Patent Publication Number: US-2020296192-A1

Title: Electronic device and installation method for electronic device

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION(S) 
     The present application is a continuation application of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2018/120105, filed on Dec. 10, 2018, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201810074096.4, filed on Jan. 25, 2018, the entire disclosure of both of which are incorporated by reference in their entireties. 
    
    
     TECHNICAL FIELD 
     The present application relates to the technical field of mobile communication, in particular to the technical field of mobile equipment, in particular to an electronic device and an assembling method of the electronic device. 
     BACKGROUND 
     With development of the communication technology, electronic devices such as smart phones are becoming more and more popular. With popularization of a concept of full screen, consumers require higher and higher on a screen-to-body ratio of an electronic device, and a narrow frame of the electronic device has become a goal pursued by terminal manufacturers. 
     Due to technical requirement on an intelligent terminal, a touch screen and a shell are usually fixed by dispensing adhesive to prevent separation of the touch screen from the shell. 
     SUMMARY 
     Implementations of the present application provide an electronic device and an assembling method of the electronic device, which can improve a waterproof performance of the electronic device, realize a full screen and increase a screen-to-body ratio of the electronic device. 
     In a first aspect, an implementation of the present application provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a glass shell, having a first opening at one side and an accommodation space extending from the first opening to an inside of the glass shell; a functional assembly, accommodated in the accommodation space, the functional assembly at least includes a display module and a circuit connected with the display module; and a first seal, provided at the first opening to seal the functional assembly within the glass shell. 
     In a second aspect, an implementation of the present application further provides an assembling method of an electronic device. The assembling method includes that providing a glass shell, wherein the glass shell has a first opening at one side and an accommodation space extending inward from the first opening; sliding a functional assembly into the accommodation space of the glass shell from the first opening, wherein the functional assembly at least includes a display module and a circuit connected with the display module; and sealing the first opening. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS 
       Technical solutions and other beneficial effects of the present application will be apparent from the following detailed description of specific implementations of the present application with reference to accompanying drawings. 
         FIG. 1  is a schematic diagram of structure of an electronic device according to an implementation of the present application. 
         FIG. 2  is another schematic diagram of structure of an electronic device according to an implementation of the present application. 
         FIG. 3  is another schematic diagram of structure of an electronic device according to an implementation of the present application. 
         FIG. 4  is another schematic diagram of structure of an electronic device according to an implementation of the present application. 
         FIG. 5  is another schematic diagram of structure of an electronic device according to an implementation of the present application. 
         FIG. 6  is another schematic diagram of structure of an electronic device according to an implementation of the present application. 
         FIG. 7  is a flowchart of an assembling method of an electronic device according to an implementation of the present application. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Technical solutions of implementations of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the implementations of the present application. It is apparent that the described implementations are a part, but not all, of the implementations of the present application. Based on the implementations of the present application, all other implementations obtained by those skilled in the art without paying an inventive effort shall fall within a scope of protection of the present application. 
     Many different implementations or examples for implementing different structures of the present application are provided in the following disclosure. To simplify the disclosure of the present application, components and arrangements of specific examples are described below. Of course, they are merely examples and are not intended to limit the present application. In addition, the present application may repeat reference numerals and/or reference letters in different examples, such repetition is for a purpose of simplification and clarity, which does not indicate a relationship between various implementations and/or arrangements discussed. In addition, the present application provides examples of various specific processes and materials, but a person of ordinary skill in the art may recognize applications of other processes and/or usage of other materials. 
     At present, as most electronic devices on market are restricted by a requirement of a narrow frame, a width of a contact position of dispensed adhesive between a touch screen and a shell of an electronic device is usually small, leading to insufficient bonding force between the touch screen and the shell. Thus, during usage of the electronic device, degumming of the touch screen occurs easily, and moisture easily enters into the electronic device from a degumming place, and internal devices are easily damaged due to moisture. 
     An implementation of the present application provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a glass shell, having a first opening at one side and an accommodation space extending into an inside of the glass shell from the first opening; a functional assembly, accommodated in the accommodation space, wherein the functional assembly at least includes a display module and a circuit connected with the display module; and a first seal, provided at the first opening to seal the functional assembly within the glass shell. 
     In an implementation, sliding rails are formed on side walls of two opposite sides of the accommodation space, and the functional assembly is capable of being slid into the glass shell from the first opening along the sliding rails, or the functional assembly is capable of being slid out of the glass shell along the sliding rails. 
