Adapter Module for Desktop Laptop CPU Pin and Voltage Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Desktop computers cannot utilize laptop CPUs due to differences in pin assignments and working voltages, limiting the potential for reduced size, noise, heat generation, and power efficiency.
Innovation Solution
An adapter module and motherboard design that includes a circuit board with multiple sockets and an adapter device to facilitate the connection and signal transfer between CPUs with different pin assignments, along with a transforming circuit to adjust working voltages, allowing a desktop computer to use a laptop CPU.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If a desktop computer uses a traditional desktop CPU, then it can provide sufficient processing power, but it generates more heat, noise, and consumes more power
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an adapter module as an intermediary device between the desktop CPU socket and the laptop CPU. This adapter contains a laptop CPU socket on one side and connects to the desktop motherboard's CPU socket on the other side, enabling electrical and mechanical compatibility. The adapter translates pin assignments and provides voltage transformation, allowing desktop computers to utilize power-efficient laptop CPUs without direct modification to the motherboard or CPU designs.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If a desktop computer uses a traditional desktop CPU, then it can handle high performance tasks, but it requires larger heat dissipation fans and generates more noise
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter module serves as a mediator that enables the desktop system to accommodate laptop CPUs with lower heat generation characteristics. By providing the mechanical and electrical interface adaptation, the adapter allows the system to benefit from laptop CPU thermal efficiency while maintaining desktop form factor and performance capability through software optimization.
3Volume of moving object
If a desktop computer uses a traditional desktop CPU, then it can provide robust processing power, but it increases the overall volume and space requirement
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter module segments the CPU interface functionality into a separate, removable component. This segmentation allows the main desktop motherboard to remain unchanged while the adapter provides the specific laptop CPU socket interface. The modular approach enables space efficiency by using the smaller laptop CPU form factor while maintaining desktop computing capabilities through the adapter's signal routing and voltage transformation functions.
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AI summary
An adapter module is described. The adapter module includes a circuit board, a first socket and an adapter device. One face of the first socket is electrically connected to the circuit board on the first face of the circuit. The other face of the first socket connects to a first central processing unit (CPU). One face of the adapter base is electrically connected to the circuit board on the second face of the circuit board. The other face of the adapter base connects to a second socket. The circuit board sends signals from the second socket, through the adapter base and the first socket, to the first CPU. When the adapter base is not connected to the second socket, the second socket is capable of connecting to a second kind of CPU.