Information apparatus installing desk

• US 6,237,507 B1
• Filed: 05/14/1996
• Issued: 05/29/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yanagisawa, Ryozo, Tanaka, Atsushi, Sato, Hajime, Kobayashi, Katsuyuki, Tokioka, Masaki, Yoshimura, Yuichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Jose V.
• Application Number:
  US08/645,568
• Time in Patent Office: 1,841 Days
• Field of Search: 108/3, 108/1, 108/7, 108/6, 108/50.01, 108/33, 108/4, 108/8, 108/9, 108/50.02, 108/23, 312/194, 312/223.2, 312/223.3, 312/223.1, 312/21, 312/30, 312/328, 312/226, 312/227, 312/224, 248/917, 248/92, 248/422, 248/923, 248/918, 248/929
• US Class Current: 108/3
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2021/0076 the screen being incorporated in the desk top
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/0073 liftable above the desk top

Abstract

An information apparatus has an input device with a portion to be supported in an information apparatus installing desk. The portion to be supported serves as a contact with an arc-shaped desk in which one point on a ridge line of a casing of the information apparatus is set to a center. A top plate having a concavity which can enclose an information apparatus, an arc-shaped receiving portion for supporting the arc-shaped portion to be supported, and a tilt mechanism for rotating the information apparatus around the center of the arc as a rotational center are provided on the desk side for installing the information apparatus.

Claims

1. A desk capable of installing an information apparatus having an arc-shaped portion, with a center of the arc providing a rotational center axis of the information apparatus, comprising:

a frame;

a top plate supported on said frame and having i) a cavity for receiving the information apparatus, said top plate having a top surface edge capable of coaxial alignment with the rotational center axis, and ii) a recess having, under part of said top plate, a corresponding arc-shaped surface capable of receiving at least part of the arc-shaped portion of the information apparatus, so that a top surface of said top plate can approximately contact and be flush with a top surface of the information apparatus on completely receiving the information apparatus and the information apparatus can be rotated about the rotational center axis of the arc-shaped portion; and

a tilt mechanism supported in said frame and capable of rotating the information apparatus about the rotational center axis of the arc-shaped portion.

2. A desk according to claim 1, further having a second information apparatus enclosing portion.

3. A desk according to claim 1, wherein said tilt mechanism includes an arc-shaped receiving portion for supporting the arc-shaped portion of the information apparatus, and a slide mechanism housed in said frame for vertically moving a bottom surface of the information apparatus.

4. A desk according to claim 3, wherein said tilt mechanism further includes a rotating mechanism in place of said slide mechanism in which a virtual axis is set to a center.

5. A desk according to claim 4, wherein said tilt mechanism further includes a cam portion in which a ridge line on said to plate is set to a center.

6. A desk according to claim 3, wherein said tilt mechanism further includes a cam portion in which a ridge line on said top plate is set to a center.

7. A desk according to claim 1, wherein a connecting port for an electrical cord is provided in a bottom portion of the information apparatus.

8. A desk according to claim 1, wherein said top plate receives an information apparatus that includes output means for outputting information in place of the input means.

9. A desk according to claim 1, wherein said top plate receives an information apparatus that includes output means.

10. A desk according to claim 1, wherein a hole is formed in said top plate in place of the cavity and receives the information apparatus.

11. A desk with a rotatable portion, comprising:

a frame;

a top platform supported on said frame, said platform including peripheral edges and a cavity defined by interior edges;

a rotatable portion received within said cavity and rotatable about an axis which substantially coincides with an upper edge of the cavity;

a support for rotatably supporting said portion within the cavity such that an upper edge of said portion abuts said upper edge of the cavity, wherein a) in a first position a top surface of said portion is substantially flush with said top platform, and b) in a second position said portion is tilted with respect to said platform and substantially no gap exists between said upper edge of the cavity and said upper edge of said portion; and

a tilting mechanism for rotating said portion about the rotatable axis between the first and second positions.

12. A desk according to claim 11, wherein said top platform includes a resting area between said interior edge proximate to the rotatable axis and said peripheral edges.

13. A desk according to claim 11, wherein said rotatable portion is part of an information apparatus.

14. A desk according to claim 11, wherein said tilt mechanism includes an arc-shaped receiver portion for supporting said portion, and a slide mechanism housed in said frame for vertically moving a bottom surface of said portion.

15. A desk according to claim 14, wherein said tilt mechanism further includes a rotating mechanism in place of said slide mechanism, in which a virtual axis is set to a center.

16. A desk according to claim 15, wherein said tilt mechanism further includes a cam portion in which a ridge line is set to a center.

17. A desk according to claim 14, wherein said tilt mechanism further includes a cam portion in which a ridge line is set to a center.