     In an implementation, two sides of the functional assembly are provided with a mating member respectively for mating with the slide rails. 
     In an implementation, the first seal is provided integrally with the functional assembly. 
     In an implementation, the glass shell has a second opening, the second opening is opposite to the first opening, and a second seal is provided at the second opening. 
     In an implementation, the first seal is made of a glass material. 
     In an implementation, the first seal is accommodated in the first opening. 
     In an implementation, the first seal is provided to cover the first opening. 
     In an implementation, the glass shell includes a first surface and a second surface, at least one of which is used as a display surface of the electronic device and is a touch screen on which touch control is performable. 
     In an implementation, both the first surface and the second surface are display surfaces of the electronic device and are touch screens. 
     In an implementation, the first surface corresponding to the display module is a display surface of the electronic device. 
     In an implementation, the display module includes a first display module and a second display module, and the circuit is located between the first display module and the second display module. 
     In an implementation, the first surface corresponding to the first display module is a first display surface of the electronic device, and the second surface corresponding to the second display module is a second display surface of the electronic device. 
     In an implementation, the first display surface is a color display screen and the second display surface is a black-and-white electronic ink screen. 
     In an implementation, a sealant is provided between the first seal and the glass shell. 
     In an implementation, an inner wall of the accommodation space of the glass shell is provided with functional coating. 
     Specifically, referring to  FIGS. 1 to 3 , an implementation of the present application provides an electronic device. The electronic device may be a smart phone, a tablet computer, a display screen, or another electronic device. Referring to  FIG. 1 , an electronic device  100  includes a glass shell  10 , a functional assembly  20 , and a first seal  30 . 
     Herein, the glass shell  10  has a first opening  11  at one side and an accommodation space  12  extending from the first opening  11  into an inside of the glass shell  10 . 
     The glass shell  10  may be made of a material such as sapphire. The glass shell  10  includes a first surface  101  and a second surface  102 . For example, when the electronic device  100  is displayed on a single surface, the first surface  101  may be a display surface of the electronic device, and the second surface  102  may be a rear shell surface of the electronic device. For example, both the first surface  101  and the second surface  102  may be display surfaces of the electronic device to realize a double-surface display of the electronic device. At least one surface of the glass shell  10  may be a touch screen glass surface on which touch control is capable of being realized. For example, the glass shell  10  may be realized to be a double-surface touch screen. 
     The first opening  11  may be provided on any side of the glass shell  10 . For example, taking a mobile phone as an example, the first opening  11  may be provided at a top end of the mobile phone or at a bottom end of the mobile phone. In some implementations, the first opening  11  may be provided on left or right side of the mobile phone. 
     The functional assembly  20  is accommodated in the accommodation space  12 . The functional assembly  20  at least includes a display module  21  and a circuit  22  connected to the display module  21 . 
     Herein, an area corresponding to the display module  21  on the glass shell  10  is a display area. 
     The display module  21  may be an LCD (liquid crystal display) module or an OLED display module. 
     As shown in  FIG. 1 , the functional assembly  20  has the display module  21 , and the first surface  101  corresponding to the display module  21  on the glass shell  10  is the display surface of the electronic device  100 . 
     As shown in  FIG. 2 , the display module  21  includes a first display module  211  and a second display module  212 , wherein the circuit  22  is located between the first display module  211  and the second display module  212 . The first surface  101  corresponding to the first display module  211  is a first display surface of the electronic device  100 , and the second surface  102  corresponding to the second display module  212  is a second display surface of the electronic device  100 , to realize a double-surface screen display of the electronic device  100 . For example, a double-surface color screen having two surfaces on which the same performance parameters are displayed may be realized. Or, one color screen and one black-and-white screen may be realized. For example, the black-and-white screen may be a black-and-white electronic ink screen, wherein the black-and-white electronic ink screen has characteristics of no flicker on the screen, long endurance time, texture close to paper and the like. By adopting a double-surface screen with one color screen and one black-and-white screen, the electronic device  100  may flexibly switch the display screen according to battery power to increase the endurance capability. The electronic device  100  with a double-surface screen may achieve diversification of display effects, increase entertainment of the electronic device  100 , and improve user experiences, and in addition, the display screen may be reasonably switched based on battery power, thus increasing the endurance capability of the electronic device  100 . 
