Patent Grant
10203451
The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201610998751.6.X, filed on Nov. 11, 2016, entitled “Mobile terminal medium casing and mobile terminal”, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Field of the Invention
The disclosure relates to technical field of mobile terminal, and particularly to a mobile terminal medium casing and a mobile terminal.
Description of the Related Art
A mobile terminal, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, etc., as an electronic product, becomes widely used and more important in people's daily life. With a high-speed development of the mobile terminal, requirements on the mobile terminal from people increase more and more highly. For example, for a mobile terminal with a same size, such as a smart mobile phone of 5 inch, a visual area is required to be large as possible. That is, the rim frame of the mobile terminal is as small as possible. When an existing mobile terminal displays, back light is generally provided by a backlight module. The backlight module of the mobile terminal commonly includes a back plate, an adhesive frame, a light source assembly, a reflective sheet, a light guiding plate and an optical sheet group. The reflective sheet, the light guiding plate and the optical sheet group are laminated in order on the back plate. The adhesive frame is located in the back plate. The light source assembly is mounted and fixed on the adhesive frame. The illuminant of the light source assembly faces a light incidence face of the light guiding plate. Due to the structure of the backlight module of the existing mobile terminal, the rim frame of the mobile terminal is rather wide.
The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal medium casing and a mobile terminal that may reduce rim frame of a mobile terminal.
In order to achieve the above object, the present disclosure provides the following technical schemes:
An aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a mobile terminal medium casing including:
a casing body having a receiving groove;
a reflective sheet, a light guiding plate and an optical sheet group laminated in order, in a direction apart away from a bottom of the receiving groove, on the bottom of the receiving groove; and
a light source assembly within the receiving groove, an illuminant of the light source assembly being located at a light incidence side of the light guiding plate.
As an aspect, the casing body is further provided with a through hole, and a light source circuit board of the light source assembly passes through the through hole to electrical connect with a power supply of the mobile terminal.
As an aspect, the light source circuit board of the light source assembly is respectively coupled to edge of a light exiting surface of the light guiding plate and edge of a wall of the receiving groove, through a back adhesive.
As an aspect, the mobile terminal medium casing further comprises a light blocking glue that cover the light source circuit board and edge of the optical sheet group.
As an aspect, the light blocking glue is a black double-sided adhesive or a black single-sided adhesive.
As an aspect, the walls of the receiving groove are all treated through a black coating process.
As an aspect, the casing body is made of metal.
As an aspect, the casing body is made of aluminum alley.
As an aspect, the optical sheet group comprises a diffuser sheet, a lower prism sheet and an upper prism sheet laminated in that order over the light guiding plate.
As an aspect, the casing body is further provided with a power supply groove and an opening of the power supply groove is located at a side of the casing body opposite to a side thereof where an opening of the receiving groove is located.
As an aspect, the light source circuit board has a first portion that extends along an upper surface of the illuminant and is coupled to the edge of a light exiting surface of the light guiding plate and the edge of the wall of the receiving groove, and a folding portion configured to pass through the through hole to be electrically coupled to the power supply within the power supply groove.
An aspect of the present disclosure provides a mobile terminal including the above mobile terminal medium casing.
The drawings herein are provided to further understand the present disclosure and constitute a part of the present disclosure. The schematic embodiments of the present disclosure and description thereof are used to interpret the present disclosure instead of limit the present disclosure.
A mobile terminal medium casing and a mobile terminal provided according to embodiments of the present disclosure is further described in detail in conjunction with the drawings.
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In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the mobile terminal medium casing according to the embodiment of the present disclosure may be implemented in a mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal medium casing may not only be used as a supporting component for supporting a power supply, a drive chip, etc. of the mobile terminal but also used as a backlight source providing back light for a display panel of the mobile terminal. Further, when the mobile terminal medium casing according to the embodiment of the present disclosure is used as the backlight source providing back light for the display panel of the mobile terminal, configuration of a frame sealing glue and a back plate may be abandoned and thus, in contrast to the prior art, a space that is preset for the back plate and the frame sealing glue at an edge of the mobile terminal may be reduced, thereby reducing edge portion of the mobile terminal.
