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US 8,574,696 B2Granted
Electronic device housing assembly
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJeffrey A. Lev, Steven S. Homer
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Abstract
An electronic device comprising a housing assembly having at least one fiber composite layer molded into a portion of the housing assembly, the at least one fiber composite layer having a warp direction and configured to provide strength to the housing assembly corresponding to the warp direction.
Claims20
An electronic device, comprising:
- a base member;
- and
- a display member rotatably coupled to the base member, the display member including a front wall to support a display screen and a back wall, the back wall including a layer of thermoplastic resin and a layer of fiber composite material applied to the layer of thermoplastic resin, wherein the layer of fiber composite material comprises a plurality of discrete portions of the fiber composite material provided at spaced intervals along an internal surface of the layer of thermoplastic resin.
A method of manufacturing an electronic device, comprising:
- disposing a fiber composite material in a mold cavity of an injection molding tool;
- injecting a thermoplastic elastomer into the injection molding tool;
- and
- applying heat and pressure to the injection molding tool to cure the fiber composite material and the thermoplastic elastomer, and integrate the fiber composite material with the thermoplastic elastomer to form a back wall of a display member for the electronic device, wherein the back wall comprises a plurality of discrete portions of the fiber composite material provided at spaced intervals along a surface of the thermoplastic elastomer.
1 more element
An electronic device, comprising:
- a base member;
- and
- a display member rotatably coupled to the base member, the display member including front wall to support a display screen and a back wall, the back wall including a thermoplastic elastomer layer and a plurality of noncontiguous fiber composite portions selectively positioned along a surface of the thermoplastic elastomer layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.