     In some implementations, the circuit  22  may be a control circuit for separately controlling the display module  21 . Herein, the control circuit  22  is connected to the display module  21 , the control circuit  22  outputs an electrical signal to the display module  21  to control the display module  21  to display information, receive touch signals, brighten the screen or turn off the screen, etc. The control circuit  22  may further be connected to a processor in the electronic device  100  to control the display module  21  to display information, receive touch signals, brighten the display screen or turn off the display screen, etc. according to instructions of the processor. 
     In some implementations, the circuit  22  may be a main board of the electronic device  100 . The main board  22  is provided with a ground point to realize grounding of the main board  22 . Other functional assemblies such as a camera, an audio module, a sensor, a wireless fidelity module, a radio frequency module, a Bluetooth module, a memory, a processor and the like may be integrated on the main board  22 . In addition, the display module  21  may be electrically connected to the main board  22 . 
     A first seal  30  is provided at the first opening  11  to seal the functional assembly  20  in the glass shell  10 . 
     In some implementations, a sealant may be provided between the first seal  30  and the glass shell  10 , and the sealant is used to bond the first seal  30  and the glass shell  10  such that the first seal  30  tightly seals the first opening  11  to seal the functional assembly  20  within the glass shell  10 . For example, the sealant may be a hot melt adhesive, a photosensitive adhesive, an optical clear adhesive (OCA), or the like. For example, the sealant is a transparent OCA. 
     Herein, the glass shell  10  is completely sealed except for the first opening  11 , and the only first opening  11  is sealed with the first seal  30 , which may well seal the functional assembly  20  within the glass shell  10  and effectively improve a waterproof performance of the electronic device. In addition, the display module  21  included in the functional assembly  20  is wholly accommodated in the accommodation space of the glass shell  10 , and a display area of the whole display module  21  may be completely displayed through the glass shell  10  without a black frame of the display screen, thus a full screen of the electronic device can be realized and a screen-to-body ratio of the electronic device can be increased. 
     In some implementations, the first seal  30  is made of a glass material. 
     In some implementations, as shown in  FIG. 1  or  FIG. 2 , the first seal  30  is accommodated in the first opening  11 . Since the first seal  30  is accommodated in the first opening  11 , when an appearance of the electronic device  100  is viewed from a front or back of the electronic device  100 , the electronic device  100  makes a user have a visual feeling of a seamless or gapless whole, such that the electronic device  100  is more beautiful. 
     In some implementations, as shown in  FIG. 3 , the first seal  30  may further be provided to cover the first opening  11 . 
     In the description of the present application, it should be understood that terms “center”, “longitudinal”, “transverse”, “length”, “width”, “thickness”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer”, “clockwise”, “counterclockwise” and the like indicate an orientation or a positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings. The orientation or positional relationship is only for convenience of description and simplification of the description of the present application, and is not intended to indicate or imply that referred devices or elements must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation of the present application. Furthermore, terms “first” and “second” are used only for descriptive purposes and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of indicated technical features. Thus, features defining with “first” and “second” may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the features. In the description of the present application, meaning of “multiple” is two or more, unless otherwise specifically defined. 
     In some implementations, an earphone hole, a charging interface, a card slot may be provided at the first opening  11 . 
     In some implementations, the electronic device  100  may be an electronic device with a wireless earphone, wireless charging or other functions, there is no need to provide any through hole on an appearance surface of the electronic device  100 , such that a whole shell of the electronic device  100  is a fully sealed device. For example, a card slot may be provided in the functional assembly  20 , and the first opening  11  of the glass shell  10  is sealed by the first seal, thus a waterproof effect is improved. 
     In some implementations, functional coating, such as ink or tinted paint, may be painted on an inner wall of the accommodation space of the glass shell  10  according to a product requirement of the electronic device  100 . 
     The electronic device  100  provided by the implementation of the present application includes a glass shell  10 , a functional assembly  20  and a first seal  30 . The glass shell  10  has a first opening  11  at one side and an accommodation space  12  extending from the first opening  11  to an inside of the glass shell  10 . The functional assembly  20  is accommodated in the accommodation space  12 , and the functional assembly  20  at least includes a display module  21  and a circuit  22  connected with the display module  21 . The first seal  30  is provided at the first opening  11  to seal the functional assembly  20  in the glass shell  10 . In the implementation of the present application, the functional assembly  20  is fed into the accommodation space  12  of the glass shell  10  through the first opening  11 , and then the first opening  11  is sealed with the first seal  30 , such that a waterproof performance of the electronic device  100  can be effectively improved, and a full screen can be realized, and a screen-to-body ratio of the electronic device can be increased. 
