Swivel covers
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDerek Kanas, Chan-Woo Park
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein provide a cover for obscuring an opening found on a housing of a computing device. As an example, the housing includes a bezel that includes the opening extending through the bezel. The cover includes a pin disposed on a first end of the cover, wherein the pin is insertable into a hole along the bezel. The housing includes features to swivel a second end of the cover opposite the first end in either a first or second position. In the first position, the second end is to obscure a viewing portion of the opening, and in the second position, the second end is to expose the viewing portion.
Claims10
A housing comprising:
- a bezel comprising an opening extending through the bezel;
- a cover comprising a pin disposed on a first end of the cover, wherein the pin is insertable into a hole along the bezel;
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- features to swivel a second end of the cover opposite the first end in either a first or second position, wherein in the first position, the second end is to obscure a viewing portion of the opening, and in the second position, the second end is to expose the viewing portion wherein the features corn e a first magnet and a second magnet in an internal volume of the housing to interact with the second end of the cover:
- wherein when the second end of the cover is to be pushed away from the first position, the second magnet is to cause the second end swivel to the second position;
- and wherein a magnetic attraction of the second magnet toward the second of the cover is to overcome a magnetic attraction of the first magnet toward the second end.
A computing device comprising:
- a camera comprising a lens;
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- a housing comprising:
- an opening extending through the housing, wherein the opening is to accommodate the lens;
- a cover comprising a pin disposed on a first end of the cover, wherein the pin is insertable into a hole of the housing;
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- a first magnet and a second magnet in an internal volume of the housing to swivel a second end of the cover opposite the first end between a first position and a second position, wherein in the first position, the second end is to obscure a viewing portion of the lens, and in the second position, the second end is to expose the viewing portion,
- wherein when the second end of the cover is to be pushed away from the first position, the second magnet is to cause the second and to swivel to the second position, and
- wherein a magnetic attraction of the second magnet toward the second end of the cover is to overcome a magnetic attraction of the first magnet toward the second end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.