This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202110586584.5, filed with the China National Intellectual Property Administration on May 27, 2021 and entitled “ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND BATTERY COVER”, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
This application relates to the technical field of electronic terminal devices, and in particular, to an electronic device and a battery cover.
With the development of science and technology, electronic devices such as mobile phones have been essential communication tools in people's daily life. In the field of sound range, to improve a sound effect of a sound production element in a limited space, electronic devices such as mobile phones often use an open rear cavity to configure various sound production elements. By uncovering a traditional closed rear cavity, air in an original rear cavity communicates with air inside a whole device, and an originally useless clearance space of the whole device is used to expand the rear cavity, thereby effectively improving the sound effect. However, when the closed rear cavity is opened to communicate with the whole device, a battery cover vibrates after being impacted by an airflow caused by air circulation. This seriously affects user experience and reduces a life span of the battery cover.
In order to improve a vibration problem of the battery cover, materials such as foam may be placed on a surface of the battery cover to alleviate vibration of the battery cover. However, a space between a battery and the battery cover is limited, thus having a high requirement on a thickness of the placed materials. The battery cover may also be directly connected to the battery to suppress vibration of the battery cover. Since the battery cover is directly connected to the battery, an expansion space of the battery disappears. In addition, this also makes it difficult to detach the battery cover, causing a hard maintenance of the late phase and reducing user experience.
This application provides an electronic device and a battery cover, to resolve a problem that the battery cover vibrates after being impacted by an airflow caused by air circulation when a mobile phone uses an open rear cavity. To resolve this problem, the following technical solutions are provided in this application.
According to an aspect, this application provides an electronic device, including: a middle frame, a screen, and a battery cover;
When a traditional closed rear cavity is opened to communicate with a whole device, air in an original rear cavity communicates with air in the whole device, and a battery cover vibrates after being impacted by an airflow. Technical solutions provided by this application use a damping material to form a sandwich structure so that air vibration in a second accommodating cavity is converted into heat energy and then exhausted. Vibration is suppressed by means of a shearing effect of the damping material in a multi-layer structure, and there is no need to occupy additional internal space. In this way, vibration can be suppressed by means of self-energy absorption, and utilization of the damping material can also be ensured, thereby improving a vibration damping effect.
Optionally, the battery is disposed between the sound production assembly and the camera assembly, is separated from the sound production assembly by a first gap, and is separated from the camera assembly by a second gap.
Optionally, the multi-layer composite structure also includes a surface layer and a base layer; and the damping layer is disposed between the surface layer and the base layer, and the base layer is disposed on a side close to the second accommodating cavity.
Optionally, the damping layer includes a first damping layer and a second damping layer; and a connecting layer is disposed between the first damping layer and the second damping layer.
Optionally, a thickness of the damping layer is 5%-50% of a thickness of the multi-layer composite structure.
Optionally, the surface layer is of a glass material.
Optionally, the damping layer is made of a damping material, and the damping material includes one or more of a rubber damping material, an alloy damping material, and a metal high damping material.
Optionally, the battery cover includes at least one first region, and an area of the first region is smaller than an area of the battery cover, and at least one damping layer is disposed in the first region.
According to another aspect, this application provides a battery cover applied to an electronic device, where the battery cover is of a multi-layer composite structure, and the multi-layer composite structure includes a surface layer, a damping layer, and a base layer; and the damping layer is disposed between the surface layer and the base layer, and a quantity of the damping layers is at least one.
Optionally, the damping layer includes a first damping layer and a second damping layer; and a connecting layer is disposed between the first damping layer and the second damping layer.
Optionally, a thickness of the damping layer is 5%-50% of a thickness of the multi-layer composite structure.
Optionally, the surface layer is of a glass material.
Optionally, the damping layer is made of a damping material, and the damping material includes one or more of a rubber damping material, an alloy damping material, and a metal high damping material.
Optionally, the battery cover includes at least one first region, and an area of the first region is smaller than an area of the battery cover, and at least one damping layer is disposed in the first region.
From the foregoing technical solutions, it can be learned that this application provides an electronic device and a battery cover. The battery cover is applied to the electronic device. The electronic device includes a middle frame, a screen and a battery cover. The middle frame includes a middle plate and surrounding side plates on four sides. The middle plate is disposed between the side plates, and the middle plate partitions the side plates into a first portion and a second portion. The middle plate includes a first plate surface and a second plate surface. The first plate surface and the first portion enclose a first accommodating cavity, and the second plate surface and the second portion enclose a second accommodating cavity. The screen covers the first accommodating cavity and is fixed to the middle frame. The second accommodating cavity includes a sound production assembly, a battery and a camera assembly therein. The sound production assembly, the battery, and the camera assembly are all disposed on the second plate surface.
