ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CONNECTORS

• US 20170179641A1
• Filed: 03/31/2016
• Published: 06/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shi, Wenbo, Tian, Ping
• Application Number:
  US15/087,735
• Publication Number:
  US 20170179641A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1633 Constructional details or arrangements of portable computers not specific to the type of enclosures covered by groups G06F1/1615 - G06F1/1626
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1669 Detachable keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/73 connecting to other rigid printed circuits or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6205 Two-part coupling devices held in engagement by a magnet
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/06 for computer periphery

Abstract

Disclosed are electronic devices and connectors, including: a first main body, a second main body; the first magnet being arranged at a first end of the first main body and the second magnet being arranged at a second end of the second main body; the first magnet having a magnetic property opposite that of the second magnet; the first main body being pluggably connected to the second main body through the interaction between the first magnet and the second magnet; the first number of spacers is arranged at a preset position of the first magnet, and the first number of spacers is arranged at a preset positions of the second magnet; and the spacers are non-magnetic. Other embodiments, including manufacturing methods, are described and claimed.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a first main body;

a second main body;

a first magnet being arranged at a first end of the first main body;

a second magnet being arranged at a second end of the second main body;

the first magnet having a magnetic property opposite that of the second magnet;

the first main body being pluggably connected to the second main body through the interaction between the first magnet and the second magnet;

one or more spacers that are arranged at a preset position of the first magnet; and

one or more spacers that are arranged at a preset position of the second magnet;

wherein each of the one or more spacers is non-magnetic.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the position of the one or more spacers in the first magnet has a corresponding relation to the position of the one or more spacers in the second magnet.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein magnets formed on both sides of a spacer of the one or more spacers have opposite magnetic properties.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the first magnet comprises one or more magnetic blocks and the second magnet comprises one or more magnetic blocks.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the one or more spacers arranged at the preset position of the first magnet and the one or more spacers arranged at the preset position of the second magnet comprise:

at least one spacer arranged in the middle of any two magnet blocks for one or more magnet blocks of the first magnet;

at least one spacer arranged in the middle of any two magnet blocks for one or more magnet blocks of the second magnet.

6. A method, comprising:

arranging, in first main body of an electronic device, a first magnet at a first end of the first main body;

arranging, in a second main body of the electronic device, a second magnet at a second end of the second main body;

the first magnet having a magnetic property opposite that of the second magnet;

the first main body being pluggably connected to the second main body through the interaction between the first magnet and the second magnet;

arranging one or more spacers at preset positions of the first magnet; and

arranging one or more spacers at preset positions of the second magnet;

wherein each of the one or more spacers is non-magnetic.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

arranging the one or more spacers of the first magnet to have a corresponding relation with a position of the one or more spacers in the second magnet.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein magnetic blocks formed on both sides of a spacer of the one or more spacers have opposite magnetic properties.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein one or more of the magnetic blocks on the first magnet are formed and one or more magnetic blocks on the second magnet are formed.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the one or more spacers of the first magnet are arranged at preset positions to form two or more magnetic blocks of the first magnet;

and the one or more spacers of the second magnet are arranged at preset positions to form two or more magnetic blocks.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein:

at least one spacer of the first magnet is arranged in the middle of any two magnetic blocks; and

at least one spacer of the second magnet is arranged in the middle of any two magnetic blocks.

12. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory operatively coupled to the processor;

a first main body that houses the processor and the memory;

a second main body;

a first magnet being arranged at a first end of the first main body;

a second magnet being arranged at a second end of the second main body;

the first magnet having a magnetic property opposite that of the second magnet;

the first main body being pluggably connected to the second main body through the interaction between the first magnet and the second magnet;

one or more spacers that are arranged at a preset position of the first magnet; and

one or more spacers that are arranged at a preset position of the second magnet;

wherein each of the one or more spacers is non-magnetic.

13. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the position of the one or more spacers in the first magnet has a corresponding relation to the position of the one or more spacers in the second magnet.

14. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein magnets formed on both sides of a spacer of the one or more spacers have opposite magnetic properties.

15. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the first magnet comprises one or more magnetic blocks and the second magnet comprises one or more magnetic blocks.

16. The electronic device according to claim 15, wherein the one or more spacers arranged at the preset position of the first magnet and the one or more spacers arranged at the preset position of the second magnet comprise:

at least one spacer arranged in the middle of any two magnet blocks for one or more magnet blocks of the first magnet;

at least one spacer arranged in the middle of any two magnet blocks for one or more magnet blocks of the second magnet.

17. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are divided into a plurality of magnetic blocks by the one or more spacers of the first magnet and the second magnet.

18. The electronic device according to claim 17, wherein an attractive force between the first magnet and the second magnet is increased by the one or more spacers of the first magnet and the one or more spacers of the second magnet as compared to the first magnet having no spacers and the second magnet having no spacers.

19. The electronic device according to claim 18, wherein the attractive force is increased as a function of the number of spacers.

20. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the second main body comprises a tablet computing device having a display screen.