CN211959247U - Shell of customer premises equipment and customer premises equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a leading equipment of customer's shell and leading equipment of customer, this shell includes: the shell is of a hollow structure; and the metal mesh layer is arranged on the outer surface of the shell and used for transmitting and receiving wireless signals. The utility model discloses in, the metal mesh layer can play the effect of the shaft-like antenna of current router, promptly the utility model provides a shell itself just has communication function, so compare in prior art, the utility model discloses a set up the mode and need not to set up shaft-like antenna again, can reduce the space that customer leading equipment occupied, improve customer leading equipment's suitability for customer leading equipment can install in less space. Meanwhile, the metal grid layer is arranged on the outer surface of the shell, so that the adverse effect of the shell on the signal transmission of the metal grid layer can be reduced.

Description

Shell of customer premises equipment and customer premises equipment

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a communication equipment field especially relates to a shell and leading equipment of customer of leading equipment.

Background

With the development of society, client front-end devices such as routers and the like are widely applied, but the existing client front-end devices require a large installation space, and the application of the client front-end devices is limited. For example, as shown in fig. 1, taking a router as an example, a conventional router includes a housing 10a and an antenna 20a disposed on the housing 10a, the antenna 20a of the conventional router is generally a rod-shaped structure, and the antenna 20a is rotatably disposed outside the housing 10 a. When the router is used, the housing 10 needs to be placed on a mounting surface of a supporting object, and the antenna 20a needs to be rotated by a certain angle, so that the axis of the antenna 20a is perpendicular to the mounting surface or forms other included angles, and thus a larger mounting space is required for the conventional router due to the arrangement of the antenna 20 a.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of the above, it is desirable to provide a housing of a customer premises equipment and a customer premises equipment, which solve the problem that the existing customer premises equipment requires a large installation space.

A housing for a customer premises equipment comprising: the shell is of a hollow structure; and the metal mesh layer is arranged on the outer surface of the shell and used for transmitting and receiving wireless signals.

The utility model discloses in, the metal mesh layer can play the effect of the shaft-like antenna of current router, promptly the utility model provides a shell itself just has communication function, so compare in prior art, adopt when customer's front equipment such as router the utility model discloses a need not to set up shaft-like antenna again when setting up the mode, can reduce the space that customer's front equipment occupied, improve customer's front equipment's suitability for customer's front equipment can install in less space. Meanwhile, the metal grid layer is arranged on the outer surface of the shell, so that the adverse effect of the shell on the signal transmission of the metal grid layer can be reduced.

Further, the shell is provided with a through hole, and the through hole penetrates from the outer surface of the shell to the inner surface of the shell; the shell further comprises a feed point and a feed line, the feed point is arranged on the inner surface, and the feed line penetrates through the through hole so as to electrically connect the metal grid layer and the feed point together. This arrangement may facilitate assembly of the customer premises equipment.

Furthermore, a latticed first groove is formed in the outer surface of the shell, and grid lines of the metal grid layer are embedded in the first groove, wherein the grid lines surround meshes forming the metal grid layer. Therefore, the metal grid layer is arranged on the shell more firmly, the metal grid layer can be protected better, and the service life of the metal grid layer is prolonged.

Furthermore, the shell also comprises a bearing layer arranged on the outer surface of the shell, and the metal grid layer is formed on the bearing layer. Therefore, the shell and the metal grid layer can be produced simultaneously, and the production efficiency is improved.

Furthermore, the bearing layer is positioned between the metal grid layer and the outer surface of the shell, so that the adverse effect of the bearing layer on the signal transmission of the metal grid layer can be reduced; or, the metal grid layer is located the bearer layer with between the casing surface, can protect the metal grid layer through the bearer layer like this, avoid the metal grid layer to receive foreign object to scrape and bump, improve the life of metal grid layer.

Further, the bearing layer is a transparent layer; and/or be equipped with latticed second recess on the bearer layer, the gridlines on metal grid layer inlay and establish in the second recess, so not only make metal grid layer more firm that sets up on the bearer layer, can also make metal grid layer obtain better protection, improve metal grid layer's life.

Further, the bearing layer is formed after the UV glue is cured.

Further, the shell is characterized by further comprising a substrate layer, wherein the UV adhesive is arranged on the substrate layer; the substrate layer is located between the UV glue and the outer surface of the shell, or the UV glue is located between the substrate layer and the outer surface of the shell.

