US 12,356,563 B2
Electronic control component bracket
Makoto Kato, Okazaki (JP); Katsuya Hirakawa, Okazaki (JP); and Yasuto Kojo, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to DAIWA KASEI INDUSTRY CO., LTD., Okazaki (JP)
Filed by DAIWA KASEI INDUSTRY CO., LTD., Okazaki (JP)
Filed on Jan. 11, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/410,030.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-004823 (JP), filed on Jan. 17, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0244770 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01); B60R 16/023 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 5/0204 (2013.01) [B60R 16/0239 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic control component bracket that is assembled with a resin case which has an electronic control portion thereinside, and which has a rectangular upper surface, a rectangular lower surface, and four side surfaces surrounding an outer peripheral side between the upper surface and the lower surface and including an assembling side surface formed so as to have an elastic extending portion protruding outward and then extending in an outer peripheral direction from a protrusion end, having a free end at an end, and having a width in an up-down direction, wherein
the electronic control component bracket is formed as a resin injection-molded product in which a bottom wall portion disposed so as to oppose the lower surface of the case, and a side wall portion disposed so as to stand from the bottom wall portion and oppose the corresponding assembling side surface are integrated with each other,
the side wall portion has an elastic wall portion which is disposed between two cut portions each having an opening at an end side in a standing direction and extending toward the bottom wall portion and which has a lower stiffness than the elastic extending portion, and a disengagement-preventing portion protruding inward from the end side of the elastic wall portion in the standing direction,
the disengagement-preventing portion has a downward protrusion that protrudes from a protrusion end side of the disengagement-preventing portion toward the bottom wall portion, and that forms a gap between the elastic wall portion and the downward protrusion, and
when the case is moved close to the bottom wall portion with the lower surface of the case being disposed at a head such that the assembling side surface opposes the corresponding side wall portion in order to assemble the case, the elastic extending portion is moved over the disengagement-preventing portion, to cause elastic deformation of the elastic wall portion, the elastic deformation is released after the elastic extending portion has been moved over the disengagement-preventing portion, an upper end of the elastic extending portion is moved into the bottom wall portion side of the disengagement-preventing portion so as to be stored in the gap according to the elastic deformation being released, and the case is assembled in a disengagement preventing state.