Dell Products Inc.

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation

Chiu-Jung Tsen

John Trevor Morrison

Jace William Files

Hsu-Feng Lee

Yi-Ming Chou

Gerald Rene Pelissier

Shawn Paul Hoss

Charles D Hood

Chun-Wei Lin

Hsu Feng Lee

Deeder M Aurongzeb

Dean Frederick Herring

Jason Scott Morrison

Karthikeyan Krishnakumar

Jeff David Thomas

Anthony J Sanchez

Brandon Joel Brocklesby

James Henry Hallar

Lawrence Allen Stone

Nicholas G DiLoreto

Robert D Hrehor, Jr

Jason Tait Franz

Yung-Chun Liu

Jheng-Ting Ye

Sajjad S Ahmed

Gregory J Baluch

Joseph D Mcdonald

Yi-Te Chih

Wen-Yao Nien

Cheng-Hong Chen

Zong-Han You

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 and slides to an engaged position having contacts on a bottom surface of the motherboard interfaced with a battery connector coupled the housing. A battery rests on the housing to align contact pads at a bottom of the battery with the battery connector. A member extending from a housing cover coupled to the housing engages the battery to hold the battery in position in the housing.

Information handling system motherboard battery cable free connector

A portable information handling system speaker mount has standardized contacts and mounting points to accept plural speaker types with different speaker characteristics to generate audible sounds driven by an audio subsystem with audio driver settings, such as speaker-type gains. When a speaker is inserted, the audio subsystem communicates a coil characterization signal to the speaker and then analyzes the coil response to identify the type of the speaker, such as by determining the resistance of the coil to a direct current signal or the impedance of the coil from a frequency-based signal. In one example embodiment, the coil characterization signal generates audible noise from the speaker that is detected by a microphone and analyzed to determine the speaker type identity.

Information handling system speaker identification to set audio drive settings

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 includes a touch function row between a keyboard and a display that accepts touches at plural locations to initiate an on-screen-display user interface for a selected of plural functions based upon a touch location. The touch locations may be identified with illumination points and unlabeled as to an associated function since the function associated with a touch location is presented at the display. Alternatively, a secondary display presents function key images at the touch function row. The on-screen-display user interface presents different control interfaces when touches include multiple fingers and drag versus non-drag inputs.

Information handling system touch function row with secondary display and coordinated presentation on main display

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 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.

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

Chiu-Jung Tsen