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US 2006/0187629 A1Published application
Docking assembly for coupling a nonvolatile memory device to an electronic device
AssigneeInFocus Corporation
InventorsWilliam Emery, Christopher Thomas
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Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method for a tray to receive and couple a nonvolatile memory device to an electronic device disposed within a housing, are disclosed herein.
Claims27
A system comprising:
- one or more electronic components;
- a housing adapted to enclose the one or more electronic components, the housing having an exterior surface including an opening;
- and
- a tray disposed at the opening and adapted to be pivotable between a first position where the tray is at least partially exposed to receive and accept a nonvolatile memory device, and a second position where the tray is substantially embedded, including any received nonvolatile memory device.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a tray adapted to receive and accept a nonvolatile memory device;
- and
- a fitting coupled to the tray and adapted to allow the tray to pivot between a first position where the tray is at least partially exposed and a second position where the tray is substantially embedded, including any received memory device, the fitting being further adapted to be coupled to an opening of an external surface of a housing.
A method comprising:
- providing a tray to a housing to facilitate electrically coupling a nonvolatile memory device to one or more electronic components disposed within the housing, through placement of the nonvolatile memory device onto the tray, with the tray disposed in a first position;
- and
- providing a mechanism to enable the tray, having the nonvolatile memory device placed therein, to pivot into a second position that substantially embeds into the housing, the tray and the nonvolatile memory device.
A system comprising:
- one or more electronic components;
- a housing adapted to enclose the one or more electronic components, the housing having an exterior surface including an opening;
- and
- a docking assembly, disposed at the opening, including
- a tray having a first position adapted to receive a nonvolatile memory device into an electrically coupled relationship with the one or more electronic components, and a second position adapted to embed the tray and any received nonvolatile memory device into the docking assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.