Electronic device and circuit module thereof

• US 9,820,366 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2015
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alston Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: Alston Technologies Limited
• Inventors: Kuo, Chi-Fen, Cheng, Han-Hung
• Primary Examiner(s): Owens, Douglas W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sathiraju, Srinivas
• Application Number:
  US14/884,017
• Publication Number:
  US 20160212825A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/165 the additional display being small, e.g. for presenting status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/26 Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof for memories G11C
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/325 by lamps or LED's
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/06 Digital input from, or digital output to, record carriers , e.g. RAID, emulated record carriers or networked record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/38 using flashing light
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/00 Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the variable information is permanently attached to a movable support G09F11/00; abacus G06C1/00; slide-rules G06G1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 41/2828 using control circuits for the switching elements H05B41/2827 takes precedence

Abstract

A circuit module includes a board, a boosting circuit, a processing and a plasma tube. The board is for connecting with a circuit board device with opposite thicknesswise sides. The boosting circuit includes at least one conductive path and electronic components electrically connected to the conductive path. The conductive path includes a power input portion electrically connecting with a power output portion of the circuit board device and two power output terminals. The processing unit is includes a frequency changing circuit electrically connected with the power input portion and the boosting circuit and for transferring an input power into an output power for the boosting circuit, and the input and output power has different frequencies. The plasma tube is electrically connected to the two power output terminals. An electronic device includes one said circuit module and a circuit board device electrically connected to the circuit module.

Claims

1. A circuit module, provided for being electrically connected with a circuit board device, the circuit board device including a power output portion, the circuit module including:

a board, for being connected with the circuit board device on a lateral side of the board;

a boosting circuit, disposed on the board, including at least one conductive path and a plurality of electronic components which are electrically connected with the at least one conductive path, the at least one conductive path including a power input portion which is for being electrically connected with the power output portion and two power output terminals;

a processing unit, disposed on the board, the processing unit including a frequency changing circuit which is electrically connected with the power input portion and the boosting circuit, the frequency changing circuit being capable of transferring an input power having a first frequency from the power input portion to an output power having a second frequency and transmitting the output power to the boosting circuit, the first and second frequencies being different;

a plasma tube, two ends thereof having two electrodes which are electrically connected with the two power output terminals.

2. The circuit module of claim 1, wherein the board has at least one through hole, and at least one said electronic component is disposed within the through hole.

3. The circuit module of claim 1, wherein each said electrode includes an electrode cap which is located inside the plasma tube and is hollow, and the two electrode caps are substantially coaxially arranged.

4. The circuit module of claim 1, wherein the power input portion is for being electrically connected with a memory, a display card, a network card or a printed circuit board which is formed with the power output portion.

5. The circuit module of claim 1, wherein the plurality of electronic components include a plurality of passive components and at least one transformer, the plurality of passive components are electrically connected with one another to form a low-voltage boosting circuit which is electrically connected with the power input portion and the processing unit, and the at least one transformer forms a high-voltage boosting circuit which is electrically connected with between the low-voltage boosting circuit and the two power output terminals.

6. An electronic device, including the circuit module of claim 1, further including a circuit board device which is electrically connected with the circuit module, the circuit board device being connected with the board of the circuit module on the lateral side of the board.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the circuit board device further includes an electric insert row which is provided for being electrically inserted into an electric insert slot of a computer mother board, and the electric insert row is arranged on a side of the circuit board device opposite to the circuit module.

8. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein at least one bridging member is connected with between the circuit board device and the board of the circuit module, each said bridging member is arranged across the lateral side of the board, and two ends of each said bridging member are fixedly connected to the circuit board device and the board of the circuit module respectively.

9. The electronic device of claim 6, further including two heat-dissipating sheets, the two heat-dissipating sheets arranged on two opposite sides of the electronic device.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, further including at least one shell, the shell engagedly connected with one of the heat-dissipating sheets substantially in parallel on a side of the electronic device.