JPH05270081A - Electronic apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an electronic apparatus in which a material to be recorded can be easily fed and recorded in a state that the display is started and even a thick sheet is not bent and which has high availability and is adapted for a portable type. CONSTITUTION:An electronic apparatus 100 comprises a printer section 140 arranged at the side of a keyboard 2 in a housing and a recording material feeder 150 arranged under the keyboard 2 at the side of the housing. A recording material can be fed, recorded and discharged through substantially horizontal feeding passages 150A, 160, 141, 144, 142, 170.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic device, and more particularly to an electronic device having a printer built into a part of its housing and having a display section capable of displaying the recorded contents.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a portable electronic device of this type, as found in a notebook or laptop type word processor, has been constructed as shown in FIG. 6, for example.
Here, 1 is a word processor main body, 1A is its housing,
Reference numeral 2 is a keyboard portion for input, 3 is a rotatably supporting portion 3A at a lower end thereof which is rotatably supported by a part of the housing 1, and when used, the display surface 3B is set to a position facing the operator as shown. A display unit 4 that can be made to stand up
Is a printer unit which is located on the back side when the printer is raised. As shown in FIG. 7, the printer unit 4 is provided with a paper feed port 6 for inserting the sheet 5 of the recording material and a discharge port 7 at a position corresponding to the upper surface of the casing 1A of the printer unit 4, and the feeding unit 6 Recording is performed by the recording head 11 on the sheet 5 guided between the platen 9 and the guide 10 by the roller 8, the sheet is fed by the platen 9, and the finished sheet portion is ejected by the ejection roller 12 by the ejection port 7
Will be sent out from.

[0003]

However, in the electronic device such as the above-mentioned conventional example, since the printer unit 4 is behind the display unit 3, the display unit 3 is temporarily placed on the keyboard unit 2 during recording. It is difficult not only to set the sheet 5 in the sheet feeding port 6 accurately but also to record it unless the operator pulls it up or the operator looks up at the back side of the display unit 3. The displayed screen is hidden by the display unit 3, and it is impossible to confirm whether or not the recording is correctly output.

Furthermore, when handling a thick recording material such as a postcard, the sheet has a bending tendency, and when it is too thick, it cannot be guided to the recording position well.
It may not be possible to record.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the conventional problems, it is an object of the present invention to easily carry out recording with the display section kept upright, and for recording material such as thick paper. An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device which is convenient for an operator, particularly suitable as a portable device, in consideration of the relative arrangement of each part so that it can be easily handled.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention is an electronic apparatus having a keyboard portion, a display portion and a printer portion, in which the printer portion is located on the side of the keyboard portion. The recording material is disposed in the housing, and a recording material feeding portion is provided on the lower surface side of the keyboard portion of the housing, and the recording material is fed and recorded from the feeding portion to the printer portion in a substantially horizontal transport path. It is characterized in that it can be discharged.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in an electronic device having a keyboard portion, a tiltable display portion and a printer portion, the display portion is housed in the housing on the back side when the display portion is started up. The printer unit is arranged in a direction parallel to the display unit, and a transport path from the paper feed port of the printer unit to the discharge port through the recording position is descended from the lower portion of the raised display unit toward the rear side thereof. It is characterized in that it is inclined as a gradient so that the recording material can be fed toward the paper feed port from both the lower surface side and the rear surface side of the raised display portion.

[0008]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the recording material is transferred in a substantially horizontal transport path from the feeding section provided on the lower surface of the keyboard section housing to the printer section disposed in the housing on the side of the keyboard section. Since the feeding, recording and discharging are performed, the operator can easily see the feeding and discharging of the recording material even when the display section is kept in a raised state, and the recording material is bent. No worries about habits.

