Wrist pad mounting arrangement for a notebook computer

• US 5,971,332 A
• Filed: 11/12/1997
• Issued: 10/26/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Sun, Der-Jang, Tsao, Lu-Long
• Primary Examiner(s): Braun, Leslie A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Phan, Long Dinh
• Application Number:
  US08/968,964
• Time in Patent Office: 713 Days
• Field of Search: 248/118, 248/118.1, 248/118.3, 248/118.5, 248/918, 361/679, 361/680, 361/681, 361/683, 400/714, 400/715, 400/691
• US Class Current: 248/118
• 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 1/1656 Details related to functional adaptations of the enclosure, e.g. to provide protection against EMI, shock, water, or to host detachable peripherals like a mouse or removable expansions units like PCMCIA cards, or to provide access to internal components for maintenance or to removable storage supports like CDs or DVDs, or to mechanically mount accessories mounting of accessories to a computer display G06F1/1607; display hoods G06F1/1603; cooling arrangements for portable computers G06F1/203

Abstract

A wrist pad mounting arrangement which includes an elongated pad, two linkages respectively coupled between two opposite ends of the elongated pad and two opposite lateral sides of a mainframe of a notebook computer for permitting the elongated pad to be moved between a first position, in which the elongated pad is covered on a display unit, and a second position, in which the elongated pad is supported on a front side of the mainframe of the notebook computer in a sloping position for supporting the user'"'"'s wrists and permitting the display unit to be opened from the mainframe of the notebook computer.

Claims

1. A wrist pad mounting arrangement for mounting on a mainframe of a notebook computer, the wrist pad comprising:

an elongated pad having two mounting plates bilaterally disposed at a bottom side thereof, said mounting plates having a respective coupling hole;

two linkages respectively coupled between the coupling holes on said mounting plates of said elongated pad and two opposite lateral sides of said notebook computer for permitting said elongated pad to be moved between a first position for covering a display unit hinged to a mainframe of a notebook computer and closed thereon, and a second position for supporting a front side of a mainframe of a notebook computer in a sloping position to support the wrists of a user and permitting said display unit to be opened from a mainframe of a notebook computer;

wherein said linkages are each four-bar linkages, each of said four-bar linkages comprising two first links having a respective top end respectively pivoted to the coupling hole on one mounting plate of said pad by a slip joint and a respective bottom end, and two second links having a respective top end respectively pivoted to the bottom ends of said first links and a respective bottom end respectively coupled together and pivoted to one side of said mainframe of said notebook computer; and

lock means adapted to lock said elongated pad in said first position.