Back to results
US 7,872,861 B2Granted
Portable electronic device
AssigneeHTC Corporation
InventorsTsung-Yuan Ou, Chih-Shan Yeh, Chin-Chung Shih
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A portable electronic device has a lower body, an upper body, and a moving assembly installed between the parts. The moving assembly has a lower base fixed to the lower body, a middle base pivoted to the lower base along a first axis, and an upper base pivoted to the middle base along a second axis that is substantially paralleled to the first axis and slidably connected to the upper body.
Claims6
A portable electronic device, comprising:
- a lower body;
- an upper body;
- and
- a moving assembly, installed between the upper body and the lower body, the moving assembly having:
- a lower base, fixed to the lower body;
- a middle base, pivoted to the lower base along a first axis;
- and
- an upper base, pivoted to the middle base along a second axis substantially parallel to the first axis, and the upper base slidable with respect with the upper body,
- wherein the upper body stacks on the lower body when the moving assembly is under a close mode,
- the upper body is tilted relative to the lower body through the moving assembly by shifting the upper body along a first direction and then rotating the upper body relative to the lower body when the moving assembly is from the close mode to a first open mode,
- the upper body is tilted relative to the lower body through the moving assembly by shifting the upper body along a second direction and then rotating the upper body relative to the lower body when the moving assembly is from the close mode to a second open mode, and
- the first direction is opposite to the second direction.
9 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.