US 12,069,193 B2
Method of manufacturing housing for electronic communication device
Seong-Hyeon Kim, Gyeongsangbuk-do (KR); Hyo-Sung Kang, Gyeongsangbuk-do (KR); Min-Yong Kim, Gyeongsangbuk-do (KR); Hyun-Young Roh, Daegu (KR); Jung-Bae Park, Daegu (KR); Tae-Young Bae, Gyeongsangbuk-do (KR); Hyo-Won Seo, Gyeongsangbuk-do (KR); Hae-Won Sung, Gyeongsangbuk-do (KR); Gyung-Hoon Lee, Gyeongsangbuk-do (KR); Bit-Na Kim, Gyeongsangnam-do (KR); and Byung-Joon Lee, Daegu (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/362,368.
Application 17/362,368 is a continuation of application No. 17/020,291, filed on Sep. 14, 2020, granted, now 11,082,545.
Application 17/020,291 is a continuation of application No. 16/057,048, filed on Aug. 7, 2018, granted, now 10,778,819.
Application 16/057,048 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2017/010491, filed on Sep. 22, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2016-0130918 (KR), filed on Oct. 10, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0329107 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04M 1/02 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04M 1/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 1/0249 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1637 (2013.01); G06F 1/1656 (2013.01); H04M 1/0266 (2013.01); H04M 1/185 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable communication device comprising:
a housing including:
a metal housing member forming a portion of an outer side surface of the portable communication device, the metal housing member including a first metal portion and a second metal portion,
a seating groove formed along the metal housing member, and
a resin member including a first portion at least partially formed in the seating groove of the metal housing member and a second portion formed between the first metal portion and the second metal portion; and
a glass plate forming at least a part of an outer surface of the portable communication device,
wherein the first portion of the resin member is at least partially exposed to an outside of the portable communication device between the metal housing member and the glass plate and the second portion of the resin member is at least partially exposed to the outside of the portable communication device between the first metal portion and the second metal portion, and
wherein the resin member is configured to form another portion of an outer side surface of the portable communication device between the first metal portion and the second metal portion.