Location of a fuel cell on a mobile device
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsChris Wormald, Raymond Reddy, Lyall Kenneth Winger
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Abstract
A mobile device having: a keyboard; a printed circuit board having at least one contact responsive to the keyboard; and a fuel cell assembly having: a fuel cell located between the keyboard and the printed circuit board, the fuel cell having a membrane and at least one aperture corresponding with the at least one contact; a tank adapted to store a fuel for the fuel cell; and piping connecting the tank with the fuel cell, where the fuel cell ventilates through the keyboard. Alternatively, the fuel cell acts as the printed circuit board and at least one contact for the keyboard is printed onto the fuel cell.
Claims15
A mobile device comprising:
- a keyboard;
- a printed circuit board having at least one contact responsive to the keyboard;
- and
- a fuel cell assembly having:
- a fuel cell located between the keyboard and the printed circuit board, said fuel cell having a membrane and at least one aperture corresponding with the at least one contact;
- a tank adapted to store a fuel for the fuel cell;
- and
- piping connecting the tank with the fuel cell,
- wherein the fuel cell ventilates through the keyboard.
A mobile device comprising:
- a keyboard;
- and
- a fuel cell assembly having:
- a fuel cell having a printed circuit board for the mobile device, the printed circuit board formed on the fuel cell, the fuel cell having a membrane and at least one contact responsive to the keyboard;
- a tank adapted to store a fuel for the fuel cell;
- and
- piping connecting the tank with the fuel cell,
- wherein the fuel cell ventilates through the keyboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.