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US 7,881,047 · App. 12/453,264 · Granted Feb 1, 2011

Electronic apparatus

Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited
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Patent No.
US 7,881,047
App. No.
12/453,264
Granted
Feb 1, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes an electronic apparatus main body; and a movable body which is mounted in the electronic apparatus main body, with its predetermined direction-wise one end supported thereon, so as to be displaceable between an encased condition where its one surface faces the main body and an unfolded condition where the one surface is exposed. The electronic apparatus main body and the movable body are so arranged that, in the movable-body encased condition, orthographical projections in the predetermined direction, respectively, of at least a part of the other end portion of the movable body in the predetermined direction and at least a part of that area of the electronic apparatus main body which is opposed to the other end portion of the movable body are kept in superposed relation with each other.

Claims (14)

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an electronic apparatus main body; and

a movable body of which one end portion in a predetermined direction is supported by the electronic apparatus main body, and which is mounted in the electronic apparatus so as to be displaceable between an encased condition where one surface portion of the movable body is opposed to the electronic apparatus main body and an unfolded condition where the one surface portion is exposed to the outside,

wherein the electronic apparatus main body and the movable body being so arranged that, in the movable-body encased condition, orthographical projections in the predetermined direction, respectively, of at least a part of the other end portion of the movable body in the predetermined direction and at least a part of that area of the electronic apparatus main body which is opposed to the other end portion of the movable body are kept in superposed relation with each other.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the electronic apparatus main body includes:

a slidingly displacing portion for allowing the movable body to be displaced under a condition where the one surface portion of the movable body is opposed to the electronic apparatus main body; and

an angularly displacing portion for allowing the movable body to make angular displacement about an axis extending in a widthwise direction which is perpendicular to a direction in which the electronic apparatus main body and the movable body stack one upon another and to a direction in which the movable body is displaced by the slidingly displacing portion in the movable-body encased condition.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the electronic apparatus main body is formed with an opening portion which is disposed at an end portion of the electronic apparatus main body close to the other end portion of the movable body, and is opened in the direction in which the movable body is displaced by the slidingly displacing portion, for effecting insertion and ejection of a recording medium.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 3 , wherein, in the movable-body encased condition, the other end portion of the movable body is opposed to the end portion of the electronic apparatus main body,

wherein the other end portion of the movable body has an outwardly extending protrusion located toward the other end thereof in the predetermined direction,

and wherein, in the movable-body encased condition, that part of the electronic apparatus main body which is opposed to the protrusion is formed with a concavity.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 4 , wherein, in the movable-body encased condition, the protrusion of the movable body constitutes a guide path for guiding a recording medium to the opening portion.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the protrusion is formed in at least a certain part of the movable body in the widthwise direction, and is positioned in such a manner that, in the movable-body encased condition, a length of a gap between the electronic apparatus main body and the movable body in the widthwise direction is smaller than a width of a recording medium which is inserted into the opening portion.

7. The electronic apparatus claim 4 , wherein the protrusion is made of a synthetic resin material.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 5, 2009
From: HATANAKA, HIROSHI; MATSUMOTO, SHINSUKE
To: FUJITSU TEN LTD.
Reel/Frame 022688/0481 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP P2008-124068 · May 9, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20090279235A1 · Nov 12, 2009