Furthermore, the width of the grid lines of the metal grid layer is less than or equal to 15um, so as to improve the hiding effect of the metal grid layer elements; and/or the thickness of the metal grid layer is 0.5um-5um, so that the hiding effect of the metal grid layer can be improved; and/or the mesh of the metal mesh layer is surrounded by a plurality of sections of mesh lines, wherein the length of each section of the mesh lines is 50um-500um, so that the transparency of the metal mesh layer is higher.

Further, the metal mesh layer is formed in a nano-imprinting mode; or the metal grid layer is formed by etching the metal layer.

Further, the client front-end device is a router.

A customer premises equipment comprising a housing as claimed in any preceding claim.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a conventional router;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a router according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a router according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a router according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a router according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a router according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. The present invention can be embodied in many different forms other than those specifically described herein, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that similar modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and it is therefore not to be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed below.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention.

Customer premises equipment is a mobile signal access equipment that receives mobile signal and use wireless WIFI signal to transfer out, and wherein, customer premises equipment can be products such as router, broadband wireless cat, for the description convenience, describes utility model for the example with the router in the following.

As shown in fig. 2 and 3, in the present embodiment, the router 100 includes a housing 10, and an electronic component 20 disposed inside the housing 10. The housing 10 includes a casing 1, and a metal mesh layer 2 attached to the casing 1. The shell 1 is a hollow structure, the electronic element 20 is arranged in the hollow part of the shell 1, and the metal mesh layer 2 is arranged on the outer surface 11 of the shell 1. In the present embodiment, the metal mesh layer 2 may be made of copper, silver, aluminum, etc., and is electrically connected to the electronic component 20 for transmitting and receiving wireless signals. In addition, in the present embodiment, the electronic component 20 may be a controller or the like of the router 100.

In the present embodiment, the metal mesh layer 2 can function as a rod antenna of the conventional router 100, that is, the housing 1 provided in the present embodiment has a communication function, so compared to the prior art, the arrangement manner of the present embodiment does not need to provide a rod antenna similar to that in fig. 1, the space occupied by the router 100 can be reduced, the applicability of the router 100 is improved, and the router 100 can be installed in a smaller space. Meanwhile, the metal mesh layer 2 is arranged on the outer surface 11 of the shell 1, so that the adverse effect of the shell 1 on the signal transmission of the metal mesh layer 2 can be reduced.

As shown in fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the metal mesh layer 2 includes a first surface 21 and a second surface 22 which are opposite to each other, and the first surface 21 is connected to the outer surface 11. In addition, the metal mesh layer 2 has a plurality of meshes 23, and each mesh 23 penetrates from the first surface 21 to the second surface 22. Further, in the present embodiment, each cell 23 is surrounded by a plurality of sections of mesh lines 24, and the router 100 transmits a wireless signal to the outside through the mesh lines 24.

As shown in fig. 2 and 3, in the present embodiment, the housing 1 is provided with a through hole 12, and the through hole 12 penetrates from the outer surface 11 of the housing 1 to the inner surface 13 of the housing 1. As shown in fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the housing 10 further has a feed point 3, the feed point 3 being arranged on an inner surface 13 of the housing 1. In addition, the housing 10 further has a feed line 4, the feed line 4 passes through the through hole 12, and both ends of the feed line 4 are electrically connected to the feed point 3 and the metal mesh layer 2, respectively, so as to electrically connect the metal mesh layer 2 and the feed point 3 together. During assembly, the feeding point 3 may be electrically connected to the electronic component 20 through the conductive wire 30, so as to electrically connect the electronic component 20 and the metal mesh layer 2. In this embodiment, the feed point 3 may be a copper pin, and the feed line 4 may be a copper wire.

It is understood that, in other embodiments, the electronic component 20 and the metal mesh layer 2 can also be directly electrically connected together through the conductive line 30, that is, the conductive line 30 is disposed through the through hole 12, and both ends of the conductive line are electrically connected to the electronic component 20 and the metal mesh layer 2, respectively.

