Dell Products Inc.

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Sunpower Corporation

Intel Corporation

John Trevor Morrison

Jace William Files

Travis Christian North

Gerald Rene Pelissier

Shivshanker S Naimpally

Chiu-Jung Tsen

Andrew P Tosh

Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert

Kevin M Turchin

Roger S Hollander

James Henry Hallar

Mark R Ligameri

Vinh Xuan Bui

James Damon Trim

Deeder M Aurongzeb

Austin Michael Shelnutt

Mark Andrew Schwager

Preeth Kartikeyan Srinivasan

Patrick A Hampton

Srinivas Kamepalli

Jung Hwan Hong

Chiu Jung Tsen

Rocco Ancona

Marco A Marroquin

Karthik Krishnakumar

Yung-Fa Cheng

Andrew Thomas Sultenfuss

Karthikeyan Krishnakumar

Yagiz Can Yildiz

Russell S Aoki

Christopher A Torres

Lawrence Edward Knepper

Anthony J Sanchez

Duck Soo Choi

Bradley Jackson

Hsu-Feng Lee

Jheng-Ting Ye

Daniel Lawrence Hamlin

Jason Scott Morrison

Abu Shaher Sanaullah

Shawn Paul Hoss

Richard William Schuckle

Eduardo Escamilla

Sajjad Ahmed

William J Morris

Yongook Guack

Jung-Hwan Hong

Robert Duane Hrehor

Stephen P Wurmlinger

Wen-Pin Huang

Thomas Paul Parker

Daniel Acevedo

Yi-Te Chih

Peng Lip Goh

Chia-Hao Hsu

Qinghong He

Brian Hargrove Leonard

Stefan Peana

Laurent Andrew Regimbal

Philip M Seibert

Michiel Knoppert

Brandon Joel Brocklesby

Karun Palicherla Reddy

Lawrence Allen Stone

Roman Joel Pacheco

Robert D Hrehor, Jr

David J Hernandez

Yi-Ming Chou

Gregory K Hoffman

Chun-Wei Lin

Alonzo Fleming Seay

Rajib Adhikary

Yung-Chun Liu

Jeffrey J DeMoss

Yung Chun Liu

Scott Joseph Boyd

Hari J Iyer

Quoc Hoai Nguyen

JhengTing Ye

Rob Riesel

Brendan McDermott

Charles Melander

Donald Oliphant

Shivshanker Someshekar Naimpally

Danielle Paige Smith

Damon Trim

Walter Russell Fitza, Jr

Robyn R Reed

Michiel Sebastian Emanuel Petrus Knoppert

Alpha Y F Cheng

George Tzeng

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

An information handling system having a display magnetically couples a peripheral camera to the display with a magnet included in the camera housing. A colorimeter located proximate the magnet detects colors presented at the display at a position where the peripheral camera couples to the display. Iteratively comparing colors presented at the display with colors detected by the colorimeter determines a position of the peripheral camera. The algorithm has a more rapid response by predicting the camera position, such as near a videoconference window. Incremental changes to colors presented at the display so that the presented colors do not match colors of content of an end user yet are indistinguishable to the human eye aid in providing a definitive peripheral camera location.

Information handling system peripheral camera with magnetic coupling and integrated colorimeter

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 peripheral device having one or more input devices tracks total inputs at the input devices locally and reports the total inputs to an information handling system to track health of the peripheral for reuse. Input device actuations and/or values are queued in batches of sufficient size so that communication to non-transitory memory and to the information handling system hides the values of the inputs made by an end user. The peripheral devices can include peripheral keyboards that track key inputs, peripheral mouse devices that track button presses and peripheral stylus devices that track battery charges, button presses and writing tip use.

Information handling system peripheral device health state tracking for enhanced reuse and recycling

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 peripheral display couples a midplane to a display panel back side with punched metal geometric structures that slide into midplane slots. A snap of the midplane couples to the back side when in a predetermined alignment. A timing controller board of the display panel has an edge connector that interfaces with a scalar board edge connector when the scalar board couples with slots at posts of the back side. The scalar board couples display cable ports to accept display information from an information handling system and extends the display cable ports out of openings of the midplane.

Modular peripheral display input/output board with external scalar

A camera integrates a magnet at one end of a housing to magnetically attract and attach the camera to a front side of a peripheral display, such as to support a video conference through an information handling system interfaced with the display. A touch sensor disposed at the camera housing, such as at the front face surface encircling the camera module, detects a single finger touch to command a change between communication of video stream images and a static stored image from the camera. Communication of a static image by the camera maintains a wireless local area network interface for the camera so that a rapid change back to video stream images may be accomplished without restarting the wireless communication interface.

Camera front touch sensor to control video stream

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

An information handling system keyboard membrane integrates a high speed communication link, such as a differential serial pair, that communicates between a motherboard and a port exposed at a side of the information handling system housing. A communications hub in the membrane, such as a Thunderbolt hub, coordinates communication of information through the high speed link and communication of key inputs to the motherboard.

Information handling system keyboard membrane integrated high speed input/output connection

An information handling system having a display magnetically couples a peripheral camera to the display with a ferromagnetic material disposed behind the display and a magnet included in the camera housing. A metallic inner frame couples a camera assembly at one end of a cylindrical housing and the magnet is at an opposing end. A thermal spreader of thermally conductive material has at tapered conical shape with substantially two degrees of taper before assembly into the cylindrical housing. Insertion of the tapered thermal spreader compress the larger circumference to press the thermal spreader uniformly out and against an inner surface of the cylindrical housing.

Portable information handling system peripheral camera with tapered thermal spreader

A camera integrates a magnet at one end of a housing to magnetically attract and attach the camera to a front side of a peripheral display, such as to support a video conference through an information handling system interfaced with the display. The camera has a housing of a light guide material, such as an extruded acrylic, that guides light from the display panel to the front of the camera. A camera dock having a charging light indicator illuminates from the rear of the camera through the light guide material to the front of the camera to present a charging state of the camera in the dock.

Camera with magnet attachment to display panel and lightguide housing

A portable information handling system keyboard is tested for wear to determine reuse or recycling by subjecting the information handling system to visual inspection performed by a camera that includes an evaluation of key wear based in part on a keyboard language in a key lattice. The key lattice couples to a keyboard frame over a membrane having contact sensors and extends plural keyboard language members towards the membrane that identify by contact against the membrane the language of the plural keys in the keyboard lattice.

Information handling system keyboard lighting and language by key lattice coupling

End users subscribe to use information handling systems having a selected of available performance characteristics defined by a display configuration selected to build the information handling systems. A manufacturer meets subscriptions with information handling systems built from an inventory of new displays, deployed displays of information handling system in use by subscribers, and separated displays taken from returned information handling systems and re-used. End user subscriptions are met in part by building replacement information handling systems with separated displays having a useful life remaining that aligns with end user display usage patterns tracked over time, benchmarked performance metrics and end user subscription performance characteristics.

Information handling system display disposition automated using performance metrics

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.

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