Patents Examined by Rashen E Morrison
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Patent number: 11968808Abstract: A computing device includes a bezel and an enclosure. The bezel includes a heater apparatus. The enclosure includes a plurality of hardware components, and the bezel is affixed to a frontside of the enclosure and configured to heat at least a volume of air entering the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Eric Michael Tunks, Ayedin Nikazm, Richard Mark Eiland, Tyler Baxter Duncan
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Patent number: 11968807Abstract: A computing device includes a bezel and an enclosure. The bezel includes an air circulation component and a heater apparatus. The enclosure includes a plurality of hardware components, and the bezel is affixed to a frontside of the enclosure and configured to heat an internal volume of the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Eric Michael Tunks, Ayedin Nikazm, Richard Mark Eiland, Tyler Baxter Duncan
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Patent number: 11963323Abstract: Provided are a display device and a method for controlling the same. The display device includes a flexible display screen and a control structure configured to control the flexible display screen to assume a folded state or an unfolded state. The control structure includes a guide rail assembly including guide rails. Two adjacent guide rails of the guide rails are slidably connected to each other, and the flexible display screen is unfolded along a first direction and folded along a second direction. A sliding direction of each of the guide rails is the same as the first direction or the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xiaoyin Zhang
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Patent number: 11960330Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a main body chassis and a display chassis that are rotatably connected at connecting edges via a hinge. The display chassis has a display, a back cover covering the rear face of the display, and a pair of reinforcing plates extending along edge walls, each reinforcing plate having a proximal end fixed to the back cover together with a connecting plate of the hinge at the connecting edge and having a front face fixed to the display and a rear face fixed to the back cover. The back cover includes a main plate having a curved shape that is convex toward rear; and an injection-molded resin frame around the main plate and having a flat surface. The reinforcing plates are fixed to the flat surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventor: Makoto Hashikura
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Patent number: 11953949Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a housing comprising a first housing and a second housing. The first housing may comprise: a hinge module including a hinge; a first plate connected to the hinge module; a second plate facing a direction opposite the first plate; and a first side frame surrounding a first space between the first plate and the second plate. The second housing may comprise: a third plate connected to the hinge module; a fourth plate facing a direction opposite the third plate; and a second side frame surrounding a second space between the third plate and the fourth plate. The first housing and the second housing may be configured to fold or unfold with regard to each other using the hinge module.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jungchul An, Seungki Choi
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Patent number: 11930610Abstract: Personal computing device covers having stands are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a protective cover to at least partially cover a personal computing device. The cover includes a fixed panel to be thermally coupled to a chassis of the personal computing device to define a heatsink of the personal computing device, and a foldable panel to be rotatably coupled to the fixed panel via a hinge to support the personal computing device to stand at an angle from a surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Jeff Ku, Juha Paavola, Mark Carbone, Shantanu Kulkarni, Mikko Makinen, Gustavo Fricke
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Patent number: 11924987Abstract: An electronic device is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Giyun Lee, Chungkeun Yoo, Jongkeun Kim
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Patent number: 11914432Abstract: A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, a pivot element, a heat source, a first flexible heat conductive element, and a flip cover is provided. The pivot element is connected to the second body, and the second body is pivotally connected to the first body through the pivot element. The heat source is disposed in the first body. The first flexible heat conductive element is thermally coupled to the heat source and extends toward the pivot element from the heat source. The first flexible heat conductive element passes through the pivot element and extends into the inside of the second body and is thus thermally coupled to the second body. The flip cover is pivotally connected to the first body and located on a moving path of the pivot element.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Chun-Chieh Wang, Wen-Neng Liao, Cheng-Wen Hsieh, Chuan-Hua Wang, Yi-Ta Huang
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Patent number: 11917780Abstract: The description relates to hinged devices. One example relates to a device that has a first portion hingedly secured along a spine and a second portion hingedly secured along the spine. The example can also include a first spine cover secured relative to the spine and extending into the first portion and a second spine cover secured relative to the spine and extending into the second portion. An extent to which the first spine cover extends into the first portion and the second spine cover extends into the second portion is controlled by an angular orientation of the first and second portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Devin Caplow-Munro, Denys Yaremenko, Brett Tomky, Luke Schwartzel, Anne Pirie, Errol Mark Tazbaz
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Patent number: 11889651Abstract: A rack mountable bracket is described. The bracket is mountable to a rack configured for mounting equipment. The rack is also configured according to a rack standard (e.g., EIA-310) that specifies how rails of the rack are disposed, one rail to another, and how a strip of holes disposed along a length of each rail is spaced, one hole to another. In one or more implementations, the bracket includes a pair of mounting edges for mounting the bracket to a mounting pair of the rails using hole strips of the mounting pair of rails. The bracket also includes an equipment mounting rail having a hole strip disposed along a length of the rail with holes spaced according to the rack standard. The equipment mounting rail is disposed between the mounting edges, such that when the bracket is mounted to the mounting pair of rails the bracket is horizontally oriented.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Christopher Dante Joseph Gruppo, Joshua Sattler
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Patent number: 11886243Abstract: A display device includes a display panel includes a first surface where images are displayed, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the display panel being folded with a curvature, and a sliding member disposed on the second surface of the display panel and configured to slide a part of the display panel so that the curvature of the display panel is changed.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ji Heon Lee
