TW201603679A - Electronic assembly and electronic apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

An electronic assembly including a housing, a circuit board, and a battery module is provided. The housing has an accommodating space and at least one part of the housing is curved surface. The circuit board is disposed in the accommodating space. The battery module is disposed in the accommodating space and stacked on the circuit board, wherein at least one part of the battery module is located between the housing and the circuit board and at least one part of the battery module is crooked and is corresponding to the curved surface of the housing. An electronic device including the electronic assembly aforementioned is also provided.

Description

Electronic assembly and electronic device

The present application relates to an electronic device, and more particularly to an electronic assembly and an electronic device using the same.

In recent years, with the development of the technology industry, the use of handheld devices such as mobile phones and tablet computers has become more and more popular, and it is moving toward a convenient, versatile and beautiful design. Develop to provide users with more choices. As the demand for handheld devices is increasing, the time for the user to hold the handheld device by hand increases, so the grip of the handheld device is increasingly important.

In order to enhance the user's grip, the surface of the outer casing of the handheld electronic device is also often designed as a curved surface to meet the ergonomic design. However, according to the internal space stack of the existing handheld device, the battery body is closer to the outer casing of the hand-held device relative to the main board, which causes the hand-held device to evade the battery body and cannot assume a smooth arc shape.

The present application provides an electronic assembly and an electronic device using the same, which provides a smooth surface appearance of the housing.

The electronic assembly of the present application includes a housing, a circuit board, and a battery module. The housing has an accommodation space, and at least a portion of the housing is a curved surface. The circuit board is disposed in the accommodating space. The battery module is disposed in the accommodating space and is stacked on the circuit board, wherein at least a portion of the battery module is located between the housing and the circuit board, and at least a portion of the battery module is curved and corresponds to a curved surface of the housing.

The electronic device of the present application includes the above-described electronic assembly and display module. The display module is disposed in the accommodating space, wherein the circuit board is located between the battery module and the display module.

Based on the above, since the battery module of the present application is stacked on the circuit board, at least a portion of the battery module is located between the housing and the circuit board, and at least a portion of the battery module is curved and corresponds to a curved surface of the housing. The housing of the electronic assembly and the electronic device to which the electronic assembly is applied may have a rounded appearance and effectively utilize the space inside the housing. On the other hand, the battery module can have a large battery capacity, thereby improving the endurance of the electronic device to which the electronic assembly is applied.

The above features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description.

1000, 1000A, 1000B, 1000C, 1000D‧‧‧ electronic devices

1100‧‧‧Electronic assembly

1110, 1110a‧‧‧ housing

1111‧‧‧ accommodating space

1111a‧‧‧ Subject

1112a‧‧‧Back cover

1113‧‧‧ openings

1120‧‧‧Circuit board

1120a‧‧ ‧ gap

1121‧‧‧Intermediate

1122‧‧‧Extension

1130, 1130a, 1130b, 1130c‧‧‧ battery modules

1131‧‧‧ Main Department

1131a, 1131b‧‧‧ protrusion

1132‧‧‧Bend

1140‧‧‧Frame

1200‧‧‧ display module

1 is an exploded view of an electronic device in accordance with an embodiment of the present application.

2 is a rear elevational view of the electronic device of FIG. 1 assembled.

3 is a cross-sectional view of the electronic device of FIG. 2 taken along line I-I.

4 is a cross-sectional view of an electronic device in accordance with another embodiment of the present application.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of an electronic device according to still another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing an electronic device according to still another embodiment of the present application.

7A is a cross-sectional view of an electronic device according to still another embodiment of the present application.

7B is a schematic view of the back cover of FIG. 7A removed from the main body.

1 is an exploded view of an electronic device in accordance with an embodiment of the present application. 2 is a rear elevational view of the electronic device of FIG. 1 assembled. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the electronic device of FIG. 2 taken along line I-I. For clarity and illustration, FIG. 2 omits the housing 1110. Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, in the embodiment, the electronic device 1000 is, for example, a smart phone, a tablet computer or the like. The electronic device 1000 includes an electronic assembly 1100 and a display module 1200. The display module 1200 is, for example, an LCD liquid crystal display module or an OLED organic light emitting element, and can be built in or externally provided with a transparent touch line to simultaneously provide a touch function.

