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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2022
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd, Singapore, SG;
Thomas Perelli, Morrisville, NC (US);
Ali Ent, Morrisville, NC (US);
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A computing device can include a housing that includes a shell and a shell cover, where the shell cover includes a keyboard; and an electronic component secured in a component bay of the shell by a latch accessible upon displacement of the shell cover, where the component bay includes an electrical bay contact and bay magnets, where the electronic component includes an electrical component contact and component magnets, and where the component magnets are coupled to the latch and move responsive to actuation of the latch to lock the electronic component in the component bay via a magnetic attraction force between the bay magnets and the component magnets that mates the electrical bay contact and the electrical component contact and to unlock the electronic component for removal from the component bay.