Electronic equipment and hinge connector used for the same

Abstract

In the hinge connector used for an electronic equipment, a first housing has a first hinge connector portion 75 in a hinge unit 27, and a second housing a second hinge connector portion 77 in the hinge unit 27. The second hinge connector portion 77 is housed in the hinge unit 27 slidably between a position in which the hinge connector portion is housed in the hinge unit 27 and a position in which the hinge connector portion projects out from the hinge unit 27, the first housing and second housing being mechanically combined together, the first and second hinge connector portions being then connected together by slidingly moving the second hinge connector portion in the direction crossing the mentioned combining direction at right angles thereto, the first housing and second housing being thereby electrically connected together. This structure enables a hinge connector capable of preventing damage to the connector portions, i.e. electrically combined portions, which would occur when housings of an electronic equipment are mechanically combined with the connector portions constituting portions to be electrically combined, by separating from each other a structure of the portions to be electrically combined and that of portions to be mechanically combined; and an electronic equipment using the same hinge connector to be provided.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.