The electronic assembly 1100 includes a housing 1110, a circuit board 1120, and a battery module 1130. The housing 1110 has an accommodating space 1111 and at least a part of the housing 1110 is a curved surface, and the material thereof may be metal, plastic, acrylic, carbon fiber or composite material. The circuit board 1120 is, for example, a hard circuit board disposed in the accommodating space 1111. battery The module 1130 is disposed in the accommodating space 1111 and is stacked on the circuit board 1120. At least a portion of the battery module 1130 is located between the housing 1110 and the circuit board 1120, and at least a portion of the battery module 1130 is curved and corresponds to The curved surface of the housing 1110. The display module 1200 is disposed in the accommodating space 1111, and the circuit board 1120 depicted along the line I-I is located between the battery module 1130 and the display module 1200.

In the present embodiment, the circuit board 1120 has two notches 1120a. The two notches 1120a are, for example, recesses formed on opposite sides of the circuit board 1120. For example, the circuit board 1120 can have an approximately I-shaped configuration to define the intermediate portion 1121 and the two extensions 1122.

The battery module 1130 has a main portion 1131 and two curved portions 1132. The two curved portions 1132 are located on opposite sides of the main portion 1131, and each of the curved portions 1132 extends into the corresponding notch 1120a. In other words, in the limited accommodating space 1111, the battery module 1130 can still have a larger volume to increase the battery capacity without affecting the overall thickness of the electronic device 1000, thereby improving the use of the electronic device 1000. The endurance of the time. On the other hand, since the surface of the battery module 1130 facing the housing 1110 is curved, the appearance of the housing 1110 can assume a smooth curve to conform to the ergonomic design.

Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 , in the embodiment, the battery module 1130 covers the middle portion 1121 of the circuit board 1120 and exposes the two extension portions 1122 . The main portion 1131 of the battery module 1130 abuts the circuit board 1120 . The intermediate portion 1121 is configured to reduce the overall thickness of the electronic device 1000 while increasing the battery capacity. Here, the battery module 1130 can be a stack of multi-layer flexible battery plates, so it can be adapted The actual design requirements, such as the design of the electronic device 1000, apply a moderate bend to the portion of the battery module 1130 to be assembled inside the electronic device 1000. On the other hand, the thickness of the battery sheets is relatively thin, so that the overall thickness of the battery module 1130 can still conform to the thin design of the electronic device 1000 while superimposing more battery sheets to increase the battery capacity of the battery module 1130. demand.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 3 . In this example, the electronic assembly 1100 further includes a frame 1140 disposed between the circuit board 1120 and the display module 1200 to fix the circuit board 1120 and the display module 1200 . Specifically, the circuit board 1120 and the display module 1200 are respectively fixed on the frame 1140, and the circuit board 1120 shown along the line I-I is located between the battery module 1130 and the frame 1140.

4 is a cross-sectional view of an electronic device in accordance with another embodiment of the present application. Referring to FIG. 4, the electronic device 1000A of FIG. 4 is different from the electronic device 1000 of FIG. 3 in that, in this embodiment, the main portion 1131 of the battery module 1130a further has a protrusion 1131a, and the protrusion 1131a faces the housing. 1110 extension. Accordingly, the battery module 1130a can have a large battery capacity, thereby improving the endurance of the electronic device 1000A when in use. As shown in a partially enlarged reference view in FIG. 4, the protrusion 1131a is, for example, laminated by a multi-layer battery sheet to be attached to the main portion 1131, wherein the main portion 1131 and the curved portions connected to opposite sides of the main portion 1131 1132 can also be laminated with multi-layer battery sheets. Here, the area of each of the battery sheets constituting the protruding portion 1131a is smaller than the area of each of the battery sheets constituting the main portion 1131.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of an electronic device according to still another embodiment of the present application. Please refer to FIG. 5, the electronic device 1000B of FIG. 5 is different from the electronic device 1000A of FIG. It is to be noted that in the present embodiment, the protruding portion 1131b of the main portion 1131 of the battery module 1130b extends toward the intermediate portion 1211 of the circuit board 1120, and is attached to the intermediate portion 1211 of the circuit board 1120. Accordingly, the battery module 1130b can also have a large battery capacity, thereby improving the endurance of the electronic device 1000B when in use. On the other hand, based on the similar design principle of the battery module 1130a, the protrusion 1131b and the main portion 1131 and the curved portions 1132 connected to the opposite sides of the main portion 1131 can also be made of multi-layer battery sheets having different area sizes. The protrusions 1131b formed by laminating the multi-layered battery sheets having a small area are attached to the main portion 1131 as shown in a partially enlarged reference view in FIG.

