 22 and the bracket 21 can move synchronously, the sealing member 22 may be adhered to the outer wall of the bracket 21 to ensure the stability of the connection between the sealing member 22 and the bracket 21 and prevent the sealing member 22 from falling off.

In this embodiment, a mounting groove 23 is formed on an outer wall of the bracket 21, and the sealing member 22 includes a first portion fitted into the mounting groove 23 and a second portion exposed outside the mounting groove 23. The installation groove 23 is provided such that the sealing member 22 is tightly coupled to the bracket 21 by being inserted into the installation groove 23, thereby achieving the synchronous movement of the sealing member 22 and the bracket 21. It should be noted that a part of the sealing member 22 is accommodated in the groove 11, that is, at least a part of the second part of the sealing member 22 which is not accommodated in the mounting groove 23 is accommodated in the groove 11, or the second part may be entirely accommodated in the groove 11.

Wherein, sealing member 22 has elasticity, and sealing member 22 is connected for interference fit with mounting groove 23. As a specific implementation manner, the material of the sealing element 22 may be silica gel, the size of the sealing element 22 may be larger than that of the mounting groove 23, and then the sealing element 22 of silica gel can be tightly clamped in the mounting groove 23, so that the sealing element 22 cannot be easily separated from the mounting groove 23, the connection stability of the sealing element 22 and the bracket 21 is ensured, and the sealing performance of the sealing structure is also ensured by the sealing element 22.

The groove 11 includes a first groove wall 111 and a second groove wall 112 disposed oppositely, and when the functional component 20 is accommodated in the housing 10, the second portion abuts against the first groove wall 111, and when the functional component 20 is exposed outside the housing 10, the second portion abuts against the second groove wall 112. The movement of the functional component 20 can drive the sealing element 22 to move in the groove 11, as shown in fig. 4, when the functional component 20 moves to be exposed outside the housing 10, the second portion of the sealing element 22 exposed outside the mounting groove 23 abuts against the second groove wall 112 of the groove 11, and the second groove wall 112 is close to the opening, so that the tiny substances such as dust and liquid can be prevented from entering the groove 11, and further the tiny substances such as dust and liquid are prevented from entering the space inside the second groove wall 112 of the housing 10. As shown in fig. 3, when the functional module 20 is accommodated in the housing 10, the second portion of the sealing member 22 abuts against the first groove wall 111 of the groove 11, and thus, it is possible to prevent fine substances such as dust and liquid from entering a deeper space of the housing 10. Through the design, while the moving smoothness of the functional assembly 20 is ensured, the sealing element 22 and the groove 11 have different relative positions according to two moving states of the functional assembly 20, and the abutting of the sealing element 22 and the second groove wall 112 or the first groove wall 111 blocks the dust, liquid and other tiny substances from continuously flowing to the inside of the shell 10, so that the sealing structure has better waterproof and dustproof performances.

In addition, the second part of the sealing element 22 exposed out of the mounting groove 23 is accommodated in the groove 11, the bracket 21 is limited by the groove 11, the moving distance of the bracket 21 relative to the housing 10 is determined by the size of the groove 11, the larger the size of the groove 11 is, the larger the moving distance of the bracket 21 is, and the movement of the bracket 21 in a reasonable range is ensured by the size of the groove 11.

Further, the side of the second part of the seal 22 facing away from the holder 21 abuts the groove bottom of the groove 11. That is, a first side surface of the sealing member 22 is closely attached to the bracket 21, a second side surface of the sealing member 22 is closely attached to the housing 10 forming the receiving cavity 12, and the first side surface and the second side surface are oppositely disposed. In this way, the sealing member 22 is tightly clamped between the functional module 20 and the housing 10, and the sealing member 22 blocks fine substances such as dust and liquid from entering the space inside the housing 10 on the side of the sealing member 22 facing the opening, so as to better protect other components contained in the space inside the housing 10, ensure the service life of the other components, and ensure the sealing effect of the sealing structure.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the notch of the groove 11 is flush with the notch of the mounting groove 23, so that the second portion of the sealing member 22 exposed from the mounting groove 23 is also completely accommodated in the groove 11.

In addition, the mounting groove 23 is provided at one end of the bracket 21 away from the opening. It is understood that the functional assembly 20 can be driven to be exposed outside the housing 10 or be accommodated in the housing 10, that is, the bracket 21 and the sealing member 22 disposed on the outer side wall of the bracket 21 are movable relative to the housing 10. In order to ensure a reasonable movement range of the bracket 21, for example, in the case of providing the camera 30 on the bracket 21, it is required to ensure that the bracket 21 can move to expose the camera 30 out of the housing 10 for the shooting function. The mounting groove 23 is located at one end of the support 21 far away from the opening, which means that the notch of the groove 11 has a larger size, so that the contact area between the support 21 and the housing 10 is reduced, the frictional resistance of the housing 10 to the support 21 can be reduced, and the smoothness of the movement of the support 21 is improved.

The embodiment of the utility model provides an electronic equipment is still provided, and this electronic equipment includes the seal structure as in the above embodiment, has the whole technical characteristic of seal structure as in the above embodiment to can reach the same technological effect, for avoiding repetition, no longer describe here.

Wherein, the electronic equipment can include: at least one of a cell phone, a tablet, an e-book reader, an MP3 player, an MP4 player, a digital camera, a laptop, a car computer, a desktop computer, a set-top box, a smart tv, a wearable device.

The above embodiments are only specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A sealing structure is applied to electronic equipment and is characterized by comprising a shell and a functional assembly, wherein the shell is provided with an opening, and the functional assembly can be contained in the shell in a driving manner or is exposed out of the shell through the opening; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

2. The sealing structure according to claim 1, wherein a mounting groove is formed on an outer wall of the bracket, and the sealing member includes a first portion fitted into the mounting groove and a second portion exposed outside the mounting groove.

3. The seal structure of claim 2, wherein the groove includes first and second oppositely disposed groove walls;

when the functional component is accommodated in the shell, the second part is abutted against the first groove wall; when the functional component is exposed outside the shell, the second part is abutted with the second groove wall.

4. The seal structure of claim 2, wherein a side of the second portion facing away from the bracket abuts a groove bottom of the groove.

5. The sealing structure of claim 2, wherein the notch of the groove is flush with the notch of the mounting slot.

6. The seal structure of claim 2, wherein the sealing member has elasticity, and the sealing member is connected with the mounting groove in an interference fit manner.

7. The seal structure of claim 2, wherein the mounting slot is provided at an end of the bracket remote from the opening.

8. The sealing structure of claim 1, wherein the functional component is a camera assembly.

9. An electronic device characterized by comprising a sealing structure according to any one of claims 1 to 8.