DOCKING STATION

• US 20120273643A1
• Filed: 06/21/2011
• Published: 11/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cheng-Chun Chang
• Original Assignee: Cheng-Chun Chang
• Inventors: CHANG, Cheng-Chun
• Application Number:
  US13/164,871
• Publication Number:
  US 20120273643A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/346.06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/745 separate from the housing
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/06 for computer periphery

Abstract

The present invention relates to an improved docking station, which comprises a slide member, the top surface thereof is longitudinally formed with an accommodation slot allowing a connector plug to be positioned and to protrude, two opposite ends of the bottom of the accommodation slot are installed a pair of block sheets, a pair of fins are left/right extended from the slide member and a resilient unit is installed at the front; and a fasten member, a platform defined on the top surface thereof is installed with a slide groove having a width larger than the accommodation slot, the left and right lateral walls thereof are formed with a pair of rails for receiving the left and right fins, the inner wall of the front end of the fasten member is protrudingly formed with a positioning part, so the accommodation slot is enabled to elastically forward/backward slide with the slide member below the slide groove of the fasten member; so a connector socket at the bottom of a hand-held device having at least two different widths can be rapidly and conveniently inserted in the connector plug protruded from the slide member and the top surface of the fasten member, and the back board of each hand-held device is leaned against a base having the fasten member, for processing operations of charging or data transferring.

Claims

1. An improved docking station, comprising:

a slide member, the top surface thereof being longitudinally formed with an accommodation slot allowing a connector plug to be positioned and to protrude, two opposite ends of the bottom of said accommodation slot being installed with a pair of block sheets, a pair of fins are left/right extended from said slide member, and a resilient unit is installed at the front; and

a fasten member, a platform defined on the top surface thereof being installed with a slide groove having a width larger than said accommodation slot, the left and right lateral walls thereof being formed with a pair of rails for receiving said left and right fins, the inner wall of the front end of said fasten member being protrudingly formed with a positioning part, so said accommodation slot being enabled to elastically forward/backward slide with said slide member below said slide groove of said fasten member.

2. The improved docking station according to claim 1, wherein the top of each block sheet is protrudingly installed with a tenon, and a trench is installed between two ends of each block sheet and said slide member.

3. The improved docking station according to claim 1, wherein middle portions of the front and the rear sides of said accommodation slot are formed with hollow parts which are in communication with each other, so a cross-like hole is formed.

4. The improved docking station according to claim 1, wherein said resilient unit is a U-shaped or V-shaped resilient sheet, a spring or a bellow.

5. The improved docking station according to claim 1, wherein further including a base, an opening is formed at the front of said base, a support wall is formed at the top of said opening, and said fasten member is disposed in said opening, such that the rear of said slide groove is adjacent to said support wall.

6. The improved docking station according to claim 5, wherein an engaging mechanism is oppositely installed at the front and rear adjacent surfaces of said base and said fasten member, so as to integrate said fasten member and said slide member, said engaging mechanism includes:

a front engaging edge formed at the front of said fasten member for being abutted against a positioning rib formed at the top of the inner bottom wall of said opening; and

a buckling hook formed at the rear of said fasten member for being buckled with a buckling hole formed at the bottom of said base.

7. The improved docking station according to claim 5, wherein a support feet and a concave slot are respectively installed at the front and rear sides at the bottom of said base.

8. The improved docking station according to claim 7, wherein said concave slot is connected with a non-slip pad.

9. The improved docking station according to claim 5, wherein the rear of said base is installed with a cable groove.