# US 2020/0401186 A1 · Portable electronic device

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- Number: US 2020/0401186 A1
- Document ID: US20200401186A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 16/882,612
- Filed: 2020-05-25
- Published: 2020-12-24
- Earliest claimed: 2019-06-19
- Assignees: Pegatron Corporation
- Applicants: Pegatron Corporation
- Inventors: Hung-Lu CHAN
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20200401186A1

## CPC

- G06F 1/1679: {for locking or maintaining the movable parts of the enclosure in a fixed position, e.g. latching mechanism at the edge of the display in a laptop or for the screen protective cover of a PDA (G06F1/1681 takes precedence)}
- G06F 1/169: {the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes (G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033)}
- G06F 1/1616: {with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position}
- G06F 1/1681: {Details related solely to hinges (hinge details related to the transmission of signals or power are classified in G06F1/1683)}
- G06F 2200/1632: Pen holder integrated in the computer
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

A portable electronic device includes a cover, a hinge structure, a base, and a removable component. The base is pivotally connected to the cover through the hinge structure, and the base comprises an accommodating groove adjacent to the cover. The removable component is detachably disposed in the accommodating groove. When the removable component is disposed at a first position in the accommodating groove, the hinge structure locks a rotation of the cover relative to the base.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A portable electronic device, comprising:
a cover;
a hinge structure;
a base, pivotally connected to the cover through the hinge structure, and comprising an accommodating groove adjacent to the cover; and
a removable component, detachably disposed in the accommodating groove, wherein when the removable component is disposed at a first position in the accommodating groove, the hinge structure locks a rotation of the cover relative to the base.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein when the removable component is disposed at a second position in the accommodating groove, the hinge structure unlocks the rotation of the cover relative to the base.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The portable electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the hinge structure comprises:
a convex portion, connected to the cover; and
a buckle mechanism, connected to the base and movably sleeved on the convex portion, wherein
when the removable component is disposed at the first position in the accommodating groove, the buckle mechanism is sleeved on the convex portion, so that the cover is fixed to the base, and
when the removable component is disposed at the second position in the accommodating groove, the buckle mechanism is far from the convex portion, so that the cover rotates relative to the base.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The portable electronic device according to claim 3, wherein the buckle mechanism further comprises a groove, and a shape of an accommodating space of the groove is the same as a shape of the convex portion, so that the groove and the convex portion are embedded with each other when the buckle mechanism is sleeved on the convex portion.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

The portable electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the accommodating groove comprises a first magnetic component and the removable component comprises a second magnetic component, wherein when the removable component is disposed at the second position in the accommodating groove, the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component interact to generate a signal, and the signal drives the hinge structure to unlock the rotation of the cover relative to the base.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the removable component is a stylus.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The portable electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the stylus comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion and the second portion are separable, the first portion comprises a pen tip, and the second portion comprises a pen cap used for accommodating the pen tip.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the hinge structure comprises a first end and a second end disposed on the base in parallel, and the accommodating groove is disposed between the first end and the second end.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the removable component rotates from the first position to the second position in the accommodating groove along an axial direction.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The portable electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the hinge structure rotates along the axial direction.