Patent Application
20190016061
The application claims priority to and benefits of Chinese Patent Application Serial No. 201710576504.1, filed with the State Intellectual Property Office of P. R. China on Jul. 14, 2017, and Chinese Patent Application Serial No. 201720862418.2, filed with the State Intellectual Property Office of P. R. China on Jul. 14, 2017. The entire contents of the above-mentioned applications are incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to a technical field of communication devices, and more particularly, to a stretch release adhesive, a battery assembly and a housing assembly.
In the related art, a stretch release adhesive for bonding a battery assembly in an electronic device adopts a double-sided fully coated adhesive tape. When the adhesive tape is bonded to a surface of a medium (e.g. a battery), there will be air bubbles left between the adhesive tape and the medium, resulting in decrease of an effective bonding area. However, when the stretch release adhesive is torn away, an adhesive surface of the stretch release adhesive in positions of the air bubbles still comes in contact with the battery or the like, which leads to a relatively large pull force and causes the stretch release adhesive to be torn apart easily.
The present disclosure provides a stretch release adhesive.
The stretch release adhesive according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes: a first adhesive layer having viscidity; and a second adhesive layer having viscidity, the second adhesive layer and the first adhesive layer being superposed, and the second adhesive layer including a plurality of first adhesive portions spaced apart from one another.
The battery assembly according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes: a battery compartment, a groove being defined in the battery compartment; a battery provided in the groove; and the above stretch release adhesive, the stretch release adhesive being provided between an inner wall of the groove and the battery.
The housing assembly according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes the above battery assembly.
These and additional aspects and advantages of embodiments of the present disclosure will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following descriptions made with reference to the drawings, in which:
Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail and examples of the embodiments will be illustrated in the accompanying drawing. The same or similar elements and the elements having same or similar functions are denoted by like reference numerals throughout the descriptions. The embodiments described herein with reference to the drawings are explanatory, which aim to illustrate the present disclosure, but shall not be construed to limit the present disclosure.
In the specification, it is to be understood that terms such as “central,” “longitudinal,” “lateral,” “length,” “width,” “thickness,” “upper,” “lower,” “front,” “rear,” “left,” “right,” “vertical,” “horizontal,” “top,” “bottom,” “inner,” “outer,” “clockwise,” “counterclockwise,” “axial,” “radial,” and “circumferential” should be construed to refer to the orientation or position as then described or as illustrated in the drawings under discussion. These relative terms are for convenience of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation or be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and hence cannot be constructed to limit the present disclosure. In addition, the feature defined with “first” and “second” may indicate or imply including one or more of this feature. In the description of the present disclosure, the term “a plurality of” means two or more than two, unless specified otherwise.
In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that, unless specified or limited otherwise, the terms “mounted,” “connected,” and “coupled” and variations thereof are used broadly, and may be, for example, fixed connections, detachable connections, or integral connections; may also be mechanical or electrical connections; may also be direct connections or indirect connections via intervening structures; may also be inner communications of two elements, which can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
The present disclosure provides a stretch release adhesive.
The stretch release adhesive according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes: a first adhesive layer having viscidity; and a second adhesive layer having viscidity, the second adhesive layer and the first adhesive layer being superposed, and the second adhesive layer including a plurality of first adhesive portions spaced apart from one another.
The battery assembly according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes: a battery compartment, a groove being defined in the battery compartment; a battery provided in the groove; and the above stretch release adhesive, the stretch release adhesive being provided between an inner wall of the groove and the battery.
The housing assembly according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes the above battery assembly.
A stretch release adhesive 130 according to embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to
As illustrated in
Specifically, as illustrated in
It could be understood that the second adhesive layer 132 has an adhesive zone and an adhesive-free zone, the first adhesive portion 133 is the adhesive zone on the first adhesive layer 131 while the gap between two adjacent first adhesive portions 133 is the adhesive-free zone, and different bonding requirements can be satisfied by reasonably setting the proportion of the adhesive zones to the adhesive-free zones. When larger bonding strength is required, an area of the adhesive zones can be increased relatively, i.e. increasing the area of the first adhesive portions 133; when smaller bonding strength is required, the area of the adhesive zones can be decreased relatively.
Additionally, since the second adhesive layer includes the plurality of spaced first adhesive portions 133, the air bubbles produced when the stretch release adhesive 130 is bonded to an article can be discharged through the gap between the two adjacent first adhesive portions 133, thereby reducing internal air bubbles to avoid a phenomenon of no contact in a relatively large scale even at the presence of adhesive.
