Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Articulated hinge device and electronic device using the same
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Application No.: US17839763Application Date: 2022-06-14
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Publication No.: US11953950B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Tetsuo Kondo
- Applicant: KEM HONGKONG LIMITED
- Applicant Address: HK Kowloon
- Assignee: KEM HONGKONG LIMITED
- Current Assignee: KEM HONGKONG LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: HK Tsimshatsui
- Agency: Notaro, Michalos & Zaccaria P.C.
- Priority: JP 21109206 2021.06.30
- Main IPC: G06F1/16
- IPC: G06F1/16

Abstract:
An articulated hinge that can hold a folded part of a flexible display sheet that deforms following the opening and closing of the first and second casings, and an electronic gear using this articulated hinge, an articulated hinge couples the first and second casings of an electronic gear in a foldable manner by a relative folding motion between the open and closed positions where an articulated hinge is arranged on the back side of a flexible display sheet attached over the inner surfaces of both the first and the second casings is disclosed. The articulated hinge has a frame portion, wherein an odd number (1+2n, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2) of vertical frames are arranged in parallel along a width direction, where its shorter-side direction is the width direction and its vertical direction is a vertical direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230004198A1 ARTICULATED HINGE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2023-01-05
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