Electronic device system and lock device

• US 20070144225A1
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tamura, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/643,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20070144225A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 70/58
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0012 with rotary electromotors actuators with rotary electromotors per se H02K7/06, H02K23/68
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/023 the bolt moving pivotally or rotatively
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0005 using chains, cables or the like chain- or cable-locks of the padlock type E05B67/003; lockable clothing hangers or hanger racks E05B69/006
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0082 for office machines, e.g. PC's, portable computers, typewriters, calculators
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/88 Detecting or preventing theft or loss
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5009 For portable articles

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic device system includes a lock device including a hook portion which is rotatable between a lock position and an unlock position, and a rotation permission unit which permits rotation of the hook portion in a case where a permission signal is received, and an electronic device including a casing with a wall, a connection port which opens at the wall of the casing and to which the hook portion of the lock device is insertable, a detection unit which detects whether the lock device is inserted in the connection port, and a supply unit which supplies the permission signal to the rotation permission unit of the lock device in a case where the lock device is inserted in the connection port.

Claims

1. An electronic device system comprising:

a lock device including a hook portion which is rotatable between a lock position and an unlock position, and a rotation permission unit which permits rotation of the hook portion in a case where a permission signal is received; and

an electronic device including a casing with a wall, a connection port which opens at the wall of the casing and to which the hook portion of the lock device is insertable, a detection unit which detects whether the lock device is inserted in the connection port, and a supply unit which supplies the permission signal to the rotation permission unit of the lock device in a case where the lock device is inserted in the connection port.

2. The electronic device system according to claim 1, wherein the lock device further includes a storage unit which stores identification information,

the electronic device further includes a read unit which reads out the identification information stored in the storage unit, and a registration unit in which the identification information read out by the read unit is registered, and

the rotation permission unit supplies the permission signal to the rotation permission unit in a case where the identification information, which is read out by the read unit from the lock device inserted in the connection port, is registered in the registration unit.

3. The electronic device system according to claim 2, wherein the electronic device further includes an input unit which enables a user to input information,

authentication information which is associated with the identification information is further registered in the registration unit, and

the rotation permission unit supplies the permission signal to the rotation permission unit in a case where the information input by the user agrees with the authentication information registered in the registration unit when the hook portion is in a lock position.

4. The electronic device system according to claim 2, wherein the electronic device includes a boot unit which executes a boot process of an operating system in a case where the identification information read out by the read unit agrees with the identification information registered in the registration unit at a time of powering on the electronic device and in a case where the identification information read out by the read unit is stored in the storage unit.

5. The electronic device system according to claim 2, further comprising a motor which rotates the hook portion.

6. The electronic device system according to claim 5, wherein the lock device includes a remote control device which transmits a rotation signal, a reception unit which receives the rotation signal that is transmitted from the remote control device, and a driving control unit which drives the motor in a case where the reception unit receives the rotation signal.

7. The electronic device system according to claim 5, wherein the rotation permission unit supplies power to the reception unit in a case where the permission signal is supplied.

8. The electronic device system according to claim 5, wherein the rotation permission unit drives the motor in a case where the permission signal is supplied to the rotation permission unit after the detection unit detects that the lock device, which is yet to be inserted in the connection port, is inserted in the connection port.

9. A lock device comprising:

a hook portion which is rotatable between a lock position and an unlock position; and

a rotation permission unit which permits rotation of the hook portion in a case where a permission signal is received.

10. The lock device according to claim 9, further comprising a motor which rotates the hook portion.

11. The lock device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a remote control device which transmits a rotation signal; and

a driving control unit which drives the motor in accordance with the rotation signal that is transmitted from the remote control device.