Moreover, due to the presence of the gap between the two adjacent first adhesive portions 133, i.e. due to the presence of the adhesive-free zone, the bonding strength between the second adhesive layer 132 and the article can be reduced, and when the stretch release adhesive 130 is torn away from the article, frictional resistance can be reduced, to facilitate removal of the stretch release adhesive 130 from the article.
For the stretch release adhesive 130 according to embodiments of the present disclosure, by providing the second adhesive layer 132 superposed on the first adhesive layer 131 and making the second adhesive layer 132 include the plurality of spaced first adhesive portions 133, not only the gap between the two adjacent first adhesive portions 133 can be used to lower a pull force required to tear the stretch release adhesive 130, thereby making it easily attainable to remove or tear the stretch release adhesive 130, and preventing redundant adhesive from being affixed to the surface of the article being bonded, but also the air between the first adhesive portion 133 and the article being bonded can be discharged from the gap during the bonding, so as to reduce the internal air bubbles and enable the bonding to be more secure, thereby saving production costs without affecting the adhesive function of the stretch release adhesive 130.
In some embodiments, as illustrated in
Furthermore, the first adhesive portion 133 can extend along a straight line or a curve. Thus, in the case of ensuring reliable bonding of the stretch release adhesive 130, the structural diversity of the stretch release adhesive 130 can be increased to meet the needs of different users. For instance, in the example shown in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, as illustrated in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, as illustrated in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, as illustrated in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, in a direction from an end of the first adhesive portion 133 to the other end of the first adhesive portion 133, the width of the first adhesive portion 133 is gradually decreased or gradually increased, so as to improve the structural diversity of the first adhesive portion 133. For example, when the stretch release adhesive 130 is bonded to the article, the width of the first adhesive portion 133 can be gradually enlarged in a direction of removal of the article.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first adhesive layer 131 can include a plurality of second adhesive portions spaced apart, and the second adhesive portion extends in the same direction as the first adhesive portion 133. In a direction perpendicular to the first adhesive layer 131, the first adhesive portion 133 is opposite to the second adhesive portion, and the width of the first adhesive portion 133 is not equal to the width of the second adhesive portion. For example, in the direction perpendicular to the first adhesive layer 131, the first adhesive portion 133 is opposite to the second adhesive portion, and the width of the first adhesive portion 133 is smaller than that of the second adhesive portion; or in the direction perpendicular to the first adhesive layer 131, the first adhesive portion 133 is opposite to the second adhesive portion, and the width of the first adhesive portion 133 is greater than that of the second adhesive portion. Thus, on the premise of ensuring reliable bonding of the first adhesive portion 133 and the second adhesive portion, the material cost of the first adhesive layer 131 can be saved.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first adhesive layer 131 include the plurality of spaced second adhesive portions, and the extension direction of the second adhesive portion is at an angle α to the extension direction of the first adhesive portion 133, in which α satisfies 0°<α≤90°. Thus, on the premise of ensuring reliable bonding of the first adhesive portion 133 and the second adhesive portion, the cost of the first adhesive layer 131 is saved. For example, the angle α between the first adhesive portion 133 and the second adhesive portion can be 90°, that is, the first adhesive portion 133 is perpendicular to the second adhesive portion.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a third adhesive layer is provided. The third adhesive layer and the first adhesive layer 131 are superposed, the third adhesive layer is located at a side of the first adhesive layer 131 away from the second adhesive layer 132, and the third adhesive layer includes a plurality of third adhesive portions spaced apart from one another. Thus, when the first adhesive layer 131 is bonded to the article, it is possible to be bonded to the article through the third adhesive layer, such that not only a gap between two adjacent third adhesive portions can be utilized to reduce the pull force required to tear the stretch release adhesive 130, thereby making it easily attainable to remove or tear the stretch release adhesive 130, and preventing redundant adhesive from being affixed to the surface of the article being bonded, but also the air between the third adhesive portion and the article being bonded can be discharged from the gap during the bonding, so as to reduce the internal air bubbles and enable the bonding to be more secure.
A battery assembly 100 according to embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to
As illustrated in
Specifically, a groove 111 is defined in the battery compartment 110, the battery 120 is disposed in the groove 111, and the stretch release adhesive 130 is disposed between an inner wall of the groove 111 and the battery 120 to fasten the battery 120 in the groove 111 of the battery compartment 110. The first adhesive layer 131 of the stretch release adhesive 130 can be bonded with one of the inner wall of the groove 111 and a surface of the battery 120, while the second adhesive layer 132 can be bonded with the other of the inner wall of the groove 111 and the surface of the battery 120.