The battery cover covers the second accommodating cavity and is fixed to the middle frame; and the battery cover is of a multi-layer composite structure, the multi-layer composite structure includes a damping layer, and a quantity of the damping layers is at least one. In this way, an objective of eliminating vibration of the battery cover is achieved, thereby improving user experience.
Embodiments are described in detail below, and examples are shown in the accompanying drawings. When the following descriptions are made with reference to the accompanying drawings, unless otherwise indicated, the same numbers in different accompanying drawings represent the same or similar elements. The following implementations described in the following embodiments do not represent all implementations that are consistent with this application. These implementations are merely examples of systems and methods consistent with some aspects of this application as recited in the claims.
For an electronic device that directly adheres a foam or polymer material to a battery cover to alleviate vibration, when the foam material is used, although it may have a certain vibration damping effect, a space between the battery cover and a battery has a certain limitation. This puts a great restriction on a thickness of the foam in a small space in that when the foam is vibrated, the foam bends and deforms due to an external force.
Similarly, when the polymer material is used, the polymer material includes a damping material characterized by bending deformation. However, the damping material fails to produce a shear strain and a shear stress internally, and damping performance of the damping material fails to be fully exerted. As a result, property utilization of the damping material is reduced, and the vibration damping effect is also reduced.
Further, in the existing technology, for an electronic device directly adheres a battery cover to a battery to alleviate vibration, an implementation of such an electronic device is very direct in that a vibrating battery cover is directly fixed on a non-vibrating battery to restrain the battery cover by using the battery, thereby suppressing the vibration of the battery cover. Although this solution can directly and effectively suppress the vibration of the battery cover, it reduces an expansion space of the battery or even completely eliminates the expansion space of the battery. If there is no expansion space for the battery at all, it will be necessary to leave an expansion space for the battery in a middle frame or other regions. This occupies more additional space in the electronic device, limiting a design of a whole electronic device. In addition, this solution also makes it difficult to detach the battery cover, causing inconvenience for users in a late phase to implement maintenance.
However, the battery cover in this application uses a damping material to form a sandwich structure so that air vibration in a second accommodating cavity is converted into heat energy and then exhausted. Vibration is suppressed by means of a shearing effect of the damping material in a multi-layer structure instead of utilizing performance of the damping material in its bending deformation. This method does not need to occupy additional internal space. In this way, vibration can be suppressed by means of self-energy absorption, and utilization of the damping material can also be ensured, thereby improving the vibration damping effect.
This application provides an electronic device.
Further, the second accommodating cavity includes a sound production assembly 4, a battery 5 and a camera assembly 6 therein. The sound production assembly 4, the battery 5, and the camera assembly 6 are all disposed on the second plate surface 112 of the middle plate 11. The battery 5 is disposed between the sound production assembly 4 and the camera assembly 6, is separated from the sound production assembly 4 by a first gap, and is separated from the camera assembly 7 by a second gap. The battery 5 is configured to accommodate the battery and other battery components. The battery cover 3 covers the second accommodating cavity, and is fixed to the middle frame 1.
When receiving an audio signal, the sound production assembly 4 produces self-vibration and drives air in the second accommodating cavity to vibrate. When an airflow vibrates, to be specific, the battery cover 3 vibrates due to vibration caused by the airflow.
Further, in this embodiment of this application, the battery cover 3 of the electronic device is of a multi-layer composite structure. The multi-layer composite structure includes at least one damping layer 32, and the damping layer 32 includes a damping material.
Further, the multi-layer composite structure includes a surface layer 31 and a base layer 33. The at least one damping layer 32 is disposed between the surface layer 31 and the base layer 33, and the base layer 33 is disposed toward the second accommodating cavity.
Further, the damping layer 32 includes a first damping layer and a second damping layer. A connecting layer is disposed between the first damping layer and the second damping layer. The connecting layer is configured to connect the first damping layer and the second damping layer.
Implementation
The damping layer 32 is made of a viscoelastic material, covered with the surface layer 31 made of the same or different material as the base layer 33 as an outer layer. When subjected to bending vibration, tension-compression deformation of the surface layer 31 and the base layer 33 is smaller than that of the damping layer to hinder the tension and compression of the damping layer 32, so that a shear strain and a shear stress are generated inside the damping material, and this shear effect of the viscoelastic damping layer is used to dissipate vibration energy. Further, there is no specific requirement for setting a thickness of each layer in the battery cover 3, and each layer may have a same thickness or may have an inconsistent thickness under a premise of ensuring a reliability of a whole device. It should be noted that although the thickness of each layer is not limited in this application as the thickness may be designed according to thickness requirements of the whole device, a total thickness of the damping layer 32 needs to account for 5%-50% of a total thickness of the battery cover 3.