In this embodiment, the metal mesh layer 2 is a transparent conductor, so that the metal mesh layer 2 can be hidden, and thus the adverse effect of the metal mesh layer 2 on the appearance of the router 100 can be effectively avoided. In addition, in this embodiment, the thickness of the metal mesh layer 2 is 0.5um to 5um, and the width of the mesh lines 24 is less than or equal to 15um, so that the hiding effect of the metal mesh layer 2 can be improved. Wherein, the thickness of the metal mesh layer 2 refers to the dimension between the first surface 21 and the second surface 22, and the thickness of the mesh lines 24 is equal to the thickness of the metal mesh layer 2.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the present embodiment, the mesh 23 is square, and the mesh 23 is surrounded by four sections of grid lines 24. Each section of grid lines 24 has a length of 50um-500um, which allows for a higher transparency of the metal grid layer 2.

In production, the metal mesh layer 2 may be directly formed on the outer surface 11 of the housing 1, for example, a metal layer may be first disposed on the outer surface 11 of the housing 1 by electroplating, evaporation, or the like, and then the excess metal layer is removed by exposure, development, etching, or the like to form the metal mesh layer 2. Of course, in other embodiments, the metal mesh layer 2 may be disposed on the housing 10 by nano-imprinting or the like.

As shown in fig. 3, in this embodiment, the housing 10 further has a darkening layer 5, the darkening layer 5 is disposed on the surface of the metal mesh layer 2 away from the housing 1, that is, the darkening layer 5 is disposed on the second surface 22 of the metal mesh layer 2, and the light reflection rate of the metal mesh layer 2 can be reduced by the darkening layer 5, so that the user can more easily see the metal mesh layer 2, and the hiding effect of the metal mesh layer 2 is improved. In this embodiment, the darkening layer 5 may be made of molybdenum nitride or the like.

In the present embodiment, the darkening layer 5 is also designed in a grid shape, wherein the projection of the grid edge line of the darkening layer 5 on the metal grid layer 2 completely coincides with the grid line 24, so that the darkening layer 5 can be prevented from having an adverse effect on the appearance of the router 100, and the adverse effect of the darkening layer 5 on the signal transmission of the metal grid layer 2 can be reduced. In production, a copper layer may be first disposed on the outer surface 11 of the housing 1, and then a molybdenum nitride layer may be disposed on the copper layer, and then excess copper and molybdenum nitride may be removed simultaneously by exposure, development, etching, and the like to form the metal mesh layer 2 and the darkening layer 5.

As shown in fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the housing 10 is further provided with a protective layer 6, and the protective layer 6 is disposed on the surface of the darkening layer 5 away from the case 1. Wherein, protective layer 6 can be glass layer, resin layer etc. and cover through sheltering from of protective layer 6 and can avoid darkening layer 5 and metal net layer 2 to receive the scratch, improve metal net layer 2's life.

It will be appreciated that when no darkening layer 5 is provided on the casing 10, the protective layer 6 may be provided directly on the surface of the metal mesh layer 2 remote from the housing 1. In addition, in the present embodiment, the protective layer 6 also covers the through hole 12, so that dust and the like can be prevented from entering the inside of the housing 1 from the through hole 12.

As shown in fig. 4, in some embodiments, the first groove 14 is formed in the outer surface 11 of the housing 1, and the grid lines 24 of the metal grid layer 2 are embedded in the first groove 14, so that the metal grid layer 2 is more firmly disposed on the housing 1, the metal grid layer 2 is better protected, and the service life of the metal grid layer 2 is prolonged. In addition, in order to obtain better protection of the metal mesh layer 2, in the present embodiment, the thickness of the mesh lines 24 is less than or equal to the depth of the first grooves 14, so that the second surface 22 of the metal mesh layer 2 does not protrude out of the outer surface 11 of the housing 1.

It will be appreciated that in some embodiments the metal mesh layer 2 may not be moulded directly onto the housing 1. For example, as shown in fig. 5, in another embodiment, the outer shell 10 further includes a carrier layer 7, the metal mesh layer 2 is molded on the carrier layer 7, and the carrier layer 7 is attached to the outer surface 11 of the outer shell 10 by bonding or the like. Thus, the shell 1 and the metal mesh layer 2 can be produced simultaneously, and the production efficiency is improved.

