Electronic device and electronic system

• US 7,529,080 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2008
• Issued: 05/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Koutari, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lea-Edmonds; Lisa
• Assistant Examiner(s): WRIGHT, INGRID D
• Application Number:
  US12/010,386
• Publication Number:
  US 20080180888A1
• Time in Patent Office: 467 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679, 361/686, 710/303
• US Class Current: 361/679.3
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/265 constructional aspects of navigation devices, e.g. housings, mountings, displays G01C21/3688 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3688 Systems comprising multiple parts or multiple output devices (not client-server), e.g. detachable faceplates, key fobs or multiple output screens
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0017 with operator interface units
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0018 having an electronic display

Abstract

An electronic device includes: a main unit; a cap unit that is capable of having a portable electronic device attached thereto and is capable of tilting; a driving unit that causes the cap unit to tilt with respect to the main body; and a controlling unit that drives the driving unit so as to return the cap unit to a reference position, when detachment of the portable electronic device from the cap unit is detected.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a main unit;

a cap unit that is capable of having a portable electronic device attached thereto and is capable of tilting;

a driving unit that causes the cap unit to tilt with respect to the main unit; and

a controlling unit that drives the driving unit so as to return the cap unit to a reference position, when detachment of the portable electronic device from the cap unit is detected, and drives the driving unit so as to return the cap unit to a position when the portable electronic device has been detached from the cap unit, when attachment of the portable electronic device to the cap unit is detected.

3. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a storage unit that stores table information indicating a relationship among a number of times a button outputting an instruction that causes the cap unit to tilt with respect to the main body is pressed, a number of pulses of a pulse signal that is output from the controlling unit to the driving unit, a tilt angle of the cap unit in an open state, a tilt angle of the cap unit in the reference position, and a current tilt angle of the cap unit,

wherein when detachment of the portable electronic device from the cap unit is detected, the controlling unit determines the number of pulses to be output to the driving unit so as to displace the cap unit to the reference position, the determined pulses based on the table information, the tilt angle of the cap unit in the reference position, and the current tilt angle of the cap unit, and outputs a pulse signal having the determined pulses to the driving unit, and

when attachment of the portable electronic device to the cap unit is detected, the controlling unit determines the number of pulses to be output to the driving unit so as to displace the cap unit to a position when the cap unit is in the open state, the determined pulses based on the table information, the tilt angle of the cap unit in the open state, and the current tilt angle of the cap unit, and outputs a pulse signal having the determined pulses to the driving unit.

2. An electronic system comprising:

a portable electronic device; and

an electronic device that includes;

a main unit;

a cap unit that is capable of having a portable electronic device attached thereto and is capable of tilting;

a driving unit that causes the cap unit to tilt with respect to the main unit; and

a controlling unit that drives the driving unit so as to return the cap unit to a reference position, when detachment of the portable electronic device from the cap unit is detected, and drives the driving unit so as to return the cap unit to a position when the portable electronic device has been detached from the cap unit, when attachment of the portable electronic device to the cap unit is detected.