CN203259918U - Foldable cover - Google Patents

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CN203259918U
CN203259918U CN 201220739843 CN201220739843U CN203259918U CN 203259918 U CN203259918 U CN 203259918U CN 201220739843 CN201220739843 CN 201220739843 CN 201220739843 U CN201220739843 U CN 201220739843U CN 203259918 U CN203259918 U CN 203259918U
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伊格尔·杜克
约翰·布伦纳
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A foldable cover comprises a hinge and a flap part, wherein the hinge is attached to a main unit in a detachable mode. The flap part is connected to the hinge in a pivoting mode and comprises a plurality of segments. The segments are roughly the same in size and are rigid basically, and foldable areas are formed among the segments. The flap part can be folded into a rectangular structure, and in the rectangular structure, the segments are folded in a manner that the segments are mutually piled up in a flush mode basically. Due to the size and the position of the obtained rectangular structure, the back face of the main unit can be further enhanced, and therefore effectiveness or human engineering performance of the foldable cover can be improved, for example, through the additional arrangement of a handle.

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Collapsible overcoat
Technical field
The present invention relates to the overcoat for portable electric appts, be specifically related to the collapsible overcoat of sectional type.
Background technology
The display that modern hand-held electronic equipment (for example mobile phone and flat computer) has face forward is usually presented to the user with the information on the display.Interchangeable overcoat (cover) is the popular annex that is suitable for this kind equipment.A kind of this overcoat of fundamental type can have housing, and electronic equipment can be inserted in the described housing.Described housing is molded forming in order to hold electronic equipment usually.Thereby provide certain protection to electronic equipment, prevent the impact that causes such as owing to dropping.
Some housing can comprise adjustable base, and it can operate in order to provide support to electronic equipment, and electronic equipment can be held on the surface like this, so that display screen is in comfortable reading and/or input angle.It is evident that very base also can be designed to as the carrying handle that is suitable for described equipment, for example disclosed such among the international publication WO2009/153494.These features are expected, because hand-held electronic equipment can be relatively heavy, the operator can become tired owing to controlling them, especially when needing constant grasp.If comprise base, common way is to allow it to rotate in the mode that can fix, and as disclosed among the US2001/0045939A1, electronic equipment can operate in horizontal or vertical pattern like this.Because base also is designed to as handle, this rotatory power has following extra benefit, that is: be convenient to be controlled and operating equipment with the optimized angle that meets ergonomics by the operator, or carry in the mode of briefcase.
Alternatively, this overcoat can include only renovates (flap), and it has be used to the hinge that is attached to described electronic equipment.Before renovate and can provide protection to display; some other benefits also can be provided; for example; before renovate and can be suitable for depositing credit card; perhaps it can keep magnetic element, and described magnetic element and electronic equipment for example carry out alternately activating described equipment when renovating opening, and perhaps it can be sectional type; it is folding that it can be folded into triangular structure like this, and display is elevated to comfortable reading angle.
Other overcoat can comprise the combination of above-mentioned feature (for example housing and renovate).Yet, when overcoat has simultaneously with the housing of handle and renovates, do not prevent from renovating with regard to there being obvious mode, allow the access display when just being operated with convenient equipment, and still allow to use handle.This problem is especially not serious when this equipment is held on the surface upward but is carried.When handle was rotatable, this problem can be more complicated.
The previous effort that design is combined with the overcoat of renovating does not all address this problem.Conventional segmented flip-lid is (such as at US8,143, described in 982 those) be designed to fold up with triangular form, it has following defective, be that they comprise at least one protrusion fragment, no matter be partially folded or fully folding, all can hinder described fragment to be folded into evenly stacking each other, and hinder renovating of fold to place and be held in releasedly permission to use handle in the mode that meets ergonomics.
Therefore, need to design and have the overcoat of renovating, described renovating can fold and be stored near the overcoat compactly, in order to allow to use base or handle.An object of the present invention is to provide the overcoat with segmented flip-lid, described renovating can fold and can place easily when being in its folded structure compactly.
Summary of the invention
The present invention relates to a kind of folding overcoat, it comprises: be suitable for removably being attached to the hinge of master unit, described master unit has front and the back side; And the flip potion that is pivotably connected to described hinge, described flip potion comprises: a plurality of fragments; Foldable area between each fragment; Wherein said flip potion can be folded into rectangular configuration, in this rectangular configuration, each fragment of described flip potion be folded into flush ground stacking each other.
Preferably, described fragment has identical size, and is rigidity.
Preferably, each fragment comprises at least one magnetic element.
Preferably, the attractive force between the magnetic element can be attached to adjacent segment together releasedly.
Preferably, described rectangular configuration can be pivoted about the hinge.
Preferably, described master unit comprises at least one magnetic element.
Preferably, described hinge comprises at least one magnetic element.
Preferably, when described rectangular configuration is switched to back side when place that resides at described master unit, described rectangular configuration can magnetic attachment to the back side of described master unit.
Preferably, when described rectangular configuration is switched to when residing at described hinge place, described rectangular configuration can magnetic attachment to described hinge.
