FR2844958A1 - Casing used for electronic items, such as microcomputers or portable phones, has arrangement enabling better holding of item during use - Google Patents

Abstract

The casing includes a flap (1) having a hollow (3), which allows one or more fingers of the user to be applied against it to ensure secure holding of the box. There is a hinge (2), which may be retractable.

Description

The present invention relates to a housing, which can be

  possibly articulated by hinges, of the type used, for example, for a microcomputer and a portable telephone or an electronic book.

  Traditionally, portable computers and electronic books have flaps that allow them to be used after having placed them on a flat surface,

  the top of a table, a desk, ...

  In the conditions of mobile or leisure computing, the case is, most often, placed on one hand, horizontal palm, facing upwards, which is not always possible for reading in a relaxed position. , for example lying down. When the other hand must operate a keyboard or a stylus, it is no longer enough to have the box thus posed: unbalanced, it would fall. It must therefore be grasped, the fingers closing to apply on top of the flap - because the flaps of this kind of housing are always, on the scale of the fingers, convex - which has

  for the effects of partially masking and smearing the screen placed on this flap, bringing the palm-support closer to the edge of the flap and consequently unbalancing a housing which must then be applied against the chest by its opposite edge.

  In other cases, it is the thumb that is applied to the screen, hence the drawbacks mentioned above, there are 25 adding that from this contact also comes this impression of cold

  so often criticized for electronic boxes.

  The device according to the invention overcomes these drawbacks. It comprises, according to a first characteristic, a housing of the type composed of at least one vo30 let containing at least one recess arranged on at least one of its elements so as to allow at least one of the fingers of the user to apply in said to

  minus a recess and ensuring the grip of said housing.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, the bol35 tier has two flaps with at least one distributed recess

  on said flaps, said at least one recess being a recess of said flaps made in a place where said vo-

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lets are globally adjacent.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, the leboltier comprises at least one hinge with at least one gutter-shaped recess arranged on said at least one hinge. According to another characteristic of the invention, the housing comprises at least one flap with at least one recess

  made on at least one of the faces of said at least one flap.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, at least one gutter-shaped recess is arranged on at

  minus a false retractable hinge in its shutter.

  According to another characteristic of the invention, one

  at least part of the recesses is covered at least in part with a material serving as a binding.

  Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent

  better in the detailed description which follows and refers

  in the accompanying drawings, given solely by way of example, and in which: - Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device according to the invention, in the open position; - Figure 2 is a perspective view of the device in the open position, one hand holding it; - Figure 3 is a right view of the device in open po25 sition, one hand holding it; Figure 4 is a bottom view of the device in

open position.

  With reference to these drawings, the device is a housing

  composed of at least one flap (1) itself comprising at least 30 a recess (3) which is either a bowl (30), a recess (31) or a gutter (32).

  The bowl (30) is a kind of imprint or depression of the wall of the flap (1) whose bottom evokes, overall, a spherical cap.

  The recess (31) is a removal of material practiced

  on a shutter (1) (or partly on one and partly on the other), in the shape, overall, of a parallelepiped, an el-

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  lipsoide, of a cylinder or one of their compounds, for example Boolean.

  The gutter (32) is a removal made in the material constituting a hinge (2), in the form of a longitudinal longitudinal section of cylinder, arranged in parallel (FIG. 4) or

  no (Figure 3) to the axis of the hinge (2).

  The hollows. (3) can be striated and / or perforated bottom or wall. The fingers can be placed there (case of bowls (30) and gutters (32) as in Figure 3) or intro10 edire (case of recesses (31), Figure 2). Thus still can see, Figure 1, four openings on the edge of the flaps (1) which accommodate the four fingers and, on the lower surface of the flaps (1), two other recesses (3), intended to receive the left thumb or the right thumb according the hand used to hold the case. In the same figure 1,

  a recess (3) is distributed between the two flaps (1).

  False retractable hinges (20) appear on the variant shown in FIG. 4. These are semblances of hinges (2) which carry the gutters (32) receiving the fingers when they come out of the shutter (1) where they have been placed in the direction and at the appropriate place, generally near one of the zones of the flap edge (1) where a hand is likely to be applied in order to grasp the housing. These retractable false hinges (20) 25 can also be placed close to each other so as to wedge the finger which is applied to the gutter (32)

  one and / or the other retractable false hinge (20).

  According to a variant not illustrated, at least one of the recesses (3) is covered, at least in part, by a maté30 riau serving as binding, canvas or leather in particular.

  The device according to the invention is particularly intended for the production of microcomputers and telephones

  laptops, and electronic books.

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Claims (5)

  1) Box of the type composed of at least one flap (1) characterized in that said at least one flap (1) contains at least one recess (3) arranged on at least one of its elements so as to allow at least one of the fingers of the user to apply in said at least one recess (3)   and to ensure the grip of said housing.   2) Housing according to claim 1 characterized in that it comprises two flaps (1) and that at least one recess (3) is distributed over said flaps (1), said at least one recess (3) being a recess (31 ) of said flaps (1) practiced in a place where said flaps (1) are generally adjacent.   3) Housing according to any one of claims   previous characterized in that it comprises at least one hinge (2) and at least one recess (3) in the form of   gutter (32) is arranged on said at least one hinge (2).   4) Housing according to any one of claims   previous characterized in that it comprises at least one vo20 let (1) and that at least one recess (2) is formed on the   at least one of the faces of said at least one flap (1).   ) Housing according to any one of claims   previous characterized in that at least one recess (3)   in the form of a gutter (32) is arranged on at least one false retractable hinge (20) in its flap (1).   6) Housing according to any one of claims   previous characterized in that at least one of the recesses (3) is covered at least in part with a material serving as binding.