JPH11301859A - Electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic equipment having feed openings for supplying a printing medium or a reading medium to a printer or a reader, wherein the feed openings are left open when unused, thus to prevent the entry of foreign matters from the outside through the feed openings into the equipment. SOLUTION: An electronic equipment includes an indicator 3 supported in a rotationally movable manner on an electronic equipment main body by a hinge mechanism so that the upper face of the electronic equipment main body can be open or closed through the indicator rotationally moved, and has paper feed openings 6A, 6B for supplying a printing medium or a reading medium to a medium processor. In association with the rotational movement of the indicator to set the upper face of the electronic equipment main body to be closed, an open/closed cover 12 is rotationally moved around an axis 11 to automatically set the feed opening part to be closed by the open/closed cover for preventing the entry of foreign matters from the feed openings.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a general electronic device in which a display, such as a notebook computer or a laptop word processor, covers an electronic device main body. In this case, the present invention relates to an electronic device having an opening / closing lid for opening and closing a paper feed port of the electronic device body.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, according to a laptop-type electronic device having a built-in printer device for recording and outputting desired recording information on a recording sheet (recording paper), a rear portion of a casing having an external appearance (this specification). In this example, a printer and a document reading device are arranged at the front side and the back side at the near side with respect to the operator of the electronic device. In addition, a keyboard or the like as input means is provided at the front of the housing, and the liquid crystal display as a display is closed so as to cover the keyboard when not in use, and is raised on the housing when in use. It has such a structure.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a conventional electronic device showing a state where a display is opened. In the figure, 1 is a lower case of the electronic device main body, 2 is an upper case of the main body,
3 is a display, 4 is a display panel, 5 is a keyboard, 6A,
6B is a paper feed port. The display 3 displays various types of information, and is attached via a hinge unit (not shown) to the center of the upper case 1 of the electronic device body in the front-rear direction so as to be able to hold the display at an arbitrary angle.

The keyboard 5 is used for inputting various kinds of information, has a number of keys, and is fastened to the lower case 1 and the upper case 2 together. A paper feed port 6A for inserting a document sheet as a print medium and a paper feed port 6B for inserting a recording sheet as a recording medium are provided substantially directly below the end of the display 3 on the pivot point side. A medium such as paper fed from these paper feed ports is guided to a printing device or a reading device as a medium processing device.

FIG. 6 shows a state in which the display 3 of the conventional laptop electronic device shown in FIG. 5 is closed. Usually, storage and movement of the laptop electronic device are performed by the display 3
With the keyboard fully closed. However, since there is no lid or the like that closes the paper feed port 6, the paper feed opening is exposed to the outside, and there is a possibility that foreign matter from outside enters.

FIG. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view of the conventional electronic apparatus shown in FIG. 5 in which the display 13 is opened and a part thereof is omitted. The upper paper feed port 6A is a paper feed opening for reading, and the lower paper feed port 6B is a paper feed opening for printing. Here, since the upper opening 6A faces the external appearance, foreign matter is mixed therein, and the scanner 14, that is, a reading unit (not shown) of the reading device (not shown).
There is a possibility of penetrating up to

FIG. 8 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a conventional electronic device different from the conventional electronic device shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the electronic device, in which a display of the electronic device is shown, in which a part of the display is opened. 8 and 9, the same components as those in FIG. 5 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

In FIG. 8, 1 is a lower case of the main body, 2 is an upper case of the main body, 3 is a display, 5 is a keyboard, 6 is a paper feed port, 8 is an opening / closing lid, 9 is a printer or printing device, and 10 is a control board. , 11 indicate the support shaft of the opening / closing lid 8. here,
Paper feed port 6 provided directly below the side end of the rotation fulcrum of display 3
An opening / closing lid 8 that rotates about a shaft 11 is provided at an upper part of the opening. Then, when feeding the paper feeding medium, the operator lifts the opening / closing lid 8 to the front and inserts the paper feeding medium into the paper feeding port 6. When the scanner 14 is used, the cover 19 is removed.

