IP Library Granted Patent US 7,508,658
Granted Patent B2
US 7,508,658 · App. 11/892,696 · Granted Mar 24, 2009

Computer dock for connecting various electronic devices with different thickness

Assignee: Compal Electronics, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 7,508,658
App. No.
11/892,696
Granted
Mar 24, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A computer dock comprises a main body and a retractable assembly disposed on the back side of the main body, the retractable assembly includes a slide, a connector, a supporting plate and a moving block, and both the moving block and the connector are protruded out the main body and provided function of vertical movement, when an electronic device put on the main body of the computer dock for connection the moving block is then by vertical movement to drive the slide moved in horizontal movement and further to drive the connector moved back in vertical movement relative to the slide horizontally moved, by this manner the computer dock in application allows various electronic devices with different thicknesses to connect.

Claims (9)

1. A computer dock, comprising a main body and a retractable assembly disposed on a back side of the main body, wherein

the main body has a slot and a pair of guiding grooves disposed thereon, and has a pair of guiding posts and a pair of fixing posts disposed on the back; and

the retractable assembly includes a slide, a connector, a supporting plate and a moving block, wherein

the slide is a hollow shell having a front wall, a rear wall and two lateral walls; a pair of oblique guiding grooves are separately disposed on the front wall and the rear wall for a pair of linkages being separately disposed inside and across therein, the rear wall is further provided with a pair of oblique sliding grooves, and every lateral wall horizontally protrudes out a limiting block with a long slot disposed inside for the relative fixing post of the main body being fitted therein;

the supporting plate disposed inside the slide has a pair of guiding holes each provided for one relative guiding post of the main body passed through and a pair of protruding hubs each provided for one relative linkage passed through to form a pivotal connection;

the connector is fixed on the supporting plate and protruded from the slot of the main body; and

the moving block has a pair of guiding tracks formed on two sides each corresponding to and protruded from one relative guiding groove of the main body, and the moving block further has a pair of guiding blocks each fitted in the oblique sliding groove disposed on the rear wall of the slide.

2. The computer dock as described in claim 1 , wherein a guiding plate is further fixed on the back side of the main body provided for each guiding tracks of the moving block leant to two sides of the guiding plate.

3. The computer dock as described in claim 2 , wherein an elastic member is further disposed on the back side of the main body by means of a free end connected to the slide.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 27, 2007
From: LING, KUO-NAN
To: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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