Holding device for information processing device

• US 8,405,981 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2009
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Takemasa, Hirofumi, Murakata, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui, Hung S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wu, James
• Application Number:
  US12/594,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20100296235A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,503 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.21, 361/679.59, 294/25
• US Class Current: 361/679.59
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0525 Personal portable computing devices, e.g. laptop, tablet, netbook, game boy, navigation system, calculator
• 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 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1656 Details related to functional adaptations of the enclosure, e.g. to provide protection against EMI, shock, water, or to host detachable peripherals like a mouse or removable expansions units like PCMCIA cards, or to provide access to internal components for maintenance or to removable storage supports like CDs or DVDs, or to mechanically mount accessories mounting of accessories to a computer display G06F1/1607; display hoods G06F1/1603; cooling arrangements for portable computers G06F1/203

Abstract

A notebook computer body is formed of a front casing and a rear casing having a keyboard. The computer body is provided on its rear surface with a protrusion having a substantially spherical surface and with a hand strap. The hand strap covers the protrusion and has an through hole, thereby allowing the user to securely hold the computer body in one hand.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a rear casing;

a front casing facing the rear casing;

a protrusion protruding outwardly on a surface of the rear casing; and

a belt fixed to the rear casing so as to cover the protrusion, wherein a through hole is formed in the belt in a position corresponding to a top of the protrusion, wherein the through hole and the protrusion are respectively configured so that a user'"'"'s palm is positioned on the protrusion and one or more of the user'"'"'s knuckles are positioned through the through hole.

2. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the front casing includes:

a display part for displaying visual information; and

a control button for controlling the visual information.

3. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein a shape of the protrusion is a spherical surface.

4. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the rear surface includes:

a low area which shapes a rectangular surface;

a high area contiguous with the low area;

a stepped portion on a boundary between the low area and the high area,

the protrusion is formed in the high area; and

a part of a bottom of the protrusion crosses the stepped portion so as to protrude toward the low area.

5. The information processing device of claim 2, wherein the rear surface includes:

a low area which shapes a rectangular surface;

a high area contiguous with the low area; and

a stepped portion on a boundary between the low area and the high area,

the protrusion is formed in the high area; and

a part of a bottom of the protrusion crosses the stepped portion so as to protrude the low area.

6. The information processing device of claim 4, wherein the rear surface includes:

a low area which shapes a rectangular surface;

a high area contiguous with the low area; and

a stepped portion on a boundary between the low area and the high area,

the protrusion is formed in the high area; and

a part of a bottom of the protrusion crosses the stepped portion so as to protrude toward the low area.

7. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the through hole is formed at the center of the belt.

8. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the through hole is formed in the belt in a position corresponding to a top of the protrusion.

9. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the through hole is substantially a circular through hole.

10. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the through hole is substantially an oval through hole.