COMPUTERIZED SCHOOL DESK

• US 20100307382A1
• Filed: 12/15/2008
• Published: 12/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alaide Pellegrini Mammana, Carlos Ignacio Zamitti Mammana, Elias Teodoro Galante, Miquel João Neto
• Original Assignee: Alaide Pellegrini Mammana, Carlos Ignacio Zamitti Mammana, Elias Teodoro Galante, Miquel João Neto
• Inventors: Mammana, Alaide Pellegrini, Neto, Miquel João, Galante, Elias Teodoro, Mammana, Carlos Ignacio Zamitti
• Application Number:
  US12/864,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20100307382A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 108/5
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2021/0076 the screen being incorporated in the desk top
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/007 with under-desk displays, e.g. displays being viewable through a transparent working surface of the table or desk
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0073 Desk with integrated computer
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 41/02 Adjustable, inclinable, sliding or foldable desks tops

Abstract

Computerized school desk for education and many other applications comprising a rigid structure to support a transparent tabletop (1) that has the functionality of a touch-operated screen under which is placed a computer flat panel display (3) attached to said screen, said apparatus being provided with a mechanism for tilting the tabletop from a position substantially horizontal and a position approximately vertical or any intermediate position. The referred mechanism consists of a pair of couplings that slide along two guides substantially horizontal and at least one connecting rod rotationally coupled to an intermediate point of the said tabletop between the front and rear borders of said tabletop and to other point fixed in the structure of the table, substantially coplanar with side guides.

Claims

1. Computerized school desk for education and many other applications, the desk comprised of an apparatus comprising a rigid support structure, a tabletop comprising a transparent touch screen or tablet, operated by touch or stylus, under which is positioned a flat panel electronic display, which moves together with the screen or tablet;

the apparatus being provided with a tilting mechanism to move the tabletop from a horizontal position to a vertical position and any intermediate position between the horizontal position and the vertical position.

2. Desk, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said tilting mechanism comprises at least one coupling rod possessing a first extremity is rotationally coupled to an intermediate point between the front and rear edges of said tabletop and a second extremity is coupled rotationally to a fixed point in said structure, said coupling rod moving in a vertical plane orthogonal to the plane of the tabletop, as well as two elements attached to a proximal region of the front and rear edges of said tabletop coupled to enable a sliding movement in two parallel longitudinal, substantially horizontal guides, placed at a height approximately equal to a height of the tabletop of a table or school desk.

3. Desk, as claimed in claim 2, further comprising sliding pulleys or sliding shoes installed at the proximal extremities of sides of said tabletop.

4. Desk, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said transparent screen comprises functionalities of a touch screen or tablet.

5. Desk, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said apparatus, moreover, is suitable to be used as a conventional table and desk.

6. Desk, as claimed in claim 1, wherein it comprises under said tabletop an additional shelf-like surface to be used for objects of any nature, including conventional keyboard and mouse.

7. Desk, as claimed in claim 6, wherein said shelf-like surface is partially movable by sliding horizontally to a position closer to the user.

8. Desk, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tabletop has variable tilt, adjustable according to needs of the user.

9. Desk, as claimed in claim 1, wherein said tilting mechanism comprises a damper.

10. Desk, as claimed in claim 1, further comprising means to install a computer or other information processing device, autonomous or connected to a network, as well as books, copybooks and other objects.