公开(公告)号：US5991838A

公开(公告)日：1999-11-23

申请号：US164076

申请日：1994-02-17

申请人： Dan E. Swindler ,  Pearce R. Jones ,  Mark B. Penniman ,  John P. Busch ,  Thomas Shu ,  Thomas J. Kocis ,  Michael D. Durkin ,  Orin Ozias ,  Derek Westmoreland

发明人： Dan E. Swindler ,  Pearce R. Jones ,  Mark B. Penniman ,  John P. Busch ,  Thomas Shu ,  Thomas J. Kocis ,  Michael D. Durkin ,  Orin Ozias ,  Derek Westmoreland

IPC分类号： G06F1/16 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1632 ,  G06F13/409

摘要： A docking station structure is used to operatively connect a notebook computer to desktop computer peripheral devices. The docking station has an internal receiving chamber into which the portable computer may be manually inserted, an electrical connector positioned within the receiving chamber, a travel plate movably carried within the receiving chamber, a motorized drive system operative to drive the travel plate toward and away from the electrical connector, and a latch structure carried by the travel plate for movement therewith. With the travel plate in a wait position thereof, the portable computer is rearwardly inserted into the receiving chamber. In response to such insertion, the latch structure automatically locks the computer to the travel plate, and the drive system rearwardly moves the travel plate to mate the electrical connector with a corresponding connector on the computer, thereby operatively linking the computer to the peripheral devices. To remove the computer, the drive system is operated to forwardly move the drive plate and the computer to an ejection position in which the computer and docking station electrical connector structures are disconnected from one another, and the computer is unlocked from the travel plate. Upon insertion of the computer into the docking station opposite side portions of the computer are slidingly received in docking station track indentations operative to maintain the computer in a precisely aligned relationship with the docking station electrical connector during driven movement of the computer.

摘要翻译： 对接站结构用于将笔记本计算机可操作地连接到台式计算机外围设备。 对接站具有可以手动插入便携式计算机的内部接收室，位于接收室内的电连接器，可移动地承载在接收室内的行进板，可操作地驱动旅行板朝向和离开的电动驱动系统 以及由行进板承载的用于与其一起移动的闩锁结构。 随着旅行板处于等待位置，便携式计算机向后插入接收室。 响应于这种插入，闩锁结构自动将计算机锁定到行进板上，并且驱动系统向后移动行驶板以使电连接器与计算机上的对应连接器配合，从而可操作地将计算机连接到外围设备。 为了卸下计算机，驱动系统被操作以将驱动板和计算机向前移动到其中计算机和对接站电连接器结构彼此断开的弹出位置，并且计算机从行驶板解锁。 在将计算机插入对接站中，计算机的相对侧部分滑动地接收在对接站轨道凹口中，以在计算机的驱动运动期间使计算机与对接站电连接器保持精确对准的关系。

公开(公告)号：US5510806A

公开(公告)日：1996-04-23

申请号：US492142

申请日：1995-06-19

申请人： John P. Busch

发明人： John P. Busch

IPC分类号： G06F1/16 ,  G09G3/36

CPC分类号： G06F1/1639 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1677 ,  G06F1/1679 ,  Y10S345/905

摘要： A portable computer has a base housing portion to which a display screen structure is pivotally connected. The display screen structure is defined by a solid, relatively thin plastic screen panel instead of the usual lid/display screen housing having mounted therein an LCD panel, a panel illumination system and associated display electronics. To form a selectively variable image on the screen panel a relatively small LCD projection structure is mounted on the top side of the base housing for pivotal movement relative thereto between an upwardly extending use orientation and a downwardly retracted storage and transport orientation. The LCD projection structure includes a lens housing having a lens disposed therein, a small LCD projection panel supported on an underside portion of the lens, and a high intensity light source supported beneath the LCD projection panel. During use of the computer, screen driver circuitry within the base housing is used to form a selectively variable image on the LCD panel, and the illumination source causes the image to be projected in magnified form onto the raised screen panel.

