阅读说明：本技术 电子设备的外壳及其制备方法、电子设备 (Electronic equipment shell, preparation method thereof and electronic equipment ) 是由 苏子鹏 于 2019-10-31 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开一种电子设备的外壳制备方法,其包括：对透光基板进行加工,以使得透光基板形成基板主体和分别设置在基板主体两侧的两个第一侧板,两个第一侧板与基板主体为一体式结构；在基板主体上划分出屏幕盖板、两个第二侧板和后盖板,两个第二侧板分别连接在屏幕盖板的两个侧边缘上,两个第一侧板分别连接在屏幕盖板的两个端边缘上；将基板主体折弯以形成筒状结构件；采用熔接工艺将基板主体对接的边缘熔接；分别将两个第一侧板折弯；通过熔接工艺连接两个第一侧板与筒状结构件的相对应的端口边缘。本发明公开一种电子设备的外壳及电子设备。上述方案能解决目前的电子设备的外壳存在防水防尘性能及外观性能不佳的问题。(The invention discloses a method for preparing a shell of electronic equipment, which comprises the following steps: processing the light-transmitting substrate to enable the light-transmitting substrate to form a substrate main body and two first side plates which are respectively arranged on two sides of the substrate main body, wherein the two first side plates and the substrate main body are of an integrated structure; a screen cover plate, two second side plates and a rear cover plate are divided on the substrate main body, the two second side plates are respectively connected to two side edges of the screen cover plate, and the two first side plates are respectively connected to two end edges of the screen cover plate; bending the substrate main body to form a cylindrical structural member; welding the butted edges of the substrate main bodies by adopting a welding process; respectively bending the two first side plates; and connecting the two first side plates with the corresponding port edges of the cylindrical structural member through a welding process. The invention discloses a shell of electronic equipment and the electronic equipment. Above-mentioned scheme can solve present electronic equipment's shell and have waterproof dustproof performance and the not good problem of outward appearance performance.)

1. A method for preparing a housing of an electronic device, comprising:

processing a light-transmitting substrate (100) to enable the light-transmitting substrate (100) to form a substrate main body (110) and two first side plates (120) respectively arranged on two sides of the substrate main body (110), wherein the two first side plates (120) and the substrate main body (110) are of an integrated structure;

a screen cover plate (111), two second side plates (112) and a rear cover plate (113) are divided on the base plate main body (110), the two second side plates (112) are respectively connected to two side edges of the screen cover plate (111), and the two first side plates (120) are respectively connected to two end edges of the screen cover plate (111);

bending the substrate main body (110) to form a cylindrical structural member;

welding the butted edges of the substrate bodies (110) using a welding process;

bending the two first side plates (120) respectively;

connecting the two first side plates (120) with the corresponding port edges of the cylindrical structural member by a welding process.

2. A method for preparing a housing according to claim 1, wherein processing the light-transmissive substrate (100) comprises:

and processing the light-transmitting substrate (100) in a cutting mode.

3. The housing preparation method according to claim 1, wherein dividing the back cover plate (113) on the substrate main body (110) comprises:

the rear cover plate (113) is divided from the base plate main body (110), so that the rear cover plate (113) comprises two rear cover plates (1131), the two rear cover plates (1131) are respectively connected to two edges of the second side plate (112) which are distributed in a back-to-back mode, and the edge of the second side plate (112) which is deviated from the corresponding rear cover plate (1131) is a welding edge.

4. The method of manufacturing a housing according to claim 1, wherein bending the substrate body (110) to form a cylindrical structure comprises:

and bending the substrate main body (110) into the cylindrical structural part by adopting a hot-pressing bending process.

5. A housing for an electronic device, characterized in that the housing is manufactured by a housing manufacturing method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

6. The housing according to claim 5, wherein the rear cover panel (113) comprises two rear cover panels (1131), the two rear cover panels (1131) are respectively connected to two edges of the two second side panels (112) which are opposite to each other, the edge of the rear cover panel (1131) facing away from the corresponding second side panel (112) is a welding edge, and the welding edges of the two rear cover panels (1131) are mutually adaptive slopes (A) and are connected in a welding manner.

7. The housing of claim 1, further comprising: a light shielding layer provided on inner side surfaces of the two second side plates (112), the two first side plates (120), and the rear cover plate (113).

