CN218183820U

CN218183820U - Electronic device

Info

Publication number: CN218183820U
Application number: CN202222160501.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 林峻毅
Original assignee: Shanghai Wingtech Electronic Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Wingtech Electronic Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-16
Filing date: 2022-08-16
Publication date: 2022-12-30
Anticipated expiration: 2032-08-16

Abstract

The utility model relates to an electronic device, which comprises a device shell and a fan component arranged on the device shell, wherein a mounting groove is formed on the device shell, the fan component comprises a fan shell and a fan main body, the fan shell is covered at the opening at the top of the mounting groove, and the fan main body is arranged at one side of the fan shell facing the mounting groove, so that the fan main body is positioned in an accommodating cavity enclosed by the wall of the fan shell and the wall of the mounting groove; the equipment shell or the fan shell is also provided with an adapter plate, the adapter plate is electrically connected with the fan main body, and the adapter plate is provided with a communicating piece used for being electrically contacted with a circuit board of the electronic equipment. This electronic equipment that openly provides has reduced the structural thickness of fan unit position department through making equipment housing establish the partly structure of fan as the cover, does benefit to the heat dissipation more, and greatly reduced structural thickness. And the adapter plate is more convenient for the fan main body to be quickly and electrically connected with the circuit board, so that the reliability of electric connection is ensured.

Description

Electronic device

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of electronic device manufacturing technologies, and particularly to an electronic device.

Background

Nowadays, electronic devices on the market, such as notebook computers, are gradually designed to be light and thin, no matter they are business type or consumer products. Under the condition that the devices are gradually thinned, the requirements on the heat dissipation of the electronic devices and the design of the internal space of the devices are also higher and higher.

The fan assembly inside the traditional notebook computer generally comprises an upper shell, fan blades and a lower shell, which is not only not beneficial to rapid heat dissipation, but also severely limits the reduction of the thickness of the computer when the trend of light and thin becomes.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

To solve the technical problem or at least partially solve the technical problem, the present disclosure provides an electronic device.

The electronic equipment comprises an equipment shell and a fan assembly arranged on the equipment shell, wherein a mounting groove is formed in the equipment shell, the fan assembly comprises a fan shell and a fan main body, the fan shell is covered at the opening at the top of the mounting groove, and the fan main body is arranged on one side of the fan shell, which faces the mounting groove, so that the fan main body is positioned in an accommodating cavity defined by the fan shell and the wall of the mounting groove;

the fan comprises an electronic device and is characterized in that an adapter plate is further arranged on the device shell or the fan shell and electrically connected with the fan main body, and a communicating piece used for being in electric contact with a circuit board of the electronic device is arranged on the adapter plate.

Optionally, the device housing includes a housing panel and a surrounding edge, one side of the surrounding edge is connected to a surface of the housing panel, the other side of the surrounding edge extends toward a direction away from the housing panel, and the surrounding edge and at least a part of a surface of the housing panel jointly surround the mounting groove;

the circumferential edge of the fan shell is abutted against the other side edge of the surrounding edge.

Optionally, a first connection hole is formed in the surface of the fan housing, a second connection hole is formed in a position, corresponding to the first connection hole, of the shell panel or the surrounding edge, and the fan housing and the equipment shell are connected through a fastener in the first connection hole and the second connection hole in a penetrating manner.

Optionally, the fan casing is connected to the device housing by bonding.

Optionally, the fan main body includes driving motor and a plurality of flabellum, all the flabellum interval sets up in driving motor's pivot, driving motor sets up on the fan housing, on the keysets the intercommunication piece with driving motor electricity is connected.

Optionally, the communication member is an elastic contact member, and the elastic deformation direction of the elastic contact member is the direction in which the adapter plate faces the circuit board.

Optionally, the elastic contact element is an elastic sheet, the elastic sheet includes a connecting portion, an extending portion and a contact portion, the connecting portion is connected with the adapter plate, one end of the extending portion is connected to the connecting portion, the other end of the extending portion extends towards the circuit board, the contact portion is connected to the other end of the extending portion, and the extending portion is made of elastic materials.

Optionally, the number of the elastic contact pieces is multiple, and the multiple elastic contact pieces are arranged on the surface of the interposer at intervals.

Optionally, a positioning hole is formed in the adapter plate, and a positioning column is arranged at a position of the equipment shell corresponding to the positioning hole and can be arranged in the positioning hole in a penetrating manner.

