Portable note-book computer expansion device with disk drives

• US 5,159,533 A
• Filed: 05/07/1991
• Issued: 10/27/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ma H. Kuang
• Original Assignee: Ma H. Kuang
• Inventors: Kuang, Ma H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard, Leo P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Phillips, Michael W.
• Application Number:
  US07/696,758
• Time in Patent Office: 539 Days
• Field of Search: 361/380, 361/390, 361/391, 361/392, 361/393, 361/394, 361/395, 361/399, 364/708, 364/709.1
• US Class Current: 361/679.43
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/184 Mounting of motherboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/187 Mounting of fixed and removable disk drives
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1429 for circuits carrying a CPU and adapted to receive expansion cards

Abstract

A portable note-book computer expansion device for holding and connecting a note-book computer to increase its capacity and functions, comprising a base having a mother board, which has a plurality of expansion slots for mounting a variety of expansion cards, a hard disk drive and a floppy disk drive fastened therein, and a note-book computer holder mounted on the base at the top for holding a note-book computer permitting the expansion cards, the hard disk drive and the floppy disk drive to be respectively connected to the note-book computer.

Claims

1. A portable note-book computer expansion device for holding and connecting a note-book computer to increase its capacity and functions, comprising:

a base having a vertical wall vertically raising from a flat bottom around the periphery thereof defining therewith a holding space, said vertical wall having a notch on the top edge thereof at one end;

a mother board fixedly set in said base, having a plurality of expansion slots thereon;

a note-book computer holder mounted on said base at the top comprising a flat bottom, two vertical side walls vertically extending from said flat bottom at two opposite sides, a division plate vertically disposed above said flat bottom between said two vertical side walls, said division plate having two holes therein, a vertical back wall vertically disposed between said two vertical side walls behind and spaced from said division plate, and expansion board secured to said division plate at the back and electrically connected to said mother board, said expansion board having two expansion plugs respectively inserted extending through the two holes on said division plate for connecting a note-book computer that is mounted in said note-book computer holder, a cover plate covering over the space between said division plate and said vertical back wall, the two rows of hooks on the flat bottom thereof at two opposite ends for hooking a note-book computer in place, a handle on the flat bottom thereof at the front for carrying, a notch on the bottom edge thereof which together with the notch on said base further comprises a floppy disk loading port, two latches on the two vertical side walls thereof at the front for locking a note-book computer therein, an expansion port on one of the two vertical side walls thereof at one side covered with a side cap;

a plurality of expansion cards fastened in the expansion slots on said mother board;

a hard disk drive fastened in said base and connected to said mother board; and

a floppy disk drive fastened in said base and connected to said mother board, having a disk slot at the front face thereof disposed behind said floppy disk loading port.