This application is a national stage of International Application No. PCT/CN2022/114777, filed on Aug. 25, 2022, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202111045127.1, filed on Sep. 7, 2021. The disclosures of both of the aforementioned application are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of electronic product technologies, and in particular, to an electronic device.
In electronic devices such as mobile phones, a sidewall of a middle frame is provided with a mounting cavity for mounting an antenna board. The mounting cavity is located outside a battery compartment. As the electronic devices are provided with increasing functions and larger screens, the electronic devices consume power faster. To ensure a battery life for the electronic devices, a larger battery is preferred. Correspondingly, a larger space is also preferred for the battery compartment. Therefore, when the electronic devices have a same volume, the middle frame is located in a limited space outside the battery compartment, and a space of the mounting cavity is limited. As a result, when the antenna board is mounted in the mounting cavity, an operation space is limited.
In a conventional technology, the antenna board is fastened in the mounting cavity by using screws, the space of the mounting cavity is small, fastening by screws is inconvenient, and the middle frame and even the battery compartment are easily damaged during a mounting process.
Embodiments of this application provide an electronic device, to resolve a problem of operation inconvenience in antenna board mounting when a mounting space for mounting an antenna board is small, and a problem that a peripheral component is easily damaged in a mounting process.
In one aspect, an embodiment of this application provides an electronic device, including a middle frame, an antenna board, and a fastener. The middle frame is provided with a mounting cavity, and an inner wall of the mounting cavity is provided with a limiting portion. The antenna board is placed in the mounting cavity, and the fastener is capable of being clamped between the limiting portion and an upper end face of the antenna board, to restrict the antenna board from moving upward along a depth direction of the mounting cavity.
The antenna board mounted in the mounting cavity can be fastened by using the fastener and the limiting portion. The limiting portion is integrally formed on the inner wall of the mounting cavity. During specific mounting, after the antenna board is mounted in the mounting cavity, it is only required to insert the fastener between the limiting portion and the antenna board, without using a large complex operation tool (such as a screwdriver). The mounting operation can be simplified, and no damage is caused to the inner wall of the mounting cavity and even an adjacent battery compartment.
According to the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a first implementation of the aspect:
According to the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a second implementation of the aspect:
According to the aspect or the first or second implementation of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a third implementation of the aspect:
According to the third implementation of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a fourth implementation of the aspect:
According to the fourth implementation of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a fifth implementation of the aspect:
According to any one of the aspect and the first to the fifth implementations of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a sixth implementation of the aspect:
According to the sixth implementation of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a seventh implementation of the aspect:
According to the seventh implementation of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides an eighth implementation of the aspect:
According to the eighth implementation of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a ninth implementation of the aspect:
According to any one of the seventh to ninth implementations of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a tenth implementation of the aspect:
According to the sixth implementation of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides an eleventh implementation of the aspect:
According to any one of the aspect and the first to the eleventh implementations of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a twelfth implementation of the aspect:
According to the twelfth implementation of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a thirteenth implementation of the aspect:
According to the twelfth implementation of the aspect, this embodiment of this application further provides a fourteenth implementation of the aspect:
To describe technical solutions in embodiments of the present invention or in a conventional technology more clearly, the following briefly describes accompanying drawings required for describing the embodiments or the conventional technology. Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the following description show some embodiments of the present invention, and a person of ordinary skill in the art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawings without creative efforts.
Embodiments of the present invention provide an electronic device. The electronic device may be a terminal product, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a wearable device, an in-vehicle device, an augmented reality (augmented reality, AR)/virtual reality (virtual reality, VR) device, a notebook computer, an ultra-mobile personal computer (ultra-mobile personal computer, UMPC), a netbook, or a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant, PDA). A specific type of the electronic device is not limited in the embodiments of this application.
The electronic device includes a screen, a rear cover, and a middle frame. The middle frame is located between the screen and the rear cover. As shown in
As electronic devices are provided with increasing functions and larger screens, the electronic devices consume power faster. To ensure a battery life for the electronic devices, a larger battery is preferred. Correspondingly, a larger space is also preferred for the battery compartment 7. Therefore, when the electronic devices have a same volume, the middle frame 1 is located in a limited space outside the battery compartment 7, that is, the bezel 13 has a limited width, and an arrangement space of the mounting cavity 11 is limited. As a result, when the antenna board 2 is mounted in the mounting cavity 11, an operation space is limited, and a mounting operation is inconvenient. Therefore, in the embodiments of this application, the antenna board 2 is fastened in the mounting cavity 11 by using a fastener 3. This can ensure mounting stability of the antenna board 2 while simplifying the mounting operation, and can further avoid damage to the middle frame 1 and the battery compartment 7 in a mounting process.
