Kem Hongkong Limited

Katoh Electrical Machinery Company, Ltd.

Tetsuo Kondo

Satoshi Ogawa

Kentaro Yabukoshi

An articulated hinge that can hold a folded part of a flexible display sheet that deforms following the opening and closing of the first and second casings, and an electronic gear using this articulated hinge, an articulated hinge couples the first and second casings of an electronic gear in a foldable manner by a relative folding motion between the open and closed positions where an articulated hinge is arranged on the back side of a flexible display sheet attached over the inner surfaces of both the first and the second casings is disclosed. The articulated hinge has a frame portion, wherein an odd number (1+2n, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2) of vertical frames are arranged in parallel along a width direction, where its shorter-side direction is the width direction and its vertical direction is a vertical direction.

Articulated hinge device and electronic device using the same

An object of the invention is to provide a document cover closer as well as office equipment having such a document cover closer, wherein it is possible to finely adjust a spring force and to set its adjusting range within a wide range, as well as to downsize the apparatus. To achieve the above-mentioned object, in a document cover closeraccording to the invention, a supporting partis rotatably attached to an attaching partbeing a base via a first hinge pin, and a lift partto which the document cover is fixed is rotatably attached to the supporting part. In an elastic force adjusting portion, as the document cover is opened and the supporting partis erected, the spring force adjusting screwextending perpendicular to an axial direction of the first hinge pinis rotated; then, as the spring force adjusting cam platemoves in a forward and backward direction along cam tracks of cam surfacesL,R extending along a forward and backward direction of the second spring receiving portion, a spring sheet plateas well moves integrally to compress or expand a first coil springand the second coil springto adjust a spring force.

Document cover closer and office equipment having the same

A hinge device for opening and closing a relatively lightweight cover, as well as office equipment using such a hinge device. A hinge device includes an attaching part attached to the office equipment side, the supporting part attached to the cover side, a hinge shaft for rotatably coupling the attaching part and the supporting part, a slider provided inside the supporting part so as to be slidable in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the hinge shaft, a cam portion formed on the attaching part, a cam bearing portion formed on the slider, an urging means for urging the slider toward the attaching member and bringing the cam bearing portion into a pressurized contact with the cam portion.

Hinge device and office equipment using the same

To provide the original cover closer which can control a rotation torque accompanied with an opening and closing operation of in a simple structure, as compared to the conventional original cover closer, solution is made in that the original cover closer comprises an attaching part attached to the main body side; a supporting part, wherein its side plates are rotatably attached to the both side plates of the attaching plate via a hinge shaft, as well as the original cover is attached to the supporting part; a pressure receiving part provided between the both side plates of the attaching part; a cam slider slidably provided inside the supporting part by making its cam portion abut against the pressure receiving part; an elastic module resiliently provided between the cam slider and a free end side of said supporting part, so as to bring the cam slider into press contact with the pressure receiving part and to rotatably urge the supporting part in an opening direction of an original cover; and a brake module provided between the supporting part and the cam slider, and that the brake module consists of a plurality of friction protruding ridge portions provided on an inner wall surface of the supporting part toward the cam slider, and at least a gently-sloping upward inclined portion gradually climbing from the cam slider side is provided on each of the friction protruding ridge portions.

Original cover closer and office equipment using the same

To provide an original cover closer which prevents inner components from exposure to the outside, when the original cover is opened, and from smears of grease on the end of the original lying on the contact glass, the original cover closer comprises the attaching member, the supporting member assembled by rotatably coupling its own both side plates to the both side plates of the attaching member, the lifting member assembled by rotatably coupling its own both side plates to the both side plates of the supporting member, the pressure bearing member provided between the both side plates of the attaching member, a second slider in contact with the pressure bearing member, and slidably housed between the both side plates of the supporting member; an actuating member attached to the side on which the both side plates of the attaching member rotate via said second hinge pin; a first slider in contact with the actuating member, held by the holding pieces and slidably housed between the both side plates of said supporting member, and a compression coil spring resiliently provided between the first slider and the second slider, wherein a cover member is fixed to the supporting member, for covering at least in part areas of components such as the actuating member, the first slider and the second slider which are exposed to the outside.

Original cover closer and office equipment having the same

To provide an original cover closer and an office equipment in which a position adjustment and positioning of an original cover can be performed easily, and a downsizing can be realized, the original cover closer which supports the original cover relative to an equipment main body of the office equipment openably/closably, includes: a position adjusting means adjusting a parallel position of the original cover relative to the equipment main body at a closer main body of the original cover closer, and an operation portion of the position adjusting means is constituted so as to be operatable from a lateral side of the closer main body.

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Tetsuo Kondo