     In some implementations, referring to  FIG. 4 ,  FIG. 4  is another schematic diagram of structure of an electronic device according to an implementation of the present application. Slide rails  14  are formed on side walls  13  on two opposite sides of the accommodation space  12 . The functional assembly  20  may slide into the glass shell  10  from the first opening  11  along the slide rails  14 , or the functional assembly  20  may slide out of the glass shell  10  along the slide rails  14 . 
     In some implementations, a width of the slide rails  14  may be slightly larger than a width of side edges of the functional assembly  20 , and both sides of the functional assembly  20  are respectively lapped in the slide rails  14 . During assembling, the functional assembly  20  may slide into the glass shell  10  from the first opening  11  along the slide rails  14 . During disassembling, the functional assembly  20  may slide out of the glass shell  10  along the slide rails  14 . 
     In some implementations, a mating member for mating with the slide rails  14  is respectively provided on each of both sides of the functional assembly  20 , and the mating members on both sides of the functional assembly  20  are lapped in the slide rails. During assembling, the functional assembly  20  may slide into the glass shell  10  from the first opening  11  along the slide rails  14 . During disassembling, the functional assembly  20  may slide out of the glass shell  10  along the slide rails  14 . 
     In the present application, unless otherwise explicitly specified and defined, a first feature “on” or “below” over a second feature may include that the first feature directly contacts with the second feature, or may include that the first feature does not directly contact with the second feature, but the first feature contacts with the second feature through additional features therebetween. Moreover, the first feature “above”, “over” and “upper” the second feature include that the first feature is directly above and obliquely above the second feature, or simply indicate that the first feature has a higher horizontal height than the second feature. The first feature “under”, “lower” and “underneath” the second feature include the first feature is directly below and obliquely below the second feature, or simply indicate that the first feature has a lower horizontal height than the second feature. 
     In some implementations, as shown in  FIG. 4 , the first seal  30  and the functional assembly  20  may be provided integrally. The first seal  30  and the functional assembly  20  are designed to integrate together to facilitate assembling or disassembling of the electronic device  100 . For example, during assembling, the integrated first seal  30  and functional assembly  20  are slid into the glass shell to simplify an assembling process. During disassembling, the first seal  30  and functional assembly  20  may be simultaneously removed by dragging the first seal  30 , thus simplifying the disassembling process. 
     In some implementations, as shown in  FIGS. 5 and 6 , a difference between  FIG. 5  and  FIG. 1  or a difference between  FIG. 6  and  FIG. 4  is that the glass shell  10  has a second opening  15 , the second opening  15  is provided opposite to the first opening  11 , and the second seal  40  is provided at the second opening  15 . 
     During assembling, the functional assembly  20  may be selectively placed into the accommodation space  12  of the glass shell  10  from the first opening  11  or pushed into the accommodation space  12  of the glass shell  10  from the second opening  15 . During disassembling, the functional assembly  20  may be selectively taken out from the first opening  11  or the second opening  15 . The first seal  30  is provided at the first opening  11  and the second seal  40  is provided at the second opening  15 , the functional assembly  20  may be sealed in the glass shell  10  with the first seal  30  and the second seal  40 . By providing the first opening  11  and the second opening  15  at the opposite sides of the glass shell  10 , the functional assembly may be pushed into the accommodation space  12  of the glass shell  10  from any opening casually, and the assembling is convenient. In addition, it is easy to maintain. Once one of the openings is damaged, a corresponding seal may be directly replaced, the damaged opening is fixed and sealed by the replaced seal, and then normal assembling or disassembling is realized through the other undamaged opening, thus avoiding a situation that the whole glass shell is abandoned due to a damage of an opening of the electronic device having a single opening. 
     In the description of the present application, it should be noted that terms “assembling”, “connection” and “coupling” should be understood in a broad sense unless otherwise specified and defined. For example, the connection may be a fixed connection, removable connection or integrated connection. It may be a mechanical connection, electrical connection or mutual communication. It may be a direct connection, or indirect connection through an intermediate medium, or may be internal communication of two elements or the interaction relationship of two elements. For those of ordinary skill in the art, specific meanings of the above terms in the present application may be understood according to specific situations. 
