Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a body having a keyboard thereon, a display unit mounted for pivotal motion on the body, a pair of shafts provided at interior side corner portions of the body and each having a pair of terminals, and a pair of speaker units individually removably mounted for pivotal motion on the shafts. Each of the speaker units is mounted for pivotal motion on the body of the information processing apparatus by first and second engaging pawls which cooperate with each other to hold the shaft therebetween. In order to emphasize low-pitched portions of sound outputted from the speaker, the housing of the speaker unit is formed as a housing of the bass reflex type or of the back load phone type.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a body having a display panel pivotally attached to the body, the panel having a plural, selectable data display orientations. A detector detects a size of an angle between the display panel and the body and a selector selects a corresponding one of the data display orientations in accordance with the size of the detected angle, affording automatic change of the data display orientations in accordance with respective, different desired configurations of the apparatus.

Abstract: A small-sized portable information processing apparatus includes an apparatus body and an operating section movably connected to the apparatus body between an inclined position in which an air introduction port formed between the apparatus body and the operating section is opened and a horizontal position in which the air introduction port is closed. A lid is movably connected to the apparatus body in such a manner that the lid is opened or closed with respect to the apparatus body. The operating section is moved to its inclined position upon the movement of the lid toward the open position and to its horizontal position upon the movement of the lid toward the closed position. A locking/releasing means is provided for locking the operating section to its inclined position at the open position of the lid and for releasing the operating section upon the movement of the lid toward the closed position.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus which includes a first member (for example, a cover having a display unit thereon), a second member (for example, an apparatus body having a keyboard thereon), and a connection unit. The first member has a first face (for example, a face on which the display unit is provided) and a second face (for example, an outer face of the cover). The connection unit connects the first and second members to each other such that the first and second members are displaceable relative to each other between a first condition wherein the first face opposes the second member and a second condition wherein the second face opposes the second member. The first member has a hook member provided thereon such that the hook member can selectively project from one of the first and second faces. The second member has a hole for being engaged by the hook member.

Abstract: A portable information processing apparatus includes a body having an opening at a top wall thereof, a display unit mounted for pivotal motion on the body, a speaker mounted in an upwardly directed condition in the body below the opening, and a plurality of baffles mounted in the opening for pivotal motion between a first position in which the baffles substantially close up the opening and a second position in which the baffles are inclined by a predetermined angle with respect to the top wall of the body. The portable information processing apparatus further includes a guide member mounted for movement between an advanced position and a retracted position, and a motion conversion mechanism for converting linear motion of the guide member into pivotal motion of the baffles. When the display unit is closed, then the guide member is moved to the retracted position and the baffles are pivoted to the first position in which they substantially close up the opening.

Abstract: An electronic equipment has a body with a cover which is easily openable and closable and which body can be maintained at a tilted state by the opened cover, enhancing use of the equipment. The equipment includes a body having a display panel and first and second cover members, mounted to the body and guided in a slidable and pivotable manner between first (closed) and second (opened) positions. The second cover member is pivotably coupled at one end to the first cover member, the first and second cover members cooperating with each other to cover the display panel in respective first and third positions thereof. In respective second and fourth positions thereof, the second cover member is rotated about an end of the body and extends below a rear surface of the body to maintain the body in a tilted state.

Abstract: An information processor which is capable of preventing damages caused by rotation of a display panel holding unit to a display and a body of the information processor. A rotary shaft member is connected to a display panel holding unit and directed perpendicularly, an outer end of a lock bar is inserted into a lock hole of the body unit and an inner end thereof is removed from a lock hole of the rotary shaft member. A connection member is therefore unable to rotate with respect to the body unit and the rotary shaft member gets rotatable with respect to the connection member. When the rotary shaft member is tilted away from the perpendicular direction, the outer end of the lock bar comes off the lock hole of the body unit and the inner end thereof is inserted into the lock hole of the rotary shaft member. The rotary shaft member is therefore unable to rotate with respect to the connection member and the connection member is rotatable with respect to the body unit.