摘要翻译： 便携式计算机具有基座容纳部分，显示屏结构枢转地连接到基座外壳部分。 显示屏结构由固体相对薄的塑料屏幕面板来限定，而不是通常的盖/显示屏幕外壳，其中安装有LCD面板，面板照明系统和相关联的显示电子设备。 为了在屏幕面板上形成选择性可变的图像，相对较小的LCD突出结构安装在基座壳体的顶侧，用于在向上延伸的使用方向和向下缩回的存储和传送方向之间相对于其枢转运动。 LCD投影结构包括具有设置在其中的透镜的透镜壳体，支撑在透镜的下侧部分上的小LCD投影面板以及支撑在LCD投影面板下方的高强度光源。 在使用计算机的过程中，使用底座外壳内的屏幕驱动器电路在LCD面板上形成可选择的可变图像，并且照明源使图像以放大的形式投影到升高的屏幕面板上。

公开(公告)号：US5309031A

公开(公告)日：1994-05-03

申请号：US689419

申请日：1991-04-22

申请人： Gregory N. Stewart ,  John P. Busch

发明人： Gregory N. Stewart ,  John P. Busch

IPC分类号： G06F1/00 ,  G06F1/26 ,  H01M2/10 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H02J9/04

CPC分类号： G06F1/1635 ,  G06F1/26 ,  H01M2/1022 ,  Y10T307/625 ,  Y10T307/724

摘要： A battery-powered lap-top computer has a main battery for ordinarily supplying power to the computer circuitry. A reserve battery is connected through a manual switch to the circuitry. When the main battery starts to lose its charge, the manual switch is operated to connect the reserve battery to the circuitry prior to removal of the main battery. A new main battery is installed and the switch is operated to disconnect the reserve battery from the circuitry. Provision is made for the main battery to slowly charge the reserve battery.

摘要翻译： 电池供电的膝上型计算机具有通常为计算机电路供电的主电池。 备用电池通过手动开关连接到电路。 当主电池开始耗尽电量时，在拆卸主电池之前，手动开关被操作以将备用电池连接到电路。 安装了一个新的主电池，并且开关被操作以将备用电池从电路断开。 为主电池供电以缓慢对备用电池充电。

公开(公告)号：US5490036A

公开(公告)日：1996-02-06

申请号：US183018

申请日：1994-01-18

申请人： Jeng-Hua Lin ,  John P. Busch ,  James W. Huffman

发明人： Jeng-Hua Lin ,  John P. Busch ,  James W. Huffman

IPC分类号： G06F1/16 ,  H05K5/02

CPC分类号： G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1656 ,  G06F1/1662 ,  G06F1/1667 ,  H01H2223/018

摘要： A keyboard structure is recessed within an open-topped base housing portion of a compact portable computer such as a notebook or laptop computer. Front comer portions of the keyboard structure are secured to the base housing in a manner permitting the keyboard structure to be pivoted relative to the base housing between a storage/transport orientation in which the top side of the keyboard structure is generally parallel to the bottom side of the base housing, a tilted use orientation in which the top side of the keyboard structure slopes forwardly and downwardly toward the user and an access position which allows easy access to the interior portion of the computer for making modifications to a mother board that has been positioned in the upper interior portion of the base housing. A resilient latch assembly has cooperable detent structures that are disposed on the keyboard structure and the base housing. The detent structures are easily detachable from themselves and also functions to prevent the keyboard structure from moving downwardly past the storage/transport position.

