Apple Inc.

Eric I Gruenberg

James R Stewart

Hartmut H Esslinger

James J Halicho

Melvin J Phillips

Troy K Hulick

Troy Hulick

This invention provides a thin, light assembly for a LCD, light guide and circuitry by using an internal frame with a central opening, above which is mounted a LCD and below which is mounted a light guide for directing light through the opening into the display. To one side of the light guide is mounted a light bulb for introducing light into the light guide. The internal frame also supports mounting of circuitry adjacent and coupled to the LCD.

Internal frame for a liquid crystal display not extending to the upper

Portable computer or similar article

An improved handle and latch assembly for a portable personal computer. The computer includes a cover. To open the cover, the user grasps the handle and pushes it a slight distance toward the computer. The handle is slideably coupled to the cover of the personal computer. A locking member is moveably disposed within the cover. A pair of locking hooks extend out of the cover and engage with slots in the keyboard section of the computer. When the handle is moved inward, it contacts the locking member and moves it, thereby releasing the hooks, and allowing the cover to be opened.

Handle latch assembly

An improved hinge assembly for a personal computer system. The hinge is comprised of a tubular portion which is rigidly connected to the cover unit of the computer. A part of the tubular hinge is left open to form a passageway into the cover unit. The tubular portion rotates relative to the main body section of the computer. The tubular portion has a longitudinal section removed from near its mid-point, forming a gap. This gap is closed by a curved cover element. The cover element is held stationary with respect to the main body section of the computer. Thus, when the cover unit is opened, the tubular portion rotates relative to the cover element. A cable connecting the electrical components in the cover unit to the main body section passes through an opening in the curved cover element, is bent, travels through the tubular section, parallel to its central axis, is bent again and passes into the cover unit.

Center pivot cover

A multiple contact coaxial shell connector combines coaxial, shielded, and multiple contacts in a single connector which need not have angular orientation before mating. The connector is formed by a post, shell, and connector body. The post is formed as an insulating contact-carrying post having multiple electrical contact bands spaced along the length of the post. The post is surrounded by one or more shells, where each shell is formed as an insulating contact-carrying shell coaxially encircling and spaced from the post, each shell having multiple electrical contact rings spaced along the length of the shell. The shell can also contain a encircling shielding layer. The post and shell are mounted at one end to a connector body, leaving the other end open for access to the multiple contacts by a matching socket. The socket has complementary recesses to mate to the connector post and shell, and has leaf spring contacts to contact the multiple contact rings and bands of the post and shell.

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Soquel, CA, United States of America

Eric I Gruenberg