US 12,453,020 B2
Electronic control device case
Jia Lu, Osaka (JP); Takuo Nakamura, Osaka (JP); and Takuya Yamane, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 18/547,522
Filed by Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 25, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/008068
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 23, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/186091, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 9, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-033417 (JP), filed on Mar. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0138079 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0237236 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H05K 5/02 (2006.01); H01M 50/204 (2021.01); H01M 50/224 (2021.01); H01M 50/271 (2021.01); H05K 5/03 (2006.01); H05K 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 5/0208 (2013.01) [H01M 50/204 (2021.01); H01M 50/224 (2021.01); H01M 50/271 (2021.01); H05K 5/03 (2013.01); H05K 5/04 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic control device case comprising:
a body case including a bottom plate and a pair of side walls which are bent at both ends of the bottom plate and extend from the both ends of the bottom plate, respectively, the body case having a front opening; and
a cover including a front plate closing the front opening of the body case, wherein
the body case further includes a first flange bent and second flanges, the first flange being bent at a front end of the bottom plate, the second flanges being bent at respective front ends of the pair of side walls,
an outer face of the first flange is positioned on a first plane, and inner faces of the second flanges are positioned on a second plane different from the first plane,
the outer face of the first flange pushes a lower end of a back surface of the front plate of the cover in a direction away the body case, and
the inner faces of the second flanges push both side ends of a front surface of the front plate of the cover toward the body case,
the first flange has oblique surfaces at both side edges thereof close to the second flanges, and each of the second flanges has an oblique surface at a lower edge of the each of the second flanges close to the first flange, and
the first flange bends inward over a top portion of the first flange.