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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter A. Atkinson, Redmond, WA (US);
James Adam Hunter, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric O. Mejdrich, Redmond, WA (US);
Russell Hoover, Redmond, WA (US);
Jay Tsao, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gregory M. Daly, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Grassi, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a modular computing device that provides a user options to upgrade an existing computing device as improved expansion units become available without rendering the underlying base unit obsolete. The base unit of the modular computing device receives high-voltage AC power and one or more power supplies within the base unit converts the AC power to low-voltage DC power that is consumed within the base unit. An AC power transfer unit transfers AC power from the base unit to an expansion unit installed within an expansion dock of the base unit. One or more power supplies within the expansion unit convert the received AC power to low-voltage DC power that is consumed within the expansion unit.