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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1994
Shigenori Miyagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Kobayashi, Hanno, JP;
Shimpei Kunii, Tokyo, JP;
Shizuo Kamio, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Fumitaka Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Ryoichi Ishiura, Matsudo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A main body case encasing a keyboard and an upper case encasing an integrated display/input device are coupled by first and second hinge units and a junction base (with a cylindrical element defining a linear groove there through) to be arbitrarily pivotal from a state wherein the keyboard faces the integrated display/input device to a state wherein the back surface of the integrated display/input device faces the keyboard. Depending on the position of the integrated display/input device, a mode designation means designates one of first and second modes, the first mode being a mode in which the integrated display/input device performs an operation in an ordinary manner, the second mode being a mode in which the integrated display/input device performs an operation in a manner reversed 180.degree. with reference to the coordinate system in the first mode.