Intel Corporation

Mikko Antero Makinen

Gustavo Fricke

Juha Paavola

Mark Charles Carbone

Jeff Ku

Shantanu Dattatraya Kulkarni

Aleksander Magi

Duck Young Kong

Christopher M Moore

Stan C Woody

Naoki Matsumura

Prakash Kurma Raju

Vivek Paranjape

Kathiravan D

Columbia Mishra

Hari Shanker Thakur

Saara Kamppari-Miller

Ritu Bawa

Nehakausar Shaikh Ramjan Pinjari

Rand Lenroot

Edward Morton Burdick

Juha Tapani Paavola

Laptop

Computing device with touchpad display screen

Personal computing device covers having stands are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a protective cover to at least partially cover a personal computing device. The cover includes a fixed panel to be thermally coupled to a chassis of the personal computing device to define a heatsink of the personal computing device, and a foldable panel to be rotatably coupled to the fixed panel via a hinge to support the personal computing device to stand at an angle from a surface.

Personal computing device covers having stands

The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for improving the rigidity or stiffness of an electronic device chassis or housing using a structural secondary battery. The structural secondary battery includes a compression skin disposed about one or more secondary storage cells. The compression skin exerts a compressive force of at least 0.5 atmospheres on the one or more secondary storage cells. A structural member is bonded to the compression skin. The structural member includes a relatively thin (e.g. 0.1 mm or less), rigid (e.g., Young's Modulus of at least 300 GPa), member, such as a sapphire crystal. The structural member may then be bonded or otherwise detachably or non-detachably affixed to an aperture formed in the electronic device chassis or housing. The bonding of the structural member to the electronic device chassis or housing beneficially improves the stiffness of the chassis or housing.

Structural battery with pressure housing for portable electronic devices

Computer

Portable computer

Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include a vapor chamber and means of attachment for the vapor chamber. The vapor chamber can include one or more columns, where at least a portion of the columns include fiber braids and one or more wicks. At least one of the wicks can also include the fiber braids. The columns can be braised to a top plate or a bottom plate of the vapor chamber. The vapor chamber can be secured over a heat source using a vapor chamber securing means that can include spring arms. The spring arms can bend, flex, rotate, etc. to absorb some of the force when vapor chamber is secured over the heat source.

Vapor chamber and means of attachment

Dual screen laptop

Touchpad display screen for computing device

Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include a torsional heat pipe. The torsional heat pipe can include a first housing static portion located in a first housing of an electronic device, where the first housing static portion is coupled to a heat source, a second housing static portion located in a second housing of the electronic device, where the second housing static portion is coupled to a heat spreader, and a torsion portion located in a hinge of the electronic device, where the hinge rotatably couples the first housing to the second housing and the torsion portion rotates as the second housing rotates relative to the first housing and the torsion portion couples the first housing static portion to the second housing static portion.

Torsional heat pipe

Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods have been disclosed that include example hinges that enable a physical keyboard to be stowed between halves of a closed electronic device with dual screens. An example device includes a first screen, a second screen, a first hinge pair, and a second hinge pair. The first hinge pair and the second hinge pair enable 360 degrees of rotation between the first screen and the second screen. The device also includes a physical keyboard that is couplable to a plurality of positions on at least one of the first screen or the second screen.

Dual screen electronic devices with stowable keyboards

Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods have been disclosed that include example hinges that enable a physical keyboard to be stowed between halves of a closed electronic device with dual screens. An example device includes a first screen having a first end and a second end, a second screen having a first end and a second end, and a hinge assembly to couple the first screen and the second screen. The hinge assembly includes a first hinge pair and a second hinge pair. The first hinge pair and the second hinge pair are to cause the first end of the first screen and the first end of the second screen to be separated a first distance when the device is in a closed position. The second end of the first screen and the second end of the second screen are separated a second distance when the device is in a closed position, the second distance less than the first distance.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Mikko Antero Makinen