Mobile Computing Device with a Combined Housing and Connector Port

摘要

Mobile computing devices that include an exterior housing and a port. The housing is configured to form a guide portion of the port. More particularly, the port includes a cavity formed in the housing. The cavity includes interior walls that extend inward from an exterior wall of the housing. The port further includes a connector that is positioned in the cavity. The connector is positioned such that the walls of the cavity form the guide of the connector. The port is further constructed to prevent the ingress of water and/or debris into an interior of the housing.

主权项

1. A mobile computing device comprising:
an energy storage device; a housing that includes exterior walls that form an interior space that houses the energy storage device; a cavity formed by the housing and that includes an open front side with enclosed side and back walls formed by the exterior walls of the housing, the back wall being opposite from the front side; an opening along the back wall of the cavity that extends through the housing and into the interior space; and a connector mounted in the cavity and including a body connected to the side walls between the back wall and the front side, the body including a first side that faces outward towards the front side of the cavity and includes a prong and plurality of pins, the body also including an opposing second side that faces inward towards the back wall of the cavity and includes one or more contacts that are operatively connected to the plurality of pins and that extend outward from the second side and into the opening in the housing, the contacts being operatively connected to the energy storage device; the prong and the plurality of pins being directly adjacent the side walls of the cavity.