Electrical connectors – With coupling separator – Nonconducting pusher
Reexamination Certificate
2003-10-14
2004-09-28
Gushi, Ross (Department: 2833)
Electrical connectors
With coupling separator
Nonconducting pusher
C429S100000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06796819
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a portable apparatus, and more particularly, to a portable apparatus with an inward-pushing triggered mechanism for ejecting an add-on device.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Nowadays, all kinds of information, data, and documents can be quickly and conveniently stored, managed, and broadcasted in digital form. Therefore, various types of information processing apparatuses for storing digital data have become imperative tools in our information society. In accordance with recent technical developments, the size and weight of the information processing apparatuses have been reduced significantly allowing them to be easily carried with the users. Many apparatuses, including mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or notebook computers are widely used.
For expanding and enlarging the functions of the portable apparatus, the portable apparatus usually operates with all kinds of add-on devices. For instance, the portable apparatus includes the battery devices to provide electric power for operations. The modern battery device is designed as a modular add-on device so that the users can remove and install the battery device by themselves to expand the operating time of the portable apparatus. In addition, other add-on devices, such as the memory card that can enlarge the capacity for storing electronic data and the wireless network card that can access the wireless network with the notebook, are also designed as the modular add-on devices to let the users install those add-on devices on the portable apparatus depending on various demands, or to let the users remove those add-on devices from the portable apparatus. For detachably installing these add-on devices, the portable apparatus are also designed with corresponding assistant mechanism, so that on the one hand the add-on devices can be fixed in the portable apparatus, and on the other hand the add-on devices can be easily removed by the corresponding assistant mechanism when the users want to remove the add-on devices.
Please refer to the FIG.
1
.
FIG. 1
is a schematic diagram of an add-on device
14
and an ejecting machine
20
in the portable apparatus
100
of the prior art. In the present embodiment, the portable apparatus
10
is a mobile phone, and the add-on device
14
can be a battery. The ejecting machine
20
can be used to eject the add-on device
16
. As shown in
FIG. 1
, the mobile phone
10
is covered by housings
12
A and
12
B. The housing
12
B comprises a socket
16
for accommodating the battery
14
. The ejecting machine
20
can be made by flexible plastic, and the ejecting machine
20
comprises two engaging parts
22
A and
22
B installed along the horizontal direction (along the direction as an arrowhead
32
shows). Two shaft bores
26
A,
26
B installed on the two engaging parts
22
A and
22
B respectively correspond to two pivots
28
A,
28
B installed on the housing
12
B, so that the two engaging parts
22
A and
22
B can be rotatably installed in one side of the socket
16
. There is a banding part connected between the two engaging parts
22
A and
22
B, and a protruding part of the banding part forms a contact face
16
. When the battery
14
is installed in the socket
16
, a bottom of the battery
14
will adjoin a bottom
18
of the socket
16
. Moreover, the contact face
16
is co-planar with the bottom
18
of the socket
16
, and the contact face
16
will contact an adjoining face
31
of the bottom of the battery
14
.
Please refer to FIG.
2
.
FIG. 2
is a schematic diagram showing all the components of the mobile phone
10
after the battery
14
is installed in the mobile phone
10
(for the sake of clarity, the housing
12
A is not shown in FIG.
2
). The attached figure,
FIG. 2B
, is a three-dimensional diagram showing the battery
14
installed in the socket
16
and the attached figure,
FIG. 2A
, is a cross-sectional diagram of
FIG. 2
along the cross line
2
A—
2
A (dotted line
33
is used for marking the position of the side view of the battery
14
). The attached figure,
FIG. 2C
, further describes the condition as shown in
FIG. 2A
by neglecting the housing
12
B and the battery
14
. When the battery
14
is installed in the socket
16
, the bottom
18
of the socket
16
is co-planar with the contact face
16
of the ejecting machine
20
, and the bottom
18
of the socket
16
will adjoin the bottom of the battery
14
.
When the user wants to take the battery
14
from the socket
16
, the user can push two engaging parts of the ejecting machine
20
outward from the socket
16
, and the ejecting machine
20
will eject the battery
14
to let the user conveniently take out the battery
14
. Please refer to FIG.
3
.
FIG. 3
is a schematic diagram showing all the components of the mobile phone
10
when the battery
14
is ejected from the mobile phone
10
. The attached figure,
FIG. 3B
, is a three-dimensional diagram showing the battery
14
ejected from the socket
16
, and the attached figure,
FIG. 3A
, is a cross-sectional diagram of
FIG. 3
along the cross line
3
A—
3
A (dotted line
33
is used for marking the position of the side view of the battery
14
). The attached figure,
FIG. 3C
, clearly describes the operations of the ejecting machine
20
by neglecting the housing
12
B and the battery
14
as shown in FIG.
3
B. When the user wants to take out the battery
14
, the user can push the two engaging parts
24
A and
24
B outward from the socket
16
(namely the direction as an arrowheads
36
a
and
36
b
show) to respectively rotate those two engaging parts
24
A and
24
B along the pivots
28
A and
28
B, and the banding part between those two engaging parts
24
A and
24
B will be lifted upward (namely the direction as an arrowhead
34
shows). The contact face
16
will separate one side of the battery
14
from the bottom
18
of the sockets
16
to let the user conveniently take out the battery
14
.
A disadvantage of the above-mentioned prior art is that the user has to simultaneously push both of the engaging parts
22
A and
22
B of the ejecting machine
20
outward from the socket
16
to trigger the ejecting machine
20
for ejecting the battery
14
. Regarding ergonomics, it is hard for the user to simultaneously move both of the engaging parts with a single hand. Therefore, in the prior art, the user must hold the housing
12
B with two hands and simultaneously push the engaging parts
22
A and
22
B respectively with the thumbs of the left and right hands to trigger the ejecting machine
20
for ejecting the battery
14
. Regarding all kinds of situations related to forcing with various gestures with fingers, the clamping force with a thumb and a forefinger is larger. In the prior art, since the engaging parts
22
A and
22
B have to be pushed outward from the socket
16
, it is hard for the user to achieve necessary clamping force using fingers of a single hand. Therefore, the user usually has to trigger the ejecting machine
20
with both hands at great inconvenience. Moreover, since the user has to use both hands to install the battery
14
and can hardly control the position of the battery
14
when ejecting the battery
14
with the ejecting mechanism
20
, the battery
14
is easily damaged.
In the prior art, the engaging parts of the ejecting machine has to be outwardly triggered so that the user has to trigger the ejecting machine with both hands, leading to inconvenience. Therefore, the ejecting machine of the prior art does not have a good ergonomic design.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
It is therefore a primary objective of the claimed invention to provide an inward-pushing triggered mechanism for ejecting add-on device to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art.
According to the claimed invention, the portable apparatus comprises a housing, a socket installed on the housing for accommodating an add-on device, wherein the socket comprises a bottom formed in horizontal direction, and an ejecting mechanism installed in on
Chen Yu-Yuan
Lee Hung-Cheng
BenQ Corporation
Gushi Ross
Hammond Briggitte
Hsu Winston
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