Further, a simulation tool is used to perform validity verification on the battery cover 3 provided in this application.
Optionally, another implementation is based on the foregoing battery cover 3 which is of an integral sandwich structure. The battery cover 3 provided in this embodiment is of the integral sandwich structure. The integral sandwich structure includes a multi-layer sandwich structure, and a quantity of layers of the sandwich structure is not limited to three and there are a plurality of layers. Taking the battery cover 3 being of a five-layer sandwich structure as an example, the damping layer 32 includes a first damping layer t2 and a second damping layer t4; and a connecting layer t3 is disposed between the first damping layer t2 and the second damping layer t4. The connecting layer t3 is configured to connect the first damping layer t2 and the second damping layer t4.
Optionally, another implementation is based on the foregoing battery cover 3 which is of a sandwich structure. The battery cover 3 provided in this application is a sandwich structure, and the sandwich structure is not limited to a sandwich structure of a whole battery cover 3. The sandwich structure may be a local sandwich or a multi-local sandwich structure.
Based on the above, it can be learned that in a simulation model provided in this application, a region A is a region with a higher vibration intensity. The vibration intensity is gradually reduced from the inside of the region A to an end of the battery cover. Therefore, in the embodiments of this application, a local sandwich structure or a multi-local sandwich structure is only used for the region A with a higher vibration intensity. In an implementation performed by a person skilled in the art, according to a property of vibration performance of a whole device, a local region or a multi-local region may be used to implement a design for different vibration intensities. In addition, other regions may be designed with a same material as a surface layer.
Optionally, another implementation is based on the foregoing battery cover 3 which is of an integral sandwich structure. The battery cover 3 provided in this embodiment of this application is of the integral sandwich structure, a material such as foam 34 is also disposed on an end surface of the battery cover, and the foam 34 is disposed on the base layer 33 in the battery cover and is close to a side of the second accommodating cavity.
Optionally, another implementation is based on the foregoing battery cover 3 which is of a local or multi-local sandwich structure. The battery cover 3 provided in this application is of a local sandwich structure or a multi-local sandwich structure. Similarly, a material such as foam 34 is also disposed on an end surface of the battery cover, and the foam 34 is disposed on a side of a second accommodating cavity close to the base layer 33. According to a local or a multi-local region design, multiple pieces of foam 34 are disposed on a local or a multi-local region. Under a premise of satisfying the space between a battery 5 and the battery cover 3, a fair thickness of the foam 34 is designed. This does not affect a whole structure, and in addition, a region with a large vibration amplitude or a region that has a requirement on vibration damping is targeted to be set, thereby achieving a better vibration damping effect.
Further, the damping layer 32 provided in this application uses a damping material. The damping material is optional, including but not limited to a rubber, for example, a polymer damping material such as a nitrile butadiene rubber, a polysulfide rubber, a butyl rubber, a polyurethane elastomer, polyester, and a polyvinyl butyral. The damping material also includes an alloy and metal high damping material. The damping material may be selected according to an actual situation.
Further, a damping material in the damping layer 32 may improve utilization of a material by using a shearing effect itself, maintain good performance of vibration damping, and achieve an objective of suppressing noise. In addition, by setting the damping material, a good design of an ID may be performed based on a physicochemical property of the damping material itself. For example, the design may include an overall color design and a partial color design. A pattern layer may also be disposed between a surface layer 31 and a damping layer 32. Specifically, the pattern layer is disposed on an inner surface of the damping layer 32. In this way, the battery cover 3 may be more beautiful, and an appearance design of the battery cover 3 is completed, thereby improving the user experience.
Further, the damping layer 32 may be adhered to the surface layer 31 and the base layer 33 by using viscoelasticity of the damping material itself, or may be adhered in another adhesive manner such as an optical adhesive or a back adhesive.
The electronic device in the embodiments of this application includes but is not limited to: a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a mobile phone, a network set-top box, and the like. When any component of any electronic device is not suitable for installation in a conventional fixing or protection manner due to various reasons, the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of this application may be used.
A person skilled in the art can easily figure out another implementation of this application after considering the specification and practicing this application that is disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses or adaptive changes of this application. Such variations, uses or adaptive changes follow the general principles of this application, and include well-known knowledge and conventional technical means in the art that are not disclosed in this application. The specification and the embodiments are considered as merely exemplary, and the scope and spirit of this application are pointed out in the following claims.
It should be understood that this application is not limited to the precise structures described above and shown in the accompanying drawings, and various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the scope of this application. The scope of this application is subject only to the appended claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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202110586584.5 | May 2021 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2022/074969 | 1/29/2022 | WO |