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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2000
Eric Owhadi, Sassenage, FR;
Christophe Le-Rouzo, Le Versoud, FR;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An electronic apparatus is described with a power provisioning system for powering the apparatus from an external power source, a power button connected to the power management control circuit for enabling a user to initiate transitions of the power provisioning system between at the first and second states, and an LED for providing a visual feedback to the user of the powered state of the computer; in which the LED is wired in series with a transistor to the standby supply output, the conducting state of the transistor being controlled directly by the power button so that the LED provides a direct visual feedback as to the state of the standby power supply output when the power button is actuated.