Patent ID: 8345410

Claim:
A portable computing device, comprising: a single piece housing having a front opening, the single piece housing further comprising: a bottom wall and side walls that cooperate to form a cavity in cooperation with the front opening, the bottom wall having a curved bottom surface, the side walls having rectilinear edges arranged such that they form a flat side surface an undercut within the cavity, an edge of the side walls surrounding and defining the front opening, wherein an interior surface of the bottom wall includes a plurality of mounting steps suitable for mounting an internal component thereon, a cover disposed within the front opening and attached directly to the seamless housing, and an integrated beam system integrally formed in the single piece housing, the integrated beam system used to provide support for the single piece housing by distributing a force applied at a point in the single piece housing evenly about the single piece housing, the integrated beam system comprising continuous and concentric loops of steps of housing material, the continuous and concentric steps located at predetermined locations on the interior surface of the single piece housing, the continuous and concentric steps being thicker than the plurality of mounting steps.