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US 8,009,143 B2Granted
Tablet PC and method for keyboard containing the same
AssigneeFlextronics Computing Mauritius Ltd.
InventorChih Pen Huang
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Abstract
A tablet computer is provided. The tablet computer includes: an electronic computing base having receiving portion; a liquid crystal display pivotally connected to the electronic computing base; a keyboard detached contained in the receiving portion and wirelessly communicating with the electronic computing base; a container disposed on the receiving portion; and a cover mounted on the receiving portion and pivotally connected to the electronic computing base.
Claims15
A computing device, comprising:
- an electronic computing base having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side;
- a container defined by a recess disposed on the second side of the electronic computing base;
- a liquid crystal display pivotally connected to the electronic computing base about a pivot axis;
- a keyboard detachedly contained in the container and wirelessly communicating with the electronic computing base;
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- a cover for fixing the keyboard in the container, the cover pivotally connected to the second side of the electronic computing base about the pivot axis, wherein the cover has a rim portion, the rim portion configured to fix the keyboard in the container when the cover is closed by contacting an edge portion of the keyboard outside a central portion of the keyboard defined by keys of the keyboard.
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A portable computer, comprising:
- an electronic computing device having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side;
- a display device pivotally mounted to the electronic computing device about a pivot axis;
- a container defined by a recess disposed on the second side of the electronic computing device;
- an input unit detachedly contained in the container that wirelessly communicates with the electronic computing device;
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- a cover that fixes the input unit in the container by a peripheral edge of the input unit, the cover pivotally connected to the second side of the electronic computing device about the pivot axis, wherein the cover has an opening defined therein to allow the input unit to be accessed and used when the cover is closed.
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A computing device, comprising:
- a body having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side;
- a container defined by a recess disposed on the second side of the body;
- a liquid crystal display pivotally connected to the body about a pivot axis, a screen side of the liquid crystal display facing the second side of the body relative to the pivot axis;
- a keyboard having a front side and a back side, the keyboard detachedly contained in the container and wirelessly communicating with the computing device, wherein the front side of the keyboard has input keys;
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- a cover that selectably fixes the keyboard in the container, the cover having an opening defined therein that allows the keyboard to be fixed in the container by the cover either in a first position having the front side of the keyboard disposed toward the outside of the container or in a second position having the back side of the keyboard disposed toward the outside of the container, the cover pivotally connected to the body about the pivot axis.
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A computing device, comprising:
- a first housing having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side;
- a container defined by a recess disposed on the second side of the first housing;
- a second housing having a first side and a second side, the second housing having a display screen on the second side, the second housing connected to the first housing by a pivot, wherein the first housing and the second housing form a slate-shaped body in a first configuration with the second side of the first housing forming a bottom of the slate-shaped body and the second side of the second housing forming a top of the slate-shaped body, and wherein the first housing and the second housing form a notebook computer in a second configuration;
- a keyboard having a front side and a back side, the keyboard detachedly contained in the container and wirelessly communicating with the computing device, wherein the front side of the keyboard has input keys;
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- a cover that fixes the keyboard in the container, the cover having an opening that allows the keyboard to be fixed in the container by the cover in a first position having the front side of the keyboard disposed to the outside of the container such that the keys can be accessed or in a second position having the back side of the keyboard disposed to the outside of the container, the cover pivotally connected to the second side of the first housing at an edge of the cover proximate to the pivot connecting the first and second housings.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.