Tool-adjustable electronic device locking apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12503885-B2
Application number	US-202217811449-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2022
Priority date	Jan 28, 2022
Publication date	Dec 23, 2025
Grant date	Dec 23, 2025

Abstract

A tool-adjustable electronic device locking apparatus is configured to secure an electronic device and has a housing, an anti-theft-hole fixing member configured to be inserted into an anti-theft hole of the electronic device, a stage adjusting mechanism, and a driving mechanism. The stage adjusting mechanism includes a tool operated portion operated to adjust working stages. The driving mechanism selectively unfolds the anti-theft-hole-fixing member to engage in the anti-theft hole based on a current one of the working stages. The working stages are adjusted through a tool by setting the tool operated portion on the stage adjusting mechanism, so as to prevent the working stages from being changed accidentally, ensure that the working stage is kept the same when the tool-adjustable electronic device locking apparatus is used on the same electronic device, and ensure an anti-theft effect.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A tool-adjustable electronic device locking apparatus comprising:
a housing;
an anti-theft-hole-fixing member protruding out of the housing;
a stage adjusting mechanism configured to adjust the electronic device locking apparatus to multiple working stages and including
a tool operated portion exposed to an outside of the housing and operated to adjust the working stages to which the stage adjusting mechanism adjusts through a tool; and

a rotatable driving mechanism including a central shaft which is spring biased against said tool operated portion and linearly displaceable in relation to said anti-theft-hole-fixing member, and to selectively unfold the anti-theft-hole-fixing member for engagement in the anti-theft hole based on a selected working stage responsive to a rotation of said central shaft;
wherein the movement of the central shaft toward the anti-theft-hole-fixing member drives the anti-theft-hole-fixing member to unfold for engagement in the anti-theft hole based upon the selected working stage.

2. The tool-adjustable electronic device locking apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tool operated portion is rotated to adjust the working stages to which the stage adjusting mechanism adjusts through the tool.

3. The tool-adjustable electronic device locking apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
an axial direction and a radial direction that are perpendicular to each other are defined on the housing; and
the tool operated portion and the anti-theft-hole-fixing member are disposed on two opposite ends, which are defined along the axial direction, of the housing.

4. The tool-adjustable electronic device locking apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
the housing has an operating hole; and
the tool operated portion corresponds in position to the operating hole and does not protrude out from the operating hole.

5. The tool-adjustable electronic device locking apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a recess is formed in the tool operated portion and is for the tool to be inserted in the recess and to operate the tool operated portion.

Assignees

• Sinox Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Chia-Hung
• Wu Chia-Ming

Classifications

• E05B37/02

  with tumbler discs or rings arranged on a single axis, each disc being adjustable independently of the others · CPC title

• E05B63/0056

  Locks with adjustable or exchangeable lock parts (adjustable strikers E05B15/024; adjustable to different keys E05B35/083; adjustable bolt or backset E05B63/06; adjustable coupling means for bars, rods, cables E05C9/20) · CPC title

• E05B73/0082 Primary

  for office machines, e.g. PC's, portable computers, typewriters, calculators · CPC title