In FIG. 9, a shaft 11 is provided above paper feed ports 6A and 6B provided immediately below a side end of a rotation fulcrum of the display 3.
Opening / closing lids 8 that rotate about the center are provided respectively.
Then, when the operator inserts the paper feeding medium into the paper feeding port, the leading end of the paper feeding medium comes into contact with the opening / closing lid 8, and the pressing thereof causes the opening / closing lid 8 to move.
Is rotated around the shaft 11 in the counterclockwise direction in the figure, and when the sheet feeding medium has passed, the opening / closing lid 8 returns to the initial position by the return bias of a spring (not shown) provided on the shaft 11, The lid is closed.

[0010]

However, in the conventional example shown in FIG. 5, the paper feed port is always open, and when the main body is stored upright, foreign matter such as dust is removed from the paper feed port.
There is a possibility of entering the printing mechanism or reading mechanism. In order to solve this problem, some paper feed covers are provided as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9. However, in the case of FIG. 8, opening and closing of the open / close lid by the operator is troublesome. Since the opening / closing lid is pushed open using the insertion force of the sheet feeding medium, the opening / closing lid may not be opened depending on the paper quality, and the paper quality is limited. Further, since the distance from the paper feed port to the scanner is extremely short, there is a possibility that the paper feed medium protruding from the paper feed port hangs down on the upper surface of the keyboard when reading the paper feed medium and adversely affects the paper feed performance.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object thereof is to provide a structure for automatically opening and closing a paper feed port opening / closing lid in conjunction with rotation of a display. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic device that is easily operated.

[0012]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a display device in which a display is rotatably supported on a main body of an electronic device by a hinge mechanism, and the display is rotated by rotating the display. An electronic device having a paper feed opening for supplying or closing a print medium or a reading medium to a medium processing device, wherein the electronic device main body upper surface is opened or closed by the electronic device main body upper surface. It has an opening / closing lid that rotates in conjunction with the opening / closing pivoting operation and opens and closes the sheet feeding opening.

[0013]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing one embodiment of an electronic apparatus to which the present invention is applied. The electronic device in this case is a laptop type word processor having two paper feed ports 6A and 6B as an example, and shows a state where the display is opened.

In the figure, 1 is a lower case of the main body, 2 is an upper case of the main body, 3 is a display, and the display 3 is an upper case 2 of the main body.
At the center in the front-rear direction, a hinge unit having a rotation support shaft 7 is attached so as to be held at an arbitrary angle, and when closed, the indicator 3 is locked by a lock mechanism.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a display panel of the display device 3, and 5 denotes a keyboard. The keyboard 5 is fastened to the lower case 1 and the upper case 2 together. A reading paper feed port 6A for inserting a sheet as a reading medium and a printing paper feeding port 6B for inserting a sheet as a printing medium are provided substantially directly below the end of the display 3 on the pivot point side. The medium fed from the openings 6A and 6B is guided to the internal printing device 9 and reading device 14.
These paper feed ports have a predetermined height and are elongated in the width direction orthogonal to the front-rear direction.

A seesaw-type opening / closing lid 12 for opening and closing the upper and lower paper feed ports 6A and 6B is provided.
The two rotation support shafts 11 extend in the width direction at the boundary between the paper feed port 6A and the paper feed port 6B. Further, a paper guide 13 for holding a medium discharged from these devices is provided behind the printing device and the reading device.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the support shaft 11 shown in FIG. In the figure, a shaft hole of an opening / closing lid 12 is fitted to a shaft 11 provided at a boundary portion between two upper and lower paper feed ports 6A and 6B provided in the upper case 2 of the main body. Rotate. The opening / closing lid 12 is urged in the opening direction by the opening urging member. For example, a bending spring 16 is used as the opening urging member. The shaft 11 is inserted into the circular portion formed at the bent portion of the spring 16, and both ends of the spring 16 are fixed to the opening / closing lid and the device main body, respectively. The opening / closing lid 12 is biased. Also, the opening / closing lid 12
When opened, its rear end is urged and pressed by the spring 16 against the boundary wall 6c of each paper feed port, and becomes substantially parallel to the paper feed path of the paper feed port. When a load in the direction b is applied, the shaft 11
The opening / closing lid is rotated in the direction b around the center to close each paper feed port.

Next, a series of rotation states of the opening / closing lid 12 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a state where the display 3 is tilted, and FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing a state where the display 3 is fully closed.