Further, according to the second aspect of the present invention, the recording material can be fed from either the lower side or the back side of the display section which is erected on the obliquely formed conveying path of the printer section. Therefore, it is possible to freely select the feeding method according to the type of the recording material, and there is no fear of curling.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail and specifically with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment according to the first aspect of the present invention. Here, 100 is a notebook word processor as an example of the electronic device, and 140 is the printer section thereof. That is, in this example, the housing 1A is also formed so that the printer unit 140 is located along the right side of the keyboard 2. Further, here, 170 is a discharge port for recorded sheets provided on the side surface of the printer unit 140. Further, the configuration relating to the printer unit 140 and the recording operation will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2A, the keyboard 2
A paper guide unit 150 is provided at a side portion of the printer unit 140, which is the lower side of the printer unit 140, and a side wall 1B inside the printer unit 140 is provided corresponding to the height of the sheet guide floor 150A of the paper guide unit 150. The paper mouth 160 is opened. In the printer unit 140, 141 is a feeding roller, 142 is a discharging roller, 143 is a recording head, and 14 is a recording head.
Reference numeral 4 is a guide plate. Therefore, in the word processor 100 configured in this way, as shown in FIG. 2B, the sheet 5 is placed on the sheet guide floor 150A so as to be placed, and the right end of the sheet 5 is fed. All you have to do is insert it into the mouth 160. Thus, the recording can be started only by pressing the recording start button (not shown).

Then, the sheet 5 is moved by the recording head 143.
Recording is performed on the upper side, and the recorded sheet 5 is discharged from the discharge port 170 as indicated by an arrow. However, since the operator is located on the front side of the paper in this figure, the discharge port 170
It is possible to easily recognize the portion indicated by A on the sheet 5 sent out from the sheet, and to confirm the recording result. Further, as shown in FIG. 2B, since the sheet 5 is not bent, even if the sheet 5 is a thick one such as a postcard, the sheet 5 is not bent. ..

FIG. 3 shows another embodiment according to the first aspect of the present invention. In this example, the printer unit 1 of the paper guide unit 150
The sheet feeder 180 is provided in front of the paper feed port 160 to the 40.
Is provided. That is, in the case of the present example, a plurality of sheets 5 can be accommodated on the sheet guide floor 150A in a stacked state, and the sheet feeder portion 18 can be received from above.
The automatic feed roller (ASF roller) 182 is pressed by the spring force of the spring 181 of 0. Thus, the sheets 5 stacked on the sheet guide floor 150A can be sequentially fed one by one from the top based on the recording start signal by the sheet feeder 180, and the printer 140 can perform recording.

Although not shown in this figure, in the paper guide section 150, the sheet guide floor 150A is constructed so that it can be extended to the left, and a sheet of a long length type is used for the sheet guide floor 150A. It goes without saying that it is possible to store the data in the upper part for recording.

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment according to the second aspect of the present invention. It should be noted that in the following, parts and members having the same functions as those described in the above-mentioned embodiments are designated by the same reference numerals, and the details thereof will be omitted. Further, in FIG. 4, (A) is a perspective view showing an outline of the entire configuration, and (B) is a sectional view mainly showing the configuration of the printer section and the relative position occupied by the printer section.

As shown in this figure, in the present embodiment, the printer section 140 of the word processor 200 is provided in the case 1A on the back side of the display section 3 in a form parallel to the display section 3 and, moreover, its supply. Paper outlet 160 and outlet 17
0 is provided on a surface that is obliquely inclined with respect to the upper surface and the lower surface of the housing 1A that forms the keyboard 2. Therefore, the feed roller 141, the discharge roller 142, the recording head 143, and the guide plate 144 arranged in the printer unit 140 are also obliquely arranged along the conveying direction as shown in FIG. .. On the other hand, 130 is an opening provided between the rotation supporting portions 3A on both sides of the display unit 3, and the thick sheet 50 is directly directed from the keyboard 2 toward the paper feed port 160 through the opening 130 at the time of recording. It can be inserted (see FIG. 5B).

The word processor 20 configured as described above
At 0, in the case of the recording sheet 5 in which the recording material is normally used, as shown in FIG.
The sheet 5 is fed along the rear surface 3C of the case of the sheet feed port 160.
From the front side of the display unit 3 through the opening 130, the sheet 5 may be inserted into the paper feed port 160 from the front side of the display unit 3. it can. Further, when the recording material is the thick sheet 50, as described above, as shown in FIG. 5B, from the opening 130 through the paper feed port 160,
The sheet 50 can be inserted straight without bending in the middle, and the sheet 50 on which recording has been completed can be discharged in the arrow direction.

