Patent ID: 9489054
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A keyboard folio for a tablet computer, the keyboard folio comprising: a) a shell with a cavity sized and shaped to receive the tablet computer; b) the shell having an attachment strip along a side thereof, a front face extending along the attachment strip and being flush with an opening to the cavity of the shell; the attachment strip having ferromagnetic elements therein; c) a wireless keyboard magnetically coupled to the shell; d) the wireless keyboard having an attachment bar with ferromagnetic elements magnetically couplable to the ferromagnetic elements of the attachment strip of the shell, the wireless keyboard and the shell having two configurations, including: i) an attached configuration in which the wireless keyboard is magnetically coupled to the shell with the ferromagnetic elements of the attachment bar of the wireless keyboard magnetically coupled to the ferromagnetic elements of the attachment strip of the shell, and ii) a detached configuration in which the wireless keyboard is separated from the shell; e) the wireless keyboard having a keyboard panel with an alphanumeric keyboard pivotally coupled to the attachment bar, and a keyboard hinge pivotally coupling the keyboard panel to the attachment bar; and f) the attachment bar of the wireless keyboard magnetically and removably attaching to the attachment strip of the shell in a fixed relationship, while the keyboard panel pivots with respect to the attachment bar, and thus the shell, between: i) a closed orientation in which the keyboard panel and the attachment bar are against the shell and form a common planar layer, and ii) an open orientation in which the keyboard panel is at an obtuse angle with respect to the shell and the attachment bar, and with the keyboard panel inclined at an acute angle with respect to horizontal, and with the attachment bar of the wireless keyboard remaining in the fixed relationship with the shell.