In-vehicle electronic device
View Patent ↗An in-vehicle electronic device includes a circuit board in which a preamplifier circuit, and the like are provided, and a holding case, which stores the circuit board. The holding case is configured by combining a lower case which is fixed to a glass surface in which an antenna radiation conductor is arranged, and an upper case which is detachably mounted on the lower case so as to cover the lower case, so that a connection terminal held in the lower case is brought into press-contact with an electrode of the circuit board. When the upper case is removed from the lower case, an elastic piece is bent by pushing a tip of a protruded portion to a base end side, or a snap claw is separated from a locking hole by inserting a tool such as a driver, in between a tongue piece and the elastic piece.
1. An in-vehicle electronic device in which a substantially rectangular holding case which stores a circuit board is configured by combining a lower case fixed to a glass surface of a window of a vehicle and an upper case detachably mounted on the lower case so as to cover the lower case, and an electronic circuit provided in the circuit board is electrically connected with an antenna radiation conductor arranged on the glass surface, the in-vehicle electronic device, comprising:
an elastic piece configured at one end of the upper case in a longitudinal direction, and pressed and bent to the other end in the longitudinal direction;
a snap claw configured such that a part of the elastic piece protrudes to the one end of the upper case in a longitudinal direction;
a protruded portion configured to extend from a tip of the elastic piece to the one end of the upper case in the longitudinal direction;
a notched portion formed by notching the vicinity of a base end of the protruded portion; and
a tongue piece configured at one end of the lower case in a longitudinal direction, and have a locking hole,
wherein a position in which the tongue piece and the elastic piece face each other engages the notched portion, so that the upper case is attached to and detached from the lower case by engaging and disengaging the snap claw with and from the locking hole.
2. The in-vehicle electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a connection terminal having a spring property is held in the lower case while the circuit board is held in the upper case, so that the connection terminal is elastically biased in a direction that the upper case is separated from the glass surface by bringing one end of the connection terminal into press-contact with a first electrode provided on a bottom surface of the circuit board and by bringing the other end of the connection terminal into press-contact with a second electrode provided on the glass surface.
3. The in-vehicle electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a part of a side plate provided at the one end of the lower case in the longitudinal direction is used as the tongue piece, so that a cut is formed along both side-edges of the tongue piece in a width direction.
4. The in-vehicle electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein a pair of columnar portions having a tapered thick wall portion in the vicinity of each tip thereof is erected at a position facing each other in a width direction at the other end of the lower case in the longitudinal direction while a pair of engagement projections are provided at positions facing each other in a width direction at the other end of the upper case in the longitudinal direction, so that each of the pair of engagement projections is locked at the corresponding thick wall portion by pressing and bending, to the outside, the pair of columnar portions by the pair of engagement projections.