DEVICES FOR APPLYING ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
"SUPER CHAMP"	TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH	Mühlenstrasse 26 Schaffhausen 8200 Switzerland	DEVICES FOR APPLYING ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS AND TERMINALS;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A section of a housing on a portable computing device is removed or folded away, thereby exposing a free edge of an LCD screen as well as electrical (data and power) connectors and structural connectors. Connectors are placed symmetrically across the exposed edge whereby a male connector on one side mates with a female connector on the other device. Two such devices are physically pushed together, with locking catches securing the two devices together. Upon docking, the two devices recognize the new configuration and re-map the desktop area of the display into a single display for the combined device. In a preferred embodiment, either a top edge or a side edge is selectively exposed independently on the same device, to mate two devices in either a portrait or landscape orientation.