Source: http://www.google.com/patents/US7158634?dq=7,433,694
Timestamp: 2017-10-18 01:28:43
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 102', 'art 104', 'art 102', 'art 104', 'art 102', 'art 104']

Patent US7158634 - Portable electronic devices - Google Patents
A portable electronic device (100) has a cover part (102) carrying a display (112) connected to a base part (104) carrying a keyboard (118) by means of a hinge arrangement (106). The cover part can move relatively to the base part from a closed configuration to an open configuration. The hinge arrangement...http://www.google.com/patents/US7158634?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7158634 - Portable electronic devices
Publication number US7158634 B2
Application number US 10/021,922
Also published as EP1217501A2, EP1217501A3, US20020077161
Publication number 021922, 10021922, US 7158634 B2, US 7158634B2, US-B2-7158634, US7158634 B2, US7158634B2
Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (85), Classifications (22), Legal Events (4)
US 7158634 B2
In contrast to the prior art, the combination of translational and rotational movement enables a display present at the outer surface of a device according to the prior art to be used in conjunction with a keyboard located at the inner surface of the device by a user. In this way, the same display can be used irrespective of whether the device is in the first configuration or the second configuration. Furthermore, since the first part is able to rotate about the first axis, it is able to rotate so that both the first user interface and the second user interface can adopt a preferred optimum configuration in which they are both visible to, and available for use by, the user at the same time. This optimum configuration is when there is an included angle of 180° or less between the first part and the second part. Preferably the included angle is in the range 90° to 140°. Most preferably, it is in the region of 130°.
Preferably at least some of the connecting elements are in the form of a first straight portion connected to a second straight portion at an elbow region so that the overall configuration of the connecting elements is “bent”. Preferably one connecting element from each pair has such an elbow configuration.
FIG. 4 shows another view of the device according to FIGS. 1 a to 1 d;
FIGS. 5 a to 5 c show steps involved in opening of a device according to yet another embodiment of the invention;
Opening and closing of the device 100 will now be explained by referring to FIGS. 1 a to 1 d in combination with FIGS. 2 a to 2 e. It can be seen that FIGS. 1 a and 2 a, FIGS. 1 b and 2 b, FIGS. 1 c and 2 d and FIGS. 1 d and 2 e all correspond. FIG. 2 c has no correspondence in FIGS. 1 a to 1 d.
Corresponding sides of the first part 102 and the second part 104 are connected by pairs of connecting elements 122 and 124 and 126 and 128. In each pair of the connecting elements, one of the connecting elements, 122 and 126, is in a bent or angled form and has an elbow. Each connecting element is connected at one of its ends to the first part 102 and at the other of its ends to the second part 104 at connection points so that the connecting elements can rotate relatively to the first part 102 and the second part 104 about axes of rotation 134, 136, 138 and 140.
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U.S. Classification 379/433.13, 361/679.06, 345/168, 455/90.3, 361/679.27, 379/433.1, 455/575.1, 379/433.12
International Classification G06F1/16, H04M1/00, H04M1/02
Cooperative Classification H04M1/022, H04M1/0237, G06F1/1683, G06F1/1615, G06F1/1671, G06F1/1681
European Classification G06F1/16P9K10, G06F1/16P9M6, G06F1/16P9M8, G06F1/16P1, H04M1/02A2B8F
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