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US 2025/0048543 A1Published application
Breakage features provided for circuit boards
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsGabriel Scott MCDANIEL, Jeffrey Harold LUKE, John B. FREENEY, Kenneth K. SMITH
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Abstract
In some examples, an electronic device includes a circuit board, an electronic component mounted to the circuit board, and a breakage feature provided at a target location relative to the circuit board and the electronic component to destroy a functionality of the electronic device when a force is applied to the electronic device for removal of the electronic device from a structure.
Claims15
An electronic device comprising:
- a circuit board;
- an electronic component mounted to the circuit board;
- and
- a breakage feature provided at a target location relative to the circuit board and the electronic component to destroy a functionality of the electronic device when a force is applied to the electronic device for removal of the electronic device from a structure.
1 more element
A method comprising:
- mounting an electronic component to a circuit board of an electronic device;
- and
- forming a breakage feature at a target location relative to the circuit board and the electronic component to destroy a functionality of the electronic device when a force is applied to the electronic device for removal of the electronic device from a structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.