Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Takayuki Morino

Hiroaki Kinoshita

Daisuke Takahashi

Seita Horikoshi

Yalu Liu

Takehito Yamauchi

Akinori Uchino

Masayuki Amano

Kenji Watamura

Tabito Miyamoto

Tetsuya Ohtani

Gang Ji

Satoshi Seino

Hiroyuki Noguchi

Moriyuki Tsuchihashi

Yoshiharu Uchiyama

Shigehiro Horiuchi

Masaaki Bandoh

Toshihiro Inoue

Tomoyuki Takahashi

Thomas Perelli

Cuong Huy Truong

Kazuo Fujii

Masaki Kobayashi

Fusanobu Nakamura

Hiroaki Agata

Takuroh Kamimura

Kazuo Nakada

Fumitake Mizoguchi

Atsushi Ohyama

Katsutoshi Katoh

Madison Kay Smith

Sara Akiyama

Yasuharu Yamada

Keita Suzuki

Kazuya Umejima

Haonan Xiao

An electronic apparatus includes a first chassis, a second chassis, a display having a bending region, a support component with a support surface which supports the bending region and has a step on the support surface, a first movable component, and a second movable component. A first sheet-like member that has flexibility, extends along a longitudinal direction of the support component, and one edge portion is disposed between the bending region and the support surface, and the other edge portion is fixed to the first surface; and a second sheet-like member that has flexibility, extends along the longitudinal direction of the support component, and one edge portion is disposed between the bending region and the support surface to face the one edge portion of the first sheet-like member, and the other edge portion is fixed to the second surface.

Electronic apparatus

An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis member that has a first edge portion; a second chassis member that has a second edge portion adjacent to the first edge portion, and is adjacent to the first chassis member; a hinge device that connects the first chassis member and the second chassis member so as to be relatively rotatable between a first posture in which the first chassis member and the second chassis member are laminated so as to overlap each other in a surface normal direction and a second posture in which the first chassis member and the second chassis member are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the surface normal direction; and a cover component that is disposed so as to straddle the first edge portion and the second edge portion.

An electronic apparatus includes a first chassis member, a second chassis member, first plate supported by the first chassis member, second plate supported by the second chassis member and aligned with a gap between the first plate and the second plate, display formed in a sheet shape having flexibility, first fastening portion that fixes the first plate to the first chassis member, and second fastening portion that fixes the second plate to the second chassis member. The first plate has a protruding portion that protrudes from a rear surface, and the first chassis member has a wall portion that faces the protruding portion. A stopper member is interposed between the protruding portion and the wall portion and restricts relative movement of the first plate with respect to the first chassis member in an alignment direction of the first plate and the second plate.

Electronic apparatus and method for manufacturing electronic apparatus

An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis which has a first frame member; a second chassis which has a second frame member which is adjacent to the first frame member and is adjacent to the first chassis; a display which is supported to the first chassis and the second chassis; and a hinge device which so connects the first chassis and the second chassis as to be rotationally movable relative to each other between a first posture that the first chassis and the second chassis are so folded as to mutually overlap in a surface normal direction and a second posture that the first chassis and the second chassis are mutually arrayed in a direction which is vertical to the surface normal direction.

An electronic apparatus includes the first chassis and the second chassis which are relatively and rotatably connected, a flexible board provided astride between the first chassis and the second chassis, and a graphite sheet stacked on the flexible board. The flexible board and the graphite sheet have a substantially S-shaped extra length absorption portion formed in at least one of the first chassis and the second chassis and having a first folding portion and a second folding portion which are curved in directions opposite to each other, are fixed to each other at a front and rear of the extra length absorption portion, and are fixed to each other at an intermediate portion between the first folding portion and the second folding portion, excluding the first folding portion and the second folding portion, by an adhesive tape.

An electronic apparatus includes a hinge device that connects a first chassis member and a second chassis member to be relatively rotatable, a rear cover component that is disposed to fill a space between a first end portion of the first chassis member and a second end portion of the second chassis member separated from each other in a first posture, and a sheet member that has flexibility, is provided to straddle between the rear cover component and an inner surface of the first chassis member and an inner surface of the second chassis member, and covers a gap between the rear cover component and the first end portion and a gap between the rear cover component and the second end portion.

