Patent 7381079 was granted and assigned to Inventec on June, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A locking link rod structure for a docking station that includes a main body, a switch link rod installed in the main body, two holes disposed separately and proximate to an end of the switch link rod, a lock hole disposed on the main body and corresponding to the two holes for locking an external lock such as a cable lock, and thus the lock link rod structure is capable of locking a notebook computer with the docking station, so as to prevent the notebook computer and/or the docking station from being taken away or stolen by other people.