US 12,298,823 B2
Electronic apparatus and exterior panel thereof
Yujin Morisawa, Kanagawa (JP); Yasuhiro Ootori, Kanagawa (JP); Keiichi Aoki, Tokyo (JP); and Shinya Tsuchida, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/911,874
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 25, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/012749
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/193881, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-059189 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0114888 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/20 (2006.01); H05K 5/03 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/20 (2013.01) [H05K 5/03 (2013.01); H05K 7/20145 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. An exterior panel that is to be attached to a housing of an electronic apparatus and arranged in disposed in a first cutting plane and in a second cutting plane intersecting the first cutting plane, each cutting plane being along an upward-downward direction of the electronic apparatus with respect to the housing, wherein
the exterior panel has, on a peripheral portion of the exterior panel, a first position, a second position defined on an opposite side of a center of the exterior panel from the first position, a third position, a fourth position defined on an opposite side of the center of the exterior panel from the third position,
a line that connects the first position and the second position to each other and is formed along an external surface of the exterior panel is a curve bulging to at least one direction of an upward direction or a downward direction in the first cutting plane, and
a line that connects the third position and the fourth position to each other and is formed along the external surface of the exterior panel is a curve bulging to another direction of the upward direction or the downward direction, the another direction being opposite the at least one direction in the second cutting plane.