8. The shell according to claim 7, wherein the light shielding layer comprises a PET film attached to the inner side surface, and a silk screen light shielding layer is arranged on the surface of the PET film facing the inner side surface; or, the shading layer is an ink layer.

9. The housing according to claim 1, wherein the light-transmissive substrate (100) is a glass substrate.

10. An electronic device, characterized in that it comprises a housing according to any one of claims 5-9.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of manufacturing of shells of electronic equipment, in particular to a shell of electronic equipment, a preparation method of the shell and the electronic equipment.

Background

With the increase of user demands, the performance of electronic devices (e.g., mobile phones, tablet computers) is continuously optimized, wherein the more prominent behavior is as follows: the appearance performance of electronic devices is becoming more and more excellent. This greatly improves the visual performance of the electronic device.

The visible part of the present electronic device mainly includes a screen cover, a middle frame and a back cover, that is, the screen cover, the middle frame and the back cover together form the appearance surface of the electronic device. In the existing electronic equipment, a screen cover plate, a middle frame and a rear cover plate are manufactured respectively and then assembled together in the whole assembly process of the electronic equipment. In consideration of production errors and assembly errors, gaps exist between the screen cover plate and the middle frame and between the middle frame and the rear cover plate, and the gaps easily cause dust and liquid to invade into the electronic equipment, so that the dustproof and waterproof performance of the electronic equipment is poor. Meanwhile, the presence of the gap may affect the appearance of the electronic device. Therefore, the problems of poor dustproof and waterproof performance and poor appearance performance of the conventional electronic equipment still exist.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention discloses a method for preparing a shell of electronic equipment, which aims to solve the problems of poor waterproof and dustproof performance and poor appearance performance of the shell of the conventional electronic equipment.

In order to solve the problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a method of making a housing for an electronic device, comprising:

processing a light-transmitting substrate to enable the light-transmitting substrate to form a substrate main body and two first side plates which are respectively arranged on two sides of the substrate main body, wherein the two first side plates and the substrate main body are of an integrated structure;

dividing a screen cover plate, two second side plates and a rear cover plate on the substrate main body, wherein the two second side plates are respectively connected to two side edges of the screen cover plate, and the two first side plates are respectively connected to two end edges of the screen cover plate;

bending the substrate main body to form a cylindrical structural part;

welding the butted edges of the substrate main bodies by adopting a welding process;

respectively bending the two first side plates;

and connecting the two first side plates with the port edges of the corresponding cylindrical structural member through a welding process.

A shell of an electronic device is prepared by the shell preparation method.

An electronic device comprising a housing as described above.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention can achieve the following beneficial effects:

according to the method for manufacturing the shell of the electronic equipment, the whole transparent substrate is adopted to form the screen cover plate, the two second side plates, the rear cover plate and the two first side plates through processing and area division, and then the screen cover plate, the two second side plates, the rear cover plate and the two first side plates are sequentially bent and welded to obtain the totally enclosed shell.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a light-transmitting substrate according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a processed transparent substrate;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of a screen cover plate, two second side plates and a rear cover plate divided on a substrate main body;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the structure of FIG. 3 from another perspective;

FIGS. 5-7 are schematic structural views illustrating bending of a substrate body to form a cylindrical structural member;

FIGS. 8-9 are front and rear schematic views, respectively, of edge fusion joining of substrate bodies using a fusion process;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a partial explosion with only the last first side panel left unfused;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural view of a molded housing.

Description of reference numerals:

100-light-transmitting substrate, 110-substrate main body, 111-screen cover plate, 112-second side plate, 113-rear cover plate, 1131-rear cover plate, A-inclined surface, 120-first side plate,

200-hot pressing bending equipment,

300-fusion apparatus.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the technical solutions of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the specific embodiments of the present invention and the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The technical solutions disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1 to 11, an embodiment of the invention discloses a method for manufacturing a housing of an electronic device, where the disclosed housing of the electronic device is applied to the electronic device. The disclosed shell preparation method comprises:

s101, processing the transparent substrate 100 so that the transparent substrate 100 forms a substrate main body 110 and two first side plates 120 respectively disposed at two sides of the substrate main body 110.

