Dell Products Inc.

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation

Chiu-Jung Tsen

John Trevor Morrison

Jace William Files

Hsu-Feng Lee

Gerald Rene Pelissier

Yi-Ming Chou

Charles D Hood

Chun-Wei Lin

Hsu Feng Lee

Deeder M Aurongzeb

Dean Frederick Herring

Jason Scott Morrison

Karthikeyan Krishnakumar

Shawn Paul Hoss

Jeff David Thomas

Anthony J Sanchez

James Henry Hallar

Brandon Joel Brocklesby

Lawrence Allen Stone

Robert D Hrehor, Jr

Jason Tait Franz

Yung-Chun Liu

Jheng-Ting Ye

Sajjad S Ahmed

Yi-Te Chih

Wen-Yao Nien

Zong-Han You

Cheng-Hong Chen

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly has plural component lock members that extend into the portable housing interior to each align with a component to hold the component in position when the keyboard assembly couples to the housing to enclose the components. In some instances, power and information may be routed through the keyboard membrane to the component through the component lock member.

Information handling system keyboard support with internal component assembly features

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. A motherboard couples to the portable housing under the keyboard assembly with openings aligned to insert over retaining nuts extending from the housing, the openings having a varied size so that the motherboard slides between released and engaged positions. A cooling fan couples to the motherboard adjacent to one side to retain the motherboard in the engaged position and is removed to allow the motherboard to slide to the released position. Plural cooling fans interface in series with the motherboard to provide additional cooling capacity.

Information handling system serial thermal solution with motherboard engagement

A portable information handling system housing biases to the closed position by attracting a piece of ferromagnetic material disposed in a lid housing portion to a magnet in a speaker disposed in a main housing portion. A Hall sensor proximate the ferromagnetic material detects the speaker magnet in the closed position and communicates open or closed position detection through a flexible cable and hinge to an embedded controller in the main housing for execution of logic associated with open and closed positions, such as ACPI sleep and wake states.

Information handling system speaker magnet to hold housing portions in a closed position

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a housing cover having guide structures with stops disposed on opposing sides and aligned to engage with rails of the housing to slide to a cover position over the housing defined by the position of the stops. The keystone assembly completes the housing cover enclosure of the housing interior by coupling in a gap between the housing cover and housing at one side and overlapping the keyboard assembly to retain the keyboard assembly in position.

Information handling system keyboard support with rail guide structure assembly to a housing rail

An information handling system motherboard interfaces with other components, such as an I/O board and a display, through a cable backplane having an M.2 edge card connector and coupled to a housing with a snap in cable retainer. The motherboard slides into position at the housing to have an edge card extending past one side to engage into the edge card connector. The cable backplane is a flexible cable that routes through the hinge up lid housing portion of the system to communicate with a display and/or camera in the lid portion, or to route back into the main housing portion to communicate with an I/O board.

Information handling system cable backplane with snap in cable retention

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane having a first portion with key press detection sensors contiguous to a second portion with a touch detection sensor that supports a touchpad. In one embodiment, the membrane integrates a printed circuit board that couples a key matrix controller and a touch detection controller interfaced with a communications hub, such as a USB hub, to communicate key and touchpad inputs to a motherboard through a flexible connector portion of the membrane.

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. A motherboard couples to the portable housing under the keyboard assembly with retaining nuts extending from the housing, the motherboard retained in an engaged position by a cooling fan that directs cooling airflow out an exhaust. The exhaust integrates an antenna and coaxial cable in a nonconductive material, such as plastic, and has connectors exposed at the motherboard to interface with a radio, such as for WiFi or Bluetooth. A metallic cooling channel exposed in the exhaust and thermally coupled to the CPU by a heat pipe provides an antenna ground plane and/or a floating portion that acts as a directional parabolic element.

Information handling system antenna module integrated in thermal solution

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane having plural input sensors and plural liquid detection circuits exposed at a surface of the membrane to detect liquid spillage, such as exposed conductive pads that short in the presence of a liquid or resistive circuits that sense changes in resistance associated with contact with a liquid. A processing resource interfaced with the liquid detection circuits stores liquid detection events in non-transitory memory of the membrane, such as a controller and flash memory coupled to a printed circuit board formed in the membrane.

Portable information handling system keyboard membrane having liquid detection

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. A motherboard couples to the portable housing under the keyboard assembly with openings aligned to insert over retaining nuts extending from the housing, the openings having a varied size so that the motherboard slides between released and engaged positions. A cooling fan couples to the motherboard adjacent to one side to retain the motherboard in the engaged position and is removed to allow the motherboard to slide to the released position.

Information handling system keyboard motherboard and thermal solution engagement

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane having plural input sensors, each aligned with a key assembly having a key cap coupled with a scissors to a holder plate, the holder plate configured to couple to a coupling extension extending up from a housing cover upper surface. A flexible planar sheet couples between the membrane and plural keys so that a lifting force applied to the flexible planar sheet separates the plural keys from the housing cover.

Portable information handling system modular keyboard having removable lattice and keys

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. A motherboard couples to the portable housing under the keyboard assembly with openings aligned to insert over retaining nuts extending from the housing, the retaining nuts having a lip to engage the motherboard, a stop feature to define motherboard sliding movement and an alignment feature to align the lip and stop feature in a predetermined configuration. A cooling fan couples to the motherboard adjacent to one side to retain the motherboard in the engaged position and is removed to allow the motherboard to slide to the released position.

Information handling system retention nut for automated assembly and disassembly

A portable information handling system includes a touch function row between a keyboard and a display that accepts touches or proximity detection at plural locations to initiate an on-screen-display user interface for a selected of plural functions based upon a touch location. Haptic feedback to touch function row inputs is provided by a haptic device coupled directly to a bottom surface of the touch function row, such as with an adhesive. The haptic device couples to a housing cover portion with a brace that integrates a resilient member, such as a spring, to dampen vibration from a haptic vibration source to the housing cover portion.

Low profile information handling system haptic device

An input device for an information handling system ay detect an adjustment to a position of a damping medium of a linear magnetic ram of the input device. The input device may generate haptic feedback based on the detected adjustment to the position of the damping medium of the linear magnetic ram of the input device.

Systems and methods for adjustable haptic damping positioning

An apparatus includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine a plurality of input areas of a touchpad associated with a computing device. The touchpad is associated with a sensitivity setting that indicates a first sensitivity for a first input area of the touchpad and that further indicates a second sensitivity for a second input area of the touchpad that is different than the first input area. The one or more processors are further configured to receive user input from a user input device associated with the computing device. The one or more processors are further configured to change the sensitivity setting based on the user input. Changing the sensitivity setting includes reducing the first sensitivity.

Sensitivity adjustment for a touchpad of an information handling system

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane that has contact switches to detect key input presses and is supported by a housing cover that extends members into a housing interior to hold components in position, such as a speaker. The speaker has spring-biased connection pins with a dampener at the speaker housing to dampen vibrations. Contact pads extending from the keyboard membrane communicate speaker signals to the speaker to play audible sounds though the spring-biased connection pins.

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