Patent ID: 8638552

Claim:
A docking station for a Macintosh laptop computer, the docking station comprising: a receiving sleeve comprising an interior surface, an exterior surface, an interior cavity, an open top end, a base side, a front side, a rear side, a left side, a right side; a spring lever disposed within the interior cavity of the receiving sleeve, said spring lever comprising: a cylindrical member horizontally rotationally disposed within the receiving sleeve of the interior cavity, the cylindrical member having a front tip and a rear tip; a first finger and a second finger radially projecting from the cylindrical member first and second tip, respectively; a third finger radially projecting from the cylindrical member, the third finger centrally disposed upon the cylindrical member in an opposite direction from the first finger and the second finger; an eject button disposed on the receiving sleeve exterior surface; wherein the eject button operationally communicates with the spring lever; a parallelepiped contact plate horizontally disposed within the receiving sleeve interior cavity proximal to the base side interior surface; a plurality of connecting heads disposed on the contact plate, the connecting heads configured to interconnect with a series of data ports disposed on a side of a Macintosh laptop computer; a base plate comprising: a catch; a pad attached to an underside of the catch; wherein the catch removably receives the receiving sleeve therein; wherein activation of the eject button activates the spring lever; and wherein activation of the spring lever releases the connecting heads from the data ports; wherein the side of the laptop computer operationally engages the first, the second finger, and the third fingers in a first position and alternately in a second position; wherein the connecting heads and the data ports operationally engage and alternately disengage in the first position and the second position, respectively; wherein the third finger operationally engages the eject button in an outward position upon the operational engagement of the connecting heads and the data ports; and wherein the eject button operationally engages the third finger in the first position upon the disengagement of the connecting heads and the data ports.