Dell Products Inc.

Kuan-Hua Chiou

Wen-Hsing Lin

Ernesto Ramirez

Bo-Wei Chu

Chun-Po Chen

Chia-Ting Hu

Yu-Chun Hsieh

Ming-Chen Chang

Chunpo Chen

Jou-Yen Lu

An information handling system includes a camera in a portable housing, the camera selectively blocked and exposed by a camera shutter having a biasing device with a semiautomatic open and close response generating by biasing the shutter towards the closed position when the shutter is greater than a predetermined amount closed and biasing the shutter towards the open position when the shutter is greater than a predetermined amount open. The dual bias is generated with a torsion spring captured between a fixed portion and a sliding portion that interacts with an extension from the fixed portion and an extension from the sliding portion based upon the shutter position.

Information handling system camera shutter with semi-automatic action

A portable information handling system having a portable housing with first and second housing portions rotationally coupled by a hinge having an adjustable torque and a sensor disposed at a front corner of a housing portion reduces torque provided by the hinge when in a closed position and an indication is sensed of an end user opening the housing portions. Reducing torque of the hinge that resists housing rotation from the closed position aids an end user in a single handed rotation of the housing to an open position by allowing the weight of the housing to be sufficient to hold the housing in place on a support surface while the housing rotates open.

Information handling system variable torque hinge

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Taipei, Taiwan

Kuan-Hua Chiou