Optionally, a flexible buffer member is arranged between the adapter plate and the device shell in a pressing mode.

Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme provided by the disclosure has the following advantages:

the utility model provides an electronic equipment sets up the mounting groove on equipment housing, correspond fan assembly's fan casing and mounting groove and set up, thereby form a holding chamber that is used for placing the fan main part through fan casing and mounting groove jointly, thereby make equipment housing establish the partly structure of fan as the cover, the structure thickness of fan assembly position department has been reduced, compare in traditional mode of assembling fan assembly and the casing including upper cover and lower cover, not only do benefit to the heat dissipation more, and greatly reduced structure thickness. And, through setting up the adapter plate structure, under the state that whole thickness reduces, make fan main part and circuit board carry out quick electricity and be connected more conveniently, further guarantee the reliability of electricity connection.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments or technical solutions in the prior art of the present disclosure, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive exercise.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

fig. 2 is an exploded view of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

fig. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an interposer of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication component of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Wherein, 1, the device shell; 11. mounting grooves; 12. a housing panel; 121. a second connection hole; 13. surrounding edges; 14. a positioning column; 2. a fan assembly; 21. a fan housing; 211. a first connection hole; 22. a fan main body; 3. an accommodating cavity; 4. a patch panel; 41. a communicating member; 411. a connecting portion; 412. an extension portion; 413. a contact portion; 42. and (7) positioning the holes.

Detailed Description

In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure may be more clearly understood, aspects of the present disclosure will be further described below. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments of the present disclosure may be combined with each other without conflict.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present disclosure, but the present disclosure may be practiced otherwise than as described herein; it is to be understood that the embodiments disclosed in the specification are only a few embodiments of the present disclosure, and not all embodiments.

Nowadays, electronic devices on the market, such as notebook computers, are gradually developed toward light and thin designs no matter they are business or consumer products. Under the condition that the device is gradually thinned, the requirements for heat dissipation of the electronic device and the design of the internal space of the device are also higher and higher.

In view of the above drawbacks, the present embodiment provides an electronic device, which improves a structure for installing a fan assembly to reduce the structure of the fan assembly and reduce the overall thickness of the device. Specifically, the specific structural arrangement of the electronic device is as described in the following embodiments.

As shown in fig. 1 to 5, the present disclosure provides an electronic device, which includes a device housing 1 and a fan assembly 2 disposed on the device housing 1, a mounting groove 11 is formed on the device housing 1, the fan assembly 2 includes a fan housing 21 and a fan main body 22, the fan housing 21 covers a top opening of the mounting groove 11, the fan main body 22 is disposed on one side of the fan housing 21 facing the mounting groove 11, so that the fan main body 22 is located in an accommodating cavity 3 defined by the wall of the fan housing 21 and the wall of the mounting groove 11, an adapter plate 4 is further disposed on the device housing 1 or the fan housing 21, the adapter plate 4 is electrically connected to the fan main body 22, and a communicating piece 41 for electrically contacting with a circuit board of the electronic device is disposed on the adapter plate 4.

The device housing 1 is generally a bottom case of an electronic device, and the fan assembly 2 is correspondingly disposed on an inner side of the bottom case, and a mounting position is determined corresponding to a position where heat dissipation is required. The material of the device housing 1 may be plastic or metal, and the type of the fan body 22 used, such as an axial fan or a centrifugal fan, may be selected according to the matching manner of the airflow channel on the device housing 1.

During specific implementation, the fan main body 22 is installed on one side of the fan casing 21 facing the installation groove 11, and after a circuit which needs to be connected with other parts is laid, the whole fan assembly 2 is correspondingly connected with the installation groove 11 on the equipment shell 1. Since the device housing 1 is usually installed after the components inside the electronic device are installed, when the device housing 1 is finally installed outside the electronic device, the adapter board 4 will make electrical contact with the circuit board inside the electronic device to control the fan assembly 2.

Before the fan casing 21 is installed, an airflow passage communicating with the installation groove 11 may be designed on the surface of the equipment housing 1, that is, an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet may be formed on the equipment housing 1, so as to achieve a heat exchange effect by introducing external air. Specifically, the air outlet may be disposed near the mounting groove 11, so that the air after heat exchange may be discharged as soon as possible. In some realizable ways, a heat-dissipating net structure may also be provided on the surface of the bottom of the device housing 1 corresponding to the mounting groove 11, so as to enable a faster air flow to escape.

