Portable information handling system housing cover portion with removeable keyboard
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsJohn T. Morrison, Chiu-Jung Tsen, Yi-Ming Chou, Chun-Wei Lin
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Abstract
A portable information handling system housing secures a cover over a main portion with a keystone releasable to access the housing interior. A speaker in the housing interior operates as a keystone that releases internal components by pressing a battery against a motherboard and cooling fan. A dNPU slot accepts a dNPU card with a latch biased to a secured position and having a handle that presses away from the dNPU slot to release the dNPU card. Logic executing on processing resources of the information handling system manage allocation of tasks to artificial intelligence resources for efficient application of the resources to end user goals.
Claims19
An information handling system comprising:
- a housing having a main portion rotationally coupled to a lid portion;
- a motherboard coupled in the main portion;
- a processor coupled to the motherboard and operable to execute instructions that process information;
- a memory coupled to the motherboard and interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the instructions and information;
- a display coupled in the lid portion and interfaced with the processor, the display operable to present the information as visual images;
- a housing cover portion having a keyboard slot and engaging the housing main portion to enclose the motherboard, the keyboard slot having a rib at a rear upper side;
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- a keyboard having a tab extending from a top side, the tab having a detent on a bottom side, the keyboard sliding into the keyboard slot to align the rib and the tab, the tab flexing when sliding over the rib, the rib engaging the detent to hold the keyboard in position.
A method for coupling a keyboard to a housing of a portable information handling system, the method comprising:
- sliding the keyboard into a slot formed in the housing cover portion;
- flexing a tab of the keyboard by interaction of a detent on a bottom side of the tab with a rib of the housing cover portion on an upper side of the housing cover portion;
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- engaging the detent of the tab with the rib of the housing cover portion to hold the keyboard in place at the housing cover portion.
A system for coupling a keyboard to an information handling system housing main portion, the system comprising:
- a housing cover portion having a keyboard slot and engaging the housing main portion to enclose processing components coupled to a motherboard, the keyboard slot having a rib exposed at a rear upper side side;
- a keyboard having a tab extending from a top side, the tab having a detent on a bottom side, the keyboard sliding into the keyboard slot to align the rib and the tab, the tab flexing when sliding over the rib, the rib engaging the detent to hold the keyboard in position, the tab having an opening between the detent and the keyboard;
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- a keystone sized to fit in a gap between the keyboard rear side and a rear side of the housing main portion to hold the keyboard in position, the keystone having a member extending down through the opening to hold the keyboard in position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.