Battery pack for portable computer
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorAnthony Kwan Wee Chew
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Abstract
An elongate battery pack for removable attachment to a portable computer. The battery pack includes guides at each end surface which enable the battery to be attached in a lateral fashion to the computer, and locked in place by a separate mechanical latch mechanism. One of the guides is modified to include a catch which, during attachment of the battery pack to the computer, engages a complementary guide on the computer to locally restrain that end of the battery.
Claims10
A battery pack for removable attachment to a portable computer, comprising an elongate housing including a side-surface and first and second opposing end-surfaces, latch means associated with the side-surface, and respective first and second guide means associated with the first and second opposing end surfaces, in which, during attachment of the battery pack to the computer, the first and second guide means cooperate respectively with first and second complementary guides on the computer in order to guide the battery pack in a lateral direction towards the computer whereby the latch means engage with complementary latch means on the computer to lock the battery pack to the computer, wherein the first guide means of the battery pack further comprises a catch which, during attachment of the battery pack to the computer, engages the first complementary guide to locally restrain the first guide means at a predetermined position.
A battery pack as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the latch means is disposed towards the second end-surface of the battery pack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.