Patent ID: 7839996
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A folding electronic device comprising: a first frame equipped with plural first joints; a second frame equipped with plural second joints; plural sets of hinge joints in which said plural first joints and said plural second joints are connected together in a manner that said first frame and said second frame can rotate on a predetermined rotation axis; a first body containing said first frame; and a second body containing said second frame; wherein at least one set of hinge joints of said plural sets of hinge joints are equipped with a connecting component having a hollow portion, wherein the other sets of hinge joints are equipped with predetermined solid hinge shafts, wherein said first body has a display device, wherein said second body has a circuit board for driving said display device, wherein a flexible board disposed between said display device and said circuit board passes through said hollow portion, wherein said connecting component has, in a side of said hollow portion, a slit for allowing passage of said flexible board, wherein in an intermediate state that is between an open state where the angle made by said first frame and said second frame, connected together by means of said hinge joints, is maximum, and a closed state where the angle is minimum, said flexible board is arranged to be flat in said hollow portion, wherein said flexible board is supported by surfaces on both sides of said slit so as to be flat in the open state and in the closed state, and wherein the connecting component having the hollow portion with the slit has a circular-shaped first region and a linear-shaped second region in which the slit and the both sides of the slit are disposed.