ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20090154085A1
• Filed: 12/17/2008
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: GOTO, Katsuichi
• Application Number:
  US12/336,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20090154085A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.80
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1635 Details related to the integration of battery packs and other power supplies such as fuel cells or integrated AC adapter
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1658 related to the mounting of internal components, e.g. disc drive or any other functional module
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/203 for portable computers, e.g. for laptops

Abstract

An electronic apparatus has a first housing including a front edge portion and a rear edge portion, the front edge portion having a recess in a top surface thereof, the recess being recessed with respect to a reference surface of the top surface; a second housing including a front edge portion and a rear edge portion and; and a connecting portion connecting the rear edge portion of the first housing with the rear edge portion of the second housing such that the second housing is capable of being opened and closed with respect to a top surface of the first housing. The recess in the first housing has an exposed portion that protrudes from the front edge portion as viewed from above the top surface of the first housing when the second housing is closed on the first housing.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a first housing including a first front edge portion and a first rear edge portion and having a given length between the first front edge portion and the first rear edge portion, the front edge portion having a recess in a top surface thereof, the recess being recessed with respect to a reference surface of the top surface;

a second housing including a second front edge portion and a second rear edge portion and having a length smaller than the length of the first housing; and

a connecting portion connecting the first rear edge portion of the first housing with the second rear edge portion of the second housing such that the second housing is capable of being opened and closed with respect to a top surface of the first housing,

wherein the recess in the first housing has at least an exposed portion that protrudes from the second front edge portion as viewed from above the top surface of the first housing when the second housing is closed on the first housing.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recess in the first housing has a covered portion that continues from the exposed portion and that is covered with the second housing when the second housing is closed on the first housing, and

wherein the recess defines an operation region of an input unit disposed in the recess.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the input unit is a fingerprint sensor, and the recess is a guide used when a user performs a fingerprint reading operation.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first housing has a drive circuit capable of accessing a storage medium, and

wherein the exposed portion of the recess is an insertion slot for the storage medium.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the connecting portion has a mechanism configured to urge the second housing toward the first housing when an angle between the first housing and the second housing is equal to or smaller than a given angle.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first housing is a main unit of the electronic apparatus, the main unit including a main processing circuit, and

wherein the second housing is a display unit of the electronic apparatus, the display unit being configured to display a processing result obtained by the main processing circuit.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a keyboard disposed on the top surface of the first housing.