In addition, as the mobile terminal medium casing according to the embodiment of the present disclosure is integrally provided with the reflective sheet 20, the light guiding plate 30, the optical sheet group 40 and the light source assembly 50, the mobile terminal medium casing, when used in a mobile terminal, may be used a backlight source providing back light for the display panel of the mobile terminal, and further, it renders abandoning the frame sealing glue and the back plate, thereby increasing covering area of the back light emitted by the optical sheet group 40, that is, increasing view area region of the backlight source of the mobile terminal and thus in turn increasing the view area region of the mobile terminal.
Further, as the mobile terminal medium casing according to the embodiment of the present disclosure is integrally provided with the reflective sheet 20, the light guiding plate 30, the optical sheet group 40 and the light source assembly 50, the mobile terminal medium casing, when used in a mobile terminal, may be used a backlight source providing back light for the display panel of the mobile terminal and it renders abandoning of the frame sealing glue and the back plate, thereby saving production process of the mobile terminal and reducing producing cost of the mobile terminal. Particularly, when a product with a narrow edge rim is made, the frame sealing glue involves serious deformation and thus is hard to be manufactured due to small thickness. The embodiment may abandon the frame sealing glue and thus lower the level of difficulty for producing the mobile terminal.
The mobile terminal may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, etc. The mobile terminal medium casing according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may be a medium casing of a mobile phone, a medium casing of a tablet computer, etc., and a size of the mobile terminal medium casing may be set according to various and specific requirement of the application situation. The size of the mobile terminal medium casing may include a length L thereof, a width W thereof, and a thickness H thereof, etc.
In practice, when the mobile terminal medium casing is used in a mobile terminal, the power supply of the mobile terminal may also be mounted to the mobile terminal medium casing. For example, referring to
In the above embodiment, a position of the through hole 12 may be adjusted depending on configuration of the light source assembly 50. For example, referring to
Integrating the light source assembly 50 with the mobile terminal medium casing may be implemented by coupling the light source circuit board 51 of the light source assembly 50 to the casing body 10. When coupling the light source circuit board 51 of the light source assembly 50 to the casing body 10, the light source circuit board 51 may be directly adhered to the bottom of the receiving groove 11, or the light source circuit board 51 may be directly adhered to the wall of the receiving groove 11, or, referring to
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As the mobile terminal medium casing according to embodiments of the present disclosure is implemented in a mobile terminal, when the mobile terminal is used, the power supply of the mobile terminal supplies electrical power to the illuminant 52 through the light source circuit board 51 such that the illuminant 52 emits light. The light emitted by the illuminant 52 is reflected by the reflective sheet 20, guided by the light guiding plate 30, treated by the optical sheet group 40 and then is emitted from an upper surface of the optical sheet group 40 as shown in
In the above embodiment, the casing body 10 may be made of suitable material as required. For example, the casing body 10 may be made of metal, plastic material, etc. In the mobile terminal medium casing provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the casing body 10 is made of metal. With such a design, in an aspect, the casing body 10 made of metal may transfer and spread out thermal energy generated by the light source assembly 50 during its operation due to good thermal conductivity or big coefficient of heat transfer of the metal, and thus has an increased heat transfer efficient, increasing service life of the mobile terminal; in another aspect, the casing body 10 made of metal may involve reduced difficulty during manufacturing the casing body as metal has a good strength and machining property, and also may achieve a thinness design of the casing body 10. The metal for producing the casing body 10 may be copper, steel, aluminum or alloy. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the casing body 10 is made of aluminum. In the embodiment, the casing body 10 has a thickness of about 0.2 mm.
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Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a mobile terminal including the mobile terminal medium casing as described above.
The mobile terminal has similar advantages relative to the prior art as the above mobile terminal medium casing and they are not repeatedly described.
In the above description, the specific features, structures, materials or other characteristics may be combined in a suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.
The above description merely relates embodiments of the present disclosure, and the protective scope of the present disclosure is not limited to this. The replacement or medication that is obtained by those skilled in the art based on the above description shall fall into the scope of the present disclosure. The protective scope of the present disclosure is defined by the claims.
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