Electronic apparatus having battery receptacle at the rear of keyboard

• US 7,957,127 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2008
• Issued: 06/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Arisaka, Takayuki, Minaguchi, Hiroyuki, Itakura, Hidemi
• Primary Examiner(s): Gandhi; Jayprakash N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Edwards; Anthony Q
• Application Number:
  US12/269,706
• Publication Number:
  US 20090059488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.17
• US Class Current: 361/679.17
• 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 1/1635 Details related to the integration of battery packs and other power supplies such as fuel cells or integrated AC adapter
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1662 Details related to the integrated keyboard

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the invention, an electronic apparatus comprises a housing including a keyboard mount portion. A keyboard is mounted on the keyboard mount portion. The keyboard has a plurality of fixing pieces. The fixing pieces are protruded at the rear of the keyboard mount portion, and are removably fixed to the housing. A receptacle on which a module is removably mounted is provided in the housing. The receptacle is located between the fixing pieces at the rear of the keyboard mount portion.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a housing including a keyboard mount portion and a receptacle adapted for receiving a module; and

a keyboard placed within the keyboard mount portion, the keyboard comprises a plurality of fasteners removably affixed to the housing proximate to the one side of the keyboard mount portion,

wherein the receptacle is positioned between the plurality of fasteners, opens to a rear of the housing at a rear of the keyboard mount portion, and has a front end located under the keyboard mount portion, the front end of the receptacle overlapping with the keyboard mount portion in a depth direction of the housing.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the receptacle is a recessed portion formed by continuous openings at a bottom wall, a top wall and a rear wall of the housing.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the module has a top surface, the top surface being exposed out of the receptacle between the plurality of fasteners of the keyboard when mounting the module on the receptacle.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 wherein a front end portion of the module enters below a rear end portion of the keyboard when mounting the module on the receptacle.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of fasteners of the keyboard are spaced from each other in a widthwise direction of the housing more than a width of the receptacle in the widthwise direction of the housing.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the housing includes a plurality of receiving portions to which the plurality of fasteners of the keyboard are removable affixed, each of the fasteners being affixed to the receiving portions by a fastening element.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 6, wherein the plurality of receiving portions positioned proximate to one side of the keyboard mount portion.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the module is a battery pack.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the module is a power source.

10. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a housing including a keyboard mount portion and a receptacle, the receptacle being provided for a rear of the keyboard mount portion;

a module being removably supported by the receptacle; and

a keyboard placed within the keyboard mount portion, the keyboard comprises a plurality of fasteners removable affixed to the housing proximate one side of the keyboard mount portion,

wherein the receptacle is positioned between the plurality of fasteners, opens to a rear of the housing at a rear of the keyboard mount portion, and has a front end located under the keyboard mount portion, and a front end portion of the module enters below the keyboard when mounting the module on the receptacle.

11. The electronic apparatus of claim 10, wherein the receptacle is a recessed portion formed by continuous openings at a bottom wall, a top wall and a rear wall of the housing.

12. The electronic apparatus of claim 10, wherein a front end portion of the module is hooked on the receptacle below the keyboard.

13. The electronic apparatus of claim 10, wherein the plurality of fasteners of the keyboard are spaced from each other in a widthwise direction of the housing more than a width of the receptacle in the widthwise direction of the housing.