Case for portable computer having display accessible when lid is closed over the keyboard
AssigneeEO Europe Limited
InventorsAllen Boothroyd, Martin Jackson
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Abstract
A computer case having a base (10) incorporating a keyboard (14) which in the closed condition of the case is covered by a lid (12) having its display uppermost, the case opening by a mechanism enabling the lid to slide rearwardly and incline relatively to the base so as to present the display forwardly behind the keyboard.
Claims13
A computer comprising:
- a base having a front and a rear;
- a keyboard carried by the base;
- a lid having a front and a back and a closed position in which said lid covers the keyboard;
- a display means carried by the lid and having a viewing surface exposed in the closed position of the lid;
- and
- mounting means movably mounting the lid to the base to enable movement of the lid into an open position, said mounting means comprising means by which the lid can be displaced rearwardly relative to the base and the back of the lid lifted so that in its open position the lid is disposed in an inclined position uncovering and to the rear of the keyboard with the viewing surface of the display means facing forwardly.
A computer comprising a display incorporated in a lid, the display being incorporated such that the display is visible at an outer surface of the lid when the lid is closed against and covers a base for the computer, the lid being movably mounted on the base to open to a position in which the display on said outer surface is visible in an inclined plane sloping back upwardly from the base, the base and the lid including a connection comprising, on each side of the case, a track on the base and a pin on the lid slidably cooperating with said track, whereby the front of the lid is guided for movement in a front-to-back direction of the base, and further including a hinged stay pivotally connected at one end to the base and at its other end to the lid, whereby the back of the lid is guided for upward and rearward movement relative to the base when the front of the lid is moved rearwardly.
A portable computer comprising:
- a housing;
- a keyboard carried by said housing;
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- display means having a viewing surface and an opposing surface;
- means coupling said display means to said housing for enabling movement of the display means from a closed position in which the display means covers the keyboard with said opposing surface adjacent said keyboard and an open position in which the keyboard is uncovered and the display means is positioned rearwardly of the keyboard at a viewing angle;
- said coupling means comprising means for guiding the display means rearwardly of the housing and also tilting the display means relative to the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.