US 12,154,601 B2
Electronic device having metal member and screw that attaches connector and metal member to housing
Masahide Takazawa, Yokohama Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (JP); and Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (JP); and Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/465,340.
Application 18/465,340 is a continuation of application No. 17/686,696, filed on Mar. 4, 2022, granted, now 11,790,956.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-154720 (JP), filed on Sep. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0420002 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G11B 33/12 (2006.01); G11B 5/012 (2006.01); H01R 13/60 (2006.01); G11B 5/48 (2006.01)
CPC G11B 33/122 (2013.01) [G11B 5/012 (2013.01); H01R 13/60 (2013.01); G11B 5/4806 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing that houses a component;
a substrate with a first hole and a second hole, including
a first surface to which the second hole opens, and
a region being provided on the first surface and to which the first hole opens,
the substrate being attached to the housing outside the housing and electrically connected to the component;
a connector with a third hole, mounted on the substrate outside the housing and configured to be connected to an external device;
a metal member with a fourth hole communicating with the first hole and the third hole, the metal member being attached to the connector and including
a second surface facing the region and to which the fourth hole opens, and
a joint inserted into the second hole; and
a screw that attaches the connector and the metal member to the housing through the third hole and the fourth hole.