US 2012/0267491 A1Published application

Locking device

OwnerRonald On Ho CHIUinventor

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Abstract

A locking device (10) comprising: locking members (20) to releasably engage with a locking surface (31); an actuating member (11) operatively connected to the locking members (20); hinges (201) to pivotally connect the locking device (10) to the stand (200); and a raised lip portion (23) defined on at peripheral edge of each locking member (20) to engage with the locking surface (31); wherein the actuating member (11) is pushed in an inwardly direction by a single finger movement that is translated into a lateral inwards movement of the locking members (20) causing the raised lip portions (23) to disengage with the locking surface (31) and thereby detaching the tablet personal computer (100) from the stand (200); and wherein the hinges (201) and raised lip portions (23) enable the tablet personal computer (100) to be tilted and rotated 360° relative to the stand (200).

Claims8

Dependent claims

A locking device for releasably attaching a cover of a tablet personal computer to a stand and enabling view plan rotation of the cover relative to the stand, the device comprising:

locking members to releasably engage with a locking surface defined at an edge of a void within the cover;
an actuating member operatively connected to the locking members;
hinges to pivotally connect the locking device to the stand;
and
a raised lip portion defined on at peripheral edge of each locking member to engage with the locking surface;
wherein the actuating member is pushed in an inwardly direction by a single finger movement that is translated into a lateral inwards movement of the locking members causing the raised lip portions to disengage with the locking surface and thereby detaching the tablet personal computer from the stand;
and
wherein the hinges and raised lip portions enable the tablet personal computer to be tilted and rotated 360° relative to the stand.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/449,920Filed 18 Apr 2012
Priority: HK 11103974.119 Apr 2011
Published: 25 Oct 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

F16M 11/041
Means for attachment of apparatus; Means allowing adjustment of the apparatus relatively to the stand: allowing quick release of the apparatus
F16M 11/105
Around a horizontal axis: the horizontal axis being the roll axis, e.g. for creating a landscape-portrait rotation
F16M 11/2021
Comprising means allowing pivoting adjustment: around a horizontal axis
F16M 13/00
Frames, casings or beds of engines, machines or apparatus, not specific to