Patent ID: 8094441

Claim:
A method for making housings of a notebook computer which includes a base and a lid, the method comprising: (a) wrapping a stack of composite prepregs around a plate-shaped first mold core to obtain a bag-like first preform; (b) removing the first mold core from the first preform so that a receiving space is left in the first preform; (c) inserting a first airbag into the receiving space in the first preform; (d) placing the first preform together with the first airbag in a first mold; (e) inflating the first airbag and hot pressing the first preform within the first mold until the first preform is cured so that the receiving space in the first preform is formed into a motherboard receiving space with a size sufficient to receive a motherboard of the notebook computer and so that the first preform is formed into a one-piece first flat housing for the base of the notebook computer; and (f) removing the first flat housing from the first mold and the first airbag; wherein the first flat housing has a flat housing body which includes a base plate and a keyboard plate which are connected parallel to each other and which are spaced apart by the motherboard receiving space.