Preferably, described master unit is the shell that can hold electronic equipment.
Preferably, described master unit is electronic equipment.
Preferably, the back side of described master unit comprises handle.
Preferably, the size of described rectangular configuration allows described rectangular configuration to reside on the back side of described master unit and does not touch described handle.
Preferably, described handle rotates in the mode that can fix.
Preferably, described electronic equipment is flat computer.
The present invention also comprises a kind of collapsible overcoat for electronic equipment, and it comprises and is suitable for electronic equipment is contained in shell in the front cavity; Be pivotably connected to the flip potion of described shell by hinge; Described flip potion comprises a plurality of fragments, described fragment has identical size and is rigidity, and comprise at least one magnetic element, has foldable area between each described fragment, wherein, described flip potion can be folded into rectangular configuration, in this rectangular configuration, each fragment of described flip potion is folded into that to flush ground stacking and can keep together releasedly by the attractive force between its magnetic element each other, and described rectangular configuration can be switched to the place, rear portion that resides at front cavity and locates by the rear portion that rectangular configuration and magnetic attracting force between the magnetic element that is included in the described shell remain on front cavity releasedly.
Preferably, described shell also comprises rotating handle.
In order to understand better the present invention and to show how it carries out, only come its preferred embodiment is described by limiting examples now with reference to accompanying drawing.
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Come non-limiting example is described with reference to following accompanying drawing, wherein:
Fig. 1 illustrates the front view of master unit, and it has the collapsible overcoat according to the embodiment of the invention that is attached to it, folds to wherein said collapsible coat part in order to cover the front of master unit;
Fig. 2 illustrates the side view of partner systems shown in Figure 1;
Fig. 3 illustrates the side view according to the collapsible overcoat of the embodiment of the invention, and wherein said collapsible overcoat is in complete folded structure and is switched on the back side that resides at master unit;
Fig. 4 illustrates the rear view of partner systems shown in Figure 3;
Fig. 5 illustrates the biopsy cavity marker devices vertical view according to the collapsible overcoat of the embodiment of the invention, and wherein said collapsible overcoat is in complete expanded position;
Fig. 6 illustrates the rear view of partner systems shown in Figure 3, and wherein said master unit also comprises rotating handle.
Embodiment
Below description relate generally to a kind of collapsible overcoat, it strengthens the protection of electronic equipment and the mode of being convenient to meet ergonomics is come operating electronic equipment.Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 illustrate the preferred embodiment according to this collapsible overcoat of the present invention.
Collapsible overcoat 1 comprises hinge 9, and it is suitable for removably being attached to the master unit 3 with front 7 and back side 5.Flip potion 11 connects 14 pivotly to hinge 9, and described flip potion 11 comprises a plurality of fragments 13, has foldable area 15 between each fragment.In one embodiment, hinge 9 and flip potion 11 can form, and wherein, pivot 14 is provided by the edge of master unit 3.
In one embodiment, master unit 3 is a kind of electronic equipments, flat computer for example, and in this case, the front 7 of master unit 3 is display screen and/or input equipment normally.In a preferred embodiment, master unit 3 is the shells that are suitable for holding electronic equipment, and in this case, the front 7 of master unit normally electronic equipment can be inserted into its interior cavity.
In a preferred embodiment, each of fragment 13 has roughly the same size, and is rigidity basically.Between fragment 13, there is more flexible foldable area 15.The sectional type design of flip potion 11 allows flip potion 11 to be folded into compact rectangular configuration 12, and in this rectangular configuration, each fragment 13 is folded into and substantially evenly is stacked to the top of one another.
As can seeing among Fig. 5, in a preferred embodiment, fragment 13 comprises magnetic element 17.Magnetic element 17 can be positioned on the outside of flip potion 11 or fragment 13.This illustrates the preferred disposition that magnetic element 17 is positioned at fragment 13.When adjacent fragment 13 was folded together, the attractive force between the magnetic element 17 can be positioned at adjacent segment 13 in the mode above another with one releasedly and be attached to together.The layout of magnetic element 17 allows to be in folding flip potion 11 magnetic attracting forces inner and on every side flip potion 11 is remained in the compact rectangular configuration 12, thereby until the release force that applies overcomes magnetic attracting force greater than magnetic attracting force and with fragment 13 from discharging each other.
Pivot to connect 14 so that flip potion 11 no matter be in expansions, fully folding or partially folded construct can both be between the back side 5 of the front 7 of master unit 3 and master unit 3 pivot.Preferably, when pivoting, flip potion 11 can reside in the front 7 of master unit 3 or the back side 5 of master unit 3.In an alternative, hinge 9 design become with layout so that when pivot flip potion 11 can reside in 7 places, front of master unit 3 or at the hinge place.In one embodiment, pivotally connected 14 and hinge 9 can be equal to.
