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Modular portable personal computer

  • US 5,786,984 A
  • Filed: 03/24/1995
  • Issued: 07/28/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A modular personal computer system comprising:

  • a motherboard;

    a first housing for carrying said motherboard, said first housing including one or more predetermined bays formed from one or more interior cavities open on one predetermined side and having a predetermined size to enable said interior cavities to be accessible from said predetermined side, said interior cavities sized and shaped to receive correspondingly sized and shaped modules inside said interior cavities;

    a first predetermined electrical connector carried in an interior portion of each of said one or more first interior cavities, said first predetermined electrical connector electrically coupled to said motherboard;

    a predetermined module adapted to be received in said one or more interior cavities, said predetermined module comprising a second housing for housing a standard peripheral device, said module sized and shaped to be received in said one or more interior cavities and a second predetermined electrical connector carried by said second housing, said second predetermined electrical connector being configured to mate with said first predetermined electrical connector when said second housing is fully inserted into said one or more cavities;

    an external bay adapted to be mounted externally to said first predetermined housing;

    said external bay including means for enabling said external bay to be electrically coupled to said motherboard, said external bay formed with a second cavity open on one side and sized to be substantially the same size as said first interior cavity to enable said one or more predetermined modular devices to be interchangeably installed in said first interior cavity; and

    an electrical connector carried in an interior portion of said second cavity in said external bay and configured to mate with said electrical connector on said modular device when said modular device is fully inserted in said second cavity and said external bay.

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