The electronic equipment that this embodiment provided sets up mounting groove 11 on equipment casing 1, correspond fan assembly 2's fan casing 21 and mounting groove 11 and set up, thereby form a holding chamber 3 that is used for placing fan main part 22 jointly through fan casing 21 and mounting groove 11, thereby make equipment casing 1 establish the partly structure of fan as the cover, the structure thickness of 2 positions of fan assembly department has been reduced, compare in the mode that traditional fan assembly 2 and the casing that will include upper cover and lower cover were assembled, not only do benefit to the heat dissipation more, and greatly reduced structure thickness. Moreover, by arranging the adapter plate 4, the fan main body 22 and the circuit board can be more conveniently and rapidly electrically connected in a state that the whole thickness is reduced, and the reliability of electrical connection is further ensured.

In addition, the number of the fan bodies 22 is set, and the illustration in the present embodiment is described by taking the case of providing two fan bodies 22 as an example, but in other embodiments, only one fan body 22 may be provided, or other numbers of fan bodies 22 may be provided, and only the size of the mounting groove 11 and the arrangement manner of the fan bodies 22 need to be adjusted adaptively.

The equipment shell 1 comprises a shell panel 12 and a surrounding edge 13, one side edge of the surrounding edge 13 is connected with the surface of the shell panel 12, the other side edge of the surrounding edge 13 extends towards the direction far away from the shell panel 12, and the surrounding edge 13 and at least part of the surface of the shell panel 12 jointly form a mounting groove 11. One side of the surrounding edge 13, i.e. the side connected to the surface of the casing panel 12, is the bottom side of the surrounding edge 13, the other side of the surrounding edge 13 is the top side of the surrounding edge 13, and the top side can be correspondingly connected to the fan casing 21. The surrounding edge 13 extends along the surface of the device housing 1, and the region of the installation groove 11 is surrounded on the surface of the device housing 1 according to the designed size of the installation groove 11, as shown in fig. 2 in particular, the thickness of the surrounding edge 13 in the horizontal direction can be adjusted at the partial position of the installation groove 11, so as to facilitate the formation of the shape of the installation groove 11.

The circumferential edge of the fan casing 21 abuts the other side of the skirt 13. Specifically, the shape of the fan housing 21 may be matched to the overall shape of the other side of the surrounding edge 13 extending therefrom to facilitate the matching arrangement.

As for the connection manner of the fan casing 21 and the device housing 1, in this embodiment, a first connection hole 211 is provided on the surface of the fan casing 21, a second connection hole 121 is provided at a position corresponding to the first connection hole 211 of the housing panel 12 or the surrounding edge 13, and the fan casing 21 and the device housing 1 are connected by a fastener penetrating through the first connection hole 211 and the second connection hole 121. In this embodiment, in order to ensure that the fan casing 21 and the device case 1 are connected reliably, a plurality of first connection holes 211 and a plurality of second connection holes 121 are provided, and in other embodiments, the fan casing 21 and the device case 1 may be connected by a fastener and then be connected by adhesion, so as to further improve the connection reliability, or only be connected by adhesion.

The fan main body 22 specifically comprises a driving motor and a plurality of fan blades, all the fan blades are arranged on a rotating shaft of the driving motor at intervals, the driving motor is arranged on the fan shell 21, and the communicating piece 41 on the adapter plate 4 is electrically connected with the driving motor. The communicating member 41 on the adaptor board 4 may be electrically connected to a driving motor for driving the fan main body 22 through internal wiring, and the communicating member 41 is disposed on the adaptor board 4 and may be directly electrically contacted to the circuit board, thereby achieving electrical connection between the circuit board and the driving motor.

Specifically, in the present embodiment, the adapter plate 4 is disposed on the equipment housing 1, and when the adapter plate 4 is mounted on the equipment housing 1, the adapter plate 4 is provided with the positioning hole 42, the positioning column 14 is disposed at a position of the equipment housing 1 corresponding to the positioning hole 42, and the positioning column 14 can be disposed in the positioning hole 42.

In some embodiments, the communicating member 41 is an elastic contact member, and the elastic deformation direction of the elastic contact member is the direction of the interposer 4 toward the circuit board. The communicating member 41 is provided as an elastic contact member capable of absorbing a distance tolerance in assembly while further ensuring reliability of contact with the circuit board. Specifically, the number of the elastic contact pieces may be set to be plural, and the plural elastic contact pieces are arranged at intervals on the surface of the interposer 4. The arrangement of a plurality of elastic contact pieces can further ensure the reliability of electric contact, and meanwhile, the electric contact can be butted with circuits on different circuit boards so as to realize different functions.

