Electronic device

• US 7,379,292 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2005
• Issued: 05/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Inventors: Yeh, Hsiu-Wei, Tsai, Chu-Chia
• Primary Examiner(s): Lea-Edmonds; Lisa
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US11/192,795
• Publication Number:
  US 20060245153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,033 Days
• Field of Search: 361/681, 361/679, 361/683
• US Class Current: 361/679.27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1622 with enclosures rotating around an axis perpendicular to the plane they define or with ball-joint coupling, e.g. PDA with display enclosure orientation changeable between portrait and landscape by rotation with respect to a coplanar body enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1679 for locking or maintaining the movable parts of the enclosure in a fixed position, e.g. latching mechanism at the edge of the display in a laptop or for the screen protective cover of a PDA G06F1/1681 takes precedence
• 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: G06F 1/1683 for the transmission of signal or power between the different housings, e.g. details of wired or wireless communication, passage of cabling

Abstract

An electronic device. A fixed base is fixed to a host. A rotating base is rotatably connected to the fixed base and includes a first pivot and a second pivot. The first pivot is disposed in the fixed base and separated from the second pivot. The central axis of the first pivot is perpendicular to that of the second pivot. The rotating base rotates in a first direction with respect to the fixed base by way of the first pivot. A monitor is rotatably connected to the rotating base. The second pivot of the rotating base is disposed in the monitor. The monitor rotates in a second direction with respect to the rotating base by way of the second pivot. The central rotating axis of the second direction is perpendicular to that of the first direction.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a host;

a fixed base fixed to the host;

a rotating base rotatably connected to the fixed base and comprising a first pivot and a second pivot, wherein the first pivot is disposed in the fixed base and separated from the second pivot, the central axis of the first pivot is perpendicular to that of the second pivot, and the rotating base rotates in a first direction with respect to the fixed base by way of the first pivot;

a monitor rotatably connected to the rotating base, wherein the second pivot of the rotating base is disposed in the monitor, the monitor rotates in a second direction with respect to the rotating base by way of the second pivot, and the central rotating axis of the second direction is perpendicular to that of the first direction;

a first positioning member fit on the second pivot of the rotating base and fixed to the monitor; and

a second positioning member fit on and fixed to the second pivot of the rotating base and abutting the first positioning member, wherein the first and second positioning members position the rotating position and angle of the monitor when the monitor rotates in the second direction with respect to the rotating base by way of the second pivot.

2. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first positioning member comprises a plurality of recesses, the second positioning member comprises at least one protrusion, and one of the recesses selectively engages the protrusion when the monitor rotates in the second direction with respect to the rotating base by way of the second pivot.

3. The electronic device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the recesses are circularly arranged on the first positioning member.

4. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first positioning member comprises at least one protrusion, the second positioning member comprises a plurality of recesses, and the protrusion selectively engages one of the recesses when the monitor rotates in the second direction with respect to the rotating base by way of the second pivot.

5. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the recesses are circularly arranged on the second positioning member.

6. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first positioning member comprises at least one recess, the second positioning member comprises a plurality of protrusions, and the recess selectively engages one of the protrusions when the monitor rotates in the second direction with respect to the rotating base by way of the second pivot.

7. The electronic device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the protrusions are circularly arranged on the second positioning member.

8. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first positioning member comprises a plurality of protrusions, the second positioning member comprises at least one recess, and one of the protrusions selectively engages the recess when the monitor rotates in the second direction with respect to the rotating base by way of the second pivot.

9. The electronic device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the protrusions are circularly arranged on the first positioning member.

10. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rotating base is hollow, and the monitor is electrically connected to the host by way of a signal cable passing through the rotating base.

11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the second pivot of the rotating base is hollow, and the monitor is electrically connected to the host by way of the signal cable passing through the second pivot and rotating base.

12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a holding washer and a nut, wherein the holding washer fits on the second pivot of the rotating base and is adjacent to the second positioning member, and the nut is screwed to the second pivot of the rotating base and abuts the holding washer.

13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fixed base comprises a pivot hole in which the first pivot of the rotating base is disposed.

14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a shield fitted on the second pivot of the rotating base, wherein the shield is disposed between the rotating base and the monitor and fixed to the monitor.

15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the monitor comprises an LCD monitor.

16. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises a notebook computer.