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US 11,237,643 B2Granted
Physical keyboards for multi-display computing devices
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsShantanu D. Kulkarni, Jeff Ku, James Okuley
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Abstract
Apparatus, devices, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for physical keyboards with multi-display computing devices. An example computing device includes a support plate, a first display hingedly coupled to the support plate, and a physical keyboard hingedly coupled to the support plate.
Claims22
A computing device comprising:
- a support plate;
- a first display hingedly coupled to the support plate about a first hinge;
- a physical keyboard;
- a linkage including a first axis of rotation about a second hinge and a second axis of rotation about a third hinge, the physical keyboard rotatable about the first axis of rotation;
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- a second display hingedly coupled to the linkage about the second axis of rotation,
- the linkage rotatable about the third hinge to:
- change the position of the second hinge relative to the first display, and
- change the position of the second hinge relative to the second display,
- the second hinge in a first position when the first display is in an open position and the physical keyboard is in a stowed position, and
- the second hinge in a second position when the first display is in the open position and the physical keyboard is in a deployed position,
- the second hinge further from the first display in the second position than when in the first position, and
- the second hinge closer to the second display in the second position than when in the first position.
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A computing device comprising:
- a first display;
- a dual axis link including a first-axis of rotation and a second axis of rotation, the first display rotatably relative to the dual axis link about the first axis of rotation,
- a physical keyboard rotatable relative to the dual axis link about the second axis of rotation and rotatable relative to the dual axis link about a third axis of rotation, the physical keyboard rotatable about the second axis of rotation and the third axis of rotation while the dual axis link is stationary;
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- a second display rotatable relative to the dual axis link about the second axis of rotation.
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A computing device comprising:
- a support plate;
- a first hinge coupled to a first end of the support plate;
- a second hinge coupled to a second end of the support plate;
- a first display rotatable via the first hinge;
- a physical keyboard rotatable via the second hinge;
- a second display rotatable via the second hinge, the physical keyboard and the second display are separately rotatable about the second hinge;
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- a magnet to releasably hold the keyboard in at least one of a stowed position behind the first display or in a deployed position on the second display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.