Hinge device applicable to soft display screen

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9870031-B2
Application number	US-201514886245-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 19, 2015
Priority date	Jun 17, 2015
Publication date	Jan 16, 2018
Grant date	Jan 16, 2018

Abstract

A hinge device applicable to soft display screen ensures that the total amount of motion is uniformly distributed to every motional shaft. The hinge device includes multiple joint units and motional shafts. Each joint unit has a shaft fixing section and a shaft guide section assembled with the motional shafts. Each joint unit has a top portion, a first side and a second side. A rotary shaft is formed on the first side along the top portion. A socket is formed on the second side along the top portion. A (soft) display screen is disposed on the top portions of the joint units. The shaft guide section is defined with a first position and a second position. When a user opens/closes the display screen, the rotary shafts serve as rotational fulcrums and the motional shafts are rotatably movable between the first and second positions of the shaft guide section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A hinge device applicable to soft display screen, comprising an assembly of multiple joint units and multiple motional shafts, each joint unit having a shaft guide section and a shaft fixing section respectively assembled with the motional shafts, each joint unit having a top portion, a first side and a second side, a rotary shaft and a corresponding socket being formed on the first and second sides of the joint unit along the top portion, the shaft guide section of the joint unit being defined with a first position and a second position, the hinge device being rotatable with the rotary shaft and the socket serving as rotational fulcrums, whereby the motional shafts are rotatably movable between the first and second positions of the shaft guide section, a total amount of motion of the hinge device being uniformly distributed to a displacement amount of every said motional shaft.

2. The hinge device applicable to soft display screen as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a display screen is disposed on the top portion of the joint unit;
wherein the shaft guide section is an arched slot structure, while the shaft fixing section is a shaft hole structure.

3. The hinge device applicable to soft display screen as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a distance is defined between the rotary shaft, the motional shaft of the shaft guide section and the motional shaft of the shaft fixing section, the joint units including a first joint unit, a second joint unit and at least one subsidiary joint unit, each of the first and second joint units having a pivotal end and an assembling end, the pivotal end of the first joint unit being formed with a recess and an insertion face connected with the recess, the shaft guide section being disposed at the pivotal end of the first joint unit, the pivotal end of the second joint unit being formed with a protrusion and an insertion face connected with the protrusion, the shaft fixing section being disposed at the pivotal end of the second joint unit, the subsidiary joint unit having a top portion, a first side, a second side, a first end and a second end, the first side of the subsidiary joint unit being formed with the rotary shaft along the top portion, the second side of the subsidiary joint unit being formed with the socket along the top portion, the first end of the subsidiary joint unit being formed with a protrusion and an insertion face connected with the protrusion, the shaft fixing section being disposed at the first end of the subsidiary joint unit for pivotally connecting with the motional shaft, the second end of the subsidiary joint unit being formed with a recess and an insertion face connected with the recess, the shaft guide section being disposed at the second end of the subsidiary joint unit for pivotally connecting with the motional shaft, a distance being defined between the rotary shaft of the subsidiary joint unit, the motional shaft of the shaft guide section of the subsidiary joint unit and the motional shaft of the shaft fixing section of the subsidiary joint unit.

4. The hinge device applicable to soft display screen as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the rotary shafts respectively perpendicularly protrude from the first sides of the first, second and subsidiary joint units along the top portions thereof, the top portions of the first, second and subsidiary joint units being plane structures.

5. The hinge device applicable to soft display screen as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the motional shafts are assembled with a torque mechanism, the torque mechanism including a first torque unit, a second torque unit and a subsidiary torque unit respectively corresponding to the first, second and subsidiary joint units, the first and second torque units being respectively defined with pivotal ends and assembling ends, the pivotal end of the first torque unit being formed with a guide hole with an opening corresponding to the pivotal end of the first joint unit, the pivotal end of the second torque unit being formed with a shaft hole with an opening corresponding to the pivotal end of the second joint unit, the subsidiary torque unit having a first end and a second end, the first end being formed with a guide hole with an opening, the second end being formed with a shaft hole with an opening, the motional shafts being respectively pivotally connected with the guide holes and shaft holes of the torque mechanism, whereby when the motional shafts move, the torque mechanism interferes with the motional shafts to create torque change.

6. The hinge device applicable to soft display screen as claimed in claim 5 , wherein each of the assembling ends of the first and second torque units is formed with a raised connection section connected with the slot of the fixing section.

7. The hinge device applicable to soft display screen as claimed in claim 3 , the insertion face of the first joint unit and the insertion face of the second joint unit and the insertion face of the first end of the subsidiary joint unit are structurally obliquely complementary to each other, the insertion face of the first end of the subsidiary joint unit and the insertion face of the second end of the subsidiary joint unit being structurally complementary to each other, the insertion face of the second joint unit and the insertion face of the second end of the subsidiary joint unit being structurally obliquely complementary to each other, a free end of each of the insertion face of the first joint unit, the insertion face of the second joint unit being and the insertion faces of the subsidiary joint unit being formed with a hook section.

8. The hinge device applicable to soft display screen as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the recess and the insertion face of the pivotal end of the first joint unit are connected with the protrusion and the insertion face of the first end of the subsidiary joint unit, the recess and the insertion face of the second end of the subsidiary joint unit being connected with the protrusion and the insertion face of the first end of another leftward/rightward adjacent subsidiary joint unit to form a first row of joint unit assembly, in a forward and backward side by side arrangement pattern, the protrusion and the insertion face of the pivotal end of the second joint unit being connected with the recess and the insertion face of the second end of the subsidiary joint unit, the protrusion and the insertion face of the first end of the subsidiary joint unit being connected with the recess and the insertion face of the second end of another leftward/rightward adjacent subsidiary joint unit to form a second row of joint unit assembly, the shaft guide sections of the pivotal end of the first joint unit of the first row of joint unit assembly being aligned with the shaft fixing section of the first end of the subsidiary joint unit of the second row of joint unit assembly, the first motional shaft being pivotally connected with the shaft guide section and the shaft fixing section, the shaft fixing section of the first end of the subsidiary joint unit of the first row of joint unit assembly being aligned with the shaft guide section of the second end of the subsidiary joint unit of the second row of joint unit assembly, the second motional shaft being pivotally connected with the shaft fixing section and the shaft guide section, in the same one by one arrangement manner, the shaft fixing section of the pivotal end of the second joint unit of the second row of joint unit assembly being aligned with the shaft guide section of the second end of the outermost subsidiary joint unit of the first row of joint unit assembly, the third motional shaft being pivotally connected with the shaft fixing section and the shaft guide section, the shaft guide section of the second

Assignees

• First Dome Corp

Inventors

• Hsu An Szu
• Wu Yang Zhong

Classifications

• G06F1/1681 Primary

  Details related solely to hinges (hinge details related to the transmission of signals or power are classified in G06F1/1683) · CPC title

• G06F1/1652

  the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable · CPC title

• Y10T16/5474

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic