Electronic apparatus with a leg

• US 20050068756A1
• Filed: 08/02/2004
• Published: 03/31/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Araki, Satoshi, Tsuji, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/909,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20050068756A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/797
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1613 for portable computers cooling arrangements therefor G06F1/203; constructional details or arrangements for pocket calculators, electronic agendas or books G06F15/0216; constructional details of portable telephone sets: with several bodies H04M1/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/162 changing, e.g. reversing, the face orientation of the screen with a two degrees of freedom mechanism, e.g. for folding into tablet PC like position or orienting towards the direction opposite to the user to show to a second user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/166 related to integrated arrangements for adjusting the position of the main body with respect to the supporting surface, e.g. legs for adjusting the tilt angle
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a display that is used both in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, and a main unit coupled to the display, which includes a bottom wall. The apparatus also includes a first tilt leg fixed to the bottom wall, and a second tilt leg that is pivotally supported by the bottom wall between a use position protruded from the bottom wall and a storage position stored in the bottom wall. The position of the first tilt leg is eccentric to a rear side when the display is used in the horizontal direction, and the second tilt leg protruded makes the rear portion of the display in the vertical direction high.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display adapted for use in both a horizontal direction and a vertical direction;

a main unit coupled to the display, the main unit including a bottom wall;

a first tilt leg fixed to the bottom wall, the position of the first tilt leg being eccentric to a rear wall when the display is used in the horizontal direction; and

a second tilt leg pivotally coupled to the bottom wall and adapted to either a use position protruded from the bottom wall or a storage position stored in the bottom wall, the second tilt leg, when pivoted, protruding to elevate a first peripheral wall of the display in the vertical direction higher than a second peripheral wall situated opposite the first peripheral wall.

2. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display is formed in a rectangular shape having a long axis along a widthwise direction of the main unit and a short axis along a depth direction of the main unit.

3. An electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the long axis of the display is horizontally placed when the display is used in the horizontal direction, and the short axis of the display is horizontally placed when the display is used in the vertical direction.

4. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first tilt leg is compatible with a grip.

5. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second tilt leg is situated at a position eccentric to an end portion of a wall of the main unit along the widthwise direction and at a central position along the depth direction.

6. An electronic apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising an auxiliary leg pivotally coupled to the bottom wall at a position eccentric to a front side wall, the auxiliary leg is pivotal between a use position protruded from the bottom wall and a storage position stored in the bottom wall.

7. An electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the protrusion heights of the auxiliary leg from the bottom wall is substantially equal to that of the first tilt leg.

8. An electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a speaker arranged in the main unit, which outputs sound through the bottom wall, the first tilt leg provides a gap for releasing a sound output from the speaker between the bottom wall and a placement surface when the main unit is placed on the placement surface.

9. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a main unit including a bottom wall and a top wall;

an input device arranged at the top wall of the main unit;

a display coupled to the main unit, the display being adapted to be pivoted along a horizontal axis relevant to the main unit and reversibly rotated around a vertical axis, the display being used both in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction when the display is reversed, the display including a first peripheral wall, a second peripheral wall, a third peripheral wall, and a fourth peripheral wall;

a first tilt leg fixed to the bottom wall, the first tilt leg causing the reversibly rotated display to be tilted such that the first peripheral wall is lower than the second peripheral wall when the display is in the horizontal direction; and

a second tilt leg which is pivotally coupled to the bottom wall between a use position protruded from the bottom wall and a storage position stored in the bottom wall, the second tilt leg causing the reversibly rotated display to be tilted such that the third peripheral wall is lower than the fourth peripheral wall when the display is in the vertical direction.

10. An electronic apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the main unit includes a rear wall coupled to the bottom wall, and the first tilt leg is formed integrally with a corner portion defined by the bottom wall and the rear wall of the main unit, extending in a widthwise direction of the main unit so as to be along the horizontal axis.

11. An electronic apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the first tilt leg is compatible with a grip.

12. An electronic apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the second tilt leg is situated at a position eccentric to one end portion of a wall along a widthwise direction of the main unit and at a central portion along a depth direction of the main unit.

13. An electronic apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising an auxiliary leg pivotally situated on the bottom wall at a position substantially opposite to the first tilt leg with the second tilt leg positioned along the depth direction between the first tilt leg and the auxiliary leg.

14. An electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the height of the auxiliary leg, when pivoted in a use position, is substantially equal to that of a height of the first tilt leg.

15. An electronic apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a speaker arranged in the main unit and facing the bottom wall, the first tilt leg makes a gap for releasing a sound output from the speaker between the bottom wall and a placement surface when the main unit is placed on the placement surface.

16. An electronic apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a tablet superimposed on the display.

17. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a display which is used both in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction;

a main unit coupled to the display, the main unit includes a bottom wall;

a first tilt leg pivotally coupled to the bottom wall between a use position protruded from the bottom wall and a storage position stored in the bottom wall; and

a second tilt leg pivotally coupled to the bottom wall between a use position protruded from the bottom wall and a storage position stored in the bottom wall,

wherein the first tilt leg causes the display to be tilted so that a first peripheral wall of the display is lowered when display is used in the horizontal direction, and the second tilt leg causes the display to be tilted so that a second peripheral wall, adjacent to the first peripheral wall, of the display is lowered when the display is used in the vertical direction.

18. An electronic apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the second tilt leg comprises a pair of legs which are disposed to be spaced from each other in a widthwise direction of the main unit.

19. An electronic apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the display is formed in a rectangular shape having a long axis along a widthwise direction of the main unit and a short axis along a depth direction of the main unit.

20. An electronic apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the long axis of the display is horizontally placed when the display is used in the horizontal direction, and the short axis of the display is horizontally placed when the display is used in the vertical direction.