When the display 3 is rotated about the rotating shaft 7 from the fully open state to the fully closed state in FIG. 1, when the display 3 reaches a certain angle, the display 3 is placed on the open / close lid 12 in the horizontal state. The portion a on the rotation support side comes into contact (the state in FIG. 3), and the opening / closing lid 12 rotates about the shaft 11. When the display 3 is fully closed, the open / close lid 12 completely closes the upper and lower paper feed ports 6A and 6B as shown in FIG. 4 to prevent foreign matter from entering the paper feed ports. Can be. When the display 3 is opened, the opening / closing lid 12 is opened by the return bias of the spring 16 provided on the opening / closing lid 12, so that a reading medium or a printing medium can be fed from each paper feed port. Further, when the opening / closing lid 12 is opened, the rear end of the opening / closing lid is urged and pressed by the spring 16 so that the opening / closing lid 12 is always kept in a horizontal state. The horizontal surface of the opening / closing lid 12 can be used as a paper feeding guide, and skew during feeding can be prevented, and stable paper feeding can be performed.

In the above-described embodiment, the opening / closing lid opens and closes both the upper and lower sheet feeding openings simultaneously, but any one of the sheet feeding openings may be opened and closed.

[0022]

As described above, the electronic device according to the present invention has the opening / closing lid which rotates in conjunction with the pivoting operation of opening / closing the upper surface of the electronic device main body of the display and opens / closes the sheet feeding opening. Therefore, when the top of the electronic device body is opened and closed by the display, the paper feed opening can be automatically opened and closed by the open / close lid, eliminating the need to open and close the open / close lid. Foreign matter such as dust can be prevented from entering the opening.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exemplary perspective view showing a first embodiment of an electronic apparatus according to the invention.

FIG. 2 is an essential part enlarged perspective view showing the first embodiment of the electronic apparatus according to the invention.

FIG. 3 is an exemplary sectional view illustrating the operation of the first embodiment of the electronic apparatus according to the invention.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary sectional view illustrating the operation of the electronic device according to the first embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing an example of a conventional electronic device.

FIG. 6 is an exemplary perspective view showing a closed state of a display device in the electronic apparatus shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is an exemplary sectional view showing an open state of the display device in the electronic apparatus shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view illustrating another example of a conventional electronic device.

FIG. 9 is a sectional view showing still another example of a conventional electronic device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Lower body case 2 ... Upper body case 3 ... Display 4 ... Display panel 5 ... Keyboard 6A, 6B ... Feeding opening 7, 11 ... Support shaft 8 ... Opening / closing lid 9 ... Printer 12 ... Opening / closing lid 14 ... Scanner 16 ... Spring 17 ... Cover 19 ... Cover

Claims (4)

[Claims] The display device is rotatably supported on the electronic device main body by a hinge mechanism. By rotating the display device, the display device opens or closes the upper surface of the electronic device main body. An electronic device having a paper feed opening for supplying a reading medium to a medium processing device, wherein the electronic device is rotated in conjunction with a rotation operation of opening and closing an upper surface of an electronic device main body of the display, and the paper feed opening is rotated. An electronic device having an opening / closing lid for opening and closing the electronic device. 2. A keyboard mechanism is provided at a front portion of an electronic apparatus main body, a media processing device is provided at a rear portion, and a hinge mechanism for supporting a display device that covers the keyboard when closed, and supplies a medium to the media processing device. Opening and closing lid for opening and closing the sheet supply opening by rotating around a support shaft extending in parallel with the hinge mechanism in an electronic device provided with a sheet supply opening for an intermediate portion between the keyboard and the medium processing apparatus. And an urging means for urging the opening / closing lid in the opening direction. When the indicator is rotated in the closing direction, the lower part of the indicator presses the opening / closing lid against the urging means, and An electronic device characterized in that a paper feeding opening is closed by the following. 3. The medium processing device according to claim 2, wherein the medium processing device is a printing device and a reading device that are arranged vertically, and the paper feeding opening is an upper and lower feeding device that is arranged corresponding to the printing device and the reading device. A paper opening, wherein the opening / closing lid is rotatably supported by a support shaft provided between the reading device and the printing device, and has an area for simultaneously closing both the printing device and the reading device. Electronics. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein
The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the opening / closing lid has a posture substantially parallel to a sheet feeding path of the sheet feeding opening when the sheet feeding port is opened, and also functions as a sheet feeding guide.