US 12,267,973 B2
Housing cover and method for producing a housing cover
Björn Betz, Trochtelfingen (DE); Jochen Schöllhammer, Dettingen (DE); Thilo Lutz, Stuttgart (DE); and Tobias Kunert, Reutlingen (DE)
Assigned to ELRINGKLINGER AG, Dettingen (DE)
Filed by ELRINGKLINGER AG, Dettingen (DE)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/961,511.
Application 17/961,511 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2021/058348, filed on Mar. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 109 895.2 (DE), filed on Apr. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0035552 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 5/06 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H05K 5/10 (2025.01)
CPC H05K 5/061 (2013.01) [H05K 5/10 (2025.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A housing cover for fixing to a housing, wherein the housing cover is provided with a plurality of fastening means through-openings and with a sealing bead that comprises an elastomeric material, and
wherein the sealing bead is arranged on a seal support face of the housing cover,
wherein the housing cover comprises at least one deformation limiting element, which projects over the seal support face in the same direction as the sealing bead and limits a deformation of the sealing bead in an assembled state of the housing cover,
wherein the deformation limiting element comprises at least one fastening means through-opening portion that extends along a circumferential direction of one of the fastening means through-openings over a circumferential angle around the respective fastening means through-opening, and
wherein the fastening means through-opening portion of the deformation limiting element comprises a plurality of partial elements that are spaced at a distance from one another along the circumferential direction of the fastening means through-opening.