Connecting structure of card, card, and computer system

• US 20030075604A1
• Filed: 12/18/2002
• Published: 04/24/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Usui, Hideyuki, Fuji, Kazuo, Oie, Masaki
• Granted Patent: US 6,942,149 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/451
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1656 Details related to functional adaptations of the enclosure, e.g. to provide protection against EMI, shock, water, or to host detachable peripherals like a mouse or removable expansions units like PCMCIA cards, or to provide access to internal components for maintenance or to removable storage supports like CDs or DVDs, or to mechanically mount accessories mounting of accessories to a computer display G06F1/1607; display hoods G06F1/1603; cooling arrangements for portable computers G06F1/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1683 for the transmission of signal or power between the different housings, e.g. details of wired or wireless communication, passage of cabling

Abstract

[Object]

To provide connecting means between an antenna structure, which is in a PC main body, and a PC card that does not have an extruding section.

[Constitution]

There are included a housing 8, an antenna structure, a slot 10 of the housing into which a PC card is inserted, a high frequency cable 5 one end of which is connected to the antenna structure electrically and part of which is pulled outside the housing, a connector plug 6 that is connected to the other end of the high frequency cable 5 electrically and is outside the housing, and an elastic body such as rubber 13 which is configured so that the high frequency cable is pulled inside the housing.

[Selected Drawing] FIG. 2

Claims

1. ) A computer system comprising:

a housing;

an antenna structure;

a slot of the housing into which a PC card is inserted;

a high frequency cable one end of which is connected to the antenna structure electrically and part of which is pulled out outside the housing;

a connector plug that is connected to the other end of the high frequency cable electrically and is outside the housing; and

an elastic body or a cord take-up mechanism that is configured so as to pull the high frequency cable in the housing.

2. ) The computer system according to claim 1, wherein the elastic body is rubber or a spring.

3. ) The computer system according to any one of claims 1 and 2, wherein the PC card has a receptacle facing the outside of the housing in a status that the PC card is inserted into the slot, the connector plug is connected to the receptacle, and the high frequency cable that is exposed outside the housing is pulled into the housing by the elastic body or the cord take-up mechanism.

4. ) The computer system according to claim 3, having a channel where the cable is loaded between a cable inlet and the slot, where the PC card is inserted, in the housing.

5. ) The computer system according to claim 3, wherein the PC card is configured such length that the connector plug does not protrude from a face of the housing in a status that the PC card is inserted into the slot and the connector plug is connected to the receptacle.

6. ) The computer system according to claim 5, wherein length of the PC card in a direction of the PC card being inserted is in a range of 75-80 mm.

16. ) The computer system according to any one of claims 1 or 11, wherein the computer system is a notebook type computer system.

7. ) Connecting structure between a PC card and a computer system comprising:

a high frequency cable that is pulled in or pulled out from an opening section provided in the vicinity of a PC card slot of the computer system and one end of which is connected to an antenna structure electrically; and

a connector plug that is connected to the other end of the high frequency cable electrically, and is outside a housing of the computer system to be connected to a receptacle of the PC card inserted in the PC card slot, wherein the connecting structure is configured so that the high frequency cable is pulled into the housing by an elastic body or a cord take-up mechanism.

8. ) The connecting structure according to claim 7, wherein the elastic body is rubber or a spring.

9. ) A PC card that is inserted in a slot of a computer system and has a receptacle, to which a connector plug of a high frequency cable is connected, on its one end surface, wherein the PC card is configured such length that the connector plug does not protrude from a face of the housing of the computer system in a status that the PC card is inserted into the slot and the connector plug is connected to the receptacle.

10. ) The PC card according to claim 9, wherein length of the PC card in a direction of the PC card being inserted is in a range of 75-80 mm.

11. ) A computer system comprising:

an antenna structure;

a slot of the computer system into which a PC card is inserted; and

a spring terminal connected to the antenna structure electrically, wherein the computer system is configured so that the spring terminal contacts to the outside of a housing of the PC card by the PC card being inserted into the slot.

12. ) The computer system according to claim 11, comprising a pad terminal, connected to a high frequency module, outside a housing of the PC card, wherein the spring terminal contacts to the pad terminal by the PC card being inserted into the slot.

13. ) The computer system according to any one of claims 11 and 12, comprising a coaxial high frequency cable one end of which is connected to the antenna structure and the other end of which is connected to a printed circuit board, wherein a wiring pattern on the printed circuit board to connect the high frequency cable to the spring terminal has a first pattern connected to a central conductor of the high frequency cable and a second pattern that surrounds the first pattern and is connected to a peripheral conductor of the high frequency cable.

14. ) A connecting structure between a PC card and a computer system, comprising:

a spring terminal that is provided in the vicinity of a PC card slot of the computer system and is connected to an antenna structure electrically; and

a pad terminal that is provided outside a housing of the PC card and is connected to a high frequency module electrically, wherein the connecting structure is configured so that the spring terminal contacts to the pad terminal by the PC card being inserted in the PC card slot.

15. ) A PC card comprising a pad terminal that is formed on a surface of a housing of the PC card and is connected to a high frequency module electrically, wherein the PC card is configured so that the pad terminal is connected to a spring terminal, which is provided in the vicinity of the PC card slot and is connected to an antenna structure electrically, by the PC card being inserted into the PC card slot of the computer system.

17. ) A computer system comprising:

a housing;

an antenna structure;

a slot of the housing where a card is inserted;

a cable one end of which is connected to the antenna structure electrically and part of which is pulled out from the housing;

a connector plug that is connected to the other end of the cable electrically and is outside the housing; and

an elastic body or a cord take-up mechanism that is configured so as to pull the cable into the housing.

18. ) A computer system comprising:

an antenna structure;

a slot of the computer system into which a card is inserted; and

a spring terminal connected to the antenna structure electrically, wherein the computer system is configured so that the spring terminal contacts to the outside of a housing of the card by the card being inserted into the slot.