Pocket personal computer with improved battery compartment enclosing structure

• US 6,421,233 B1
• Filed: 06/12/2000
• Issued: 07/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: High Tech Computer Corp (HTC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: High Tech Computer Corp (HTC Corporation)
• Inventors: Hong, Mi-Rong
• Primary Examiner(s): Schuberg, Darren
• Assistant Examiner(s): FOSTER, DAVID A
• Application Number:
  US09/592,121
• Time in Patent Office: 764 Days
• Field of Search: 361/683, 361/679, 361/724-727, 361/732, 361/814, 429/96-100, 429/149, 429/239, 379/440, 455/89, 455/90, D13/103, D13/118, D13/119, D14/137, D14/138, D14/217
• US Class Current: 361/679.55
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1635 Details related to the integration of battery packs and other power supplies such as fuel cells or integrated AC adapter
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/202 Casings or frames around the primary casing of a single cell or a single battery
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/247 specially adapted for portable devices, e.g. mobile phones, computers, hand tools or pacemakers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/262 with fastening means, e.g. locks
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/271 Lids or covers for the racks or secondary casings
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A pocket personal computer having improved battery compartment enclosing structures is disclosed. The battery compartment enclosing structures include a battery compartment defined in a rear side of the pocket personal computer for accommodating a battery therein, a battery compartment cap for enclosing the battery compartment and an unlocking means form unlocking the cap. The battery compartment has two positioning openings defined in a rear side wall of the compartment and a bulge inwardly formed on an inner face of a front side wall and the bulge has a slanted upper face and a flat lower face. The cap has two protrusions formed at a rear end thereof which can be received in the openings as the cap is positioned over the compartment and a latch downwardly formed at the front end of the cap and the latch has a slanted lower end and a depressed neck portion to cooperate with the bulge to lock the cap in position. The unlocking means is a through hole defined in the front side wall of the compartment and is arranged such that a tip end of a pen may be inserted therethrough to break a locking engagement between the latch and the bulge.

Claims

1. In a pocket personal computer having a pen, a battery compartment defined in a rear side of the pocket personal computer and a battery compartment cap, the battery compartment comprising a first positioning means provided at a first side wall of the compartment, a first locking means provided at a second side wall of the compartment which is opposite to the first side wall, and an unlocking means provided at the second side wall;

and

the battery compartment cap comprising a second positioning means provided at a rear end thereof to removably engage with the first position means and a second locking means provided at a front end thereof to cooperate with the first locking means so as to lock the battery compartment cap in a position of enclosing the battery compartment, wherein the unlocking means can be operated by the pen to release the second locking means from the first locking means.

2. A pocket personal computer as claimed in claim 1, wherein he first positioning means comprises at least one openings and the second positioning means comprises at least one protrusions which can be received in the openings as the cap is positioned over the compartment.

3. A pocket personal computer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first locking means comprises a bulge inwardly formed on an inner face of the second side wall and the bulge has a slanted upper face and a flat lower face.

4. A pocket personal computer as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second locking means comprises a latch downwardly formed at the front end of the cap and the latch has a slanted lower end and a depressed neck portion to cooperate with the bulge of the first locking means.

5. A pocket personal computer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the unlocking means comprises a through hole formed in the second side wall of the compartment and arranged and sized such that a tip portion of the pen may extend therethrough to cause the second locking disengage from the first locking means.

6. In a pocket personal computer having a pen, a battery compartment defined in a rear side of the pocket personal computer and a battery compartment cap, the battery compartment comprising an axis formed at one side of the compartment;

the battery compartment cap comprising a connecting means formed at a first end thereof for pivotally connecting to the axis and a first locking means formed at a second end thereof which is opposite to the first end; and

a second locking means arranged at a position of the rear face of the pocket personal computer such that when the cap is pivoted to a position enclosing the compartment an engagement between the first and the second locking means can lock the cap in position and shaped such that the locking engagement may be disengaged by the pen.

7. A pocket personal computer as claimed in claim 6, wherein the connecting means comprises a connecting arm in a form of a hook for pivotally connecting to the axis and the battery compartment cap thus can be rotated from an opened position to a closed position.

8. A pocket personal computer as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first locking means comprises a latch extending from a second end of the battery compartment cap and the latch has a peg vertically protruding upward from an upper face thereof and the peg has a rearward slanted upper face.

9. A pocket personal computer as claimed in claim 6, wherein the second locking means comprises a through hole defined in the rear face of the pocket personal computer which can receive the peg while the battery compartment cap is rotated to the closed position so as to lock the battery compartment cap in position and enclose the battery compartment.