Terminal device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9271409-B2
Application number	US-201213727447-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 26, 2012
Priority date	Dec 31, 2011
Publication date	Feb 23, 2016
Grant date	Feb 23, 2016

Abstract

The present invention discloses a terminal device, comprising a first terminal part and a second terminal part, the first terminal part comprising a base part; a keyboard part on the a first region of the base part; a bracket part on a second region of the base part adjacent to the first region, wherein, the thickness of the keyboard part matches the thickness of the bracket part; a first shaft on a side of the base part away from the keyboard part and connected with the bracket part so that the bracket part can rotate clockwise or counterclockwise with respect to the first shaft; a second shaft on a side of the bracket part away from the first shaft and connected with the second terminal part, so that the second terminal part can rotate clockwise or counterclockwise with respect to the second shaft.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A terminal device, comprising:
a first terminal part and a second terminal part, the first terminal part comprising:
a base;
a keyboard part, provided on a first region of the base part;
a bracket part, provided on a second region of the base part adjacent to the first region,

wherein,
a thickness of the keyboard part and a thickness of the bracket part are a same, or the thickness of the keyboard part and the thickness of the bracket part have a same slope and thicknesses of adjacent places of the keyboard part and the bracket part are substantially the same;
a first shaft fixed on a side of the base part away from the keyboard part and connected with the bracket part in which the bracket part is able to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise with respect to the first shaft;
a second shaft provided on a side of the bracket part away from the first shaft and connected with the second terminal part;
the second terminal part is connected to the bracket part through the second shaft and is rotatable clockwise or counterclockwise with respect to the second shaft;
when in a pad usage configuration, the terminal device is configured such that (a) a lower surface of the bracket part overlaps the base part, (b) the second terminal part is placed flat on the bracket part and the keyboard part, and (c) a lower surface of the second terminal part overlaps the keyboard part and an upper surface of the bracket part; and
the bracket part comprises a computing component and a cooling component of the terminal device.

2. The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein:
the computing component is connected to the keyboard part through a printed circuit provided in the first shaft; and
the computing component is connected to the second terminal part through another printed circuit provided in the second shaft.

3. The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein:
the computing component comprises at least a processing unit, a storage unit, and a motherboard unit; and
the cooling component comprises at least one of a heat sink or a fan.

4. The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the second terminal part is a display screen of the terminal device.

5. The terminal device of claim 4 , wherein:
the terminal device has at least the pad usage configuration, a notebook usage configuration, a desktop pad usage configuration, and a pad usage configuration having a support based on a first relative position relationship between the bracket part and the base part and a second relative position relationship between the second terminal part and the bracket part.

6. The terminal device of claim 5 , wherein in the notebook usage configuration,
the bracket part inclines with respect to the base part to support the second terminal part; and
there is a predetermined angle between an upper surface of the second terminal part and the keyboard part.

7. The terminal device of claim 5 , wherein in the desktop pad usage configuration,
the bracket part inclines with respect to the base part so that the second shaft has a predetermined height with respect to the base part; and
the second terminal part is parallel with the keyboard part.

8. The terminal device of claim 5 , wherein in the pad usage configuration having the support,
the bracket part inclines with respect to the base part to support the second terminal part; and
the lower surface of the second terminal part overlaps with the upper surface of the bracket part.

9. The terminal device of claim 4 , wherein a size of the second terminal part matches a size of the base part.

Assignees

• Lenovo Beijing Co Ltd
• Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd

Inventors

• Liang Runsheng
• Zhang Qiang

Classifications

• G06F1/1637

  Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing · CPC title

• G06F1/162 Primary

  changing, e.g. reversing, the face orientation of the screen with a two degrees of freedom mechanism, e.g. for folding into tablet PC like position or orienting towards the direction opposite to the user to show to a second user · CPC title

• G06F1/1616

  with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position · CPC title

• G06F1/1683

  for the transmission of signal or power between the different housings, e.g. details of wired or wireless communication, passage of cabling · CPC title

• H05K5/0086 Primary

  portable, e.g. battery operated apparatus (casings for switching devices H01H9/02) · CPC title