Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Kazuya Tatsuno

Takehito Yamauchi

Hiroaki Kinoshita

Yoshiyuki Shibayama

Fumitake Mizoguchi

Tatsuya Ushioda

Tetsuo Ogawa

Tetsuya Sano

Takuroh Kamimura

Kenji Watamura

Tatsuya Hosokai

Takateru Adachi

Seita Horikoshi

Hiroaki Agata

Akinori Uchino

Shinichi Kubota

Yuta Tsuganezawa

Satoshi Hosoya

Tsutomu Chonan

Shogo Akiyama

Toshihiro Inoue

The electronic apparatus has: a flat-shaped main body chassis provided with a motherboard; a switch provided at an end portion of the motherboard; a button for pressing an actuator of the switch; a restriction section that restricts the button from rotating around a contact portion when the button presses the actuator; and a button opening formed in a side wall of the main body chassis at a position shifted to a higher level than the switch. The button includes: an operation section exposed through the button opening; an arm portion that extends to a position facing the actuator; and a fin piece that protrudes. The restriction section is provided in such a manner as to face the fin piece at a position vertically shifted to a lower level then the fin piece.

Electronic apparatus

An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis and a second chassis; a hinge connecting the second chassis to the first chassis in a relatively rotatable manner; an electrical device including a display provided in the first chassis; a printed circuit board provided in the second chassis; and a flexible substrate for electrically connecting the electrical device and the printed circuit board, the first chassis including a rotating body that rotates coaxially with the hinge by a rotational movement with respect to the second chassis and has the flexible substrate passed therethrough, and the rotating body including: a first opening guiding the flexible substrate to the electrical device; a second opening guiding the flexible substrate to the printed circuit board; and a substrate opening through which the flexible substrate passes.

A portable information device includes: a chassis having an upper cover defining a top face, a lower cover defining a bottom face, and a vertical wall standing between edges of the upper cover and the lower cover to define a side face; a microphone hole that penetrates the vertical wall and opens to the side face; a microphone module in the chassis, including a microphone facing the microphone hole, the microphone module being configured to acquire sound information outside the chassis with the microphone; and a microphone pressure component between the vertical wall and one of the upper cover and the lower cover to be compressed therebetween and press the microphone module against an inner face of the vertical wall.

Portable information device and microphone pressure component

An information device and a cover that are suitable for forming design marks on a soft material and enhance the appearance quality. The cover includes: a core as a base; an auxiliary sheet closer to a surface than the core; a surface material closer to the surface than the auxiliary sheet, the surface material being softer than the core; and a design mark part including a baseplate and a design mark protruding from the baseplate. The baseplate is disposed in a plate recessed portion having a shape corresponding to a contour of the baseplate and disposed in a surface of the core. The design mark is exposed to the surface through design mark holes in the auxiliary sheet and the surface material, the design mark holes having a contour shape of the design mark. The auxiliary sheet covers at least the contour of the baseplate and the plate recessed portion.

Information device and cover

A portable information device includes a chassis and a cover device to cover the back surface of the chassis. The cover device includes a hinge device that rotatably supports a stand cover section between a stored position and a standing position. The hinge device includes: a first shaft; a second shaft; an intermediate shaft having a first end coupled to one end of the first shaft and a second end coupled to one end of the second shaft; and a first base bracket, a first stand bracket, a second base bracket, and a second stand bracket.

Portable information device and cover device

A portable information device includes a first chassis member, a second chassis member, a hinge mechanism, a display and a bezel member provided to bridge an outer peripheral edge portion of the display and an outer peripheral edge portion of the first and second chassis members. The bezel member is arranged farther away from the inner surfaces of the first and second chassis members than a rotation center of the hinge mechanism. The bezel member has a buffer portion at least at a position overlapping a bent portion of the display. The buffer portion can absorb compressive force F applied thereto as the first and the second chassis members are folded from a flat opened state.

