Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8014155B2/en
Timestamp: 2018-11-19 04:28:26
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 170', 'art 121', 'art 121', 'art 121', 'art 121', 'art 121', 'art 165', 'art 165', 'art 165', 'art 165', 'Application No. 2006', 'Application No. 200480043823']

US8014155B2 - Housing structure and electronic apparatus having the same - Google Patents
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A housing accommodates a circuit board and an electronic component electrically connected to the circuit board, and is used for an electronic apparatus that includes the circuit board and the electronic component. The housing includes a cover that is made by extrusion molding of metal.
The present invention relates generally to an electronic apparatus, and more particularly to a housing structure of the electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus conceptually covers a laptop or notebook-type personal computer (“PC”), a personal digital assistant (“PDA”), an electronic dictionary, electronic stationery, and a game machine. The present invention is suitable, for example, for a housing structure of a laptop PC.
The body section screws, onto the lower cover, a circuit board mounted with a CPU and a chip set, and various drivers connected to the circuit board, such as a CD/DVD drive, a hard disc drive (“HDD”), and a floppy disc drive (“FDD”). The body section has a metal plate on the rear surfaces of the upper and lower covers for electromagnetic shield.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, a description will be given of an electronic apparatus 100 that is implemented as a laptop PC according to the present invention. Here, FIG. 1 is a perspective overview of the laptop PC 100. FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the laptop PC 100. Referring to FIG. 1, the electronic apparatus 100 is exemplarily embodied, but not limited to, as a laptop PC 100, but is applicable to a portable electronic apparatus such as a PDA, handheld PC, palm-sized PC, wearable computer, an electronic dictionary, electronic stationery, a game machine, and a portable home appliance (e.g., a portable TV, a portable videocassette recorder, and a portable DVD). The size of the laptop PC 100 covers A4 size, B5 size, and other sub-note and mini-note size.
The laptop PC 100 includes a base (or a lower housing) 110 as a PC body section, a hinge part 170, and a liquid crystal display (“LCD”) bezel frame (or an upper housing) 190.
The pointing device 162 emulates the mouse functions, and includes a touch pad 162 a, a block 162 b, and a roll-type scroll wheel 162 c, although FIG. 2 omits the touch pad 162 a.
The touch pad 162 a exposes through the rectangular hole 123 a in the top surface part 121 a of the upper cover 120. The user moves his finger on the touch pad 162 a, implementing a control function of moving a mouse cursor on the LCD screen 192. The block 162 b defines left and right click buttons 163 a and 163 b that serve as mouse's left and right click buttons, and exposes through an attachment hole 123 b in the front edge part 121 b that extends from the top surface to the front surface of the upper cover 120. The roll-type scroll wheel 162 c that serves as a mouse's scroll wheel is inserted between the left and right click buttons 163 a and 163 b, and improves the operability of the pointing device 162. A release button 164 a of the lock mechanism 164 and a hook hole 164 b are arranged on the right click button 163 b.
The click buttons 163 a and 163 b project from the front edge part 121 b, and reduces their areas on the top surface part 121 a. The lock mechanism 164 is integrated with the click button 163 a for space saving, and thus the keyboard 160 can be moved closer to the user apart from the LCD screen 192. As a result, the operability of the keyboard 160 improves. The scroll wheel 162 c has a roller shape with a curved surface shape similar to the front edge part 121 b of the upper cover 120.
The lock mechanism 164 provides opening and closing between the base 110 and the LCD bezel frame 190, and locks and unlocks the folded LCD bezel frame 190 over the base 110. The lock mechanism 164 includes the release button 164 a and book hole 164 b. The hook hole 164 b is engageable with the hook-shaped engaging part 165 provided on the LCD bezel frame 190. As a result, the engaging part 165 is engaged with a hook (not shown) in the hook hole 164 b. The release button 164 a when pressed by the user releases an engagement between the engaging part 165 and the hook, enabling the engaging part 165 to be disengaged from the hook hole 164 b.
The residue display 166 indicates the residue of the battery of the laptop PC 100, and includes a built-in secondary battery, a detector that detects the voltage and current of the battery, a controller, five LED lamps 167, and an operation button 168 integrated with the LED lamps 167. The controller calculates the residue of the battery based on a detection result by the detector when the operation button 168 is pressed, and turns on plural LED lamps 167 for a limited time period, the number of which corresponds to the residue. The residue display 166 uses plural LED lamps 167, and displays the residue by stages, enabling the user to recognize the residue at a glance. The residue display 160 turns on the LED lamps 167 for the limited time period for energy saving when necessary (or when the operation button 168 is pressed down) rather than normally turning on. The number of batteries may be plural.
a non-painted middle cover housed between the upper cover and the lower cover, the middle cover being made of resin and mounted with the circuit board, the lower cover, the non-painted middle cover, and the upper cover being piled in a thickness direction of the housing, the circuit board being mounted on the middle cover so as to be exposed and accessible when one of the upper cover and the lower cover is detached from the housing.
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