Although not shown, a paper guide may be provided along the back side of the display unit 3 in addition to the above-mentioned embodiment so that the sheet can be easily guided to the paper feed port 160. Furthermore, in order to make it easy to guide a thick and short sheet such as a postcard to the paper feed port 160 through the opening 130, a fixed or detachable sheet receiver is provided in the opening 130, or a simple postcard dedicated It is also possible to provide a small feeder and, if necessary, to hold a plurality of postcard type sheets and feed them sequentially.

In each of the above-mentioned embodiments, an example of application to a word processor has been described, but the application of the present invention is not limited to such a word processor, and a tilting type display unit, It goes without saying that the present invention can be widely applied to portable electronic devices equipped with a keyboard and a printer unit. Further, the printer unit is not limited to a specific type, and may be any type of various types such as an inkjet printer and a thermal printer.

[0021]

As described above, according to the present invention, the recording material can be fed from the operator side facing the display surface to the printer section, and the conveyance path is flat. Since it is maintained, it is possible to eject a thick sheet such as a postcard after recording without giving a bending tendency, and it is possible to provide an electronic device which is convenient for the operator.

Further, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the printer section is disposed in the housing on the side of the keyboard section, and the recording material feeding section is provided on the lower surface side of the keyboard section. Since the recording material can be fed, recorded, and discharged from the feeding portion to the printer portion in a substantially horizontal conveyance path, the operator can easily visually recognize the recording result at the operation position. In addition to being able to detect the jam, you can immediately judge if a jam occurs, you can easily install the sheet feeder, and record without hindering other work such as visual inspection of the display and keyboard operation. Can be implemented.

Further, according to the second aspect of the present invention, the printer section is arranged in a direction parallel to the display section in a casing which is a back side of the display section when the display section is started up. The feed path from the sheet feeding port to the discharge port through the recording position is inclined as a downward slope from the lower portion of the raised display portion toward the rear side thereof, and the lower surface side and the rear surface of the raised display portion are inclined. Since it is possible to feed the recording material from both sides to the paper feed port, it is possible to select the sheet feeding path according to the type of sheet and the situation at that time for ease of use. In addition, when feeding is performed along the back side of the display unit, the operation related to the display unit and the keyboard is not hindered by that.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a configuration of an example according to a first mode of the present invention.

2A and 2B show the configuration and operation of the embodiment shown in FIG.
It is explanatory drawing shown by the cross section of (B).

FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing a configuration of another embodiment according to the first mode of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a configuration of an embodiment according to a second mode of the present invention as a perspective view (A) and a sectional view (B).

5A and 5B are cross-sectional views showing a sheet conveyance path at the time of recording according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 4 in two ways (A) and (B).

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a configuration example of a word processor as a conventional example.

7 is a cross-sectional view showing the configuration of the word processor shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1A case 2 keyboard 3 display section 3A rotation support section 3B display surface 5,50 sheet 100,200 word processor (electronic device) 130 opening 140 printer section 141 paper feed roller 142 discharge roller 143 recording head 150 paper guide 150A sheet guide floor 160 paper feed port 170 discharge port 180 sheet feeder section

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An electronic device having a keyboard portion, a display portion, and a printer portion, wherein the printer portion is arranged in a casing on the side of the keyboard portion, and a recording material is fed to a lower surface side of the casing of the keyboard portion. An electronic device comprising a feeding unit, wherein the recording material can be fed, recorded, and discharged from the feeding unit to the printer unit in a substantially horizontal transport path. 2. An electronic device having a keyboard portion, a tiltable display portion, and a printer portion, wherein the printer is provided in a casing on the back side of the display portion when the display portion is started up, in a direction parallel to the display portion. Is provided, and the conveyance path from the paper feed port of the printer unit to the discharge port through the recording position is inclined as a downward slope from the lower portion of the raised display unit toward the rear side thereof, and is raised. An electronic device, wherein recording material can be fed toward the paper feed port from both the lower surface side and the rear surface side of the display unit.