Electronic device having a replaceable casing panel

• US 7,145,781 B1
• Filed: 02/01/2006
• Issued: 12/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Tien, Kai-Chen, Peng, Jian-Ming, Hsieh, Fang-Yu, Chen, Chien-Chuan, Li, Chien-Te, Wu, Han-Shun
• Primary Examiner(s): DINH, TUAN T
• Application Number:
  US11/344,001
• Time in Patent Office: 307 Days
• Field of Search: 361683-686, 361736-737, 361752-753
• US Class Current: 361/752
• 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 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/12 Disposition of constructional parts in the apparatus, e.g. of power supply, of modules

Abstract

An electronic device having a replaceable casing panel comprises a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a gliding member having a plurality of second positioning elements corresponding to a plurality of first positioning elements, and each second positioning element includes a fixing element for fixing the gliding member in the first portion and restricting the moving direction of the gliding member, and the gliding member includes a first panel that slides with the gliding member. The second portion includes a second panel having a plurality of third embedding elements and a plurality of fourth embedding elements embedded with each other, and the second portion includes a plurality of first embedding elements and a plurality of second embedding elements, such that the first panel can be pushed to form a gap for replacing the second panel.

Claims

1. An electronic device having a replaceable casing panel, comprising:

a casing, having a first portion and a second portion, wherein a plurality of first positioning elements are provided separately at internal walls on both lateral sides of said first portion with a predetermined distance apart from each other, a plurality of first embedding elements are provided separately at two opposite lateral sides of said second portion with a predetermined distance apart from each other, and a plurality of second embedding elements are provided at another side adjacent to said two lateral sides of said second portion with a predetermined distance apart from each other;

a gliding member, disposed inside said first portion of said casing, and having a plurality of second positioning elements provided on both lateral sides of said gliding member with a predetermined distance apart from each other, whereby said second positioning elements can be precisely and respectively positioned with said first positioning elements;

a fixing element, fixed separately to said casing at positions corresponding to said second positioning elements on both lateral sides of said gliding member for positioning said gliding member within said first portion and restricting said gliding being moved within a predetermined distance;

a first panel, fixed to said gliding member and sliding with said gliding member; and

a second panel, disposed on said second portion of said casing and having one side adjacent to said first panel being movably covered and limited by a corresponding side of said first panel, wherein a plurality of third embedding elements are provided at two opposite lateral sides of the second panel, and a plurality of fourth embedding elements are provided at another side adjacent to said two lateral sides of said second panel with a predetermined distance apart from each other, whereby said third embedding elements and said fourth embedding elements being embedded respectively into said first embedding elements and said second embedding elements disposed on both lateral sides of said second portion of said casing.

2. The electronic device having a replaceable casing panel of claim 1, wherein said fixing element have both ends fixed into a two-screw hole in said second portion of said casing separately by a screw, and the interval for installing said two-screw hole falls between the limit points of a gliding path of said second positioning element on both sides of said gliding member.

3. The electronic device having a replaceable casing panel of claim 2, wherein said first positioning element is a semicircular concave member, and said second positioning element is a rectangular elastic convex member.

4. The electronic device having a replaceable casing panel of claim 3, wherein said first embedding element, said second embedding element, and said fourth embedding element are separate embedding members extended along a lateral edge or a distal edge, and said third embedding element is an L-shape slot.

5. The electronic device having a replaceable casing panel of claim 4, wherein said casing is a screen casing of a notebook computer.