Electronic apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10656680-B2
Application number	US-201816203458-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2018
Priority date	Feb 9, 2018
Publication date	May 19, 2020
Grant date	May 19, 2020

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus including a housing, a mainboard provided within the housing, and a first display screen connected to the mainboard. The housing includes a front side face, a rear side face, a left side face and a right side face, and a top face. The first display screen is provided on the front side face of the housing. A storage groove is defined on the top face of the housing. The electronic apparatus further includes a mounting frame having a rotating box rotatably connected to the mounting frame. The rotating box is provided with a camera connected to the mainboard. The mounting frame can protrude out of or retract into the storage groove thereby to drive the rotating box to move out of or into the storage groove, such that the camera is exposed of or hidden into the housing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:
a housing;
a mainboard provided within the housing; and
a first display screen connected to the mainboard;
wherein the housing comprises a front side face, a rear side face, a left side face and a right side face opposite to each other, and a top face; the first display screen is provided on the front side face of the housing, a storage groove is defined on the top face of the housing in a left-right direction and is located between the front side face and the rear side face; and
wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises a mounting frame and a rotating box rotatably connected to the mounting frame, the rotating box being provided with a camera connected to the mainboard, the mounting frame being configured to protrude out of or retract into the storage groove to drive the rotating box to move out of or into the storage groove, such that the camera is exposed out of or hidden into the housing;
wherein a flange is provided on the top face of the housing adjacent to the rear side face, the flange extending in a left-right direction, the flange and the first display screen enclosing the storage groove, the mounting frame defining an accommodating slot at a bottom of a side face facing away from the first display screen, the flange being accommodated within the accommodating slot when the mounting frame retracts into the storage groove.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a rotating axis of the rotating box extends in a left-right direction, and wherein the mounting frame defines an accommodating opening which extends to a front side face and a rear side face of the mounting frame, the rotating box being rotatably accommodated within the accommodating opening along the rotating axis.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the accommodating opening is defined on a top face of the mounting frame, and two opposite left and right ends of the rotating box are respectively provided with two rotating shafts, axes of the two rotating shafts aligning with the rotating axis, the mounting frame defining two shaft holes corresponding to the two rotating shafts of the rotating box, the two rotating shafts being rotatably positioned within the two shaft holes respectively.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein two opposite left and right end walls of the rotating box respectively define two shaft holes, the mounting frame being provided with two rotating shafts corresponding to the two shaft holes of the rotating box, axes of the two shaft holes aligning with the rotating axis, the two rotating shafts being rotatably positioned within the two shaft holes respectively.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the rear side face of the housing is provided with a second display screen, and the storage groove is defined by the top face of the housing, the first display screen and the second display screen.

6. An electronic apparatus, comprising:
a housing;
a mainboard provided within the housing; and
a first display screen connected to the mainboard;
wherein the housing comprises a front side face, a rear side face, a left side face and a right side face opposite to each other, and a top face; the first display screen is provided on the front side face of the housing, a storage groove is defined on the top face of the housing in a left-right direction and is located between the front side face and the rear side face; and
wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises a mounting frame and a rotating box rotatably connected to the mounting frame, the rotating box being provided with a camera connected to the mainboard, the mounting frame being configured to protrude out of or retract into the storage groove to drive the rotating box to move out of or into the storage groove, such that the camera is exposed out of or hidden into the housing;
wherein a back panel is provided on the rear side face of the housing, an orthogonal projection of a top face of the back panel on a rear side face of the first display screen being located below a top face of the first display screen, the back panel and the first display screen enclosing the storage groove, the mounting frame defining an accommodating slot at the bottom of the side face facing away from the first display screen, a top of the back panel being accommodated within the accommodating slot when the mounting frame retracts into the storage groove.

7. An electronic apparatus, comprising:
a housing;
a mainboard provided within the housing; and
a first display screen connected to the mainboard;
wherein the housing comprises a front side face, a rear side face, a left side face and a right side face opposite to each other, and a top face; the first display screen is provided on the front side face of the housing, a storage groove is defined on the top face of the housing in a left-right direction and is located between the front side face and the rear side face; and
wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises a mounting frame and a rotating box rotatably connected to the mounting frame, the rotating box being provided with a camera connected to the mainboard, the mounting frame being configured to protrude out of or retract into the storage groove to drive the rotating box to move out of or into the storage groove, such that the camera is exposed out of or hidden into the housing;
wherein the rotating box is provided, on a same side face of the camera, with an earpiece connected to the mainboard, the earpiece and the camera being arranged in a staggered manner, the earpiece being adjacent to the top face of the first display screen when the rotating box moves into the storage groove, and wherein a gap in communication with the earpiece is defined on the rotating box adjacent to the earpiece to transmit sounds of the earpiece from the gap when the mounting frame retracts into the storage groove.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a positioning member is provided between the rotating box and the mounting frame, the positioning member being configured to position the rotating box to rotate to any angle.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises a first driving device for driving the rotating box to rotate.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the first driving device comprises a driving member provided within the mounting frame and connected to the mainboard, a driving gear provided on the driving member, and a driven gear provided on the rotating box and engaging with the driving gear, the driving member driving the driving gear to rotate to drive the driven gear to rotate, thereby driving the rotating box to rotate.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the first driving device comprises a driving member provided within the mounting frame and connected to the mainboard, and a transmission shaft connected between the driving member and the rotating box, the driving member driving the transmission shaft to rotate to drive the rotating box to rotate.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises a second driving device, the second driving device comprising: a driving member fixed within the housing and connected to the mainboard, and a transmission rod provided on the driving member, the transmission rod extending in a protruding-retracting direction of the mounting frame and being provided with a spiral slot; wherein the mounting frame further comprises an extension strip extending in the protruding-retracting dire

Assignees

• Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd

Inventors

• Fan Xiaoyu
• Zhang Zhengshan

Classifications

• G06F1/1686

  the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera · CPC title

• H04N2007/145

  Handheld terminals · CPC title

• H04M1/0237

  Sliding mechanism with one degree of freedom · CPC title

• H04M1/0235

  Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts · CPC title

• H04M1/0264

  for a camera module assembly · CPC title