Docking device

• US 7,523,242 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2006
• Issued: 04/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Quanta Computer
• Original Assignee: Quanta Computer
• Inventors: Chang, Jung-Wen, Lee, Shih-Yun, Lin, Wan-Chi
• Primary Examiner(s): STERLING, AMY JO
• Application Number:
  US11/586,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20080006752A1
• Time in Patent Office: 908 Days
• Field of Search: 710/303, 361/686, 361/683, 248130-143, 248917-923
• US Class Current: 710/303
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations

Abstract

A docking device comprises a body, a stand, two fixing members and two connecting members wherein the body includes an expansion portion with multiple I/O ports and a connecting portion. With the connecting member crossing through the connecting portion of the body, the fixing member and the stand, the body can be rotated relative to the stand, which makes it convenient for a user to insert or pullout the electronic wire, cords, cable or lines into or from the docking device.

Claims

1. A docking device, comprising:

a stand having a first end and a second end;

a body including a first shell with a first connecting portion at an outer side thereof, and a second shell with a second connecting portion at an outer side thereof, wherein each of the connecting portions has a convex portion with a side hole at a center thereof and a first protrusion set between the convex portion and a rim of the connecting portion, the first shell having an expansion port with at least one I/O port;

a first fixing member and a second fixing member, each having a concave portion with a hole at a center thereof, and a first recession and a second recession on a same side thereof;

a first connecting member crossing from inside of the body through the first shell and the first fixing member, and being connected with the first end; and

a second connecting member crossing from inside of the body through the second shell and the second fixing member, and being connected with the second end.

2. The docking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the first end and the second end has a friction portion.

3. The docking device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a first elastomer set between the first fixing member and the first end;

and a second elastomer set between the second fixing member and the second end.

4. The docking device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the structure of the friction portion is symmetric.

5. The docking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first fixing member and the second fixing member each has at least one mortises set opposite to the concave portions;

and both the first end and the second end of the stand has at least one tenon wherein the number of mortises equals the number of tenons.

6. The docking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein both the connecting portions of the first shell and the second shell have a sunken section between the convex portion and the rim of the connecting portion while the first fixing member and the second fixing member each have a second protrusion corresponding to the sunken section.

7. The docking device as claimed in claim 6, wherein an angle of the sunken sections is more than 30 degrees.

8. The docking device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the angle of the sunken sections is identical to an the angle between the first recession and the second recession.

9. The docking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the stand is made of metal material, compound metal or plastic.

10. The docking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first fixing member and the second fixing member are screws.

11. The docking device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the first elastomer and the second elastomer is a spacer or a spring.

12. The docking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the expansion portion includes at least one of a USB port, IEEE-1394 port, internet/telephone port, PS/2 or monitor port (D-sub and HDMI).

13. The docking device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a wireless module to communicate with a system or a host.

14. The docking device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the wireless module is an Infrared ray module, blue-tooth module, wireless USB module, NFC module, WLan (Wi-Fi) module, Zigbee module, UWB module or WiMAX module.