摘要翻译： 键盘结构凹入在诸如笔记本或膝上型计算机之类的小型便携式计算机的开顶的底座外壳部分内。 键盘结构的前角部分以允许键盘结构相对于基座壳体在存储/传送方向之间枢转的方式固定到基座壳体，其中键盘结构的顶侧大致平行于底侧 基座壳体的倾斜使用方向，其中键盘结构的顶侧朝向使用者向前和向下倾斜，并且允许容易地进入计算机的内部以便对已经被 定位在基座外壳的上部内部。 弹性闩锁组件具有配置在键盘结构和基座壳体上的可配合的止动结构。 棘爪结构易于从自身拆卸，并且还起到防止键盘结构向下移动超过存储/运输位置的作用。

公开(公告)号：US5028806A

公开(公告)日：1991-07-02

申请号：US338267

申请日：1989-04-14

申请人： Gregory N. Stewart ,  John P. Busch

发明人： Gregory N. Stewart ,  John P. Busch

IPC分类号： G06F1/00 ,  G06F1/26 ,  H01M2/10 ,  H02J7/00

CPC分类号： G06F1/1635 ,  G06F1/26 ,  H01M2/1022 ,  Y10T307/625 ,  Y10T307/724

摘要： A battery-powered lap-top computer has a main battery for ordinarily supplying power to the computer circuitry. A reserve battery is connected through an automatic switch to the circuitry. The circuitry is connected to a pair of contacts and the switch is connected to a contact. The main battery has positive and negative terminals, and a removal terminal which is shorter in length than the positive and negative terminals. When the main battery loses its charge, it is removed by a sliding action which slides the terminals past the contacts, the removal terminal being the first terminal to lose contact. This activates the automatic switch, connecting the reserve battery into the circuitry so that when the positive and negative terminals are no longer contacted, the reserve battery will have been supplying and will continue to supply power to the circuitry. A charged main battery is then installed, deactivating the switch, removing the reserve battery from the circuitry. Provision is made for the main battery to slowly charge the reserve battery.

公开(公告)号：USD335660S

公开(公告)日：1993-05-18

申请号：US633438

申请日：1990-12-20

申请人： John P. Busch

设计人： John P. Busch

公开(公告)号：USD365335S

公开(公告)日：1995-12-19

申请号：US27638

申请日：1994-08-25

申请人： John P. Busch ,  Steven D. Gluskoter ,  Satoshi Masamitsu ,  Nobuyuki Nishigori

设计人： John P. Busch ,  Steven D. Gluskoter ,  Satoshi Masamitsu ,  Nobuyuki Nishigori

公开(公告)号：US5313596A

公开(公告)日：1994-05-17

申请号：US858

申请日：1993-01-05

申请人： Dan E. Swindler ,  Pearce R. Jones ,  Mark B. Penniman ,  John P. Busch ,  Thomas Shu ,  Thomas J. Kocis ,  Michael D. Durkin ,  Orin Ozias

发明人： Dan E. Swindler ,  Pearce R. Jones ,  Mark B. Penniman ,  John P. Busch ,  Thomas Shu ,  Thomas J. Kocis ,  Michael D. Durkin ,  Orin Ozias

IPC分类号： G06F1/16 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1632 ,  G06F13/409

摘要： A docking station structure is used to operatively connect a notebook computer to desktop computer peripheral devices. The docking station has an internal receiving chamber into which the portable computer may be manually inserted, an electrical connector positioned within the receiving chamber, a travel plate movably carried within the receiving chamber, a motorized drive system operative to drive the travel plate toward and away from the electrical connector, and a latch structure carried by the travel plate for movement therewith. With the travel plate in a wait position thereof, the portable computer is rearwardly inserted into the receiving chamber. In response to such insertion, the latch structure automatically locks the computer to the travel plate, and the drive system rearwardly moves the travel plate to mate the electrical connector with a corresponding connector on the computer, thereby operatively linking the computer to the peripheral devices. To remove the computer, the drive system is operated to forwardly move the drive plate and the computer to an ejection position in which the computer and docking station electrical connector structures are disconnected from one another, and the computer is unlocked from the travel plate. Upon insertion of the computer into the docking station opposite side portions of the computer are slidingly received in docking station track indentations operative to maintain the computer in a precisely aligned relationship with the docking station electrical connector during driven movement of the computer.

