Electronic device

• US 8,300,408 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2010
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Tatsukami, Ikki
• Primary Examiner(s): LEA EDMONDS, LISA S
• Application Number:
  US12/662,228
• Publication Number:
  US 20100259880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 938 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.09, 361/679.57, 361/679.58
• US Class Current: 361/679.58
• 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 1/1658 related to the mounting of internal components, e.g. disc drive or any other functional module
• 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 1/1688 the I/O peripheral being integrated loudspeakers

Abstract

An electronic device includes a first unit and a second unit. The second unit that rotates, about a rotation axis, between a closed state and an open state with respect to the first. The second unit includes, in at least a part in a lateral direction of a top face in the upright position, a first face formed to extend from a rear face to a front face of the second unit as a horizontal face or an ascending slope up to a midpoint and a second face formed as a descending slope following the first face, and an enclosure having a front housing positioned on the front face side in the upright position and a rear housing positioned on the rear face side in the upright position. The second face is formed at the front housing, and the locking release projection projects from the second face.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a first unit; and

a second unit that rotates, about a rotation axis that is a backward side of the first unit, between a closed state in which the second unit is laid on the first unit and an open state in which the second unit is opened with respect to the first unit when a front end of the second unit in the closed state is lifted, wherein

the second unit includes;

a locking projection that is to be locked into the first unit in the closed state and provided on an upper part of a front face of the second unit in an upright position in which the first unit is laid on a floor and the second unit is opened at a right angle with respect to the first unit; and

a locking release projection that protrudes from a top face of the second unit and upon being pressed toward the top face of the second unit in the upright position, moves the locking projection to an unlocked position in which locking into the first unit is released,

the first unit includes a locking hole into which the locking projection is locked in the closed state,

the second unit includes, in at least a part in a lateral direction of the top face in the upright position, a first face formed to extend from a rear face to the front face of the second unit as a horizontal face or an ascending slope up to a midpoint and a second face formed as a descending slope following the first face,

the second unit includes an enclosure having a front housing positioned on the front face side in the upright position and a rear housing positioned on the rear face side in the upright position, the second face is formed at the front housing, and the locking release projection projects from the second face, and

wherein the second face is a curved face in which a part closer to the first face is formed steeper.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the first unit is an operational unit having a keyboard on a top face thereof, and the second unit is a display unit having a display screen on the front face in the upright position.

3. An electronic device comprising:

a first unit; and

a second unit that rotates, about a rotation axis that is a backward side of the first unit, between a closed state in which the second unit is laid on the first unit and an open state in which the second unit is opened with respect to the first unit when a front end of the second unit in the closed state is lifted, wherein

the second unit includes;

a locking projection that is to be locked into the first unit in the closed state and provided on an upper part of a front face of the second unit in an upright position in which the first unit is laid on a floor and the second unit is opened at a right angle with respect to the first unit; and

a locking release projection that protrudes from a top face of the second unit and upon being pressed toward the top face of the second unit in the upright position, moves the locking projection to an unlocked position in which locking into the first unit is released,

the first unit includes a locking hole into which the locking projection is locked in the closed state,

the second unit includes, in at least a part in a lateral direction of the top face in the upright position, a first face formed to extend from a rear face to the front face of the second unit as a horizontal face or an ascending slope up to a midpoint and a second face formed as a descending slope following the first face,

the second unit includes an enclosure having a front housing positioned on the front face side in the upright position and a rear housing positioned on the rear face side in the upright position, the second face is formed at the front housing, and the locking release projection projects from the second face,

wherein the second face is a curved face in which a part closer to the first face is formed steeper, and

wherein the first unit is an operational unit having a keyboard on a top face thereof, and the second unit is a display unit having a display screen on the front face in the upright position.