An electronic apparatus includes a first chassis, a second chassis, a hinge device having a movable portion applied with a lubricant and connecting the first chassis and the second chassis relatively rotatably, a spine part made of a thermal conductive material, a first thermal conductive member which is provided on an inner surface of the first chassis and contacts the spine part at a position not to overlap with the movable portion at a second posture, and a second thermal conductive member which is provided on an inner surface of the second chassis and contacts the spine part at a position not to overlap with the movable portion at the second posture.

Foldable electronic apparatus

An electronic apparatus has: a tray holding a communication card; a card socket accommodating the tray; an eject mechanism that ejects the tray in response to an operation of inserting a pin; a cover which is provided integrally with the tray and in which an eject hole through which the pin is inserted to operate the eject mechanism is formed; a reset switch for resetting a system in response to the operation of inserting the pin; and a reset hole into which the pin is inserted to operate the reset switch. The card socket and the reset switch are provided adjacently to a position along a first edge of a flat rectangular chassis, and the reset hole is covered by the cover while the tray is in the card socket.

An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis; a second chassis which is adjacent to the first chassis; a hinge device which so connects the first chassis and the second chassis as to be rotationally movable relative to each other between a first posture that the first chassis and the second chassis are so folded as to mutually overlap in a surface normal direction and a second posture that the first chassis and the second chassis are mutually arrayed in a direction which is vertical to the surface normal direction; and a display which is so installed as to range from the first chassis to the second chassis and has a folding region which is folded in accordance with relative rotational movement of the first chassis and the second chassis.

The electronic apparatus includes a first chassis equipped with a first electronic component, a second chassis equipped with a second electronic component, a hinge device that relatively rotatably connects the first chassis and the second chassis, and a flexible board provided over the first chassis and the second chassis and connecting the first electronic component and the second electronic component. The flexible board has a first folded portion and a second folded portion that are disposed in order and curved in opposite directions to each other in the first chassis.

An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis member; a second chassis member that is adjacent to the first chassis member and relatively rotatably connected to the first chassis member; a first plate that is supported by the first chassis member; a second plate that is supported by the second chassis member and aligned with a gap between the first plate and the second plate; a display that is formed in a flexible sheet shape, and has a first region fixed to a front surface of the first plate, a second region fixed to a front surface of the second plate, and a folding region capable of being folded and provided to straddle a gap between the first region and the second region; and a first fastening portion that fixes the first plate to the first chassis member.

An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis accommodating a first electronic component; a second chassis accommodating a second electronic component; a hinge connecting the first chassis and the second chassis in a relatively rotatable manner; and a flexible board connecting the first electronic component and the second electronic component. The flexible board includes a first folded portion that is offset from adjacent ends of the first and second chassis in the direction toward the first chassis, the first folded portion being folded from a first direction, which is directed from the second chassis to the first chassis, to a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.

An electronic apparatus includes a first chassis having a heat generating element, a second chassis, a hinge device that connects the first chassis and the second chassis such that the first chassis and the second chassis can be rotated relative to each other between a 0-degree attitude and a 180-degree attitude, and a display provided across the first chassis and the second chassis. The hinge device has a metal hinge main body, a metal first support plate provided to be relatively movable with respect to the inner surface of the first chassis, and a metal second support plate provided to be relatively movable with respect to the inner surface of the second chassis. The electronic apparatus further includes a flexible heat conductive member in the first chassis. The heat conductive member thermally connects a heat receiving member that receives heat from a heat generating element, and the first support plate.

A stand device includes a base block, a first stand plate, a second stand plate, a third stand plate, a first hinge device that connects the first stand plate to the base block, a second hinge device that connects the first stand plate and the second stand plate, a third hinge device that connects the second stand plate and the third stand plate, and a fourth hinge device that connects the third stand plate to the base block. The stand device is configured so that the rotation axis of the third hinge device is located on an extension of the rotation axis of the first hinge device and the rotation axis of the fourth hinge device is located on an extension of the rotation axis of the second hinge device.

Stand device and electronic apparatus

An electronic apparatus includes: a first chassis; a second chassis; a hinge device connecting the first and second chassis in a relatively rotatable manner; a display having a bending region; a first plate; and a second plate. In the first posture, the bending region of the display has a bag-shaped bending shape in cross section that protrudes from end faces of the first plate and the second plate disposed to overlap each other. The electronic apparatus further has a first inclined face protruding from the end face of the first plate to be inclined gradually downward from the surface of the first plate in the protruding direction, and a second inclined face protruding from the end face of the second plate to be inclined gradually downward from the surface of the second plate in the protruding direction.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takayuki Morino