Attached panel arrangement of a portable computer

• US 20040174670A1
• Filed: 05/28/2003
• Published: 09/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tatung Company
• Original Assignee: Tatung Company
• Inventors: Wang, Wen-Chieh, Huang, Chao-Ming, Yan, Chang-Ming
• Granted Patent: US 6,870,732 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/683
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1633 Protecting arrangement for the entire housing of the computer

Abstract

A portable computer host has a display face, a back face and four side faces. First magnetic units and at least one positioning unit are placed on the display face or the back face. An attached panel, having an attaching face and four edges, has second magnetic units placed on the attaching face that correspond to the first magnetic units, and also has at least one second positioning unit placed on the attaching face corresponding to the first positioning unit.

Claims

1. An attached panel arrangement of a portable computer comprising:

a portable computer host comprising a display face, a back face, four side faces, a plurality of first magnetic units, and at least one first positioning unit, wherein said first magnetic units and said at least one first positioning unit being placed on one of said display face and said back face; and

an attached panel comprising an attaching face, four edges, a plurality of second magnetic units, and at least one second positioning unit, wherein said second magnetic units being placed on said attaching face respectively corresponding to said first magnetic units, and said at least one second positioning unit placed on said attaching face respectively corresponding to said at least one first positioning unit.

2. The attached panel arrangement of a portable computer as claimed in claim 1 wherein said attaching face of said attached panel further comprises a keyboard.

3. The attached panel arrangement of a portable computer as claimed in claim 1 wherein said first positioning unit is a protrusion and said second positioning unit is a groove.

4. The attached panel arrangement of a portable computer as claimed in claim 1 wherein one of said side faces forming at least one fastening groove, and one of said edges corresponding to the side face having said fastening groove forming at least one fastening rib that matches said fastening groove.

5. The attached panel arrangement of a portable computer as claimed in claim 1 wherein one of said side faces further forming an indentation.