Patent ID: 9746885
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,Y10T

Claim:
1. A computing system comprising: a first housing with a polar magnet on a first side; an opening on the first side; a second housing with a sliding latch comprising a latch hook; an opposite polar magnet attached to the sliding latch; an alignment mechanism to align the opening with the latch hook when the latch hook is in an unlatched position, wherein the latch hook enters into the opening along a first direction when the first housing is moved into engagement with the second housing, wherein the polar magnet attracts the opposite polar magnet attached to the sliding latch to provide an attractive sliding force that causes sliding, along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and that is parallel to an edge of the second housing, the latch hook from the unlatched position where the latch hook is disengaged from a receptacle, to a latched position where the latch hook is engaged into the receptacle.