For the battery assembly 100 according to embodiments of the present disclosure, by providing the second adhesive layer 132 superposed on the first adhesive layer 131 and making the second adhesive layer 132 include the plurality of spaced first adhesive portions 133, not only the gap between the two adjacent first adhesive portions 133 can be used to lower the pull force required to tear the stretch release adhesive 130, thereby making it easily attainable to remove or tear the stretch release adhesive 130, and preventing redundant adhesive from being affixed to the surface of the article being bonded, but also the air between the first adhesive portion 133 and the article being bonded can be discharged from the gap during the bonding, so as to reduce the internal air bubbles and enable the bonding to be more secure, thereby saving production costs without affecting the adhesive function of the stretch release adhesive 130.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, as illustrated in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the extension direction of the first adhesive portion 133 is at an angle β to an assembly/disassembly direction of the battery 120, in which β satisfies 0°≤β<90°. Thus, it is possible to ensure that in the disassembly direction of the battery 120, the first adhesive portion 133 keeps contact with the surface of the battery 120, thereby avoiding intermittent vibration of the battery 120 during the disassembly, so as to guarantee continuity of the disassembly process of the battery 120. Additionally, it is possible to prevent the first adhesive portion 133 from being torn apart in the disassembly process of the battery 120.
Further, the extension direction of the first adhesive portion 133 is identical to the assembly/disassembly direction of the battery 120. Thus, not only the continuity of the disassembly process of the battery 120 can be guaranteed, but also the first adhesive portion 133 can be further prevented from being torn apart in the disassembly process of the battery 120, thereby making the disassembly of the battery 120 from the groove 111 more convenient and easier.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the battery compartment 110 can be a magnesium alloy piece or an aluminum alloy piece. It could be understood that the material for manufacturing the battery compartment 110 can be a magnesium alloy or an aluminum alloy. The magnesium alloy and the aluminum alloy both have advantages of high strength and light texture, and are not easy to deform, thereby being suitable as a production material of the battery compartment 110.
A housing assembly 10 for an electronic device 1 according to embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to
In come embodiments of the present disclosure, the battery compartment 110 is defined by the housing assembly 10. The housing assembly 10 can be a magnesium alloy piece or an aluminum alloy piece.
For the housing assembly 10 of the electronic device 1 according to embodiments of the present disclosure, by providing the second adhesive layer 132 superposed on the first adhesive layer 131 and making the second adhesive layer 132 include the plurality of spaced first adhesive portions 133, not only the gap between the two adjacent first adhesive portions 133 can be used to lower the pull force required to tear the stretch release adhesive 130, thereby making it easily attainable to remove or tear the stretch release adhesive 130, and preventing redundant adhesive from being affixed to the surface of the article being bonded, but also the air between the first adhesive portion 133 and the article being bonded can be discharged from the gap during the bonding, so as to reduce the internal air bubbles and enable the bonding to be more secure, thereby saving production costs without affecting the adhesive function of the stretch release adhesive 130.
The electronic device 1 according to embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to
The electronic device 1 according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes the above housing assembly 10.
For the electronic device 1 according to embodiments of the present disclosure, by providing the second adhesive layer 132 superposed on the first adhesive layer 131 and making the second adhesive layer 132 include the plurality of spaced first adhesive portions 133, not only the gap between the two adjacent first adhesive portions 133 can be used to lower the pull force required to tear the stretch release adhesive 130, thereby making it easily attainable to remove or tear the stretch release adhesive 130, and preventing redundant adhesive from being affixed to the surface of the article being bonded, but also the air between the first adhesive portion 133 and the article being bonded can be discharged from the gap during the bonding, so as to reduce the internal air bubbles and enable the bonding to be more secure, thereby saving production costs without affecting the adhesive function of the stretch release adhesive 130.
The electronic device 1 according to a specific embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the electronic device 1 can be various devices capable of acquiring data from the outside and processing the data, or the electronic device 1 can be any device that has a built-in battery 120 and is capable of receiving current from the outside to charge the battery 120, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a computing device or an information display device.
The mobile phone is taken as an example to introduce the electronic device 1 to which the present disclosure is applicable. The mobile phone can include an ultrasonic chip, a radio frequency circuit, a memory, an input unit, a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) module, a display unit, a sensor, an audio circuit, a processor, a projection unit, a photographing unit 103, a battery 120, and a stretch release adhesive 130, a housing assembly 10, and other components.
