[ detailed description ] embodiments
The following detailed description and technical contents of the present invention are described with reference to the drawings, which are provided for reference and illustration purposes only and are not intended to limit the present invention.
Fig. 1 to 4 show a first embodiment of an electronic device with a function expansion module (hereinafter referred to as an electronic device) according to the present invention, fig. 5, 6 and 7 show a second embodiment, a third embodiment and a fourth embodiment of the electronic device according to the present invention, fig. 8 to 10 show a fifth embodiment of the electronic device according to the present invention, and fig. 11 and 12 show a sixth embodiment of the electronic device according to the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the electronic device according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes: a body (body of electronic device) 800 and a function expansion assembly 100.
The body 800 defines an opening 8, and the opening 8 spans two sides of the body 800 adjacent to each other, such as a large area side (e.g., a front side or a back side) and a thickness side (e.g., one of four sides) of the body 800 as shown in fig. 2. A fixing portion 9 is disposed inside the body 800 for fixing, and the fixing portion 9 corresponds to the opening 8 for facilitating fixing through the opening 8. As shown in fig. 4, the fixing portion 9 includes a plurality of fixing structures 91, and each fixing structure 91 is fixed in the body 800 and has a first fixing hole 9121.
The function expansion assembly 100 includes a function module 1a and a collision avoidance module 2 a. The function module 1a is used for expanding functions of the machine body 800, and the anti-collision module 2a is mainly used for preventing the function module 1a from being collided.
The functional module 1a can be various modules with required functions, and in the embodiment, USB Type-C is taken as an example for description. The functional module 1a includes an expansion circuit board 11a and an expansion connector 12a disposed on the expansion circuit board 11 a. As shown in fig. 4, the extended circuit board 11a is formed with a plurality of second fixing holes 1111 corresponding to the first fixing holes 9121, respectively.
When the expansion is to be performed, the first fixing holes 9121 and the second fixing holes 1111 can be respectively corresponding to each other by arranging the expansion circuit board 11a corresponding to the fixing portion 9; then, as long as a fixing element F is detachably fixed between each first fixing hole 9121 and each second fixing hole 1111, the functional module 1a can be detachably fixed to the fixing portion 9 through the expansion circuit board 11 a. Therefore, even if the available residual space on the electronic device is limited, the same function expansion purpose can be achieved by replacing different function modules (such as 1 a).
It should be noted that the height requirements for the fixing portion 9 are not all the same for the functional modules 1a with different functions. Therefore, when the height requirement of the function module to be expanded is low, the height of the fixing structure 91 does not need to be too high, for example, only a fixing post 911 may be provided, and the fixing post 911 is fixed in the machine body 800 and has the first fixing hole (not labeled with a reference numeral); on the contrary, when the height requirement of the function module to be expanded is higher (for example, the function module 1a of the embodiment), the fixing structure 91 further includes a height increasing pillar 912, so as to increase by connecting the fixing pillar 911 and the height increasing pillar 912 in series.
In the fixing structure 91 that needs to be heightened, the fixing post 911 is fixed in the machine body 800 and has a butt-joint fixing hole 9111, and the heightening post 912 has a fixing member 9122 and the first fixing hole 9121. When the height of the fixing portion 9 is to be increased, the height-increasing pillars 912 can be increased to a desired height by detachably fixing the height-increasing pillars 912 to the abutting fixing holes 9111 of the fixing posts 911 by the fixing members 9122, respectively, in a head-to-tail connection manner, in other words, the height-increasing pillars 912 can have various lengths.
To fix the functional module 1a at the desired height, in addition to adjusting each fixing structure 91 to the desired height, each fixing element F is detachably fixed between each second fixing hole 111 of the expansion circuit board 11a and each first fixing hole (e.g., the first fixing hole 9121 of the heightening column 912) of each fixing structure 91.
The crash module 2a includes a housing 21a and a door 22 a. Wherein, the cover body 21a is used for covering the opening 8 and is provided with a socket 2121, and the socket 2121 corresponds to the interface (not labeled with a reference numeral) of the expansion connector 12 a; the door 22a is connected to the cover 21a in a flip-open manner to expose the slot 2121 when opened or cover the slot 2121 when closed.
