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US 8,284,558 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for use in assembly of a portable apparatus
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsGareth Osborne, Esa-Sakari Maatta, Hutch Hutchison
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Abstract
An apparatus including: a first interconnector portion configured to fasten to a side part of a first housing portion of a portable apparatus, and a second interconnector portion rigidly connected to the first interconnector portion and configured to fasten to a second housing portion of the portable apparatus.
Claims21
An apparatus comprising:
- an interconnector solely configured to fasten a first housing portion and a second housing portion together, the interconnector comprising:
- a first interconnector portion solely configured to fasten to a side part of a first housing portion of a portable apparatus, and
- a second interconnector portion solely and rigidly connected to the first interconnector portion and configured to solely fasten to a second housing portion of the portable apparatus.
An apparatus comprising:
- an interconnector solely configured to fasten a first housing portion and a second housing portion together, the interconnector comprising:
- means for solely fastening to a side part of a first housing portion of a portable apparatus, and
- means for solely fastening to a second housing portion of the portable apparatus, the means for fastening to the first housing portion being rigidly connected to the means for fastening to the second housing portion.
A method comprising:
- providing an interconnector solely configured to fasten a first housing portion and a second housing portion together, the interconnector comprising a first interconnector portion and a second interconnector portion, the second interconnector portion being rigidly connected to the first interconnector portion;
- fastening the first interconnector portion solely to a side part of a first housing portion of a portable apparatus, and
- fastening the second interconnector portion solely to a second housing portion of the portable apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.