US 8,558,819 B2Granted

Electronic apparatus and reset method of the same

AssigneeInventec Corporation

InventorChih-Jung Chen

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Abstract

An electronic apparatus including a main body and a stylus is provided. The main body includes a containing trench having a bulge and a reset button. The stylus includes a stylus body, a stylus front end and a stylus rear end. A surrounding trench structure of the stylus body has a first end and a second end connected to a first stylus body and a second stylus of the stylus body respectively, wherein the cross section area of the first end is smaller than the same of the second end. The stylus front end passes into the containing trench to perform a first displacement to a first position, and then to perform a second displacement to a second position by pressing the stylus rear end to make the surrounding trench structure slide over the bulge such that the stylus tip touches the reset button to reset the electronic apparatus.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a main body, comprising:
a protection cover;
a containing trench, having a first opening and a second opening and comprising a bulge, wherein the second opening is contiguous to a placing hole of the protection cover;
and
a reset button, separated from the first opening for a certain distance;
and
a stylus, comprising:
a stylus body, comprising a first stylus body, a second stylus body and a surrounding trench structure, wherein a first end of the surrounding trench structure is connected to the first stylus body, a second end of the surrounding trench structure is connected to the second stylus body, in which the cross section area of the first end is smaller than the cross section of the second end;
a stylus front end, stretching from the first stylus body to a stylus tip;
and
a stylus rear end, connected to the second stylus body and comprising a catching bulge;
wherein the stylus front end passes into the containing trench via the second opening to perform a first displacement to a first position such that the bulge buckles in the surrounding trench structure to enable the stylus to be placed inside the containing trench, and then to perform a second displacement to a second position by pressing the stylus rear end to make the surrounding trench structure slide over the bulge such that the stylus tip touches the reset button via the first opening to reset the electronic apparatus, wherein the protection cover further comprises a side slot contiguous to the second opening of the containing trench, and the first displacement is performed by aligning the catching bulge with the side slot, wherein the protection cover further comprises a second displacement slot contiguous to the side slot, and the second displacement is performed after the stylus is rotated to make the catching bulge move to the second displacement slot from the side slot, such that the catching bulge moves into the second displacement slot when the second displacement is performed.

9 more elements

An electronic apparatus reset method, comprising:

placing a stylus front end of a stylus via a second opening of a containing trench of a main body of the electronic apparatus, wherein the stylus front end stretches from a first stylus body of a stylus body of the stylus to a stylus tip, the main body comprises a protection cover, the second opening is contiguous to a placing hole of the protection cover, and the protection cover further comprises a side slot contiguous to the second opening of the containing trench;
performing a first displacement of the stylus in the containing trench to a first position such that a bulge in the containing trench buckles in a surrounding trench structure of the stylus, wherein a first end of the surrounding trench structure is connected to the first stylus body, a second end of the surrounding trench structure is connected to a second stylus body of the stylus body of the stylus, and the cross section area of the first end is smaller than the cross section area of the second end;
and
exerting a force on a stylus rear end connected to the second stylus body of the stylus to make the surrounding trench structure slide over the bulge to perform a second displacement to a second position such that the tip touches a reset button separated from a first opening of the containing trench for a certain distance via the first opening to reset the electronic apparatus, wherein the stylus rear end of the stylus further comprises a catching bulge, the performing of a first displacement further comprises aligning the catching bulge with the side slot, wherein the protection cover further comprises a second displacement slot contiguous to the side slot, the catching bulge moves into the second displacement slot when the second displacement is performed, and before exerting the force on the stylus rear end again to perform the second displacement, the electronic apparatus reset method further comprises;
rotating the stylus to make the catching bulge move from the side slot to the second displacement slot.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/025,175Filed 11 Feb 2011
Priority: TW 99223037 U26 Nov 2010
Published: US 2012/0133619 A131 May 2012
Granted: 15 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 1/1626
For portable computers: with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
G06F 1/24
Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00: resetting means
G06F 2200/1632
Indexing scheme relating to constructional details of the computer: pen holder integrated in the computer
G06F
Computing and data processing