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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2023
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Kyota Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Shintarou Tanaka, Osaka, JP;
Junichi Hasegawa, Osaka, JP;
Hiroki Kamezaki, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An electronic device includes a first housing including a display, a second housing including an operation unit, and a rotation unit that rotates the first housing relative to the second housing. The second housing includes a rotation regulation portion that protrudes from a bottom face of the second housing and regulates rotation of the first housing. The rotation regulation portion includes an elastic member configured to rotate back and forth between a first mode and a second mode with different states of protrusion from a bottom face of the second housing, and contactable with the first housing. The rotation regulation portion, in the first mode, regulate rotation of the first housing in a first rotation range, and in the second mode, regulate rotation of the first housing in a second rotation range where the first housing is rotated to a greater extent than in the first rotation range.