Laptop Lock Back-Mounted Fixing Device for Thin Chassis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Thinner laptop designs pose challenges for traditional laptop locks, as they can interfere with the laptop's operation and alignment, leading to issues with locking and attachment due to reduced thickness and size constraints.
Innovation Solution
A laptop lock design featuring a body with jacks and a fixing device comprising member bars and connecting parts that sleeve the laptop screen, allowing the relative position of the lock to be fixed and ensuring the shaft connecting the screen and keyboard is parallel to the lock's axis, with a lock hole for securing the lockset and cord, enhancing alignment and stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional lock is used with thinner laptops, then the laptop can be secured against theft, but the lock may interfere with the laptop's operation and alignment due to reduced thickness
Solution Approach 1:
The invention transitions from a traditional side-mounted lock to a back-side mounted lock, changing the spatial dimension of lock placement. This allows the lock to be positioned at the back surface of the laptop rather than on the side, eliminating interference with the laptop's operational surface while maintaining security functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces a latch unit as an intermediary component that connects the lock to the laptop's internal structure. The latch unit includes a latch arm that engages with a latch hole inside the laptop, providing a reliable connection mechanism that adapts to thinner laptop designs without requiring thick side mounting.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the lock size is increased to improve alignment, then locking stability is enhanced, but the lock may not rest properly on the supporting face with thinner laptops
Solution Approach 1:
By mounting the lock on the back surface rather than the side, the invention utilizes the laptop's depth dimension differently. The lock body extends from the back surface toward the front, allowing the latch unit to engage internal structures without requiring excessive side thickness, thus maintaining alignment stability in thinner laptops.
Solution Approach 2:
The latch unit is designed to nest within the laptop's internal structure. The latch arm fits into the latch hole, and the entire latch assembly is contained within the laptop's thickness, allowing the lock to provide stable alignment without adding significant external dimensions that would prevent proper resting on the supporting face.
3Ease of operation
If the lock is positioned to avoid interference with operation, then user convenience is improved, but traditional side mounting becomes ineffective with reduced laptop thickness
Solution Approach 1:
The invention relocates the lock mounting from the side dimension to the back surface dimension. This positional change in another dimension allows the lock to be placed where it cannot interfere with the laptop's operational surface, while the latch unit's internal engagement mechanism ensures reliable locking functionality is maintained.
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AI summary
A laptop lock used for locking a laptop is provided. The laptop lock includes a body and a fixing device. The fixing device makes the relative position of the body with respect to the laptop fixed and makes extending direction of the shaft connecting the display and the keyboard part of the laptop parallel with the long axial direction of the body.