Patent ID: 8738101

Claim:
A multi-state detachable, electronic, mobile hybrid smartphone-tablet touch screen device comprising a number of display parts connected to each other by connecting hinges, the hinges connecting each pair of the display parts and allowing screens to unfold with an angle of up to 360 degrees with respect to the adjacent display part, the hinges including two opposing couplers, each coupler having a semicircular part with a number of cogs meshed to the cogs of the opposite coupler's semicircular part, further comprising disengaging means for disengaging the display parts, wherein a first, a second, and a third display part are connected to each other in such a way that the device can be operated in each of three different configurations and two states: in an attached state: a smartphone configuration where the image display surface in the first display part is covered by a rear surface of the second display part, the image display surface in the second display part is covered by a rear surface of the third display part and the image display surface in the third display part is exposed for viewing and operation by a user; a tablet configuration where the second and the third display parts have been moved from the closed state so that the image display surfaces in all the displays are exposed in essentially the same plane, and the device becomes operable essentially in the same manner as a tablet device; a tilt configuration where the second and the third display parts have been moved from the smartphone configuration so that the image display surfaces of each of the display parts are inclined from their respective adjacent display parts at an angle of opening of less than 360 degrees; and in a detached state, wherein the device is transformed from a multi-screen device to a number of independent single screen smartphone devices by using the disengaging means pertinent to each display.