Link mechanism
AssigneeSony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorMagnus Lindvall
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a portable electronic apparatus, such as a mobile phone, having an upper part being moveable in relation to a lower part of the apparatus. The movement of the upper part may both be a sliding and a tilting movement. The sliding movement is controlled by means of a sleeve and a guide placed in the upper part of the apparatus. The sleeve is connected to the lower part by means of pair of links at opposite sides of the apparatus. The links are received at opposite ends of each sleeve at fulcrums at the sleeve and lower part, respectively. The links are designed and positioned to give self-locking in at least three distinct positions of the upper part of the portable electronic apparatus in relation to the lower part of the apparatus.
Claims15
A portable electronic apparatus having an upper part and a lower part, which upper part is arranged moveable in relation to the lower part, wherein the movement of the upper part comprises both a sliding movement and a rotational tilting movement, wherein the sliding movement of the upper part is controlled by sleeves moving along guides, which sleeves are arranged connected to the lower part and which guides and sleeves are arranged in the upper part and wherein the sleeves of the upper part are connected by means of links to the lower part, wherein the links comprise pairs of links, each pair arranged at opposite sides of the portable electronic apparatus, wherein the links are rotated during the tilting movement, wherein one end of each link is received in a fulcrum each at the sleeve of the upper part of the portable electronic apparatus and wherein the other end of each link is received at a fulcrum each at the lower part of the portable electronic apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.