Compartment for magnet placement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10317952-B2
Application number	US-201615282950-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2016
Priority date	Sep 30, 2016
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

An apparatus is provided which comprises: a chassis compartment having a bottom surface and walls orthogonal to the bottom, wherein the chassis compartment comprises: a rectangular opening, which may be designed to accept a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device and four slots, which may be designed to accept one or more magnet(s), extending outwardly from the rectangular opening, wherein each of the slots comprises: an inner opening having a length coextensive with a side of the rectangular opening, and an outer opening having corresponding ends that extend a length of the outer opening beyond the length of the inner opening. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

First claim

We claim:

1. An apparatus comprising:
a chassis compartment having a bottom surface and walls orthogonal to the bottom, wherein the chassis compartment comprises:
a rectangular opening;
a device in the rectangular opening, wherein the device comprises a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device; and
four slots extending outwardly from the rectangular opening, wherein each of the slots comprises:
an inner opening having a length coextensive with a side of the rectangular opening;
and an outer opening having corresponding semi-circular ends and a straight side that extend a length of the outer opening beyond the length of the inner opening, further comprising the inner openings of opposite slots having a first depth that is greater from an inner opening second depth of the other two slots.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising grooves within the bottom surface of the four slots.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the grooves comprise a longer groove connected with two parallel shorter grooves by orthogonal grooves.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , further comprising the orthogonal grooves of opposite slots having a first length that is different from an orthogonal groove second length of the other two slots.

5. The apparatus of claim 3 , further comprising the longer groove is within the bottom surface of the outer opening of the slots.

6. An apparatus comprising:
a chassis compartment having a bottom surface and walls orthogonal to the bottom, wherein the chassis compartment comprises:
a rectangular opening; and
four slots extending outwardly from the rectangular opening, wherein each of the slots comprises:
an inner opening having a length coextensive with a side of the rectangular opening;
and an outer opening having corresponding semi-circular ends and a straight side that extend a length of the outer opening beyond the length of the inner opening, further comprising the inner openings of opposite slots having a first depth that is greater from an inner opening second depth of the other two slots;
a device in the rectangular opening, wherein the device comprises a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device; and
one or more magnet(s) adjacent to the device in each of the slots.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising the magnets extending into the outer openings.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , further comprising the magnets of opposite slots having a first width that is different from a magnet second width of the other two slots.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising the magnets coupled with the bottom surface with an air cured epoxy.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising the magnets arranged so that polarities of neighboring magnet ends are differing.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising the magnets arranged so that polarities of neighboring magnet ends are matching.

12. A system comprising:
a processor;
a display subsystem;
a wireless communication interface; and
an input/output (I/O) device, the I/O device comprising:
a chassis compartment having a bottom surface and walls orthogonal to the bottom,
wherein the chassis compartment comprises:
a rectangular opening; and four slots extending outwardly from the rectangular opening, wherein each of the slots comprises:
an inner opening having a length coextensive with a side of the rectangular opening;
and an outer opening having corresponding semi-circular ends and a straight side that extend a length of the outer opening beyond the length of the inner opening, further comprising the inner openings of opposite slots having a first depth that is greater from an inner opening second depth of the other two slots;
a MEMS device in the rectangular opening; and
one or more magnet(s) adjacent to the device in each of the slots.

13. The system of claim 12 , further comprising grooves within the bottom surface of the four slots, wherein the grooves comprise a longer groove connected with two parallel shorter grooves by orthogonal grooves.

14. The system of claim 13 , further comprising the longer groove is within the bottom surface of the outer opening of the slots.

15. The system of claim 12 , further comprising the magnets of opposite slots having a first width that is different from a magnet second width of the other two slots.

16. The system of claim 12 , further comprising the magnets arranged so that polarities of neighboring magnet ends are differing.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Iyer Sandeep S
• Abebaw Amanuel
• Saltas Mark
• Patel Mayank
• Gurumurthy Charavana K
• Ramalingam Suriyakala
• Malamud Vladimir

Classifications

• G06F1/1684 Primary

  Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675 · CPC title

• H01F7/0252

  PM holding devices (H01F7/021, H01F7/0215, H01F7/0226 take precedence) · CPC title