18689587. A HOUSING ASSEMBLY AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING (KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.)
A HOUSING ASSEMBLY AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING
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Inventor(s)
NIELS Schipper of GRONINGEN NL
KARST HENDRIK De Vries of DRACHTEN NL
ADARSH Shrivastava of GRONINGEN NL
A HOUSING ASSEMBLY AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18689587 titled 'A HOUSING ASSEMBLY AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING
Original Abstract Submitted
According to a first aspect there is disclosed a housing assembly comprising: a housing body defining an interior space configured to receive a switch, and an aperture configured to provide access to the interior space from an exterior of the housing body; a soft sealing element disposed in the aperture and bonded to the housing body so as to seal the aperture between the interior space and the exterior of the housing body, the soft sealing element configured to be elastically deformable to actuate the switch when disposed in the housing body; and a hard island fixed to the soft sealing element, wherein the hard island is separate from, and moveable relative to, the housing body into the interior space so as to elastically deform the soft sealing element to actuate the switch when disposed in the housing body.