Specifically, as illustrated in
The stretch release adhesive 130 includes the first adhesive layer 131 and the second adhesive layer 132, and both of the first adhesive layer 131 and the second adhesive layer 132 have viscidity. The first adhesive layer 131 is a conventional adhesive layer, i.e. a common adhesive layer, and the first adhesive layer 131 is a monolithic adhesive layer. The second adhesive layer 132 and the first adhesive layer 131 are superposed, and the second adhesive layer 132 includes a plurality of first adhesive portions 133 evenly spaced apart. Each first adhesive portion exhibits a rectangular strip structure, extends along the straight line, and has the same width, and the plurality of first adhesive portions 133 is disposed parallel. When the stretch release adhesive 130 is wound into a roll shape, the first adhesive portion 133 extends along a length direction of the stretch release adhesive 130. The second adhesive layer 132 has the adhesive zone and the adhesive-free zone, the first adhesive portion 133 constitutes the adhesive zone of the second adhesive layer 132, and the gap existing between two adjacent first adhesive portions 133 constitutes the adhesive-free zone of the second adhesive layer 132. The adhesive zone and the adhesive-free zone are arranged in a staggered manner.
As illustrated in
In a process of manufacturing the stretch release adhesive 130, first, an entire adhesive face is cut to remove an unwanted part of the adhesive face (release paper is not cut), then the second adhesive layer 132 is formed with showing an effect of spaced strips, and another adhesive face (the first adhesive layer 131) and the adhesive face with the effect of spaced strips are fully bonded together and are subjected to die-cutting to achieve a desired effect, so as to obtain the stretch release adhesive 130 of the present disclosure. Certainly, the place where the adhesive face is cut off can be filled with non-adhesive filler.
The stretch release adhesive 130 of the present disclosure can reduce the internal air bubbles and maintain relatively equally effective adhesion with the same tape width. Additionally, if this adhesive structure is used as the stretch release adhesive 130, it is possible to reduce an area of a contact surface with the medium on a side of the stretch release adhesive 130 with spaced strips during the disassembly of the battery 120 bonded with the stretch release adhesive 130 (that is, there is an adhesive-free zone compared with a full adhesive surface, i.e. there is a certain ratio of the adhesive-free area to the adhesive area). By utilizing the ratio of the adhesive-free area to the adhesive area, the contact surface between the actual adhesive surface and the battery 120 is decreased when the stretch release adhesive 130 is pulled, so as to reduce the pull force and facilitate the disassembly.
The display unit can be embedded in a front side of the electronic device 1 and coupled with the housing. The display unit can be configured to display information input by or presented to the user, and various menus of the mobile phone. The display unit can include a display panel, and optionally, the display panel can be configured in forms of a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and the like. Further, the touch panel can overlay the display panel; when the touch panel detects a touch operation on or near it, the touch operation is sent to the processor to determine which type the touch event belongs to, and then the processor provides corresponding visual output on the display panel according to the type of the touch event. The location, which can be recognized by the user's eye in the display panel, besides the visual output, can serve as a “display area” described later. The touch panel and the display panel can be two separate components to achieve input and output functions of the mobile phone, or can be integrated to achieve the input and output functions of the mobile phone.
The radio-frequency (RF) circuit can be used to receive and transmit a signal during information transmission and reception or during a call. Especially, when downlink information from a base station is received, the RF circuit sends the downlink information to the processor for processing, and additionally sends uplink data from the mobile phone to the base station. Usually, the RF circuit includes but is not limited to an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low-noise amplifier, a duplexer and etc. In addition, the RF circuit can communicate with the network and other devices via wireless communication. The wireless communication can employ any communication standard or protocol, including but not limited to global system for mobile communication (GSM), general packet radio service (GPRS), code division multiple access (CDMA), wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA), long term evolution (LTE), e-mail and short messaging service (SMS).
The memory can be used to store software programs and modules, and the processor runs various software applications in the mobile phone and performs data processing by running the software programs and modules stored in the memory. The memory can mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area. The program storage area can store an operating system, at least one application program required for a function (such as a voice playback function, an image playback function and etc.); the data storage area can store data (such as audio data, contacts and etc.) created according to the use of the mobile phone. In addition, the memory can include a high-speed random access memory, and can also include a non-volatile memory, such as at least one disk storage device and flash memory device, or include other volatile solid state memory devices.
