Electronic device with damage prevention features
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsHiroaki Kinoshita, Eiji Shinohara
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Abstract
One embodiment provide an electronic device, including: a housing having an upper face and a lower face; a keyboard disposed in the upper face of the housing; a display part including a display; a hinge mechanism connecting the housing to the display part in a rotatable fashion; and a link mechanism that operates in conjunction with rotation of the display part to buffer the rotation of the display part when the display part is rotated beyond a predetermined angle with respect to the housing. Other aspects are described and claimed.
Claims20
An electronic device, comprising:
- a housing having an upper face and a lower face;
- a keyboard disposed in the upper face of the housing;
- a display part including a display;
- a hinge mechanism connecting the housing to the display part in a rotatable fashion;
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- a link mechanism that operates in conjunction with rotation of the display part to buffer the rotation of the display part when the display part is rotated beyond a predetermined angle with respect to the housing.
A link mechanism, comprising;
- a hinge case;
- a slide member;
- a link member disposed in a main housing of an electronic device;
- the link member attaching to the hinge case that connects the main housing to a display part in a rotatable fashion;
- the link member attaching to the slide member disposed within the main housing;
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- a buffer that buffers rotation of the display part when the display part is rotated beyond a predetermined angle with respect to the main housing.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a housing having an upper face and a lower face;
- a keyboard disposed in the upper face of the housing;
- a display part including a display;
- a hinge mechanism connecting the housing to the display part in a rotatable fashion;
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- a link mechanism that operates in conjunction with rotation of the display part raise an element to a plane above a top surface of one or more keys of the keyboard when the display part is rotated beyond a predetermined angle with respect to the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.