Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Wen-Hua Ni

Kuan-Ting Wu

Eric Chen

Britt C Ashcraft

Wei-Chung Chen

Cheng-Han Tsai

Hui Leng Lim

Chung-Hua Ku

Gary J Chvatal

Kuan-Hsueh Lee

Chi Chun Chiang

Hung-Yen Chi

An example apparatus includes a first flexible portion connected to a second flexible portion. The first flexible portion includes a keyboard having a set of input keys disposed thereon and circuitry coupled to the set of input keys, the first flexible portion is to couple to a portable computing device proximal to a display side of the portable computing device. The second flexible portion has a plurality of fasteners to couple to a kickstand of the portable computing device, the first and second flexible portion to provide an opposing force there between while the kickstand is disposed at one of a plurality of variable support angles.

Flexible keyboard apparatuses

In one example, a kickstand for a mobile computing device is described. The kickstand having a first end and a second end opposite the first end to rotatably couple to a first side and a second side of a housing of the mobile computing device, respectively, proximate the middle of the first side and the second side of the housing such that the U shaped kickstand provides the space for disposing the components in the housing without significantly affecting form factors and/or aesthetic aspects of the mobile computing device in typing, inking and retracted modes.

Kickstands

A computing device with a hinge coupled to a display component and to a base for the display component to reposition relative to the base, a first set of magnets at first locations of the display component and the base, and a second set of magnets at second locations of the display component and the base.

Magnets at display component and base

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Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Hua Ni