Nudge notification via shifting device battery

• US 9,201,458 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2012
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hunt, John Miles, Nicholson, John Weldon, Zawacki, Jennifer Greenwood, Locker, Howard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Fang, Keith
• Application Number:
  US13/584,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20140051484A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,204 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H04M 1/0262 for a battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations

Abstract

A device can include a processor; a display operatively coupled to the processor; a battery having a battery length; a chassis that includes a bay having a bay length, the bay length being of sufficient length to allow translation of the battery along the bay length; a translation mechanism to translate the battery in the bay; and communication circuitry operatively coupled to the processor and the translation mechanism. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a processor;

a display operatively coupled to the processor;

a battery operatively coupled to the processor and having a battery length and a mass of at least 15% of a total mass of the device;

a chassis that comprises a bay having a bay length that exceeds the battery length;

a translation mechanism that translates the battery in the bay a distance greater than about 4 millimeters wherein the translation mechanism comprises a battery guide that guides the battery during translation, at least one elastic element, a first releasable latch that latches the battery at a first stationary position in the bay and a second releasable latch that latches the battery at a second stationary position in the bay wherein the first releasable latch releases the battery for translation toward the second stationary position and wherein the second releasable latch releases the battery for translation toward the first stationary position; and

communication circuitry operatively coupled to the processor and the translation mechanism.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the battery comprises a lithium ion battery.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein the at least one elastic element comprises at least one spring.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein the battery comprises a battery mass that comprises at least 20% of a total mass of the device.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein the communication circuitry comprises activation circuitry to, responsive to receipt of a communication signal, activate the translation mechanism.

6. The device of claim 1 further comprising a rotatable eccentric mass wherein the communication circuitry is operatively coupled to the rotatable eccentric mass.

7. The device of claim 1 wherein the battery guide comprises a rail wherein the battery is coupled to the rail to guide translation of the battery in the bay.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a housing;

a display coupled to the housing;

a power supply component that comprises a mass of at least 15% of a total mass of the apparatus;

communication circuitry coupled to the housing;

a bay, formed at least in part by the housing, that comprises a guide that guides movement of the power supply component along a length of the bay;

springs at opposing ends of the bay that apply forces to the power supply component; and

a first releasable latch that latches the power supply component at a first stationary position along the length of the bay and a second releasable latch that latches the power supply component at a second stationary position along the length of the bay wherein the first releasable latch releases the power supply component for movement of the power supply component along the length of the bay a distance greater than about 4 millimeters toward the second stationary position and wherein the second releasable latch releases the power supply component for movement of the power supply component along the length of the bay a distance greater than about 4 millimeters toward the first stationary position.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein at least one of the first releasable latch and the second releasable latch is releasable responsive to receipt of a signal issued by the communication circuitry.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the power supply component comprises a battery or a slidable cart and a battery wherein the slidable cart receives the battery.