Patent ID: 6768637
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An information processing unit comprising:a main body housing circuitry for executing information processing; a first battery case attached to a first surface on a rear side of said main body so as to stand out from a second surface adjoining said first surface of said main body division; first, second, and third elastic members, said third elastic member being affixed to a lower surface of said first battery case; and a second battery case having first and second flat surfaces and leg portions attached to respective edge portions on respective sides of said first battery case that stand out from said second surface of said main body housing, said leg portions being rotatably attached to said respective sides of said first battery case so that said second battery case is free to rotate in a direction to approach said second surface of said main body and also to rotate in a reverse direction to move away from said second surface of said main body, wherein said first flat surface of said second battery case has said first elastic member affixed thereto, so that said first elastic member comes into contact with and lies against said second surface of said main body housing when rotated fully in the direction to approach said second surface of said main body housing, and said second flat surface of said second battery case has said second elastic member affixed thereto, so that said second elastic member rests on a supporting surface in a first operating mode, and said first elastic member affixed to said first flat surface of the second battery case and said third elastic member rest on the supporting surface when the second battery case is rotated fully in the reverse direction in a second operating mode.