ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH REMOTE CONTROLLER

• US 20090051563A1
• Filed: 12/07/2007
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: KUO, CHANG-YU, HUNG, JUNG-LIANG
• Application Number:
  US11/952,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20090051563A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/825
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence

Abstract

An electronic device includes a main housing with a plurality of electronic components contained therein, and a remote controller configured for controlling the electronic components contained in the main housing. A receptacle is formed in the main housing and a charging unit is disposed in the main housing. The remote controller is detachably docked in the receptacle and configured for being charged by the charging unit when the remote controller is installed in the receptacle.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a main housing with a plurality of electronic components contained therein, a receptacle being formed in the main housing, a charging unit being disposed in the main housing; and

a remote controller configured for controlling the electronic components contained in the main housing;

wherein the remote controller is detachably docked in the receptacle and configured for being charged by the charging unit when the remote controller is installed in the receptacle.

2. The electronic device as described in claim 1, further comprising a printed circuit board with a charging circuit contained in the main housing, wherein the charging unit comprises charging pins disposed in the receptacle and electrically connected with the charging circuit of the printed circuit board contained in the main housing, and the remote controller has charging contactors formed thereon, the remote controller being charged via an engagement of the charging pins and the charging contactors.

3. The electronic device as described in claim 2, wherein the charging unit further comprises an electromagnetic wave generator disposed in the main housing to produce electromagnetic waves when the electronic device is used, and the remote controller has an electromagnetic wave receiver disposed therein to receive and convert the electromagnetic waves into electric current to charge the remote controller.

4. The electronic device as described in claim 1, wherein the charging unit comprises an electromagnetic wave generator disposed in the main housing to produce electromagnetic waves when the electronic device is used, and the remote controller has an electromagnetic wave receiver disposed therein to receive and convert the electromagnetic waves into electric current to charge the remote controller.

5. The electronic device as described in claim 1, wherein the main housing houses a projection display device therein.

6. The electronic device as described in claim 1, wherein the remote controller is slidably engaged in the receptacle in a first direction and is fixed in position in the second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

7. The electronic device as described in claim 1, wherein the receptacle is sunken inwardly from the main housing.

8. The electronic device as described in claim 7, wherein the main housing has a rail formed in the receptacle, and the remote controller has a groove defined therein, wherein the rail is for being received in the groove and the remote controller slides into or out of the receptacle along the rail.

9. The electronic device as described in claim 8, wherein the main housing comprises a top case portion, a bottom case portion and a plurality of side case portions, and the receptacle is defined in the top case portion and extends in a direction from one of the side case portion towards a center of the top case portion;

wherein the rail extends in a direction from the one of the side case portion towards a center of the top case portion.

10. The electronic device as described in claim 9, wherein the receptacle has a bottom wall and three side walls extending from a periphery of the bottom wall, and the rail is formed on one of the bottom wall and the three side walls.

11. The electronic device as described in claim 9, wherein the receptacle has a bottom wall and three side walls extending from a periphery of the bottom wall, and the rail is formed on one of the three side walls;

the main housing further comprises another rail formed on one of the three side walls facing the rail;

wherein the remote controller has an another groove defined therein, wherein the another rail is received in the another groove and the remote controller slides into or out of the receptacle along the rail and the another rail.

12. The electronic device as described in claim 11, wherein the rail is parallel to the another rail.

13. The electronic device as described in claim 11, wherein the bottom wall of the receptacle is slanted relative to the bottom case portion, and the remote controller has a slope bottom wall corresponding to the bottom wall of the receptacle so as to guide the remote controller to move relative to the bottom wall of the receptacle.

14. The electronic device as described in claim 7, wherein the main housing comprises a top case portion, a bottom case portion and a plurality of side case portions, and the receptacle is defined in the top case portion away from the side case portions.

15. The electronic device as described in claim 14, wherein the main housing comprises a cutout defined in the top case portion near the receptacle for facilitate pulling the remote controller out of the receptacle.

16. An electronic device comprising:

a main housing with a plurality of electronic components contained therein, a receptacle being formed in the main housing, a rail being formed on the main housing in the receptacle; and

a remote controller configured for controlling the electronic components contained in the main housing, a groove being defined in the remote controller corresponding to the rail;

wherein the rail is configured for being inserted in the groove and the remote controller is slidable into or out of the receptacle along the rail.

17. An electronic device assembly comprising:

an electronic device having a housing, a battery charger embedded in the housing, and a remote controller receptacle formed on the housing, the battery charger having a plurality of electrical contacts exposed outside the housing in the receptacle; and

a remote controller for controlling the electronic device, the remote controller having a rechargeable battery, the remote controller being configured for detachably mounting in the remote controller receptacle of the electronic device in a manner that the rechargeable battery is electrically coupled to the electrical contacts of the battery charger.

18. The electronic device as described in claim 17, wherein the remote controller includes a transmitter for transmitting controlling signals, the electronic device includes a receiver for receiving the controlling signals, the remote controller being detachably mounted in the remote controller receptacle of the electronic device in a manner that the transmitter of the remote controller aligns with the receiver of the electronic device.

19. The electronic device as described in claim 18, wherein the receiver of the electronic device is exposed outside the housing and in the remote controller receptacle of the electronic device.