Portable information device

A portable information device that can stably support a display is disclosed. The portable information device includes a first chassis member; a second chassis member; a hinge mechanism; a display whose back surface is supported by front surfaces of a first support plate and a second support plate; an alignment part that aligns the front surfaces between one edge of the first support plate and one edge of the second support plate adjacent to each other, in a flat form; a first support part that supports the first support plate relative to the first chassis member; and a second support part that supports the second support plate relative to the second chassis member. At least one of the first support part and the second support part includes a floating part that supports a corresponding support plate relative to a corresponding chassis member in a floating state.

There is provided an electronic apparatus that includes a heat radiation unit capable of radiating heat efficiently from a heat pipe. The electronic apparatus includes: a blower fan that blows air toward an exhaust port formed in a main body chassis; a heat radiation fin provided in an air-blowing outlet of the blower fan; and a heat pipe fixed to the heat radiation fin. In a region in contact with the heat pipe, the heat radiation fin is of a partial connection structure in which multiple fin members are partially fixed and connected to one another, and in a region with no contact with the heat pipe, the heat radiation fin is a structure of continuous fins.

A docking device is provided. A portable information device can be removably attached to a docking device. The docking device includes first and second connectors that are connected to connection terminals provided on the portable information device. The docking device further includes: a first substrate with the first connector mounted thereon; a second substrate with the second connector other than the first connector mounted on the first substrate mounted thereon; and a substrate connecting member that connects between the first and second connectors in a floating state that allows relative displacement.

Docking device

A portable information device is capable of securing the appearance quality and the durability of products while having a foldable configuration. The portable information device has a backbone member provided throughout and between the inner surface of one edge portion of a first chassis member and the inner surface of one edge portion of a second chassis member so as to cover a gap between the one edge portion of the first chassis member and the one edge portion of the second chassis member connected by a hinge mechanism. The backbone member is provided to the inner surface of the one edge portion of the first chassis member so as to be slidable in an X direction from the second chassis member to the first chassis member along the inner surface, and is non-slidably fixed to the inner surface of the one edge portion of the second chassis member.

A docking device is provided. The docking device includes an engaging member that projects from an upper surface of a device chassis, which has a hook portion for engaging with and disengage from an engaging hole of a portable information apparatus, and which is movable between an engagement position at which the hook portion engages with the engaging hole and a disengagement position at which the engagement of the hook portion with the engaging hole is released; and a restricting member that is movable between a retraction position at which the engaging member is allowed to move from the engagement position to the disengagement position and a restriction position at which the movement of the engaging member from the engagement position to the disengagement position is restricted by coming in contact with the engaging member at a rear surface of the hook portion.

A docking device is provided. The docking device includes a device mounting part for mounting a portable information device having a forward-descending angular position so that the portable information device comes in contact with the face for use at a front end and is supported by the device mounting part at a rear end; a connection part opposed to a lateral face of the portable information device when the portable information device is mounted on the device mounting part; a connector being connectable to a connection terminal at the lateral face of the portable information device mounted on the device mounting part; a detector for detecting a mounting angle of the portable information device mounted on the device mounting part; and an angle adjustment part to rotate the connector according to the mounting angle detected by the detector.

A portable information device is capable of stably supporting a foldable display. The portable information device has a support plate which is fixed to the inner surface sides of a first chassis member and a second chassis member and supports the rear surface of a display. The support plate has a first plate member disposed on the inner surface side of the first chassis member, a second plate member disposed on the inner surface side of the second chassis member, and a flexible sheet-like member connecting the first plate member and the second plate member so as to be foldable into a double-folded state.

An embodiment provides an electronic device, including: a housing with an exhaust port and an intake port; a heat source contained in the housing; a heat transfer unit connected to the heat source; a first radiator located adjacent to the exhaust port, wherein the first radiator is connected to the heat transfer unit; a first blower fan, wherein the first blower fan discharges heat transmitted to the first radiator; and a second radiator located adjacent to the intake port, wherein the second radiator is connected to the heat transfer unit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuya Tatsuno