ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20140211396A1
• Filed: 09/18/2013
• Published: 07/31/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shiroishi, Toshikazu
• Application Number:
  US14/030,795
• Publication Number:
  US 20140211396A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.18
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1671 Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop G06F1/1666 takes precedence

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a click pad, and a supporter. The click pad includes a first end configured to be bent toward an inside of the housing to push a switch, and a second end opposite the first end. The first supporter is configured to support the click pad from the inside of the housing as a supporting point of bending of the click pad when the first end of the click pad is pushed. The first supporter is movable along a direction from the second end to the first end of the click pad.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a housing;

a click pad comprising a first end configured to be bent toward an inside of the housing to push a switch, and a second end opposite the first end; and

a first supporter configured to support the click pad from the inside of the housing as a supporting point of bending of the click pad when the first end of the click pad is pushed, the first supporter being movable along a direction from the second end to the first end of the click pad.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the click pad comprises a first surface exposed to an outside of the housing and a second surface opposite the first surface, and

the first supporter is configured to support the second surface when the first end of the click pad is pushed.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

a receiver in the housing, the receiver facing the second surface of the click pad,

wherein the first supporter is detachably attached to the receiver.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein

the first supporter is slidable along the direction from the second end to the first end of the click pad.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 4, wherein

the receiver comprises a hole extending in the direction from the second end to the first end of the click pad, and

the first supporter comprises a guide inserted into the hole.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 5, wherein

the first supporter comprises a fixed portion configured to be fixed to the receiver after a location of the first supporter is adjusted.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a second supporter configured to support the click pad from the inside of the housing as another supporting point of the bending of the click pad when the first end of the click pad is pushed, the second supporter being movable in the direction substantially identical to that of the first supporter,

wherein the click pad comprises a third end extending between the first end and the second end, and a fourth end opposite the third end, and

wherein the first supporter and the second supporter are separately in the third end and the fourth end of the click pad.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 7, wherein

the first supporter and the second supporter are connected to each other.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the first supporter is configured to be attached to one location selected from a plurality of predetermined locations arranged in the direction from the second end to the first end of the click pad.

10. The electronic apparatus of claim 9, further comprising:

a receiver facing the click pad in the housing,

wherein the receiver comprises a fixed portion at each of the plurality of locations, to which the first supporter is configured to be detachably attached.