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US 6,307,740 B1Granted
One inch notebook computer
AssigneeCompaq Information Technologies Group, L.P.
InventorsMark J. Foster, Michele Bovio
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Abstract
A portable notebook computer having a thickness of only one inch is obtained by provision of a computer housing containing a keyboard assembly and a motherboard positioned directly below the keyboard assembly, the keyboard assembly and the motherboard thereby defining a region in the enclosure. The other components comprising the computer; i.e. a hard disk drive, a PCMCIA option slot, a trackball assembly, and a DC to DC convertor, are positioned in an adjacent and generally co-planar relationship with this region. A battery housing is mounted externally on the computer housing for supplying electrical power to the computer.
Claims30
A notebook computer, comprising:
- a computer housing with a generally rectangular configuration, including a top side, a bottom, a front side and a rear side, and sidewalls extending from the front side to the rear side with a substantially uniform height;
- a keyboard assembly mounted on the top side of said computer housing;
- a lid including a display mounted therein, said lid being rotatably attached to the top side of said computer housing near the rear side, and covering substantially the entire top side of said housing when closed;
- a motherboard, including component chips mounted thereon, attached to the bottom of said computer housing, and wherein at least a portion of said motherboard is positioned underneath the keyboard assembly to define a region bounded on the upper and lower side by the keyboard assembly and the motherboard;
- a hard disk drive positioned in said housing in an area outside of said region, and toward the front side of said housing;
- a peripheral device positioned in said housing in an area outside of said region, and toward the front side of said housing;
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- an input pointing device positioned in said housing in an area outside of said region, and toward the front side of said housing.
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An ultra-thin notebook computer, comprising:
- a computer housing including a top side, a bottom, a front side, rear side, and sidewalls extending from the front side to the rear side with a substantially uniform height;
- a lid, including a display, rotatably attached to the top side of said computer housing near the rear side, said lid covering substantially the entire top side of said housing when closed;
- a keyboard assembly mounted on the top side of said computer housing;
- a motherboard, including component chips mounted thereon, attached to the bottom of said computer housing and mounted completely within said computer housing, and wherein said motherboard is positioned beneath the keyboard assembly to define a region bounded by the keyboard assembly and the motherboard;
- a hard disk drive positioned in said housing outside of said region, and in an area on the front side of said housing relative to said region;
- a PCMCIA slot positioned in said housing outside of said region, and in an area on the front side of said housing relative to said region;
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- an input pointing device and associated control circuitry positioned in said housing outside of said region and in an area on the front side of said housing relative to said region.
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An ultra-thin notebook computer, comprising:
- a computer housing including a top side, a bottom, a front side and a rear side, and sidewalls extending from the front side to the rear side with a substantially uniform height;
- a lid, including a display, rotatably attached to the top side of said computer housing near the rear side, said lid covering substantially the entire top side of said housing when closed;
- a keyboard and keyboard base plate mounted on the top side of said computer housing;
- a motherboard, including component chips mounted thereon, attached to the bottom of said computer housing, and wherein said motherboard is positioned underneath the keyboard base plate to define a region bounded by the keyboard base plate and the motherboard;
- a hard disk drive positioned in said housing outside of said region, in an area on the front side of said housing;
- a PCMCIA drive positioned in said housing outside of said region, in an area on the front side of said housing;
- a pointing device positioned in said housing outside of said region, in an area on the front side of said housing;
- a battery located in a battery housing separate from said computer housing, said battery housing rotatably attaching to said computer housing along the rear side of said computer housing;
- wherein said battery housing is capable of accommodating two or more batteries.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.