ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20140063772A1
• Filed: 08/22/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kurachi, Hideaki, Uehara, Mitsuhiro, Hiroyoshi, Kouichi
• Application Number:
  US13/973,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20140063772A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/809
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/1215 with a canted-coil torsion spring
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2999/00 Subject-matter not otherwise provided for in this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/10 around a horizontal axis F16M11/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/005 integral with the apparatus or articles to be supported
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 2200/041 for balancing rotational movement of the head
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• 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 1/1681 Details related solely to hinges hinge details related to the transmission of signals or power are classified in G06F1/1683
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/16 on hinges or pivots

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a main body having a first surface having a display surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a first support disposed between the first surface and the second surface being capable of contacting with a put-on surface; a stand member attached to the main body having a second support being capable of contacting with the put-on surface; and a hinge unit having a hinge rotatably supporting the stand member against the main body between a first rotational position for standing up the main body on the put-on surface and a second rotational position for laying the main body over the put-on surface, and an elastic member disposed at the hinge for adding a rotational force from a second rotational position side to a first rotational position side.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a main body having a first surface having a display surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a first support disposed between the first surface and the second surface being capable of contacting with a put-on surface;

a stand member attached to the main body having a second support being capable of contacting with the put-on surface; and

a hinge unit having a hinge rotatably supporting the stand member against the main body between a first rotational position for standing up the main body on the put-on surface and a second rotational position for laying the main body over the put-on surface, and an elastic member disposed at the hinge for adding a rotational force from a second rotational position side to a first rotational position side.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the hinge unit further has an adjustment mechanism being capable of setting the rotational force, and

the adjustment mechanism is set to balance with a rotational moment by its own weight of the main body using the first support as a center.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the adjustment mechanism regulates the rotational force so that a relative position of the stand member against the main body is held.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the adjustment mechanism cancels a regulation of the rotational force in a predetermined angle range from the second rotational position to the first rotational position.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the elastic member has a torsion spring.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the hinge unit is disposed at the second surface.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the hinge unit is disposed nearer the first support side than a center position of the main body in a height direction.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the second surface has a convex part that is protruded from the main body outwardly, and

the convex part has a third support being capable of contacting with the put-on surface when the stand member is rotated to the second rotational position.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the stand member has an arm that is bent along a circumference of the convex part at the second rotational position.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the convex part has a surrounding part that is tapered to a center top of the convex part, and

the arm faces to the surrounding part and has a tapered inner peripheral part corresponding to the surrounding part.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first support is disposed at the surrounding part of the main body, and

the surrounding part is formed of a flat or curve tilted surface.