Electronic device

• US 8,730,666 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2010
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Tachikawa, Tadanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilson, Adrian S
• Application Number:
  US12/662,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20100259891A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,505 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.02, 361/679.55, 361/679.56
• US Class Current: 361/679.55
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers

Abstract

An electronic device includes a speaker, a board that includes a speaker placement section in which the speaker is disposed and a double-faced adhesive tape that surrounds the speaker placement section of the board and adheres to an edge of a back surface opposite to a sound emitting surface of the speaker so as to cause the board to support the speaker.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a speaker;

a board that includes a speaker placement section in which the speaker is disposed; and

a double-faced adhesive tape that surrounds the speaker placement section of the board and adheres to an edge of a back surface of the speaker opposite to a sound emitting surface of the speaker and to the board so as to cause the board to support the speaker,

wherein the double-faced adhesive tape intermittently overlaps the edge of the back surface of the speaker at a plurality of positions and adheres to the plurality of positions without contacting the edge of the back surface of the speaker at other than the plurality of positions, each pair of the plurality of positions being separated by a space.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the speaker is a shape of a rectangle when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the sound emitting surface, and

the double-faced adhesive tape has a shape of surrounding the speaker placement section along a track that overlaps the back surface of the speaker at four corners of the rectangle and deviates outward from the speaker at a center in each of four sides of the rectangle.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the double-faced adhesive tape has a shape of seamlessly going around the speaker placement section.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the board has an opening at the speaker placement section and the double-faced adhesive tape surrounds an edge of the opening.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the board has a pin standing on an edge of the speaker placement section and provided to position the speaker, and

the speaker has an opening into which the pin is inserted, and the speaker is supported by the board via the double-faced adhesive tape in a state in which the pin is inserted into the opening.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a hard disk drive unit which is loaded with a hard disk medium and records information on the hard disk medium.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein

the electronic device is an electronic device that includes an operational unit having a keyboard on a top surface thereof and a display unit having a display screen and being openably and closably supported on the operational unit, and

the speaker is mounted on the operational unit and emits sound from the top surface of the operational unit.