US 12,267,945 B2
Electronic component protection structure and switch device
Shoji Kishi, Tsurugashima (JP); Kohei Tajima, Tsurugashima (JP); Toshihiro Namikawa, Tsurugashima (JP); and Hideaki Ito, Tsurugashima (JP)
Assigned to TOYO DENSO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOYO DENSO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/101,707.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-037110 (JP), filed on Mar. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0292429 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 1/02 (2006.01); H05K 1/18 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 1/0213 (2013.01) [H05K 1/181 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic component protection structure comprising:
a circuit board on which an electronic component is mounted;
a base member supporting the circuit board;
a case member covering the circuit board and fixed to the base member; and
a conductive ground member connected to the circuit board,
wherein the ground member includes an exposed portion at least a part of which is exposed to an inside of the case member,
wherein the ground member includes a linear portion and a protruding portion branching off and protruding from a position on the linear portion, the position located in a middle of the linear portion in a longitudinal direction of the linear portion, and
at least an end of the protruding portion is exposed to the inside of the case member as the exposed portion.