Patent ID: 7163424
Filing Date: 2007-01-16
Classification: G01R,H01R

Abstract:
1. An enclosure for an object, the enclosure comprising: a plurality of housing pieces that when assembled to one another enclose the object to a desired extent, each individual housing piece meeting at least one other of the plurality along meeting edges; and at least one locking tab disposed along a first meeting edge of a first housing piece and attached to the first housing piece by a connecting region narrower than the maximum width of the locking tab it attaches and that flexes resiliently; a socket for each locking tab, the socket opening onto a second meeting edge of a second housing piece and having a shape that exactly envelopes a corresponding locking tab and its connecting region; each locking tab including a tapered edge disposed opposite the connecting region of the locking tab and disposed on what will be the interior surface of the enclosure when the plurality of housing-pieces is assembled; and each socket including a shelf disposed to overlap at least a portion of the tapered region of its corresponding locking tab when the locking tab occupies the socket.