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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1997
Atsunobu Nobuchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Hideaki Kamikakoi, Kawasaki, JP;
Katsuichi Goto, Kawasaki, JP;
Kazuo Kawasaki, Nagoya, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An electronic equipment has a body with a cover which is easily openable and closable and which body can be maintained at a tilted state by the opened cover, enhancing use of the equipment. The equipment includes a body having a display panel and first and second cover members, mounted to the body and guided in a slidable and pivotable manner between first (closed) and second (opened) positions. The second cover member is pivotably coupled at one end to the first cover member, the first and second cover members cooperating with each other to cover the display panel in respective first and third positions thereof. In respective second and fourth positions thereof, the second cover member is rotated about an end of the body and extends below a rear surface of the body to maintain the body in a tilted state.