NOTEBOOK COMPUTER

• US 20090219683A1
• Filed: 11/07/2008
• Published: 09/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakazato, Takahiro, Iwata, Takeshi, Kitahara, Chihei, Nakazato, Ko
• Application Number:
  US12/267,288
• Publication Number:
  US 20090219683A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.550
• 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 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a notebook computer has, on the side surface of the device main body, a pin jack to receive a rod antenna. The rod antenna has a pin plug to be inserted in the pin jack and is rotatable when attached. The rod antenna is made of a flexibly bendable material. This prevents the rod antenna or its connection portion from being broken when a hand accidentally contacts it.

Claims

1. A notebook computer comprising:

a main body which incorporates a circuit board;

a display panel provided to open/close an upper surface side of the main body;

an FM tuner module mounted on the circuit board;

a pin jack which is provided on a side surface of the main body and connected to the FM tuner module; and

a rod antenna which is detachably attached to the pin jack outside the main body.

2. The computer of claim 1, wherein the pin Jack has a diameter larger than that of an earphone jack and a microphone jack which are provided on the side surface.

3. The computer of claim 2, wherein the rod antenna has a pin plug to be inserted in the pin jack.

4. The computer of claim 1, wherein the rod antenna has an antenna main body made of a flexibly bendable resin material.

5. The computer of claim 4, wherein the pin jack is provided on the side surface near a palm rest on an upper surface of the main body.

6. The computer of claim 1, wherein the display panel displays an FM tuner operation window which displays an operation state of the FM tuner module and various operation buttons of the FM tuner module.

7. The computer of claim 6, wherein the FM tuner operation window displays a graph which shows reception levels of frequencies of signals received via the rod antenna.

8. The computer of claim 7, wherein the FM tuner operation window displays a search button to scan signals receivable via the rod antenna and display the signals in the graph.

9. The computer of claim 8, wherein the FM tuner operation window displays a seek button to sequentially seek a signal greater than a preset threshold of the reception level.

10. The computer of claim 9, wherein the FM tuner operation window displays a threshold setting button to change the threshold.