Information handling system thin wall packaging
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorOliver F. Campbell
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Abstract
Information handling system packaging is formed from extruded polyethylene cut to length, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or high density polyethylene (HDPE), to define an interior coupling region that fits over the information handling system housing and an outer support region that forms an ellipse compressed by a container that accepts the information handling system housing. An opening seam formed along the entire length of the outer support region provides for deflection of the packaging to absorb acceleration forces generated by the information handling system.
Claims17
An information handling system comprising:
- a housing having an upper surface, a lower surface and a side surface disposed between the upper and lower surface;
- a processor disposed in the housing and operable to process information;
- a memory disposed in the housing and operable to store the information;
- a container having an interior sized to accept the housing for shipping;
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- a packaging cushion disposed between the housing and the container, the packaging cushion formed from a length of material of plastic that defines a coupling region sized to fit around a portion of the housing upper surface, lower surface and side surface and a support region sized to press against the container interior, the packaging cushion having an unsealed interior with the support region having an opening seam formed opposite the coupling region along the entire length of the material to provide a passage between the unsealed interior and an exterior of the packaging cushion, the opening seam having a gap of varying size when the material deflects in response to accelerations of the housing against the coupling region, the gap smaller than a width of the interior at the gap.
An information handling system comprising:
- a housing having an upper surface, a lower surface and a side surface disposed between the upper and lower surface;
- a processor disposed in the housing and operable to process information;
- a memory disposed in the housing and operable to store the information;
- a container having an interior sized to accept the housing for shipping;
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- a length of extruded polyethylene material having a coupling region sized to fit partially around the housing upper surface and lower surface to capture the side surface and having an outer support region extending away from the housing and sized to press against the container, the outer support region having an opening seam opposite the coupling region along the entire length so that the extruded polyethylene material has an interior side that is unsealed to an exterior side, the opening having a gap that compresses and spreads apart in response to accelerations at the housing, the gap smaller than a width of the interior.
An information handling system comprising:
- a housing;
- a processor disposed in the housing and operable to process information;
- a memory disposed in the housing and operable to store the information;
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- a cushion formed as an unsealed extruded tube of plastic material having a coupling region sized to engage the housing and having an outer support region extending away from the housing and sized to press against a container, the outer support region having an opening seam formed at extrusion opposite the coupling region along the tube for an entire length of the tube, the opening seam providing an air passage from an interior of the tube to an exterior of the tube, the opening seam having a gap that changes size in response to accelerations at the housing, the gap smaller than a width of the interior.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.