Portable computer mounted with wireless LAN card

• US 6,985,354 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2002
• Issued: 01/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yang, Chee-hwan, Shin, Jeong-karb
• Primary Examiner(s): LEA EDMONDS, LISA S
• Application Number:
  US10/159,130
• Publication Number:
  US 20030099088A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,317 Days
• Field of Search: 361683-686, 343/702, 343/906, 312/223.1, 349 58- 60, 710/62, 710/303, 455/89, 455/90, 455/269, 455/280
• US Class Current: 361/679.31
• 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 1/1658 related to the mounting of internal components, e.g. disc drive or any other functional module

Abstract

A portable computer having a main board; an antenna receiving and transmitting an RF signal; a PCI slot part provided in the main board and receiving the RF signal received and transmitted through the antenna; a wireless LAN card including a main card removably inserted into the PCI slot part, and an RF connector provided at a side of the main card and through which the RF signal is inputted/outputted between the antenna and the PCI slot part; and an antenna connecting part connected to the RF connector and allowing the RF signal to be inputted/outputted through the RF connector between the antenna and the PCI slot part when the wireless LAN card is inserted into the PCI slot part. With this configuration, the present invention provides a portable computer improved in a mounting structure of a wireless LAN card doing not have an antenna.

Claims

1. A portable computer comprising:

a main board;

at least one antenna to receive and transmit an RF signal;

a PCI slot part mountable on said main board to receive said RF signal received and transmitted through said at least one antenna;

a wireless LAN card including a main card removably inserted into said PCI slot part, and at least one RF connector provided at a side of said main card and through which the RF signal is inputted/outputted between said at least one antenna and said PCI slot part; and

at least one antenna connecting part connectable to said at least one RF connector to allow the RF signal to be inputted/outputted through said at least one RF connector between said at least one antenna and said PCI slot part when said wireless LAN card is inserted into said PCI slot part.

2. The portable computer according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pair of latch members provided at opposite sides of said PCI slot part, guiding said wireless LAN card to be slidingly inserted into said PCI slot part, each said latch member connected to a respective said at least one antenna connecting part; and

an RF signal line embedded inside each said at least one antenna connecting part and each said latch member, and connecting each said antenna connecting part to each said RF connector of said wireless LAN card.

3. The portable computer according to claim 2, wherein each said antenna connecting part and each said latch member comprise a protruding part thereon to latch onto said wireless LAN card, respectively, and said wireless LAN card having latch grooves corresponding to each of said protruding parts.

4. The portable computer according to claim 3, wherein each said RF signal line is exposed externally at the protruding part of each said respective antenna connecting part, and electrically connected to each said respective RF connector.

5. The portable computer according to claim 3, wherein said wireless LAN card includes ground parts positioned at opposite sides of said main card, and said latch members include ground contacting parts to connect to said ground parts.

6. The portable computer according to claim 4, wherein said wireless LAN card includes ground parts positioned at opposite sides of said main card, and said latch members include ground contacting parts to connect to said ground parts.

7. A portable computer comprising:

a wireless LAN card having connected on each of two opposing sides thereof an RF connector and a ground pattern;

at least one antenna part; and

a PCI slot part removably connected to said wireless LAN card and having a pair of latch members with protruding parts extending therefrom to latch with said RF connectors and ground patterns, respectively, each said latch member having an RF signal line embedded therein, each said RF signal line connected to one antenna part at a first end and exposed externally from the protruding part of said latch members at a second end to electrically connect with said RF connectors to provide RF signals received and transmitted through said antenna parts to said RF connectors.

8. A portable computer comprising:

a wireless LAN card having connected on each of two opposing sides thereof an RF connector;

antenna parts; and

a PCI slot part removably connected to said wireless LAN card and having a pair of latch members extending therefrom to latch with each of said RF connectors, respectively, each said latch member having an RF signal line embedded therein, each said RF signal line connected to a respective said antenna part at a first end and exposed externally from said latch member at a second end to electrically connect with said respective RF connector to provide an RF signal received and transmitted through said respective antenna part to said RF connector.

9. The portable computer according to claim 8, wherein:

each RF connector has a groove therein; and

each said latch member has a protruding part extending therefrom to latch with a respective said RF connector groove.

10. The portable computer according to claim 8, wherein said wireless LAN card includes ground parts positioned at opposite sides thereof to connect with a respective said latch member to provide a ground thereto.