IP Library Granted Patent US 10,152,092
Granted Patent B2
US 10,152,092 · App. 15/288,966 · Granted Dec 11, 2018

Electronic device

Inventor: Hiroaki Kinoshita (Kanagawa-ken, JP)
Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTD LTE
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Patent No.
US 10,152,092
App. No.
15/288,966
Granted
Dec 11, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a link mechanism provided in a body chassis and configured to operate in linkage with a rotational moving operation for rotationally moving a display chassis relative to a body chassis by a hinge mechanism and a drive wire that is a drive member configured to couple between the link mechanism and a keyboard unit and operate in linkage with the link mechanism, thereby to change relative height positions between a key top and a frame, in which the drive wire is extended to the outside of the keyboard unit through an insertion port formed in a side wall of a base plate and is coupled with the link mechanism and the body chassis includes a drainage passage at a position located under the insertion port.

Claims (7)

1. An electronic device comprising:

a body chassis includes a keyboard body having a plurality of key tops surrounded by a frame and a base plate that supports a bottom surface of said keyboard body, wherein said body chassis includes an electronic substrate located between said keyboard body and a bottom surface cover;

a display chassis includes a display having a hinge mechanism;

a link mechanism, provided in said body chassis, rotationally moves said display chassis relative to said body chassis by said hinge mechanism, wherein said link mechanism has a slide member in which a slit with which an end part of said drive member that has been extended to an outside of said keyboard body through said insertion port is engaged is provided, and rotates said drive member by moving in a fore-and-aft directions in association with a rotating operation of said hinge mechanism; and

a drive member, couple between said link mechanism and said keyboard body, operates in linkage with said link mechanism to change relative height positions between said key tops and said frame, wherein said drive member is extended to the outside of said keyboard body through an insertion port formed in said base plate and is coupled with said link mechanism, and said body chassis includes a drainage passage at a position located under said insertion port.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein said slide member has a projection installed on an upper surface side of said electronic substrate on a side part of said keyboard body, projects downward from an lower surface side of said slit and has been inserted into said opening of said electronic substrate.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of said drive members is arranged side by side along said fore-and-aft direction of said keyboard body, and a plurality of said insertion ports is provided so as to respectively correspond to said drive members.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 10, 2025
From: LENOVO PC INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
To: LENOVO SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Reel/Frame 069870/0670 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 8, 2019
From: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
To: LENOVO PC INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Reel/Frame 049694/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2016
From: KINOSHITA, HIROAKI
To: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
Reel/Frame 039982/0689 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-199921 · Oct 8, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170102741A1 · Apr 13, 2017