Electronic device

• US 8,058,553 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2010
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Konno, Toshio, Saito, Ryosuke, Murayama, Tomomi
• Primary Examiner(s): NGO, HUNG V
• Application Number:
  US12/903,108
• Publication Number:
  US 20110155448A1
• Time in Patent Office: 399 Days
• Field of Search: 174/135, 174/60, 361/679.26, 361/679.29, 361/679.3
• US Class Current: 174/60
• 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

According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a housing, an outer wall, a rib, a cable, and a stopper. The housing houses at least part of an electronic component. The outer wall constitutes at least part of an outer contour of the housing. The rib is located between the outer wall and the electronic component, and the outer surface of the rib faces the inner surface of the outer wall. The cable is routed between the outer wall and the rib. The stopper is housed in the housing, and engages the rib to prevent the rib from inclining toward the outer wall.

Claims

1. A electronic device comprising:

a housing configured to house at least part of an electronic component;

a rib located between an outer wall of the housing and the electronic component;

a cable routed between the outer wall and the rib; and

a stopper in the housing, the stopper being configured to engage the rib and capable of preventing the rib from inclining toward the outer wall.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the housing comprises

a first divisional body provided with the outer wall and the rib, and

a second divisional body provided with the stopper.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the second divisional body is provided with a second stopper on the electronic component side of the outer wall of the first divisional body, the second stopper engaging the outer wall.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the stopper is a protrusion arranged on the outer wall side of the rib.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein at least one of a surface of the outer wall side of the rib and a surface of the rib side of the outer wall is substantially flat.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein

the rib comprises a reinforcing member comprising a convex portion on the surface of the outer wall side, and

the surface of the rib side of the outer wall is substantially flat.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the rib comprises a plurality of ribs,

gaps between the outer wall and the ribs are different in size,

the electronic device further comprising recessed portion outside the housing of one of the ribs with a small gap of the outer wall, the recessed portion being recessed inside the housing.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the rib comprises a plurality of ribs,

the ribs are linearly arranged along the outer wall, and

the stopper is arranged correspondingly to at least one of the ribs located at an end of an array of the ribs.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the rib comprises a plurality of ribs,

gaps between the outer wall and the ribs are different in size,

the ribs are linearly arranged so that a side surface of the electronic along the outer wall, and

one of the ribs with a small gap is located at a middle position of an array of the ribs except for ends of the array.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the rib comprises a plurality of ribs,

gaps between the outer wall and the ribs are different in size,

the ribs are linearly arranged along the outer wall,

the cable comprises a plurality of cables, and

the cables are arranged in parallel at least between the outer wall and one of the ribs with a small gap in a direction along at least one of a surface of the outer wall side of the one of the ribs and a surface of the one of the ribs side of the outer wall.