Patent ID: 6034866
Filing Date: 2000-03-07
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An equipment having an openable cover, comprising:a body having a display panel;a first cover member mounted on the body and guidable in a slidable and pivotable manner between a first position and a second position relatively to the body;a second cover member mounted on the body and guidable in a slidable and pivotable manner between a third position and a fourth position relatively to the body, the second cover member being pivotably coupled at an interior end thereof to an adjacent, interior end of the first cover member; andthe first and second cover members in the respective first and third positions thereof being in a substantially coplanar relationship, parallel to the display panel and cooperating with each other to cover the display panel, and the second cover member moving to the fourth position thereof, adjacent an end of the body and being pivoted about the end of the body so as to project an exterior end thereof below the rear surface of the body and maintain the body in a tilted state at the second pivoted position of the second cover member, the first and second cover members concurrently pivoting relatively to each other at their pivotally coupled interior ends and the first cover member moving to the second position thereof with an exterior end thereof adjacent the end of the body and pivoted relatively to the body about the end thereof, so as to expose the display panel in the tilted state of the body.