The cover body 21a is formed in an L-shaped bent shape corresponding to the shape of the opening 8, and thus can completely cover the opening 8. Since the flange 81 protrudes from the inner periphery of the body 800 corresponding to the opening 8 and the flange 81 surrounds the opening 8, when the cover 21a covers the opening 8, the cover 21a is blocked by the flange 81, and even if the crash module 2a is impacted by an external force, the cover 21a can be prevented from retracting inward toward the body 800 due to the blocking of the flange 81, so as to prevent the functional module 1a from being damaged due to the impact when the cover 21a is not retracted inward. Therefore, the collision avoidance module 2a prevents the functional module 1a from being directly impacted and also prevents the functional module 1a from being indirectly impacted by the cover 21 a.
As shown in fig. 2 and 3, the outer surface of the flange 81 may further have a rib 811 (or a resilient portion 2113), and the inner surface of the cover body 21a may further have a resilient portion 2113 (or a rib 811). The rib 811 also surrounds the opening 8, and the elastic portion 2113 may be formed directly on the inner surface of the cover 21a (or on the outer surface of the flange 81), or may be additionally provided with an elastic pad or a waterproof foam as shown in the figure, but not limited thereto. The flange 51 and the cover 21a are respectively provided with a plurality of third fixing holes 82 and a plurality of fourth fixing holes 23 corresponding to each other. The cover body 21a is detachably fixed to the flange 81 corresponding to the opening 8 by detachably fixing a plurality of fixing members F between the third fixing holes 82 and the fourth fixing holes 23, respectively. Therefore, when the cover 21a is fixed to the flange 81 by the fastening element F, the elastic portion 2113 is pressed by the rib 811 to the corresponding elastic recess (see fig. 3) to have better water tightness, so that the crash module 2a also has waterproof and dustproof effects, and the cover 21a is firmly combined to the machine body 800.
The shape of the door 22a corresponds to the shape of the cover 21a and is also bent in an L-shape (see fig. 2 and 3). The door 22a includes a fixed plate 221, a movable plate 222 and a bending portion 223 connected between the fixed plate 221 and the movable plate 222. The cover 21a further has a first recess 211 and a second recess 212 spaced from and adjacent to each other; the first groove 211 and the second groove 212 are recessed toward the interior of the housing 800 through the opening 8, the first groove 211 has a plurality of (at least two) in-slot fixing posts 2111 protruding therein, the in-slot fixing posts 2111 are provided with a fifth fixing hole 2112, and the second groove 212 is provided with the above-mentioned socket 2121.
The fixing plate 221 is provided with a plurality of sixth fixing holes 2211, and as long as the fixing plate 221 is correspondingly inserted into the first groove 211, the fifth fixing holes 2112 and the sixth fixing holes 2211 can be respectively corresponding to each other, so that a plurality of fixing elements F can be detachably and respectively fixed between the fifth fixing holes 2112 and the sixth fixing holes 2211, so that the fixing plate 221 can be detachably fixed in the first groove 211 of the cover body 21 a. It should be noted that even if the cover 21a is too thin, the fixing element F can have a longer fixing length by the fixing post 2111 in the groove, and thus the fixing element F can be firmly combined.
The movable plate 222 can be bent relative to the fixed plate 221 by the bending portion 223, for example, opened or closed by bending, and is embedded in the second groove 212 when the socket 2121 is closed. As shown in fig. 2 and 3, a peripheral rib 2221 is further protruded from the outer periphery of the movable plate 222, and when the movable plate 222 is correspondingly inserted into the second groove 212, the peripheral rib 2221 can abut against the inner periphery of the second groove 212, so that a waterproof and dustproof effect can be generated between the movable plate 222 and the second groove 212 for the socket 2121.
As shown in fig. 5, 6 and 7, the second, third and fourth embodiments of the electronic device of the present invention are substantially the same as the first embodiment, and different functional modules 1b, 1c and 1d are selected for the second, third and fourth embodiments. Each functional module 1b, 1c, 1d includes an expansion circuit board 11b, 11c, 11d and an expansion connector 12b, 12c, 12 d.
The functional modules 1b, 1c, and 1d are illustrated in the second, third, and fourth embodiments by using USB, SD cards, and Lan as examples, and thus include expansion connectors 12b, 12c, and 12d, which may be USB connectors, card connectors, and network connectors, respectively.
