US 12,066,874 B2
Electronic apparatus and exterior panel thereof
Yujin Morisawa, Tokyo (JP); Kazutaka Eto, Tokyo (JP); Yasuhiro Ootori, Kanagawa (JP); Yuta Tamaki, Chiba (JP); and Toshihiro Ueda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/201,072.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-059187 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0303038 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 1/18 (2006.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/181 (2013.01) [G06F 1/20 (2013.01); H05K 7/20145 (2013.01); H05K 7/20172 (2013.01); H05K 5/0008 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
an apparatus main body having a first external surface that faces a first direction and a first side surface that faces a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and
a first exterior panel curved at least partly and having a peripheral edge, wherein
the first exterior panel covers the first external surface and is attached to the first external surface,
the first exterior panel extends in the second direction such that a first portion of the peripheral edge extends beyond the first side surface and extends in a third direction such that a second portion of the peripheral edge extends beyond a second side surface, where the first portion and the second portion are adjacent to each other across a vertex of the peripheral edge of the first exterior panel,
the peripheral edge of the first exterior panel has a thickness (T3) between first and second major surfaces thereof that is substantially uniform throughout the first exterior panel, including the first portion and the second portion of the peripheral edge, and
the first portion of the peripheral edge that is located beyond the first side surface faces the second direction and does not contact any other structure of the electronic apparatus, and the second portion of the peripheral edge that is located beyond the second side surface faces the third direction and does not contact any other structure of the electronic apparatus.