In this embodiment, metal mesh layer 2 is located between bearing layer 7 and casing 1, can protect metal mesh layer 2 through bearing layer 7 like this, avoids metal mesh layer 2 to receive the foreign object to scrape and bump, improves metal mesh layer 2's life, and bearing layer 7 can play the effect of protective layer 6 in above-mentioned embodiment this moment. Of course, as shown in fig. 6, in some embodiments, the metal mesh layer 2 may also be disposed on a side of the carrier layer 7 away from the housing 1, that is, the carrier layer 7 is located between the metal mesh layer 2 and the housing 1, so as to reduce adverse effects of the carrier layer 7 on signal transmission of the metal mesh layer 2.

As shown in fig. 5, when the metal mesh layer 2 is formed on the carrier layer 7, the second grooves 71 may be formed on the carrier layer 7 in a mesh shape, and the mesh lines 24 of the metal mesh layer 2 are embedded in the second grooves 71. Also, in this embodiment, the thickness of the gridlines 24 is less than or equal to the depth of the second grooves 71, such that the gridlines 24 do not protrude beyond the carrier layer 7.

In order to avoid adverse effects on the appearance of the router 100, in this embodiment, the carrier layer 7 is also a transparent layer, and in this case, the carrier layer 7 may be attached to the housing 10 by OCA adhesive. The bearing layer 7 may be formed by curing a UV glue, and in this case, as shown in fig. 5, the housing 10 further includes a substrate layer 8, the UV glue is disposed on the substrate layer 8, and the substrate layer 8 may be a glass layer or a transparent hard plastic layer. After the UV glue is cured, a groove is formed in the surface, far away from the substrate layer 8, of the UV glue, and then the metal grid layer 2 is arranged in the groove in a nano-imprinting layer mode.

During assembly, the substrate layer 8 may be disposed between the housing 10 and the UV glue, that is, the surface of the substrate layer 8 away from the UV glue is connected to the outer surface 11 of the housing 10; or the UV glue is arranged between the substrate layer 8 and the shell 1, that is, the surface of the UV glue far away from the substrate layer 8 is connected with the outer surface 11 of the shell 10. It will be appreciated that in other embodiments, the carrier layer 7 may be a glass layer or a transparent hard plastic layer, and the substrate layer 8 is not required.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only represent some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is specific and detailed, but not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims (12)

1. A housing for a customer premises equipment, the housing comprising:

a housing;

and the metal grid layer is arranged on the outer surface of the shell and used for transmitting and receiving wireless signals.

2. The housing of a customer premises equipment of claim 1, wherein the housing is provided with a through hole penetrating from an outer surface of the housing to an inner surface of the housing;

the shell further comprises a feed point and a feed line, the feed point is arranged on the inner surface, and the feed line penetrates through the through hole so as to electrically connect the metal grid layer and the feed point together.

3. The housing of claim 1, wherein the housing outer surface is provided with a first grid-like groove, and grid lines of the metal grid layer are embedded in the first groove, wherein the grid lines surround a mesh forming the metal grid layer.

4. The housing of a customer premises equipment of claim 1, further comprising a carrier layer disposed on an outer surface of the shell, the metallic mesh layer being molded over the carrier layer.

5. The housing of a customer premises apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the carrier layer is located between the metallic mesh layer and an outer housing surface, or wherein the metallic mesh layer is located between the carrier layer and the outer housing surface.

6. The client premises equipment housing of claim 4, wherein said carrier layer is a transparent layer; and/or

And the bearing layer is provided with a latticed second groove, and the grid lines of the metal grid layer are embedded in the second groove.

7. The customer premises equipment housing of claim 4, wherein the carrier layer is formed from a UV glue after curing.

8. The customer premises equipment housing of claim 7, further comprising a substrate layer, said UV glue disposed on said substrate layer; the substrate layer is located between the UV glue and the outer surface of the shell, or the UV glue is located between the substrate layer and the outer surface of the shell.

9. The housing of a customer premises equipment of claim 1, wherein a width of grid lines of said metallic grid layer is less than or equal to 15 um; and/or

The thickness of the metal grid layer is 0.5-5 um; and/or

The mesh of metal mesh layer is enclosed by multistage gridlines, wherein, each section the length of gridlines is 50um-500 um.

10. The housing of a customer premises equipment of claim 1, wherein said metallic mesh layer is formed by means of nanoimprinting; or

The metal grid layer is formed by etching the metal layer.

11. The client premises equipment shell of claim 1, wherein said client premises equipment is a router.

12. A customer premises equipment, characterized in that it comprises a housing according to any of claims 1-11.

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