摘要翻译： 对接站结构用于将笔记本计算机可操作地连接到台式计算机外围设备。 对接站具有可以手动插入便携式计算机的内部接收室，位于接收室内的电连接器，可移动地承载在接收室内的行进板，可操作地驱动旅行板朝向和离开的电动驱动系统 以及由行进板承载的用于与其一起移动的闩锁结构。 随着旅行板处于等待位置，便携式计算机向后插入接收室。 响应于这种插入，闩锁结构自动将计算机锁定到行进板上，并且驱动系统向后移动行驶板以使电连接器与计算机上的对应连接器配合，从而可操作地将计算机连接到外围设备。 为了卸下计算机，驱动系统被操作以将驱动板和计算机向前移动到其中计算机和对接站电连接器结构彼此断开的弹出位置，并且计算机从行驶板解锁。 在将计算机插入对接站中，计算机的相对侧部分滑动地接收在对接站轨道凹口中，以在计算机的驱动运动期间使计算机与对接站电连接器保持精确对准的关系。

公开(公告)号：US5008976A

公开(公告)日：1991-04-23

申请号：US318575

申请日：1989-03-03

申请人： John P. Busch

发明人： John P. Busch

IPC分类号： E05D11/04 ,  E05D11/08 ,  E05D11/10 ,  G06F1/16

CPC分类号： G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1681 ,  E05D11/04 ,  E05D11/082 ,  E05D11/105 ,  E05Y2900/606 ,  Y10T16/5379 ,  Y10T16/5403 ,  Y10T16/54038

摘要： A hinge assembly has a plurality of rollers which are pressed against an elastic washer by a shaft. The rollers and elastic washer are contained within a cylindrical retainer which is held in a fixed position relative to a first bracket, while the shaft is held in a fixed position relative to a second bracket so that, when either or both the first and second brackets are moved relative to each other, the roller move around the outside diameter of the shaft resisted by the elastic washer, providing a smooth resistance to the movement of the first bracket and/or second bracket relative to the other. An electronic digital device, having a display section with an adjustable viewing angle utilizing the improved hinge assembly, is shown in which the hinge assembly provides a smooth resistance for the movement of the display section relative to the base of the device.

摘要翻译： 铰链组件具有多个辊，其通过轴压靠在弹性垫圈上。 辊和弹性垫圈包含在圆柱形保持器内，该保持器相对于第一支架保持在固定位置，而轴相对于第二支架保持在固定位置，使得当第一和第二支架中的任一个或第二支架 相对于彼此移动，辊围绕由弹性垫圈抵抗的轴的外径移动，从而提供对第一支架和/或第二支架相对于另一个的运动的平滑阻力。 示出了具有利用改进的铰链组件具有可调视角的显示部分的电子数字装置，其中铰链组件为显示部分相对于装置的基座的移动提供平滑的阻力。

公开(公告)号：US5987613A

公开(公告)日：1999-11-16

申请号：US360194

申请日：1994-12-20

申请人： John P. Busch ,  Gregory N. Stewart

发明人： John P. Busch ,  Gregory N. Stewart

IPC分类号： G06F1/16 ,  G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/32 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F1/26 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1677 ,  G06F1/3203

摘要： A portable computer in which a single switch is positioned to be closed when the case is closed, and also to be readily operable by the user's finger. Software polls the switch. If the switch is briefly depressed, the software detects that the user is requesting entry into standby mode, and accordingly powers down certain input/output functions until new stimulus is received. If the switch is held down for a long time by the user closing the case cover, or manually holding the button down for a long time, the software causes the system to enter sleep mode (its lowest power mode).

摘要翻译： 一种便携式计算机，其中单个开关定位成在壳体关闭时被关闭，并且还可以由用户的手指容易地操作。 软件轮询开关。 如果短暂按下开关，软件会检测到用户正在请求进入待机模式，因此关闭某些输入/输出功能，直到接收到新的激励。 如果用户关闭机箱盖长时间按住开关长时间，或长时间手动按住按钮，软件会使系统进入睡眠模式（最低功耗模式）。