Sony Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Ab

Naka Shibata

Tatsuya Sano

Kenji Sakakibara

Embodiments include a hinge structure attached to a keyboard device and a tablet terminal. The hinge structure includes a cam mechanism and a stand member configured to rotate to a support position based on the position of a tablet terminal attached to the hinge structure. When the tablet terminal is rotated by a user to a first predetermined angle relative to the keyboard device, the stand member will in turn automatically rotate and extend. When the tablet terminal is rotated by a user to a second predetermined angle relative to the keyboard device, the stand member will in turn lock in order to support and brace the combination of the attached tablet terminal and keyboard device. When not using the attached tablet terminal, the locked stand member may be unlocked and released upon closing the attached table terminal to a zero degree angle relative to the keyboard device.

Hinge structure with stand and keyboard device

A portable terminal including a first housing including a first display; a second housing including a second display; and a hinge portion that couples the first housing and the second housing so as to be openable and closable with respective opposing end portions of the first housing and the second housing adjacent to each other and with respective surfaces of the first housing and the second housing positioned in the same plane as each other in an open state. The hinge portion is disposed so as to not be visible from a front side of the first display and the second display when the first housing and the second housing are in the open state.

Portable terminal

An information processing apparatus including a first case that includes a first display having a touch-sensing function; a second case that includes a second display having a touch-sensing function; and a hinge mechanism configured to join the first and second cases in a rotatable manner such that both the first and second displays are exposed in a closed state and such that first and second displays are arranged side-by-side on substantially the same plane in an open state.

An electronic device includes a movable unit having a top surface; a main body in which the movable unit is stowed and from which the movable unit is deployed by sliding the movable unit, the main body having a first surface opposed to the top surface when the movable unit is in a stowed state and in a deployed state; and a changing mechanism which changes a distance between the top surface and the first surface during a sliding operation of the movable unit so that the top surface and the first surface during the sliding operation are separated from each other by a distance greater than a distance between the top surface and the first surface in the stowed state and the deployed state of the movable unit.

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Naka Shibata