Patents Examined by Hung Van Duong
  • Patent number: 7301760
    Abstract: A flat panel display module. The flat panel display module includes a body, a cover device and a base. The body comprises an opening. The cover device is disposed on the body, corresponding to the opening, and is rotatable between a first position and a second position. The base is combined with the opening in a detachable manner. When the base is combined with the opening, the cover device is in the first position. When the base is detached from the opening, the cover device is in the second position, covering the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Hannspree Inc.
    Inventor: Yung-Kun Chen
  • Patent number: 7301763
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a chamber having a chamber wall surface defining a liquid-tight sealed space; an electronic unit housed in a liquid-tight case, the case being disposed in the chamber to define an intermediate space between the case and the chamber wall surface; a biasing unit in the chamber that biases the case toward a predetermined neutral position in the intermediate space; a liquid disposed in the intermediate space; and an iris system formed in the chamber such that when the case moves toward a portion of the chamber wall surface, the iris system cooperates with the case to define a flow path through which the liquid in a portion of the intermediate space between the case and the portion of the chamber wall surface flows to another portion of the intermediate space, a cross-sectional area of the flow path decreasing as the case moves closer to the portion of the chamber wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Hara
  • Patent number: 7298611
    Abstract: An external expanding apparatus or “docking station” operable with a portable computer device of a type having a display unit having a display screen on an inner surface thereof and a hard shell backing surface opposite thereof and pivotally mounted on a substantially rigid casing having a pair of locating holes adjacent to opposite corners of a substantially planar bottom surface thereof, and an input/output (I/O) connector positioned on a back plane thereof with a pair of positioning apertures provided on opposite sides thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Carnevali
  • Patent number: 7298614
    Abstract: A telco hub in a chassis having a front side and a rear side, where the chassis includes a midplane having a first side and a second side, the telco hub includes an interposer module coupled to slidably insert into a switch slot on the rear side and connect to the second side of the midplane, a mezzanine module coupled to the interposer module, where the mezzanine module includes a telco I/O interface, where the mezzanine module is coupled to receive non-packetized telephony data. The telco hub is coupled to convert the non-packetized telephony data to packetized data, and communicate the packetized data to one or more of a plurality of payload modules over a switched fabric on the midplane, where each of the one or more payload modules is coupled to the first side of the midplane via a payload slot on the front side of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Halliday, Brian A. Carr, Paul A. Moakes
  • Patent number: 7298612
    Abstract: A planar backplane is arranged in a horizontal orientation in a server configured for rack mounting. The planar backplane is configured to accept and mount a plurality of disk drives in a vertical orientation in a dense server arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Christopher G. Malone
  • Patent number: 7289316
    Abstract: A portable device includes a tray. The tray includes at least one serving face in which at least a substantial part of the serving face is constructed and arranged to hold at least one item to be carried. The tray carries at least one display monitor such that the monitor is substantially viewable together with the serving face of the tray. An interface is operably connected to the display monitor and is intended to be operably connected to a source such that images, pictorial information, graphical information and/or video can be displayed on the display monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Inventor: Philippe Feret
  • Patent number: 7283369
    Abstract: A power supply has a chassis and a safety device. The chassis has a top, a bottom, a rear, a power switch, a mounting slot and an outlet. The outlet is mounted on the rear between the power switch and the mounting slot. The safety device is mounted on the chassis and has a plug bracket and a supply handle. The plug bracket is mounted slidably around the outlet on the rear of the chassis and has two locks. The supply handle is mounted pivotally through the mounting slot in the chassis. The plug bracket slides to an installation position to keep the power switch from turning on and allow a plug to attach to the outlet. Alternatively, the supply handle pivots to a safe position, and the plug bracket slides to a safe position to hold the supply handle and allow the power switch to turn on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Acbel Polytechinc.
    Inventor: Hung-Jui Chang
  • Patent number: 7280347
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed. The system includes a chassis including a printed circuit board (PCB) and a battery pack. The battery pack includes a connector to enable the battery pack to couple to a PCB which is mounted either above the centerline of the battery pack connector and on or below the centerline of the battery pack power connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hong W. Wong, Wah Yiu Kwong, Don J. Nguyen, Shawn S. McEuen, George H. Daskalakis, Daryl J. Nelson
  • Patent number: 7280349
    Abstract: A chassis customizing apparatus for coupling to an information handling system chassis includes a chassis cover having a chassis coupling member and means for displaying an image with the chassis cover. In an embodiment, the chassis cover is fabricated from a transparent material, and the means for displaying an image with the chassis cover includes positioning an image between an information handling system chassis and the chassis cover which is visible through the chassis cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Anderson, Daniel Chappelear, Henry Gudenau
  • Patent number: 7280350
    Abstract: Each of a cluster of computing balls (1) contains within its housing (3) a photosensitive device (51) for receiving light from a light source (5) and converting it into energy to power a processing chip (2). There is thus wireless transmission of power to the computing balls (1), which also carry out wireless communication of data with one another. The computing balls (1) may be poured at random into a container (6), and intercommunicate to form a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Cybula Limited
    Inventor: James Leonard Austin
  • Patent number: 7280355
    Abstract: An apparatus for reducing the amount of heat transferred to a user by a laptop computer is provided. The apparatus includes at least one support member, at least one thermal member, and a jacket for at least partially enclosing the support member and the thermal member. The thermal member is structured to absorb heat transferred from the laptop computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Inventor: Paul G. Taylor
  • Patent number: 7280354
