ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CIRCUIT MODULE THEREOF

• US 20160212824A1
• Filed: 10/13/2015
• Published: 07/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alston Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: AVEXIR Technologies Corporation
• Inventors: KUO, Chi-Fen, CHENG, Han-Hung
• Granted Patent: US 9,795,018 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: 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

An electronic device and circuit module thereof is provided. The circuit module includes a board, a boosting circuit and a plasma tube. The board has at least one through hole. The board is for being connected with a circuit board device with their thicknesswise sides opposite to each other. The boosting circuit is disposed on the board and includes at least one conductive path and a plurality of electronic components electrically connected to the at least one conductive path. The at least one conductive path includes a power input portion and two power output terminals. The power input portion is for being electrically connecting with a power output portion the circuit board device. At least one said electronic component is disposed within the through hole. Two opposite ends of the plasma tube have two electrodes electrically connected to the two power output terminals.

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, having at least one through hole, the board provided for being connected with the circuit board device with thicknesswise sides of the board and the circuit board device opposite to each other;

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, at least one said electronic component being disposed within the through hole;

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 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.

3. 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.

4. 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 at least one transformer forms a high-voltage boosting circuit which is electrically connected between the low-voltage boosting circuit and the two power output terminals.

5. The circuit module of claim 4, wherein the plurality of electronic components further include a processing unit, and the processing unit includes a frequency changing circuit which is electrically connected with the power input portion and the low-voltage boosting circuit.

6. An electronic device, including a 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 with thicknesswise sides of the board and the circuit board device opposite to each other.

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 thicknesswise sides of the board and the circuit board device, and two end 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.