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Patent number: 11886254Abstract: Disclosed is a foldable electronic device including a flexible display, a first housing and a second housing, a hinge housing, and a hinge structure. The hinge structure includes a first rotary member coupled to the first housing, a second rotary member coupled to the second housing, a first arm part coupled to the first rotary member and including a first rotary cam, a second arm part coupled to the second rotary member and including a second rotary cam, a fixed cam part including a first fixed cam engaged with the first rotary cam, a second fixed cam engaged with the second rotary cam, and a cam body connecting the first fixed cam and the second fixed cam, a stopper that restricts rotational angles of the arm parts, and an additional structure disposed between the stopper and the fixed cam part.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyungsoo Kim, Jungjin Kim, Jaeho Kang, Giyun Lee, Iksu Jung
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Patent number: 11874708Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one hinge assembly and two bodies. The hinge assembly includes a main body and two shafts. One end of each of the shafts is pivotally connected to the main body, another end of each of the shafts has an embedded portion, and the embedded portion has a roughened structure thereon. The two bodies correspond to the two shafts respectively, each of the bodies has at least one depression, and the embedded portion of each of the shafts is embedded in the depression of the corresponding body and contacts an inner wall of the depression through the roughened structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Che-Hsien Lin, Ko-Yen Lu
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Patent number: 11877420Abstract: A computing unit configured to be mounted in a HPC cabinet comprising an external body and an internal body. The internal body includes a bottom tray, bottom secondary electronic components, at least a bottom connector connected to the bottom secondary electronic components and a top tray being releasably coupled with the bottom tray. The top tray includes top secondary electronic components and at least a top connector connected to the top secondary electronic components, wherein the top connector is configured to cooperate with the bottom connector when the top tray is coupled with the bottom tray.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: BULL SASInventors: Sakthivel Mohanasundaram, Mohanakumara Prakasha
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Patent number: 11874709Abstract: Provided is a rotating shaft mechanism of an electronic device. A first fixing assembly and a second fixing assembly in the rotating shaft mechanism are connected to each other by a first connector and a second connector. A hollow region can be reserved in the rotating shaft mechanism as the first connector and the second connector may be shorter. Thus, an external circuit of the electronic device can pass through the hollow region and be disposed in a second body of the electronic device. An electronic device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Haoran Jing, Zhanshan Ma, Ke Li
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Patent number: 11877467Abstract: A display device includes a foldable display panel, a cover portion where the foldable display panel is disposed, the cover portion overlapping the foldable display panel, a hinge portion including a hinge structure connected to the cover portion to allow the cover portion to be foldable, and a hinge cover where the hinge structure is disposed, and a protection portion connected to the hinge portion and shielding an exposed side surface between the cover portion and the hinge portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Donghyun Yang
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Patent number: 11868186Abstract: An opening and closing mechanism includes: a first rotating shaft and a second rotating shaft that are disposed in parallel, a first telescopic part disposed on the first rotating shaft and a second telescopic part disposed on the second rotating shaft, and the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft are rotationally connected. The first telescopic part includes a first connection part connected to the first rotating shaft and a first body fastening part slidable along the first connection part, and the first body fastening part is configured to fasten a first body of the electronic device. The second telescopic part includes a second connection part connected to the second rotating shaft and a second body fastening part slidable along the second connection part, and the second body fastening part is configured to fasten a second body of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideo Kato, Yaming Jiang, Lei Bai, Mengying Pan
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Patent number: 11849059Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display panel having a first area and a second area, the second area being spaced apart from the first area in a first direction; a support plate under the display panel, the support plate including: a folding part configured to be folded about a folding axis extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; a first support part extending from the folding part in the first direction; and a second support part spaced apart from the first support part with the folding part therebetween; a first plate spaced apart from the first area of the display panel with the support plate therebetween; and an input sensor spaced apart from the second area of the display panel with the support plate therebetween and configured to sense an external input. The first plate and the input sensor face each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Suchang Ryu
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Patent number: 11841748Abstract: A multi-shaft pivot shaft device includes an assembled section mounted on the display module, a fixed section disposed on an apparatus body module and a drive unit (or transmission module and linking module) disposed between the assembled section and the fixed section and/or a reaction module disposed between the assembled section and drive unit. The assembled section, fixed section and the drive unit are pivotally connected with a shaft system. When the assembled section moves from an initial position to a set position, the drive unit is displaced (lowered) and/or the assembled section is moved back (to adjust the angle) so as to achieve a complex moving effect. In addition, the display module raises the apparatus body module and the display module is automatically positioned in an angle or a position for a user to easily watch.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Fositek CorporationInventors: Chun Han Lin, Yung Chih Tseng
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Patent number: 11832406Abstract: A display device includes a first display area, a second display area, a third display area having a curved shape, and a fourth display area. The display device includes a display panel, an inner cover member, a first outer cover, and a hinge member. The display panel overlaps the first, second, third, and fourth display areas. The inner cover member covers an outer periphery of the display panel overlapping the first, second, and third display areas. The first outer cover member surrounds the inner cover member. The hinge member is disposed on a bottom surface of the display panel to overlap a boundary between the second display area and the fourth display area, and is connected to the first outer cover member. The display panel is folded and unfolded through the hinge member. The inner cover member is drawn in to and out from the first outer cover member.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae-Chang Kim, Soyoun Jung