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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lee A Watkins, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott K Smader, Cupertino, CA (US);
Harold S Long, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Grid Systems Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361391 ; 361394 ; 361399 ; 364708 ;
Abstract
A card housing attachment for adding industry standard add-on cards to a portable computer includes a card housing which is positioned on the top of the computer behind a tiltable display. A battery compartment slide-in structure slides into and out of a battery tray compartment opening in the back side of the computer and contains interconnect-card structure for developing the power and any clock required for the add-in card and for transmitting all necessary control signals and data lines between the add-on card and the computer bus.