Patent ID: 7523560
Filing Date: 2009-04-28
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for detecting an electronic product being placed vertically or horizontally, comprising: a constraint base; a fixed support member connected to said constraint base at an anchor point and extending upwardly from said constraint base; a cantilever having a first end connected to said fixed support member so as to dispose said cantilever to be approximately parallel with said constraint base and a second end opposite to said first end; a counterweight mounted on said second end of said cantilever in order to provide a force thereof, said counterweight defining a gravity line by virtue of ground gravity; and a sensing device for converting bending of said cantilever into a circuitry status; wherein, when said cantilever extend in a direction approximately perpendicular to the gravity line, said sensing device converts the distortion of said cantilever into a first circuitry status, and when said cantilever extends in a direction approximately parallel to the gravity line, said sensing device converts the distortion of said cantilever into a second circuitry status different from said first circuitry status.