In the embodiments of this application, as shown in
As shown in
During mounting, the antenna board 2 can directly pass through a gap between the two limiting protrusions 115 and enter a mounting groove. Then, the fastener 3 is inserted against the upper end face of the antenna board 2 between the upper end face of the antenna board 2 and the limiting protrusions 115. The operations are convenient. The limiting protrusions 115 are used to limit the antenna board 2 from two sides along the width direction. This can ensure stability, so that a more balanced acting force is applied to the fastener 3 and the limiting is more stable.
Specific locations for disposing the limiting protrusions 115 are not limited. As shown in
Surfaces of the limiting protrusions 115 present smooth structures, to avoid damage to the antenna board 2 caused by scraping the antenna board 2 during mounting. Further, an end of the fastener 3 is further provided with a guiding surface 311. When the fastener 3 is mounted, the fastener 3 is inserted between the upper end face of the antenna board 2 and the limiting protrusions 115. The guiding surface 311 can avoid abrasion during insertion. The guiding surface 311 may be either an arc surface or an inclined surface.
Certainly, in some embodiments, a limiting groove (not shown in the figure) may be further provided on an inner wall of the mounting cavity, to form the limiting portion for restricting the fastener 3 from moving upward. After the antenna board 2 is mounted in the mounting cavity 11, the fastener 3 is inserted into the limiting groove. In this case, the fastener 3 can abut against the upper end face of the antenna board 2, and an upper groove wall of the limiting groove can restrict the fastener 3 from moving upward, thereby ensuring location stability of the antenna board 2. Specifically, the limiting groove may be disposed on each of the two sidewalls of the mounting cavity 11 along the width direction, or may be disposed on an inner wall at one end of the mounting cavity 11. The limiting groove is used to limit the fastener 3, and the limiting groove does not occupy a space in the mounting cavity 11, to facilitate the mounting operation of the antenna board 2.
As shown in
As shown in
The antenna board 2 mounted in the mounting cavity 11 can be fastened by using the fastener 3 and the limiting protrusions 115. The limiting protrusions 115 are fixedly provided on the inner walls of the mounting cavity 11. The limiting protrusions 115 and the mounting cavity 11 are integrally formed, or may be fastened by soldering or in another manner before factory delivery. During specific mounting, after the antenna board 2 is mounted in the mounting cavity 11, it is only required to insert the fastener 3 between the antenna board 2 and the mounting cavity 11, without using a large complex operation tool (such as a screwdriver). The mounting operation can be simplified, and no damage is caused to the inner walls of the mounting cavity 11 and even the adjacent battery compartment 7. A quantity of the fasteners 3 is not limited. Specifically, the antenna board 2 may be limited by using two fasteners 3, or the antenna board 2 may be limited by using one fastener 3. Specifically, the quantity of the fasteners 3 may be set based on a length of the antenna board, a length of each fastener, and the like.
In the embodiments of this application, alternatively, no slot 114 may be disposed in the mounting cavity 11, and the antenna board 2 may be fastened only by using the fastener 3 and the limiting portion (the limiting protrusions 115 or the limiting groove). When the fastener 3 and the slot 114 are used to limit the antenna board 2, only one fastener 3 needs to be disposed to ensure mounting stability of the antenna board 2 and to further simplify an overall structure while simplifying the mounting operation.
The mounting cavity 11 is inwardly provided with the limiting protrusions 115 respectively on the two opposite sidewalls along the width direction, the spacing between the two limiting protrusions 115 is less than the width of the fastener 3 and greater than the width of the antenna board 2 that corresponds to a location here, thereby forming the limiting portion above. During mounting, the antenna board 2 can directly pass through the gap between the two limiting protrusions 115 and enter the mounting groove. Then, the fastener 3 is inserted against the upper end face of the antenna board 2 between the upper end face of the antenna board 2 and the limiting protrusions 115. The operations are convenient. The limiting protrusions 115 are used to limit the antenna board 2 from the two sides along the width direction. This can ensure stability, so that a more balanced acting force is applied to the fastener 3 and the limiting is more stable.
