Title :
Means of realizing long battery life in portable PCs
Author_Institution :
Toshiba Corp., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Some of the easiest ways of making battery life longer in portable personal computer (PC) are realizing low power consumption and high capacity battery. Though it is necessary to adopt various techniques for realizing such conditions, it is incomplete to fully satisfy the user requirements for a portable PC, because high capacity battery tends to increase its weight. Therefore, we have to apply some techniques for decreasing weight, including casework. This paper describes various techniques not only to realize low power consumption and high capacity battery, but also to achieve light weight.
Keywords :
microcomputers; packaging; portable computers; power consumption; secondary cells; high capacity battery; light weight casing; long battery life; low power consumption; portable PCs; portable personal computer; Batteries; Central Processing Unit; Circuits; Energy consumption; Graphical user interfaces; Keyboards; Microcomputers; Personal communication networks; Portable computers; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Low Power Electronics, 1995., IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3036-6
DOI :
10.1109/LPE.1995.482448