    Abstract: A disk array device connected to a higher-level device, including: a battery mounting unit which mounts a nickel hydrogen battery, charges a part of electric power supplied to said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit, and supplies said charged electric power to said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit at the time of a power failure, wherein said logic mounting unit mounts a cache memory which temporarily stores data transferred from said high-level device and performs control to write the data stored in said cache memory to said plurality of memory devices at the time of power failure, and the power supply from said batter mounting unit to said plurality of memory devices is sequentially stopped in the order of the memory device to which data writing from said cache memory has been completed at the time of the power failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Sone
  • Patent number: 7277274
    Abstract: A keypad of a portable wireless terminal includes a sheet having a plurality of holes, a plurality of keys inserted into respective ones of the holes, and a silicon adhesive layer on a lower surface of the sheet to fix the keys to the sheet. A protrusion at a lower surface thereof contacts a dome switch. The keys are firmly mounted at a precise position, and more beautiful design can be realized since a decoration line or a decoration shape can be easily formed to set an appearance of the keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Min-Ho Park
  • Patent number: 7274561
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes: a main body; a display device including an inputting unit; a hinge mechanism that joints the main body and the display device; and a projection portion projecting from the main body. The hinge mechanism includes a turning axis that allows the display device to turn on a turning axial line arranged along one side of the display device, and a swinging axis that allows the display device to swing together with the turning axis on an axial line arranged in a direction that intersects with the turning axis. The projection portion interferes with the display device when the display device is swung on the swinging axis in the state that the display device is overlaid on the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Koichiro Takeguchi
  • Patent number: 7274565
    Abstract: A labor of disconnecting many cables is omitted even when carrying a file basestation with an external storage loaded together with a main body. An information processing unit comprises: a main body having a CPU, a keyboard and a display unit; a file basestation with an external storage, such as an FD•D or a CD ROM•D, loaded; and a portreplicator with many connectors loaded. Removal of the main body alone from the portreplicator can omit the labor of disconnecting many cables connected to the portreplicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Kamimaki, Yukihide Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Koichi Kimura, Hideaki Gemma, Hitoshi Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 7272002
    Abstract: Methods and systems for auxiliary cooling of electrical device housings are provided. In one embodiment, an electronics device enclosure system is provided. The system comprises a housing, wherein the housing encloses one or more electronic devices; a backplane situated within the housing wherein at least one of the one or more electronic devices are coupled to the backplane; and an auxiliary cooling system coupled to the backplane and adapted to receive electrical power from one or more power sources, wherein the auxiliary cooling system comprises one or both of a thermoelectric cooling module and a fan, and wherein the auxiliary cooling system is adapted to increase the heat transfer from the one or more electronic devices to an environment external to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: ADC DSL Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard J. Drapeau
  • Patent number: 7269003
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an external box for containing one or more HDDs, which comprises a housing; an abutment plate fitted on a front surface of the housing and including at least one slit and at least one first positioning member both on either side; and a panel including at least one latch and at least one second positioning member both on either side. The latches are adapted to insert into the slits and the second positioning members are adapted to securely engage with the first positioning members so as to secure the panel onto the front surface of the housing from a first direction without involving any tools. Alternatively, a user can detach the panel from the housing from a second opposite direction also without involving any tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: D-Link Corporation
    Inventor: Ming-Tsai Chung
  • Patent number: 7269007
    Abstract: A heat sink uses a pump assembly to generate a magnetic field. Flow directions of electrically and thermally conductive liquid flowing through multiple pipes that go through the pump assembly are dependent on an orientation of the magnetic field and/or the direction of electrical current induced across flowing fluid in the magnetic field. In such a manner, cool liquid may be directed toward a heat source and warmer liquid may be directed to flow away from the heat source, where heat transfer occurs between the liquid and the heat sink. Additional pump assemblies that generate separate magnetic fields may be used to increase fluid flow volume, thereby increasing heat transfer away from the heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Chien Ouyang
  • Patent number: 7265987
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for a data storage device includes a data storage device, a base, a locking member, an operating member, a driving member and a resilient element. The data storage device includes a rear wall and a clipping member mounted to the rear wall. The base includes a bottom plate. The locking member and the driving member are slidably assembled on the bottom plate. The locking member engages with the clipping member to mount the data storage device in the base. The operating member is attached to the locking member on an opposite surface of the bottom plate. The driving member is driven by the locking member to push the data storage device out a certain distance. The resilient element retains the locking member at a locking position and drives the locking member back after the locking member is at an unlocking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Zhang, Chien-Li Tsai, Wen-Kang Lo, Ke-Cheng Lin, Hsuan-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 7265972
    Abstract: A fixing mechanism for fixing a disc drive and a locking device thereof solves the inconvenience involved in fixing and disassembling the disc drive. The disc drive has at least one a pair of protrusions located at side walls of the disc drive. The fixing mechanism includes a fixing frame and a locking device. The fixing frame has a pair of assembling walls and at least one receiving space is used for receiving the disc drive. One of the assembling walls has a pair of assembling boards protruding outward and an open sliding slot. The protrusions are slidably installed in the sliding slot. The locking device includes a base part and a locking arm. Two sides of the base part are assembled to the assembling boards. A locking hole formed at the free end of the locking arm correspondingly locks one of the protrusions of the disc drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Lite-On Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsuen Chien, Yung-Lung Liu