As shown in
To ensure location stability for the antenna board 2 after the antenna board 2 is mounted in the middle cavity body 112, the length of the middle cavity body 112 is not much greater than the length of the antenna board 2. Therefore, to ensure that the antenna board 2 can be smoothly mounted in the middle cavity body 112 and fit into the slot 114, the antenna board 2 inclinedly enters the mounting cavity 11 during mounting. Specifically, the first end 21 downwardly enters the middle cavity body 112 of the mounting cavity 11 and reaches an opening location of the slot 114. In this case, the second end 22 is inclined upward and located in the avoidance space of the upper cavity body 111, and then the antenna board 2 is pushed, so that the first end 21 is inserted into the slot 114. At this time, the antenna board 2 is still inclined and the second end 22 is located in the upper cavity body 111. Afterwards, the second end 22 is pushed downward, so that the second end 22 fully enters the middle cavity body 112. The metal elastomer 4 on the lower end face of the antenna board 2 can just fall into the accommodating groove 113. Subsequently, the fastener 3 is mounted. Disposing the avoidance space 116 facilitates the mounting operation of the antenna board 2.
As shown in
In other words, the first limiting structure is provided on the fastener 3, and the second limiting structure is provided on the antenna board 2. In the mounting state, the two limiting structures cooperate with each other for limiting, to restrict the fastener 3 from moving along the length direction of the mounting cavity 11, thereby ensuring stability of the fastener 3.
Further, as shown in
In the embodiments of this application, the fastener 3 is a plastic member. The fastener 3 may be integrally injection-molded, may be provided as a metal member, or the like. The integrally injection-molded plastic member can simplify the overall structure and a processing process.
As shown in
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Specifically, a manner of connection between the fastener 3 and the operation portion 6 is not limited in the embodiments of this application. For example, the fastener 3 may be detachably connected to the operation portion 6 by using threads or the like, or the fastener 3 and the operation portion 6 may be provided as an integral structure, while connection strength at a connection joint between the fastener 3 and the operation portion 6 is reduced (for example, a cross-sectional area of the connection joint is reduced). After mounting of the fastener 3 is completed, the connection between the operation portion 6 and the fastener 3 may be broken directly in a manner such as rotating or bending the operation portion 6 relative to the fastener 3, and then the operation portion 6 can be removed. The operations are convenient.
As a mounting space is small and a volume of the fastener 3 is also small, operations are inconvenient if a mounting person holds the fastener 3 and inserts the fastener 3 between the upper end face of the antenna board 2 and the limiting protrusions 115 only by hands. In contrast, when the mounting is performed by using the operation portion 6, operations for picking, placing, and mounting the fastener 3 are convenient.
A structure of the second convex portion 23 is not limited. To further prevent the second convex portion 23 from entering the gap between the lower end of the stopper 33 and the upper end face of the antenna board 2, the second convex portion 23 may be a bump fixedly provided on the upper end face of the antenna board 2. The bump may have a specific height, for example, a top end of the bump is substantially corresponding to a location at or above the middle of the stopper 33 and is below the limiting block 34. Alternatively, as shown in
The connection and fastening between the bump and the upper end face of the antenna board 2 and between the baffle plate 24 and the upper end face of the antenna board 2 are completed outside the mounting cavity 11. Therefore, the connection and fastening between the bump and the upper end face of the antenna board 2 and between the baffle plate 24 and the upper end face of the antenna board 2 are not limited, for example, the fastening may be implemented by soldering or a fastener.
A specific mounting process of the antenna board 2 is shown in
In the embodiments of this application, a specific structure of the fastener is not limited.
Specifically, a specific structure of the positioning protrusion 52 is not limited. For example, a protrusion structure may be formed by downwardly stamping the fastener 3, or a protrusion structure may be integrally formed or additionally fastened on a lower end face of the fastener 3. Certainly, in the embodiments of this application, alternatively, the fastener 3 may be provided with a positioning hole 51, and the upper end face of the antenna board 2 may be provided with a positioning protrusion 52. After the fastener 3 is mounted, the positioning protrusion 52 can be inserted into the positioning hole 51 to implement positioning cooperation.
After the positioning protrusion 52 is inserted into the positioning hole 51, a location of the fastener 3 and that of the antenna board 2 are relatively fixed along the length direction. Since the antenna board 2 is mounted in the middle cavity body 112, the antenna board 2 has a stable location along its length direction. Therefore, when the relative locations of the fastener 3 and the antenna board 2 are fixed, it can be ensured that the fastening plate 31 is not detached from the limiting protrusions 115 due to location movement.
The operation portion 6 obtained in the foregoing embodiment has a long length. After the fastener 3 is mounted, the operation portion 6 partially extends out of the mounting cavity 11. The operation portion 6 is detachable from the fastener 3. After the mounting is completed, the operation portion 6 can be removed.
In this specification, principles and implementations of the present invention are described by using specific examples. The descriptions of the foregoing embodiments are merely intended to help understand the method and the core idea of the present invention. It should be noted that, a person of ordinary skill in the art can further make some improvements and modifications to the present invention without departing from the principles of the present invention, and the improvements and modifications shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
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