Patent ID: 8412280
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. An electronic apparatus operable as a wireless device having multiple protrusions which are operable to couple portions of the apparatus to each other, the apparatus comprising: a main body portion having a main body portion back surface and a keyboard located at a part of the main body portion other than the main body portion back surface; a display portion having a display portion back surface and a display screen on a display surface which is opposite the display portion back surface, the display surface having a length and a width associated therewith in which the length corresponds to a larger one of the length and the width; and a coupling portion that rotatably couples the main body portion and the display portion between a closed state and an open state or between the open state and the closed state, the coupling portion having a first protrusion which protrudes from the display portion back surface in a direction orthogonal to the display portion back surface, a second protrusion which protrudes from a surface opposite the main body portion back surface in a direction orthogonal to the surface opposite the main body portion back surface, and a shaft which rotatably couples the first protrusion and the second protrusion together, in the closed state, the main body portion back surface and the display portion back surface face each other and the electronic apparatus is operable as a portable apparatus in which all of the display surface having the display screen except for a relatively small perimeter portion thereof is usable as a display in at least a direction corresponding to the width thereof, and in the opened state, the electronic apparatus is operable as a small-sized personal computer.