US 12,317,432 B2
Housing and control device
Takeshi Honda, Hyogo (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/511,119.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-188682 (JP), filed on Nov. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0179856 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. H05K 5/02 (2006.01); B60R 16/023 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 5/0204 (2013.01) [B60R 16/0239 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A housing that is to be attached to an object via a bracket, the housing comprising:
a contact surface that is contacted by the bracket that has been press-fitted;
a pair of projecting portions disposed at both sides of the contact surface in a widthwise direction that is along the contact surface and orthogonal to a press-fitting direction of the bracket, the pair of projecting portions projecting out toward the bracket and extending in the press-fitting direction;
a pair of clamping portions that extend toward each other from projecting edge portions of the pair of projecting portions, and clamp the bracket between the contact surface and at least a portion of each one of the pair of clamping portions; and
a stopper that abuts the bracket and prevents the bracket from being press-fitted by more than a predetermined length of the bracket in the press-fitting direction, wherein
a leading end portion of each one of the pair of clamping portions in the press-fitting direction and the stopper are connected to each other.