In other embodiments, in order to further absorb the acting force applied by the circuit board after the elastic contact piece abuts against the circuit board, a flexible buffer member may be pressed between the adaptor board 4 and the device case 1.

The elastic contact element may be a spring sheet, the spring sheet includes a connection portion 411, an extension portion 412 and a contact portion 413, the connection portion 411 is connected to the interposer 4, one end of the extension portion 412 is connected to the connection portion 411, the other end of the extension portion 412 extends toward the circuit board, the contact portion 413 is connected to the other end of the extension portion 412, and the extension portion 412 is made of an elastic material. The connecting portion 411, the extending portion 412 and the contact portion 413 of the elastic sheet are arranged, so that not only can the connection reliability between the elastic sheet and the adapter be ensured, but also the elastic sheet can conveniently extend and protrude to be in contact with a circuit board above.

It is noted that, in this document, relational terms such as "first" and "second," and the like, are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrases "comprising a," "8230," "8230," or "comprising" does not exclude the presence of additional like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The foregoing are merely exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, which enable those skilled in the art to understand or practice the present disclosure. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the disclosure. Thus, the present disclosure is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

Claims

1. An electronic device is characterized by comprising a device shell (1) and a fan assembly (2) arranged on the device shell (1), wherein a mounting groove (11) is formed in the device shell (1), the fan assembly (2) comprises a fan shell (21) and a fan main body (22), the fan shell (21) is covered at an opening at the top of the mounting groove (11), and the fan main body (22) is arranged on one side, facing the mounting groove (11), of the fan shell (21), so that the fan main body (22) is located in a containing cavity (3) formed by the wall of the fan shell (21) and the wall of the mounting groove (11) in a surrounding mode;

the fan is characterized in that an adapter plate (4) is further arranged on the equipment shell (1) or the fan shell (21), the adapter plate (4) is electrically connected with the fan main body (22), and a communicating piece (41) used for being in electrical contact with a circuit board of the electronic equipment is arranged on the adapter plate (4).

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the device housing (1) comprises a housing panel (12) and a surrounding edge (13), one side of the surrounding edge (13) is connected to a surface of the housing panel (12), the other side of the surrounding edge (13) extends away from the housing panel (12), and the surrounding edge (13) and at least a part of the surface of the housing panel (12) jointly enclose the mounting slot (11);

the peripheral edge of the fan housing (21) abuts against the other side of the peripheral edge (13).

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein a surface of the fan housing (21) is provided with a first connecting hole (211), a second connecting hole (121) is provided at a position of the housing panel (12) or the surrounding edge (13) corresponding to the first connecting hole (211), and the fan housing (21) and the device housing (1) are connected by a fastener penetrating through the first connecting hole (211) and the second connecting hole (121).

4. Electronic device according to claim 1, characterized in that the fan housing (21) is adhesively connected to the device housing (1).

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the fan main body (22) comprises a driving motor and a plurality of fan blades, all the fan blades are arranged on a rotating shaft of the driving motor at intervals, the driving motor is arranged on the fan housing (21), and the communicating member (41) on the adapter plate (4) is electrically connected with the driving motor.

6. The electronic device according to any of claims 1-5, wherein the communication member (41) is an elastic contact member, and the elastic deformation direction of the elastic contact member is a direction in which the interposer (4) faces the circuit board.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the elastic contact is an elastic piece, the elastic piece includes a connecting portion (411), an extending portion (412) and a contact portion (413), the connecting portion (411) is connected to the interposer (4), one end of the extending portion (412) is connected to the connecting portion (411), the other end of the extending portion (412) extends toward the circuit board, the contact portion (413) is connected to the other end of the extending portion (412), and the extending portion (412) is made of an elastic material.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the number of the elastic contact pieces is multiple, and the multiple elastic contact pieces are arranged at intervals on the surface of the adapter plate (4).

9. The electronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein a positioning hole (42) is provided on the adapter plate (4), and a positioning column (14) is provided at a position of the device housing (1) corresponding to the positioning hole (42), wherein the positioning column (14) is capable of being inserted into the positioning hole (42).

10. An electronic device according to any of claims 1-5, characterized in that a flexible buffer is compressed between the adapter plate (4) and the device housing (1).