Portable electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10061348-B2
Application number	US-201715653540-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 19, 2017
Priority date	Jan 9, 2017
Publication date	Aug 28, 2018
Grant date	Aug 28, 2018

Abstract

A portable electronic device including a body, a stand, and first and second magnetic assemblies is provided. The stand is pivoted to the body to rotate and being opened or closed relative to the body. The first magnetic assembly having a first magnetic dipole is movably disposed in the body. The second magnetic assembly having a second magnetic dipole is disposed on the stand. When the stand is closed to the body, the first and second magnetic dipoles correspond to each other, and produce a first and second corresponding states. In the first corresponding state, magnetic poles with opposite polarities of the first and second magnetic dipoles correspond to and attract each other. In the second corresponding state, magnetic poles with the same polarity of the first and second magnetic dipoles correspond to and repel each other, and the stand is spread relative to the body due to the repulsion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A portable electronic device, comprising:
a body;
a stand, pivoted to the body to be opened or closed;
at least one first magnetic assembly, having a first magnetic dipole, and movably disposed in the body;
at least one second magnetic assembly, having a second magnetic dipole, and disposed on the stand, wherein when the stand is closed to the body, the first magnetic dipole and the second magnetic dipole correspond to each other, and produce a first corresponding state and a second corresponding state along with movement of the first magnetic dipole in the body, in the first corresponding state, magnetic poles with opposite polarities of the first magnetic dipole and the second magnetic dipole correspond to and attract each other, such that the stand is closed to the body due to the attraction, in the second corresponding state, magnetic poles with a same polarity of the first magnetic dipole and the second magnetic dipole correspond to and repel each other, and the stand is spread relative to the body due to the repulsion; and
an input interface, having an input portion and a magnetic attraction portion, wherein in the second corresponding state, the magnetic attraction portion corresponds to the first magnetic dipole to produce a magnetic attraction force, such that the input interface is attracted to the body, and in the first corresponding state, a magnetic repulsion force produced when the second magnetic dipole corresponds to the first magnetic dipole is greater than the magnetic attraction force produced when the first magnetic dipole corresponds to the magnetic attraction portion, so as to release the attraction of the input interface and the body.

2. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first magnetic assembly further comprises a push member movably disposed in the body to protrude out of or retract into the body, and the first magnetic dipole is linked to the push member.

3. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first magnetic assembly further comprises an elastic member disposed in the body and situated between the body and the first magnetic dipole, when the push member is retracted into the body by a force, the first magnetic dipole deforms the elastic member, and an elastic restoring force of the elastic member drives the first magnetic dipole to push the push member out of the body.

4. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an axial direction along which the stand is pivoted to the body is orthogonal to an axial direction along which the first magnetic dipole is moved in the body.

5. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the stand has a first end and a second end opposite to each other, the first end is pivoted to the body, the second magnetic dipole is disposed at the second end, and the first magnetic dipole is located at a side edge of the body to correspond to the second magnetic dipole, the body is adapted to lean against a platform through the side edge, so as to drive the first magnetic dipole to switch to the second corresponding state to make the stand to spread relative to the body, such that the body is adapted to stand on the platfonn through the side edge and the second end.

6. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one first magnetic assembly comprises a pair of first magnetic assemblies symmetrically disposed relative to a center line of the body, and the at least one second magnetic assembly comprises a pair of second magnetic assemblies, wherein when the stand is closed to the body, the pair of the second magnetic assemblies are symmetrically disposed relative to the center line of the body.

7. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a torsion spring, disposed at a pivot joint of the stand and the body, wherein the torsion spring constantly drives the stand to spread relative to the body.

8. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first magnetic assembly further comprises a push member movably disposed in the body to protrude out of or retract into the body, the first magnetic dipole comprises a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole with opposite polarities and disposed on the push member, and the second magnetic dipole comprises a third magnetic pole and a fourth magnetic pole with opposite polarities, wherein when the stand is closed to the body, a configuration axial direction of the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole is orthogonal to a configuration axial direction of the third magnetic pole and the fourth magnetic pole.

9. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first magnetic dipole comprises a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole with opposite polarities, and a configuration axial direction of the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole is orthogonal to a display surface of the portable electronic device.

10. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first magnetic dipole comprises a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole with opposite polarities, and the second magnetic dipole comprises a third magnetic pole and a fourth magnetic pole with opposite polarities, in the second corresponding state, the magnetic attraction portion corresponds to the second magnetic pole to produce the magnetic attraction force and the first magnetic pole and the third magnetic pole produce the magnetic repulsion force, and in the first corresponding state, the fourth magnetic pole and the first magnetic pole generates the magnetic attraction force.

11. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the magnetic attraction portion is a magnetic conductance element or a magnetic element with magnetism opposite to the second magnetic pole.

12. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first magnetic dipole comprises a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole with opposite polarities, and in the second corresponding state, the first magnetic pole, the second magnetic pole and the magnetic attraction portion are located in a same axial direction, and the axial direction is orthogonal to a display surface of the portable electronic device.

13. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one first magnetic assembly comprises a pair of first magnetic assemblies, and the portable electronic device further comprises a third magnetic assembly disposed on the body and corresponding to the magnetic attraction portion to produce the magnetic attraction force, and the third magnetic assembly is located between the pair of the first magnetic assemblies.

14. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an electromagnet unit and a control device, the electromagnet unit is disposed on the body and corresponds to the first magnetic assembly, the control device is electrically connected to the electromagnet unit, and drives the first magnetic assembly to move in the body by controlling the electromagnet unit to produce a magnetic force or not.

15. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the electromagnet unit only corresponds to one of the magnetic poles of the first magnetic dipole.

Assignees

• Acer Inc

Inventors

• Shen Chao-Di
• Kuo Yan-Lin
• Chang kai-lin

Classifications

• G06F1/1647

  including at least an additional display (G06F1/1692 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F1/1643

  the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads (details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615) · CPC title

• G06F1/1626 Primary

  with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs] · CPC title

• G06F1/1654

  the display being detachable, e.g. for remote use · CPC title

• G06F2200/1614

  Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode · CPC title