Cloud computer

• US 8,386,686 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2010
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lin, Chun-Jen, Chen, Mi-Chien, Wang, Lin-Yi
• Primary Examiner(s): STIGLIC, RYAN M
• Application Number:
  US12/844,987
• Publication Number:
  US 20110302348A1
• Time in Patent Office: 944 Days
• Field of Search: 710/303
• US Class Current: 710/303
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1613 for portable computers cooling arrangements therefor G06F1/203; constructional details or arrangements for pocket calculators, electronic agendas or books G06F15/0216; constructional details of portable telephone sets: with several bodies H04M1/0202
• 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 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations

Abstract

A cloud computer includes a base, a host, and a battery, in which the host includes a motherboard, a memory connected to the motherboard, and a base connector connected to the motherboard, and the base includes a host connector corresponding to the base connector of the host, and a plurality of input/output ports to connect to peripherals. The battery is mounted on the host and connects to the motherboard to provide electronic power to the motherboard, and the host is detachably connected with the base.

Claims

1. A cloud computer, comprising:

a base;

a host; and

a battery;

wherein the host comprises a motherboard, a memory connected to the motherboard, and a base connector connected to the motherboard;

the base comprises a connecting portion, a supporting portion extending from one end of the base, a host connector corresponding to the base connector, and a plurality of input/output ports, mounted on a side of the connecting portion above the host connector, configured to be connected to a plurality of peripherals external to the cloud computer,

the host connector and the input/output ports are defined in the connecting portion and the input/output ports are electrically connected with the host connector;

the battery is mounted on the host and connected to the motherboard; and

the host is detachably connected to the base.

2. The cloud computer of claim 1, wherein the supporting portion defines a recess to receive the host connector and a part of the host.

3. The cloud computer of claim 2, wherein the supporting portion further defines at least one guide groove defined at two inner side surfaces of the recess, and the host forms at least one guide protrusion corresponding to the at least one guide groove, respectively.

4. The cloud computer of claim 1, wherein the host defines a receiving recess to receive the battery.

5. The cloud computer of claim 1, wherein the host further comprises a communication module connected to the motherboard to transmit a plurality of data.

6. The cloud computer of claim 5, wherein the communication module comprises a third-generation (3G) module and a Bluetooth module.

7. The cloud computer of claim 6, further comprising a phone, wherein the phone comprises a Bluetooth module corresponding to the Bluetooth module of the host.

8. The cloud computer of claim 1, wherein the input/output ports are a power port, a monitor port, a keyboard port, a mouse port, a universal serial bus (USB) interface, a local area network port, and an audio port.