Portable-type information apparatus
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsKo Kambayashi, Shigeru Hidesawa
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Abstract
A notebook type personal computer has a common connector detachably connected to a mating connector of a connection unit, or replicator, which further has plural connectors affording detachable connections to plural peripheral units. One or more fastener units, carried by the connector unit, provide for detachably but rigidly affixing the connector unit to the notebook type personal computer. An alternative connector box accommodates one or more batteries while affording connections through the common connector and the plural first connectors to peripheral units and yet another alternative connector box houses only batteries and is connectable through a mating connector to the common connector of the personal computer to afford extended operating time.
Claims30
A electronic apparatus having a body, comprising:
- a detachable connector unit having a plurality of first connectors affording detachable connections to peripheral units and a second connector;
- a common connector on the body affording a detachable connection thereof to the second connector of the detachable connector unit;
- a detachable battery unit having a third connector and containing-at least one battery, said detachable battery unit being connectable by the third connector thereof to the electronic apparatus.
A detachable connector unit, comprising:
- a plurality of first connectors affording detachable connections to peripheral units,
- a second connector affording a detachable connection of the connector unit to a common connector of an electronic apparatus;
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- a holding part, holding at least one battery, alternatively connectable by the common connector to the electronic apparatus.
An electronic apparatus having an electronic apparatus body, comprising:
- a detachable connector unit having a plurality of first connectors affording detachable connections to peripheral units, a second connector electrically connected with the plurality of first connectors and a holding part holding at least one battery;
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- a third connector on the electronic apparatus body affording a detachable connection thereof to the second connector of the detachable connector unit.
An electronic apparatus having an electronic apparatus body, comprising:
- a detachable connector unit having a plurality of first connectors affording detachable connections to peripheral units, a second connector and a battery;
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- a third connector on the electronic apparatus body affording a detachable connection thereof to the second connector of the detachable connector unit.
A detachable connector unit, comprising:
- a plurality of first connectors affording detachable connections to peripheral units;
- a second connector affording a detachable connection of the connector unit to a common connector of an electronic apparatus;
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- a battery connected to the second connector and supplying electrical power therethrough to the electronic apparatus.
A detachable connector unit having a width and comprising:
- a plurality of first connectors arranged at least width-wise thereon and affording detachable connections to respective peripheral units,
- a second connector affording a detachable connection of the connector unit to a common connector of an electronic apparatus;
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- a holding part, holding at least one battery, alternatively connectable by the common connector to the electronic apparatus.
An electronic apparatus having an electronic apparatus body, comprising:
- a detachable connector unit having a width and, further, having a plurality of first connectors arranged at least width-wise thereon and affording detachable connections to respective peripheral units, a second connector electrically connected with the plurality of first connectors and a holding part holding at least one battery;
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- a third connector on the electronic apparatus body affording a detachable connection thereof to the second connector of the detachable connector unit.
An electronic apparatus having an electronic apparatus body, comprising:
- a detachable connector unit having a width and, further, having a plurality of first connectors arranged at least width-wise thereon and affording detachable connections to respective peripheral units, a second connector and a battery;
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- a third connector on the electronic apparatus body affording a detachable connection thereof to the second connector of the detachable connector unit.
A detachable connector unit, comprising:
- a plurality of first connectors arranged at least width-wise thereon and affording detachable connections to respective peripheral units;
- a second connector affording a detachable connection of the connector unit to a common connector of the electronic apparatus;
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- a battery connected to the second connector and supplying electrical power therethrough to the electronic apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.