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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
May. 11, 2001
Hiroaki Agata, Yokohama, JP;
Kenshin Yonemochi, Kamakura, JP;
Takehiko Noguchi, Tokyo-to, JP;
Hisashi Shima, Yamato, JP;
John Peter Karidis, Ossining, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
To provide a portable computer in which a height and angle of a display can be adjusted even in a restricted installation space. In a notebook type personal computer, at an approximately middle portion in a high and low direction of an LCD unit, disposed in a lid, there is provided a hinge, which enables the LCD unit to pivot around a rotation axis crossing perpendicularly with the high and low direction of the LCD unit. This hinge is mounted so as to be movable in the high and low direction of the frame, and is disposed at a higher position than a top of the frame. Thereby, even when rear space where the notebook type PC is installed is restricted, it is possible to adjust the height and angle of the LCD unit, and to make such setting as to enable the display screen to be easily watched.