The crash module 2a of the first embodiment is used as the crash module, and the height (not shown) of each fixing structure 91 can be adjusted accordingly according to different height requirements. Although the crash module 2a of the first embodiment is adopted in the second, third and fourth embodiments, since the interfaces (not labeled with reference numerals) of the expansion connectors 12b, 12c and 12d are different in shape, the sockets 2121 of the cover 21a of the second, third and fourth embodiments are required to be correspondingly shaped.
As shown in fig. 8 to 10, the electronic device according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention is substantially the same as the first embodiment, and the difference is that the function expansion element 100 selected in the fifth embodiment is different from the first embodiment. In the fifth embodiment, the function expansion assembly 100 includes a function module 1e and a collision avoidance module 2 e.
The functional module 1e is described by taking VGA as an example in the fifth embodiment, and therefore includes an expansion circuit board 11e and an expansion connector 12e which can be a VGA connector and is electrically connected to the expansion circuit board 11 e. Since the height requirement of the functional module 1e is low, each fixing structure 91 only has a fixing post 911, and the fixing post 911 is fixed in the machine body 800 and has a first fixing hole 9111. To fix the functional module 1e at the desired height, each fixing element F can be directly detachably fixed between each second fixing hole 111 of the expansion circuit board 11e and each first fixing hole 9111 of each fixing structure 91.
The crash module 2e is substantially identical to the first exemplary embodiment described above, with only corresponding changes in the adaptation to different functional modules 1 e. The collision avoidance module 2e includes: a cover 21e and a door 22 e. Although the cover 21e is also formed with an L-shaped bend and has two faces (not labeled with reference numerals), in order to fit the functional module 1e, the first recess 211 and the second recess 212 are disposed side by side on the same face (the lower face as shown in fig. 9) of the L-shaped bend, and in the first embodiment, the first recess 211 and the second recess 212 are disposed on the two faces of the L-shaped bend respectively.
The door 22e is substantially the same as the first embodiment described above, and the differences are only changed correspondingly to fit different covers 21 e. The shape of the door 22e is formed in a flat shape corresponding to the lower surface of the cover body 21 e. The door 22e also includes a fixed plate 221, a movable plate 222 and a bending portion 223 connected between the fixed plate 221 and the movable plate 222. The fixed plate 221 is detachably fixed in the first groove 211 of the cover 21e, and the movable plate 222 can be bent relative to the fixed plate 221 by the bending portion 223, for example, opened or closed by bending, and embedded in the second groove 212 when the socket 2121 is closed.
As shown in fig. 11 and 12, the sixth embodiment of the electronic device of the present invention is substantially the same as the first embodiment, and the difference is that the function expansion assembly 100 selected in the sixth embodiment is different from the first embodiment. In the sixth embodiment, the function expansion assembly 100 includes a function module 1f and a collision avoidance module 2 f.
The functional module 1f is described in the sixth embodiment by taking RFID as an example, and therefore includes an expansion circuit board 11f and an expansion connector 12f which may be an RFID connector.
The crash module 2f has only the L-shaped bend, which is the same as the first embodiment, and since no external electronic product is required to be additionally inserted, the crash module 2f does not include a door cover but only includes the cover 21f that is also the L-shaped bend. The inside of the cover 21f is fixed with an antenna (not shown) so that the antenna can be plugged into the expansion connector 12f by a connector (not shown).
Therefore, the opening 8 formed in the machine body 800 of the present invention not only facilitates replacing the functional modules 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, and 1f by the portion located on the large area side of the machine body 800, but also facilitates inserting the external electronic product (not shown) by the portion located on the thickness side of the machine body 800, and even further enables the anti-collision modules 2a, 2e, and 2f to have the effect of preventing the functional modules from being collided or collided by the flange 81 protruding from the inner periphery of the opening 8, and preferably has the effects of water resistance and dust resistance. Moreover, since the function expansion assembly 100 is a detachable structure, it can be freely combined according to actual requirements. In addition, since the fixing portion 9 is disposed at a position corresponding to the opening 8, it is beneficial to easily adjust the height of each fixing structure 91 according to different height requirements.
The electronic device of the above embodiment of the invention is, for example, a display, a tablet computer, and a notebook computer, but the invention is not limited thereto.
In summary, the function expansion element and the electronic device having the function expansion element according to the above embodiments of the present invention can achieve the intended purpose of use, and solve the drawbacks of the prior art, and completely meet the requirements of the patent application of the present invention.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent structural changes made by using the contents of the present specification and drawings are included in the scope of the present invention, and it is obvious that the present invention is also included in the claims.