As shown in Figure 5, in a preferred embodiment, master unit 3 comprises magnetic element 19.Magnetic element 19 can be positioned on the front 7 or the back side 5 of master unit 3, or preferably is embedded in the master unit 3.In an alternative, described hinge 9 comprises magnetic element.In either case, magnetic element 19 in master unit 3 back sides 5 or those magnetic elements in hinge 9 and the magnetic attracting force between the clean magnetic force of folding rectangular configuration 12 can releasedly rectangular configuration 12 be attached to the back side 5 of master unit 3, or in the situation of hinge 9, be attached to hinge 9.
In a preferred embodiment, when rectangular configuration 12 is left the front 7 of master unit 3 and when being pivoted to the back side 5 of master unit 3, rectangular configuration 12 and be included in the back side 5 that attractive force between the magnetic element 19 in the master unit 3 magnetically is attached to rectangular configuration 12 master unit 3.In an alternative, when rectangular configuration 12 pivots so that resident to the described hinge 9 time, the attractive force between rectangular configuration 12 and the magnetic element in hinge 9 19 magnetically is attached to hinge 9 with rectangular configuration 12.
Fig. 6 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and wherein the back side 5 of master unit 3 comprises handle 21.Handle 21 is convenient to the angle of master unit with expectation is held on the surface, and the mode of being convenient to meet ergonomics is controlled master unit.Handle 21 can be the type of fixing, and perhaps it can wind the central axis rotation perpendicular to master unit 3 back sides 5.Handle 21 also can pivot, like this can be by the distance between the back side 5 of the part of operator's adjusting handle and master unit 3.
The compactedness of rectangular configuration 12 and magnetically hold it in together mode also has the back side 5 that rectangular configuration 12 magnetically is attached to master unit 3, allows rectangular configuration 12 resided on the back side 5 of master unit 3 or the hinge 9 and does not contact handle 21.In addition, in a preferred embodiment, rectangular configuration 12 is so compact, remain to together so well and keep in place, so that can design in the mode that meets ergonomics handle 21, it can have enough greatly with the hand that holds the operator or the opening of wrist like this, master unit 3 need to firmly not grasped on one's own initiative by the operator like this, and so that handle 21 can freely rotate 360 degree around its central axis.
Can carry out specifically described variation, modification and/or increases beyond those to the present invention described herein, and should be appreciated that and the present invention includes all this variations, modification and/or the increase that falls in the following claim scope.

Claims (17)

1. folding overcoat, it comprises:
Be suitable for removably being attached to the hinge of master unit, described master unit has front and the back side; And
Be pivotably connected to the flip potion of described hinge, described flip potion comprises:
A plurality of fragments;
Foldable area between each fragment;
It is characterized in that described flip potion can be folded into rectangular configuration, in this rectangular configuration, each fragment of described flip potion be folded into flush ground stacking each other.
2. collapsible overcoat according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described fragment has identical size, and is rigidity.
3. collapsible overcoat according to claim 2 is characterized in that, each fragment comprises at least one magnetic element.
4. collapsible overcoat according to claim 3 is characterized in that, the attractive force between the magnetic element can be attached to adjacent segment together releasedly.
5. collapsible overcoat according to claim 4 is characterized in that, described rectangular configuration can be pivoted about the hinge.
6. collapsible overcoat according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described master unit comprises at least one magnetic element.
7. collapsible overcoat according to claim 5 is characterized in that, described hinge comprises at least one magnetic element.
8. collapsible overcoat according to claim 6 is characterized in that, when described rectangular configuration is switched to back side when place that resides at described master unit, described rectangular configuration can magnetic attachment to the back side of described master unit.
9. collapsible overcoat according to claim 7 is characterized in that, when described rectangular configuration is switched to when residing at described hinge place, described rectangular configuration can magnetic attachment to described hinge.
10. collapsible overcoat according to claim 8 is characterized in that, described master unit is the shell that can hold electronic equipment.
11. collapsible overcoat according to claim 9 is characterized in that described master unit is electronic equipment.
12. collapsible overcoat according to claim 10 is characterized in that the back side of described master unit comprises handle.
13. collapsible overcoat according to claim 12 is characterized in that, the size of described rectangular configuration allows described rectangular configuration to reside on the back side of described master unit and does not touch described handle.
14. collapsible overcoat according to claim 12 is characterized in that described handle rotates in the mode that can fix.
15. according to claim 10 or 11 described collapsible overcoats, it is characterized in that described electronic equipment is flat computer.
16. a collapsible overcoat that is used for electronic equipment, it comprises and is suitable for electronic equipment is contained in shell in the front cavity; Be pivotably connected to the flip potion of described shell by hinge; Described flip potion comprises a plurality of fragments, described fragment has identical size and is rigidity, and comprise at least one magnetic element, has foldable area between each described fragment, it is characterized in that, described flip potion can be folded into rectangular configuration, in this rectangular configuration, each fragment of described flip potion is folded into that to flush ground stacking and can keep together releasedly by the attractive force between its magnetic element each other, and described rectangular configuration can be switched to the place, rear portion that resides at front cavity and locates by the rear portion that rectangular configuration and magnetic attracting force between the magnetic element that is included in the described shell remain on front cavity releasedly.
17. collapsible overcoat according to claim 16 is characterized in that described shell also comprises rotating handle.
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