In this step, the transparent substrate 100 may be a glass substrate or a transparent polymer substrate. The transparent substrate 100 may be as shown in fig. 1, and specifically, the transparent substrate 100 may be processed to form a structure as shown in fig. 2, so that the transparent substrate 100 forms a substrate main body 110 and two first side plates 120, and the two first side plates 120 are respectively disposed at two sides of the substrate main body 110. It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the two first side plates 120 and the base plate main body 110 are an integral structure. In a specific embodiment, on the premise that the light-transmitting substrate 100 is a glass substrate, the thickness of the glass substrate may be 0.1 to 5mm, and in a preferred embodiment, the thickness of the glass substrate is 0.7 to 0.9 mm.

S102, dividing the screen cover 111, the two second side plates 112 and the rear cover 113 on the substrate main body 110.

In this step, the substrate main body 110 may be divided into regions by preset structural parameters, so as to obtain the screen cover 111, the two second side plates 112 and the rear cover 113, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the two second side plates 112 are respectively connected to two side edges of the screen cover 111, and the two first side plates 120 are respectively connected to two end edges of the screen cover 111. The two side edges are arranged oppositely, and the two end edges are arranged oppositely. The two first side panels 120 and the two second side panels 112 are used to form a middle frame of the enclosure.

S103, bending the substrate body 110 to form a cylindrical structure.

This step can be performed by mechanical bending, so as to bend and deform the substrate body 110 into a cylindrical structural member, as shown in fig. 5 to 7.

And S104, welding the butted edges of the substrate main bodies 110 by adopting a welding process.

This step welds the butted edges of the substrate main bodies 110 using the welding apparatus 300, as shown in fig. 8 and 9. Specifically, the butted edges of the substrate main body 110 are various, and for example, the edge of the rear cover plate 113 is butted against the edge of the second side plate 112. Of course, other structures are possible as long as they can ensure formation of a circumferentially closed tubular structure after welding. The welding performed by the welding device 300 in this step through a welding process is a known process, and will not be described herein.

And S105, respectively bending the two first side plates 120.

Referring to fig. 10 and 11, in this step, the two first side plates 120 may be bent sequentially or simultaneously to prepare for the subsequent step S106. In a specific bending process, the two first side plates 120 may also be bent by the hot-press bending apparatus 200.

And S106, connecting the two first side plates 120 with the corresponding port edges of the cylindrical structural member through a welding process.

Similarly, in this step, the welding device 300 may be used to weld the two first side plates 120 to the corresponding port edges of the tubular structure, so as to seal the two ports of the tubular structure, and finally form the housing of the electronic device.

During assembly of a particular electronic device, the last first side plate 120 may be welded closed after other components of the electronic device are assembled into the tubular structure. In the final formed shell, the two first side panels 120 and the two second side panels 112 form the middle frame of the shell.

In the method for manufacturing the shell of the electronic device, a whole transparent substrate 100 is adopted to form the screen cover plate 111, the two second side plates, the rear cover plate 113 and the two first side plates 120 through processing and area division, and then the screen cover plate, the two second side plates, the rear cover plate 113 and the two first side plates 120 are sequentially bent and welded to obtain a totally-enclosed shell.

In the embodiment of the present invention, in S101, the processing the light-transmitting substrate 100 may include: the transparent substrate 100 is processed by cutting, so that the transparent substrate 100 forms a substrate main body 110 and two first side plates 120 respectively disposed at two sides of the substrate main body 110. Specifically, the cutting can be realized by a CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) processing method. Of course, an etching process or a laser process may also be used to process the transparent substrate 100, so that the transparent substrate 100 forms the substrate main body 110 and the two first side plates 120 respectively disposed on two sides of the substrate main body 110. Of course, the transparent substrate 100 is processed by cutting, which has the advantage of high processing efficiency.

In S103, the substrate main body 110 may be bent by a cold bending process, but for convenience of bending, in a preferred embodiment, the substrate main body 110 may be bent into a cylindrical structure by using the hot press bending apparatus 200. Specifically, two hot press bending apparatuses 200 may be respectively pressed on the two second side plates 112 and heated, and then the back cover plate 113 is manipulated, so as to finally achieve bending, as shown in fig. 5 to 7. In particular, the bending can be realized by local heating. On the premise that the transparent substrate 100 is a glass substrate, the heating temperature for hot bending may be 400-1500 ℃, and optionally, the heating temperature for hot bending is 800 ± 20 ℃.