     The above is a solution of an electronic device provided by the implementation of the present application. In the above solution, a first opening is provided at one side of a glass shell and an accommodation space extending from the first opening to an inside of the glass shell is provided, a functional assembly is pushed into the accommodation space from the first opening, and the first opening is sealed with a first seal to seal the functional assembly within the glass shell, to realize a waterproof effect of the electronic device. In order to describe structure of the electronic device according to the implementation of the present application in more detail, an assembling method of the electronic device is taken as an example for detailed description below. 
     An implementation of the present application further provides an assembling method of an electronic device. The method includes: providing a glass shell, wherein the glass shell has a first opening at one side and an accommodation space extending inwards from the first opening; sliding a functional assembly into the accommodation space of the glass shell from the first opening, wherein the functional assembly at least includes a display module and a circuit connected with the display module; and sealing the first opening. 
     In an implementation, the accommodation space has slide rails, and sliding the functional assembly into the accommodation space of the glass shell from the first opening includes: sliding the functional assembly into the accommodation space of the glass shell along the slide rails. 
     In an implementation, sealing the first opening includes: the first opening is sealed with the first seal. 
     In an implementation, the first seal is provided integrally with the functional assembly. 
     Referring to  FIG. 7 ,  FIG. 7  is a flowchart of an assembling method of an electronic device according to an implementation of the present application. In combination with  FIGS. 1 to 3 , the assembling method of the electronic device includes acts  101  to  103 . 
     In act  101 , a glass shell is provided, and the glass shell has a first opening at one side and an accommodation space extending inwards from the first opening. 
     Herein, a glass shell  10  is provided, a first opening  11  is provided at one side of the glass shell  10 , and an accommodation space  12  is dug out from the first opening  11  towards the other side of the glass shell  10 , that is, the accommodation space  12  extending inwards from the first opening  11 . 
     In act  102 , a functional assembly is fed into the accommodation space of the glass shell from the first opening, and the functional assembly at least includes a display module and a circuit connected with the display module. 
     Herein, during assembling, the functional assembly  20  is fed into the accommodation space  12  of the glass shell  10  from the first opening  11 . The functional assembly  20  at least includes a display module  21  and a circuit  22  connected to the display module  21 . 
     In some implementations, the accommodation space has slide rails, and sliding the functional assembly into the accommodation space of the glass shell from the first opening includes: sliding the functional assembly into the accommodation space of the glass shell along the slide rails. 
     Herein, as shown in  FIG. 3 , side walls  13  on two opposite sides of the accommodation space  12  have slide rails  14 . During assembling, the functional assembly  20  is slid into the accommodation space  12  of the glass shell  10  from the first opening  11  along the slide rails  14 . 
     In act  103 , the first opening is sealed. 
     In some implementations, the first opening  11  is sealed with a first seal  30  to seal the functional assembly  20  within the glass shell  10 . 
     In some implementations, the first seal  30  is provided integrally with the functional assembly  20 . It is convenient to assemble or disassemble the electronic device  100 . For example, during assembling, the integrated first seal  30  and functional assembly  20  are slid into the glass shell to simplify an assembling process. 
     The implementation of the present application provides an assembling method of the electronic device. In the assembling method of the electronic device, a glass shell is provided, the glass shell has a first opening at one side and an accommodation space extending inwards from the first opening; a functional assembly is fed into the accommodation space of the glass shell from the first opening, the functional assembly at least includes a display module and a circuit connected with the display module; and the first opening is sealed, such that a waterproof performance of the electronic device can be effectively improved, a full screen can be realized and a screen-to-body ratio of the electronic device can be increased. 
     In the above-described implementations, the description of each implementation has its own emphasis, and for a part which is not described in detail in an implementation, related descriptions in other implementations may be referred to. 
     The electronic device and the assembling method of the electronic device provided by the implementations of the present application are described in detail above. Specific examples are utilized in the present disclosure to explain a principle and implementations of the present application. The description of the above implementations is only used to help understand the technical solution and a main idea of the present application. A person of ordinary skill in the art should understand that the technical solution described in each of the previous implementations may still be modified or some of technical features thereof may be replaced equivalently. However, these modifications or substitutions do not cause essences of the corresponding technical solutions to depart from a scope of the technical solution of each implementation of the present application.