Hinges with magnets
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsWei-Chung Chen, Kuan-Ting Wu, Kun-Hung Lin
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Abstract
Examples herein relate to a hinge. In some examples, a hinge can include a first bracket connected to a shaft, a second bracket connected to the first bracket, a member connected to the shaft and magnetically attracted to a magnet at a first position, where the member translates relative to the magnet to a second position as the shaft rotates about an axis of the shaft, and the magnet to generate a magnetic attraction force between the member and the magnet, where the magnetic attraction force is higher at the second position than the first position.
Claims15
A hinge, comprising:
- a first bracket connected to a shaft;
- a second bracket connected to the first bracket;
- a member connected to the shaft and magnetically attracted to a magnet at a first position, wherein the member translates relative to the magnet to a second position as the shaft rotates about an axis of the shaft;
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- the magnet to generate a magnetic attraction force between the member and the magnet, wherein the magnetic attraction force is higher at the second position than the first position.
A hinge, comprising:
- a first bracket connected to a shaft;
- a second bracket connected to the first bracket;
- a member connected to the shaft and magnetically attracted to a magnet at a first position, wherein the member translates relative to the magnet to a second position in response to the first bracket and the shaft rotating about an axis of the shaft from a first rotation angle to a second rotation angle;
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- the magnet to generate a magnetic attraction force between the member and the magnet that increases as the member translates relative to the magnet to the second position from the first position in response to the rotation of the first bracket and the shaft from the first rotation angle to the second rotation angle.
A system, comprising:
- a computing device;
- a hinge connected to the computing device, wherein the hinge includes:
- a first bracket connected to a shaft;
- a second bracket connected to the first bracket, the second bracket connected to a housing of the computing device;
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- a member connected to the shaft and magnetically attracted to a magnet at a first position of the member, wherein the member translates to a second position of the member in response to the first bracket and the shaft rotating about an axis of the shaft from a first rotation angle to a second rotation angle;
- wherein a magnetic attraction force between the member and the magnet generated by the magnet increases as the member translates from the first position of the member to the second position of the member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.