US 12,328,855 B2
Housing cover
Jochen Schöllhammer, Dettingen (DE); Bernhard Eberle, Metzingen (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. 17/961,509.
Application 17/961,509 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2021/058343, filed on Mar. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 109 893.6 (DE), filed on Apr. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0088724 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 9/0015 (2013.01) [Y10T 428/24273 (2015.01)] 17 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 a bending region in which a material of the deformation limiting element is bent out of a reference plane extending substantially in parallel to the seal support face by a bend angle of at least 30°,
wherein the deformation limiting element comprises a folding over region, which is connected by way of the bending region and an abutment region to a seal support region of the housing cover on which the sealing bead is arranged, wherein the folding over region abuts against the abutment region on the same side of the housing cover on which the sealing bead is arranged on the seal support region, and wherein an average thickness of the folding over region is smaller than an average thickness of the abutment region.