ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20140355190A1
• Filed: 11/14/2013
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Compal Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Compal Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Yeh, Hsin, Chen, Yung-Hsiang, Hu, Wei-Han, Lai, Tzu-Chien, Yen, Cho-Yao
• Granted Patent: US 9,372,511 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.17
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1669 Detachable keyboards

Abstract

An electronic device including a first body and a second body is provided. The first body has a first connection end. The second body has a second connection end, in which the second connection end has a first magnetic component and a first convex arc surface, and the second body is detachably connected to the first body through a magnetic attractive force between the first magnetic component and the first connection end. The first body and the second body are configured to rotate around a rotation axis relatively to each other, and the first convex arc surface faces the first connection end and extends along a direction parallel to the rotation axis.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a first body, having a first connection end; and

a second body, having a second connection end, wherein the second connection end has a first magnetic component and a first convex arc surface, the second body is detachably connected to the first body through a magnetic attractive force between the first magnetic component and the first connection end, the first body and the second body are configured to rotate relatively to each other around a rotation axis, and the first convex arc surface faces the first connection end and extends along a direction parallel to the rotation axis.

2. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a curvature center of the first convex arc surface is located on the rotation axis.

3. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first magnetic component comprises a plurality of magnets, each of the magnets has a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to each other, the first end surface has a first magnetic polarity, the second end surface has a second magnetic polarity opposite to the first magnetic polarity, the magnets are sequentially arranged along the rotation axis, and any two adjacent magnets are attractive to each other through the magnetic attractive force between the corresponding first end surface and second end surface.

4. The electronic device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the first connection end has a second magnetic component, the first magnetic component has a first end and a second end opposite to each other, the second magnetic component has a third end and a fourth end opposite to each other, both the first end and the fourth end have the first magnetic polarity, both the second end and the third end have the second magnetic polarity, the first end is aligned with the third end, and the second end is aligned with the fourth end.

5. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first magnetic component has an inner portion and an outer portion, the inner portion extends along the rotation axis and has a first magnetic polarity, and the outer portion surrounds the inner portion and has a second magnetic polarity.

6. The electronic device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first connection end has a second magnetic component, the second magnetic component has a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to each other, the first end surface has the first magnetic polarity, the second end surface has the second magnetic polarity, and the first end surface faces the first magnetic component.

7. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first magnetic component has a second convex arc surface.

8. The electronic device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the second connection end has a first concave arc surface, and the second convex arc surface faces the first concave arc surface.

9. The electronic device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the first connection end has a second concave arc surface, the second concave arc surface and the first convex arc surface are close up to each other through the magnetic attractive force between the first magnetic component and the first connection end, and when the first body and the second body rotate relatively to each other around the rotation axis, the second concave arc surface and the first convex arc surface slide relatively to each other.

10. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein all curvature centers of the second concave arc surface, the second convex arc surface, the first concave arc surface and the first convex arc surface are located on the rotation axis.

11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the second body has an operation surface and a bottom surface opposite to each other, the second connection end is bent towards the bottom surface to form a bent portion, the first convex arc surface is formed at outside of the bent portion, the first concave arc surface is formed at inside of the bent portion, and the first magnetic component is accommodated at the inside of the bent portion.

12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first body has a display surface and an edge adjacent to the display surface, and when the second concave arc surface and the first convex arc surface are separated from each other, the bottom surface of the second body is suitable to lie on the display surface of the first body and the bent portion lays on the edge of the first body along a direction parallel to the display surface.

13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first body has a third magnetic component, and when the bottom surface of the second body lies on the display surface of the first body, the magnetic attractive force between the third magnetic component and the second body positions the second body on the first body.

14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a stand, wherein the first connection end lies on a plane, and the stand is pivoted to a back surface of the first body to support the first body on the plane.

15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 14, wherein when the first connection end moves along the plane to change an inclined angle of the first body, the second body along with the first connection end moves along the plane while the first body and the second body rotate relatively to each other around the rotation axis.

16. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first body is an all-in-one PC and the second body is a keyboard.

17. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first connection end has a second concave arc surface, the second concave arc surface and the first convex arc surface are close up to each other through a magnetic attractive force between the first magnetic component and the first connection end, and when the first body and the second body rotate relatively to each other around the rotation axis, the second concave arc surface and the first convex arc surface slide relatively to each other.

18. The electronic device as claimed in claim 17, wherein both curvature centers of the second concave arc surface and the first convex arc surface are located on the rotation axis.