JPH05313787A - Small-size electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make he use of a plurality of auxiliary storage devices available and also to make housing of a hold and storage unit in a battery housing section possible by providing a connector connected with an auxiliary storage unit at the innermost side of the housing section capable of housing battery unit which can be attachable and detachably in a housing section. CONSTITUTION:A battery unit A is guided by rails 3 on both high and low parts of a housing section 2 and housed in the housing section 2. A terminal 5 of the battery unit A comes into contact with a power source terminal 4 at both right/left sides of the innermost side of the rails 3. At the innermost side of the housing section 2, a connector 7 engaged with the connector 6 of a battery unit B is arranged and an auxiliary storage unit B is housed in a holder 8 having the same section with the battery unit A. When inserting the auxiliary storage unit B from a housing port after detaching the battery unit A from the housing section 2, the holder 8 is guided by the rails 3 and the connector 6 is engaged with the connector 7 to be connected to the electric circuit in the equipment main body.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a small electronic device equipped with a computer such as a small personal computer or a word processor, and more particularly to a battery power source and an auxiliary storage device used in the small electronic device. is there.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a small electronic device, there is, for example, a portable personal computer (a laptop personal computer, a notebook personal computer, etc.) which has a liquid crystal screen integrated with a main body and has portability. The above-mentioned portable personal computer can be driven not only indoor commercial power source but also from multiple power sources such as battery power source, so that it can be carried not only indoors but also in places without AC commercial power source. By supplying an electric current, the personal computer can be used anywhere.

In such a portable personal computer that can be used with a plurality of power sources, a battery unit is attached to the personal computer body so that the battery can be attached to and detached from the personal computer body. At the same time, there is also something that can be connected to the computer itself.

Further, the portable personal computer is equipped with an auxiliary storage device for storing / reading (or recording / reproducing) necessary information.
Typical examples thereof include a floppy disk device and a hermetically sealed fixed disk device, and usually any of these auxiliary storage devices is built in a personal computer.

[0005]

In such a portable personal computer, since copying between storage media such as a floppy disk can be performed without replacing the medium while the personal computer is in use, It has been desired to incorporate an auxiliary storage device such as a plurality of floppy disk devices.

However, in order to ensure portability of a portable personal computer, its weight and volume are often limited,
It was difficult to incorporate a plurality of auxiliary storage devices such as a floppy disk device due to the limitation of weight and the increase of volume.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and in a small electronic device, a plurality of auxiliary storage devices such as a floppy disk device can be provided. An object of the present invention is to make it possible to use a plurality of auxiliary storage devices by allowing storage devices to be stored.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a device including a battery unit for use while being carried and an auxiliary storage unit for storing / reading information. A small electronic device that is detachably and selectively housed in a housing portion provided in the main body, and has a structure in which the battery unit and the auxiliary storage unit can be housed in a single housing portion. The storage unit is configured such that each unit is connected to an electronic circuit in the device body.

[0009]

In the small electronic device of the present invention, when the battery unit is removed from the storage chamber, the auxiliary storage unit such as a floppy disk device and the battery unit have a sectional shape,
Since the dimensions etc. are almost the same, instead of the battery unit,
The auxiliary storage unit can be inserted into the storage part.

By the insertion, the connector of the auxiliary storage unit and the connector of the storage section are connected, and a plurality of auxiliary storage devices can be used with an AC commercial power source.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, one example of the embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. In addition, in this embodiment, an example in which the small electronic device according to the present invention is applied to a portable personal computer (such as a laptop personal computer or a notebook personal computer) will be described, but the present invention is not limited to this.
Of course, it can be widely applied to other small electronic devices. In the present embodiment, a floppy disk device will be described as an example of the auxiliary storage device, but the present invention is not limited to this.
It goes without saying that the present invention can also be applied to other auxiliary storage devices (for example, a hermetically sealed fixed disk device, a streaming tape device, etc.) The portable personal computer of this embodiment can be inserted with a storage medium such as a floppy disk from the front side.
The floppy disk device 1 having the insertion opening 1a formed on the front surface is built-in, and the storage opening 2 of the storage portion 2 is provided so that the battery unit A (see FIG. 3) can be inserted from the front surface.
a is provided on the front surface.

The battery unit A is guided by rails 3 provided on both upper and lower sides of the storage section 2,
The terminals 5 of the battery unit A are connected to the power supply terminals 4 which are housed in the housing section 2 and are provided on both left and right sides of the rear end of the rail 3.
Are contacted with each other, and a current is supplied to the electronic circuit in the main body of the device.

A connector 7 that fits into and contacts the connector 6 provided on the rear side of the auxiliary storage unit (for example, a floppy disk device) B shown in FIG. An auxiliary storage unit B is housed in a holder 8 having the same cross section as the battery unit A, with a storage medium insertion port 9 such as a floppy disk as the front side.

When the auxiliary storage unit B is inserted from the storage port 2a after the battery unit A is removed from the storage unit 2, the holder 8 is set to the rear side by the rails 3 provided above and below the storage unit 2. And the connector 6 is fitted into the connector 7 of the storage section 2,
It is connected to the electronic circuit inside the device body.

The positions corresponding to the power supply terminals 4 on the left and right side surfaces of the holder 8 are notched portions 8a.
Therefore, there is no possibility that the holder 8 damages the power supply terminal 4, and a storage medium such as a floppy disk is attached to and detached from the front of the auxiliary storage unit B housed in the holder 8 to store / read (or It can also be recorded / reproduced).

Although a preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is apparent that various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Is. In the above description of the embodiment, the structure in which the auxiliary storage unit and the battery unit can be attached and detached from the front surface of the main body of the small electronic device has been described, but the position of the storage section 2 and the built-in floppy disk device 1 is arbitrary other than the above. Even if it is provided at the position, its action and effect do not change. Further, it is of course possible to change the design of the auxiliary storage unit (the same shape as that of the battery unit) so that the auxiliary storage unit can be inserted into the storage portion 2 without being stored in the holder 8. In this case, There is an advantage that the holder 8 can be omitted.

[0017]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, by removing the battery unit from the storage portion and storing the auxiliary storage unit in the storage portion instead, the storage / storage of a plurality of auxiliary storage devices can be achieved. Reading can be done individually. Therefore, it is possible to take advantage of the fact that the time and effort required for exchanging the recording medium can be eliminated when copying the document between the recording media. Moreover, by storing the battery unit in the storage part, you can carry it to a place without commercial power supply,
There is an effect that a small electronic device can be used there.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an example of implementation of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial cross-sectional view of a case where an auxiliary storage unit is housed therein.

FIG. 3 is a transverse cross-sectional view of the battery unit accommodated therein.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Battery unit B Auxiliary storage unit 1 Floppy disk device 2 Storage section 6, 7 Connector 8 Holder

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A battery unit, which is used for carrying and the like, and an auxiliary storage unit, which stores / reads information, are removably and selectively housed in a housing portion provided in the device body. A small electronic device having such a structure that the battery unit and the auxiliary storage unit can be combined and housed in one housing unit, and each unit is connected to an electronic circuit in the device body in the housing unit. A small electronic device having a configuration.