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing an electronic device according to still another embodiment of the present application. Please refer to FIG. 6. The electronic device 1000C of FIG. 6 is different from the electronic device 1000 of FIG. 3 in that, in this embodiment, the overall outline of the battery module 1130c is curved, and is depicted along the line II. The main portion 1131 of the battery module 1130c is not attached to the intermediate portion 1211 of the circuit board 1120, but is abutted against the opposite side edges of the intermediate portion 1211 at the junction of the main portion 1131 and the curved portion 1132. Accordingly, the battery module 1130c can also have a large battery capacity, thereby improving the endurance of the electronic device 1000C when in use.

7A is a cross-sectional view of an electronic device according to still another embodiment of the present application. 7B is a schematic view of the back cover of FIG. 7A removed from the main body. Referring to FIG. 7A and FIG. 7B, in the embodiment, the electronic device 1000D is different from the electronic device 1000 of FIG. 3 in that the housing 1110a can have a main body 1111a and a back cover 1112a, wherein the back cover 1112a is detachably assembled The main body 1111a is provided for the user to manually detach the back cover 1112a from the main body 1111a. When the back cover 1112a is detached from the main body 1111a to expose the main body 1111a When the opening 1113 is opened, the user can remove the battery module 1130 stacked on the circuit board 1120 from the accommodating space 1111 via the opening 1113. Here, although the battery module 1130 is configured by the electronic device 1000D, in other embodiments, the electronic device 1000D may also be configured to configure the battery module 1130a, 1130b or 1130c, which is not limited in this application.

In summary, since the battery module of the present application is stacked on the circuit board, at least a portion of the battery module is located between the housing and the circuit board, and at least a portion of the battery module is curved and corresponds to a curved surface of the housing. Therefore, the housing of the electronic assembly and the electronic device to which the electronic assembly is applied can have a rounded appearance and effectively utilize the space inside the housing. On the other hand, the battery module can have a large battery capacity, thereby improving the endurance of the electronic device of the electronic assembly.

Although the present application has been disclosed in the above embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present application, and those skilled in the art can make some modifications and refinements without departing from the spirit and scope of the present application. The scope of protection of this application is subject to the definition of the scope of the appended claims.

1000‧‧‧Electronic devices

1100‧‧‧Electronic assembly

1110‧‧‧Shell

1111‧‧‧ accommodating space

1120‧‧‧Circuit board

1120a‧‧ ‧ gap

1121‧‧‧Intermediate

1130‧‧‧ battery module

1131‧‧‧ Main Department

1132‧‧‧Bend

1140‧‧‧Frame

1200‧‧‧ display module

Claims (11)

An electronic assembly includes: a housing having an accommodating space, and at least a portion of the housing is a curved surface; a circuit board disposed in the accommodating space; and a battery module disposed in the accommodating space And being stacked on the circuit board, wherein at least a portion of the battery module is located between the housing and the circuit board group, and at least a portion of the battery module is curved and corresponds to a curved surface of the housing. The electronic assembly of claim 1, wherein the battery module has a main portion and at least one bent portion, and the main portion has a plate shape corresponding to the circuit board. The electronic assembly of claim 2, wherein the number of the at least one curved portion is two, and the two curved portions are located on opposite sides of the main portion. The electronic assembly of claim 3, wherein the circuit board has two notches, the two notches are located on opposite sides of the circuit board, and each of the curved portions extends into the corresponding notch. The electronic assembly of claim 4, wherein the circuit board comprises an intermediate portion and two extension portions, the two extension portions being disposed on opposite sides of the intermediate portion to form an I-shaped structure. The electronic assembly of claim 2, wherein the main portion abuts at least a portion of the circuit board. The electronic assembly of claim 2, wherein the main portion has a protrusion and the protrusion extends toward the housing or the circuit board. The electronic assembly of claim 1, wherein the battery module covers at least a portion of the circuit board. The electronic assembly of claim 1, further comprising: a frame disposed in the accommodating space, wherein the circuit board is fixed on the frame. The electronic assembly of claim 1, wherein the housing has a main body and a back cover, the back cover is detachably assembled to the main body, and the back cover is detached from the main body to expose the main body The battery module is adapted to exit the accommodating space via the opening when an opening is made. An electronic device comprising: an electronic assembly as claimed in claim 1; and a display module disposed in the accommodating space, wherein the circuit board is located in the battery module and the display module between.