Electronic apparatus
View Patent ↗According to one embodiment, An electronic apparatus includes a main body, a display unit and a hinge portion. The main body includes a first convex and a second convex disposed on an upper face of the main body. The display unit includes a leg portion having a projection. The hinge portion joints the main body and the display unit. The hinge portion includes a rotation shaft rotatably supporting the display unit between a closed state and an open state and a pivot shaft swingably supporting the display unit between an obverse state and a reverse state. The projection is engaged with the first convex when the display unit is in the obverse state, and engaged with the second convex when the display unit is in the reverse state.
1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a main body comprising:
a first convex portion that is disposed on an upper face of the main body and comprises a first engaging portion, and
a second convex portion that is disposed on the upper face and spaced from the first convex portion and comprises a second engaging portion;
a display unit comprising:
a display surface,
a rear surface disposed in an opposite side of the display surface, and
a leg portion configured so as to be engaged with the first convex portion and the second convex portion;
a hinge portion that joints the main body and the display unit, the hinge portion comprising:
a rotation shaft rotatably supporting the display unit between a closed state in which the display unit covers the main body and an open state in which the display unit is risen relative to the main body, and
a pivot shaft swingably supporting the display unit between a first state in which the display surface faces the upper face of the main body and a second state in which the rear surface faces the upper face; and
a first projection projecting from the leg portion in an axial direction of the rotation shaft;
wherein the first projection is engaged with the first engaging portion when the display unit is in the first state; and
the first projection is engaged with the second engaging portion when the display unit is in the second state.
2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the first engaging portion comprises a first engaging projection;
the second engaging portion comprises a second engaging projection;
the first engaging projection comprises a first opening;
the second engaging projection comprises a second opening;
the first opening guides the first projection when the display unit is swung toward the first state; and
the second opening guides the first projection when the display unit is swung toward the second state.
3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein each of the first opening and the second opening is opened toward a swinging direction of the display unit.
4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein:
the first engaging projection comprises a first wall;
the second engaging projection comprises a second wall;
the first wall is disposed in an opposite side in the swinging direction to the first opening;
the second wall is disposed in an opposite side in the swinging direction to the second opening;
the first projection abuts the first wall in the first state; and
the first projection abuts the second wall in the second state.
5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein:
the leg portion comprises a second projection on an opposite side of the first projection, the second projection projecting from the leg portion in the axial direction of the rotation shaft;
the second projection is engaged with the second engaging portion when the display unit is in the first state; and
the second projection is engaged with the first engaging portion when the display unit is in the second state.
6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein:
the second projection is reciprocable in the axial direction of the rotation shaft:
the second projection is released from an engagement with the second engaging projection by climbing over the second wall when the display unit is swung from the first state; and
the second projection comes into the engagement with the first engaging projection by climbing over the first wall when the display unit is swung toward the second state.
7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the leg portion comprises a spring that urges the second engaging projection outward from the leg portion.
8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein:
the first projection comprises a cylindrical projection substantially formed cylindrical; and
each of the first engaging projection and the second engaging projection comprises a cylindrical hollow formed to substantially fit the cylindrical projection.
9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the second projection comprises:
a circular arc part that is shaped in substantially a circular arc of the same diameter as the first projection, abuts the first wall or the second wall to regulate a swing motion of the display unit in the closed state;
a first tapered face that abuts the second wall and retreats the second projection inward for the leg portion when the display unit in the open state is swung from the first state and toward the second state; and
a second tapered face that abuts the first wall and retreats the second projection inward for the leg portion when the display unit in the open state is swung from the second state and toward the first state.
10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein:
the first engaging portion functions as a bearing of the second projection when the display unit rotates on the rotation shaft in the second state; and
the second engaging portion functions as a bearing of the second projection when the display unit rotates on the rotation shaft in the first state.
11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein each of the first projection and the second projection has a tapered outer peripheral portion.