The input unit can be configured to receive incoming numbers or character information, and generate a key signal related to user settings and function control of the mobile phone. Specifically, the input unit can include a touch panel and other input devices. The touch panel, also known as a touch screen, can collect a touch operation made by a user on or near the touch panel (for example, an operation made by the user on the touch panel or near the touch panel by means of a finger, a touch pen or any other suitable object or accessory), and drive the corresponding connection device according to a preset program. Optionally, the touch panel can include a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device is configured to detect a touch orientation of the user, detect a signal from the touch operation, and transmit the signal to the touch controller. The touch controller is configured to receive the touch signal from the touch detection device, convert it into contact coordinates and send the contact coordinates to the processor, and can be configured to receive and execute a command from the processor. In addition, it is possible to realize the touch panel in resistive type, capacitive type, infrared type, surface acoustic wave type and other types. The input unit can include other input devices apart from the touch panel. Specifically, other input devices can include, but are not limited to one or more of a physical keypad, a function key (e.g. a volume control button, an on/off button, etc.), a trackball, a mouse and an operating rod.
In addition, the mobile phone can also include at least one sensor, such as an attitude sensor, a light sensor and other sensors.
Specifically, the attitude sensor can also be referred as a motion sensor, and as one kind of motion sensor, a gravity sensor can be employed. As for the gravity sensor, a cantilever displacement device is made of an elastic-sensitive element, and an electrical contact is driven by an energy-storage spring made of the elastic-sensitive element, so as to achieve the conversion of gravity changes into electrical signal changes.
As an alternative motion sensor, an accelerometer sensor can be used. The accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in all directions (generally in three axes), and detect the magnitude and direction of the gravity at rest, and can be used for attitude identification of the mobile phone (such as horizontal and vertical screen switch, related games, magnetometer attitude calibration), and vibration-recognition related functions (such as pedometer and percussion).
In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the motion sensors listed above can be used as an element for obtaining an “attitude parameter” described later, which is not limited thereto, however. Other sensors capable of obtaining the “attitude parameter” fall into the protection scope of the present disclosure, for example, a gyroscope. The working principle and data processing of the gyroscope can be similar to the related art, so the detailed description thereof will be omitted to avoid redundancy.
In addition, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, an infrared sensor and the like can be used as a sensor, which will not be described in detail.
The light sensor can include an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor, in which the ambient light sensor can adjust brightness of the display panel in accordance with the ambient light, and the proximity sensor can turn off the display panel and/or backlight when the mobile phone is moved to the ear.
The audio circuit, the loudspeaker and the microphone can provide an audio interface between the user and the mobile phone. The audio circuit can transmit an electrical signal converted from the received audio data to the loudspeaker, and the loudspeaker converts the electrical signal into an audio signal to be output. On the other hand, the microphone converts the collected audio signal into the electrical signal, and the audio circuit receives and converts the electrical signal into audio data, and transmits the audio data to the processor. After processed by the processor, the audio data is sent to, for example, another mobile phone via the RF circuit, or is output to the memory for further processing.
Wi-Fi is a short distance wireless transmission technology, and the mobile phone can help the user send and receive e-mails, browse websites, and access streaming media through the Wi-Fi module which provides the user with wireless broadband access to the Internet.
The processor is a control center of the mobile phone, is connected to various parts of the mobile phone by means a variety of interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the mobile phone and data processing by running or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory and by invoking the data stored in the memory, so as to monitor the mobile phone overall. Optionally, the processor can include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor can be integrated with an application processor and a modem processor, in which the application processor mainly handles the operating system, the user interface and the application program, while the modem processor mainly deals with wireless communication.
It could be understood that the modem processor may not be integrated into the processor.
Moreover, the processor can act as an implementing element of the processing unit, to perform the same or similar function as the processing unit.
It should be noted that the mobile phone is only an example of the electronic device 1 and is not constructed to limit the present disclosure. The present disclosure can be applied to the electronic device 1 such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer and so on, and the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Reference throughout this specification to “an embodiment,” “some embodiments,” “an exemplary embodiment,” “an example,” “a specific example,” or “some examples,” means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. Thus, the appearances of the phrases in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment or example of the present disclosure. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments or examples.
Although embodiments have been illustrated and described, it would be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, alternatives and variants can be made in the embodiments without departing from principles and purposes of the present disclosure. The protection scope of the present disclosure is defined by the claims or the like.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 201710576504.1 | Jul 2017 | CN | national |
| 201720862418.2 | Jul 2017 | CN | national |