In S102, the screen cover 111, the two second side plates 112 and the rear cover 113 are divided from the substrate main body 110, wherein the rear cover 113 may be divided from the substrate main body 110 in various ways, for example, the rear cover 113 may be divided into a whole, and in the subsequent implementation of S103 and S104, since one side edge of the rear cover 113 and one second side plate 112 are in an integral bent structure, the other side edge of the rear cover 113 and the opposite edge of the other second side plate 112 may be welded.

In a more preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 3 to 7, dividing the rear cover plate 113 on the substrate body 110 includes: the rear cover plate 113 is divided on the base plate main body 110, so that the rear cover plate 113 includes two rear cover panels 1131, the two rear cover panels 1131 are respectively connected to two edges of the two second side plates 112, which are distributed in an opposite manner, and the edge of the rear cover panel 1131 departing from the corresponding second side plate 112 is a welding edge. In the process of S104 implementation, two welding edges opposite to each other of the two rear cover panels 1131 are directly welded to each other, so that the cylindrical structural member is formed in a circumferentially closed structural member, and in this way, welding directly occurs on the rear cover panel 113, so that the shapes of the two second side panels 112 can be well ensured, and thus deformation of the second side panels 112 due to welding is avoided.

In order to facilitate the welding of the two rear cover panels 1131, in a preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 4 to 7, the welding edges of the two rear cover panels 1131 are mutually adapted inclined surfaces a, and this structure enables the cylindrical structural member formed after S103 is completed to have a better pre-sealing effect, thereby being more beneficial to the subsequent welding of S104.

As is known, the housing of the electronic device is a peripheral protective member of the electronic device, and also has a shielding function to prevent parts of the electronic device mounted in the housing from being exposed. Based on this, the method for preparing the housing disclosed by the embodiment of the invention further comprises the following steps: light shielding layers are provided on the inner side surfaces of the two second side plates 112, the two first side plates 120, and the back cover plate 113. The light shield layer can play the effect of hiding ugly. The light-shielding layer may be of various kinds. For example, the light shielding layer may include a PET (polyethylene terephthalate) film attached to the inner side surface, and a screen printing light shielding layer may be disposed on a side of the PET film facing the inner side surface, in which case, the PET film provided with the screen printing light shielding layer may be directly attached to the inner side surfaces of the two second side plates 112, the two first side plates 120, and the back cover plate 113. Of course, the light-shielding layer may be an ink layer.

Based on the shell preparation method of the electronic equipment disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, the embodiment of the invention discloses a shell of the electronic equipment, and the disclosed shell is prepared by the shell preparation method disclosed by the embodiment.

In the related housing, the rear cover plate 113 may include two rear cover plates 1131, the two rear cover plates 1131 are respectively connected to two edges of the two second side plates 112, which are distributed in a back-to-back manner, and the edge of the rear cover plate 1131 departing from the corresponding second side plate 112 is a welding edge. In order to improve the welding effect, the welding edges of the two rear cover panels 1131 are mutually adapted inclined surfaces a, and the two mutually adapted inclined surfaces a are welded together.

The housing disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention may further include a light shielding layer disposed on inner side surfaces of the two second side plates 112, the two first side plates 120, and the rear cover plate 113. The light shield layer can play the effect of hiding ugly. The structure of the light shielding layer may be the structure described in the above process part, and specific reference may be made to the description of the above corresponding part, which is not described herein again.

Based on the shell of the electronic equipment disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, the embodiment of the invention discloses the electronic equipment, and the disclosed electronic equipment comprises the shell disclosed by the embodiment.

The electronic device disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention may be an electronic device such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, an electronic book reader, a game machine, a wearable device (e.g., a smart watch), and the specific type of the electronic device is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

In the above embodiments of the present invention, the difference between the embodiments is mainly described, and different optimization features between the embodiments can be combined to form a better embodiment as long as they are not contradictory, and further description is omitted here in view of brevity of the text.

The above description is only an example of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention. Various modifications and alterations to this invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the claims of the present invention.