INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20130198017A1
• Filed: 01/03/2013
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: MINEGISHI, Toshikazu
• Application Number:
  US13/733,308
• Publication Number:
  US 20130198017A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/16
• 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: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0018 Constructional details, e.g. of drawer, printing means, input means

Abstract

A portable information processing apparatus connected to a peripheral device through a cable, including a main body unit connected to the peripheral device; a base unit to maintain standing upright the main body unit when in use, and to pass a cable to a bottom plane unit serving as a bottom plane when in use; and a tilting unit to tilt the main body unit from a state where the main body unit is upright when in use to a state where the man body is folded for transport, with respect to the base unit, wherein: the base unit has, at the bottom plane unit, an opening through which the cable passes so that the cable is guided to the bottom plane unit; and the opening has a handle so that the base unit is suspended in transport.

Claims

1. A portable information processing apparatus connected to a peripheral device through a cable, comprising:

a main body unit connected to the peripheral device through the cable;

a base unit to maintain the main body unit standing upright when in use, and to pass a cable from the main body unit to a bottom plane unit serving as a bottom plane when in use so that the cable is directed toward the peripheral device; and

a tilting unit to tilt the main body unit from a state where the main body unit is upright when being used to a state where the man body is folded for transport, with respect to the base unit, wherein;

the base unit has, at the bottom plane unit, an opening through which the cable passes so that the cable is guided from the main body unit to the bottom plane unit; and

the opening has a handle in a state where the main body unit is folded into the base unit by the tilting of the tilting unit so that the base unit is suspended in transport.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the opening is provided with a finger receiving unit as the handle for stabilizing fingers that have entered the opening for transport.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the opening is provided with a plurality of finger receiving units so that a plurality of fingers of a carrier'"'"'s hand are received.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein:

the opening is provided with a guide unit to guide, to spaces between finger receiving units, a position of the cable that passes through the opening.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the base unit has a weight for keeping stable the standing main body unit in the bottom plane unit and within in a range of the handle including a vicinity of the finger receiving unit.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the base unit has, on the bottom plane unit, a weight made mainly of a metal plate for keeping stable the standing main body unit; and

the weight forms at least part of the opening, the finger receiving units are provided to the weight, and at least part of the weight serves as the handle.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the information processing apparatus is a POS terminal.