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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186016 | Hinge device for mobile device of folding type A hinge device has first and second bodies. The second body is rotatable about the first body. The hinge device is connected to a first and second hinge arm. The hinge device includes a first hinge bracket having a first case portion inserted in the first hinge arm,... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8186015 | Self-contained floating shaft hinge mechanism A hinge mechanism pivotally connects first and second housings of an electronics device. The hinge includes a bracket, a floating shaft, a cam member, and a biasing system. The cam member is mounted on the floating shaft. The biasing system is disposed within the fi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8141205 | Hinge mechanism and portable electronic device using the same A hinge mechanism comprises a follower, a cam and a first spring. The first spring is spiral, one end of the first spring is mounted to the follower, another end of the first spring is mounted to the cam. The cam rotates relative to the follower about a rotating axi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8099831 | Hinge structure and a mobile communication terminal therewith A hinge structure for a mobile communication terminal includes a drive cam arranged to be linearly displaced along a hinge axis, a drive shaft arranged to face the drive cam to be rotated about the hinge axis according to linear displacement of the drive cam, a foll... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8056187 | Hinge assembly An exemplary hinge assembly includes a shaft, a cam, a cam follower, a first elastic member, a second elastic member, a first sleeve, a second sleeve. The cam and the cam follower are sleeved on the shaft. The first elastic member is sleeved on the shaft, and config... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056186 | Automatically opening hinge assembly for portable electronic devices A hinge assembly (100) includes a cam (13), a follower (14), a first spring (12), a control member (18) and a second spring (16). The cam has a cam surface. The follower has a latching cam surface engaging with the cam surfa... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8006346 | Automatically opening hinge assembly for portable electronic devices A hinge assembly includes a cam (13), a follower (14), a first spring (12), a control member (17) and a second spring (16). The cam has a first cam surface (135) and a second cam surface (136). The follower has a thir... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7926146 | Hinge assembly for foldable electronic devices A hinge assembly (100) includes a sleeve (20), a main shaft (10), a follower (30) and an elastic member (40). The sleeve integrally forms an engaging portion (26). The main shaft passes through the sleeve. The follower has a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7913356 | Hinge assembly for foldable electronic devices A hinge assembly (10) includes a shaft (12) and a follower (16), wherein one of the shaft and the follower defines a thread (122), the other of the shaft and the follower includes at least one resisting portion (166). The thread is... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7854041 | Hinge mechanism for electronic device A hinge for an electronic device, such as mobile radio terminal, is a two-part hinge with a top tube on a top half of the device, a bottom tube on a bottom half of the device, and a hinge assembly in the top tube and the bottom tube. The top tube and the bottom tube... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7836550 | Damping hinge device A damping hinge device includes a hinge and a damper. The damper is arranged coaxially with the hinge and has a damping shell, a damping body, a plurality of rotating slices, a plurality of limiting slices, an outer gasket and a pushing body. The damping shell has a... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7814619 | Opening and closing device An opening and closing device which includes a roughly cylindrical stator, a concavo-convex stator cam provided at an end of the stator, a ring-like rotor rotatably disposed relative to the stator, a rotor cam opposedly protruding from an inner periphery or outer pe... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7784153 | Hinge apparatus A hinge apparatus includes a hinge and a damper and defines an axis direction. The damper includes a fixing housing defining an accepting hole therethrough along the axis direction, a rotating nut accepted in the accepting hole and defining an axis hole therethrough... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7743465 | Damping hinge apparatus A damping hinge apparatus includes a hinge and a damper. The damper has a damping shell, a damping cover, a damping body, an outer gasket and a rotating body. The damping cover is fixed in the damping shell and has a center hole defined, an inner wall of the center ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7707688 | Opening and closing mechanism A sliding member held by a movable case is interposed between the movable case and a stopper plate. During opening and closing operations, the movable case does not wear because the stopper plate and the sliding member slidably contact. ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7694390 | Hinge mechanism for foldable electronic device A hinge mechanism includes a shaft (1), a cam (2), a housing (3), an arresting member (6), a cam follower (4), and an elastic member (5). The housing has an open housing end (30), and an opposite partially open housin... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7681283 | Hinge assembly A hinge assembly comprising a movable member 5 and a fixed member 6 rotatably connected to each other and a coiled spring (not shown) biasing the movable member 5 toward the fixed member 6. A receiving recess 11 is formed in an opp... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7634838 | Hinge and a mobile phone with the hinge A hinge (200) is provided in connection with a mobile phone. The hinge includes a shaft (21), a cam (22), a sleeve (25), a torsion spring (24) and a compression spring (23). The shaft includes a first end with two rotatable ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7607200 | Hinge having auto-return auto-turning functions A hinge formed of a shaft member, a spring member, a slide, a locating member, a mounting frame, and an end cap. When turning the mounting frame with the locating member relative to the slide and the shaft member within a predetermined angle, the mounting frame is r... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7596830 | Hinge A hinge includes a housing. A stopper plugging up one end of the housing defines a through-hole. A sliding cam slideably received in the housing defines concave portions on a top surface thereof and an axial hole. A rotatable cam has a base portion extending downwar... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7565717 | Hinge assembly A hinge assembly (100) is provided for joining a flip cover (204) to a main body (202) of a foldable electronic device. A hinge assembly includes a hinge shaft (10), a follower (12), and a cam (20). The follower has an outer... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7543357 | Folding device and method of mounting the same A folding device is constructed with a holding member mounted rotatably on an end portion of a movable case, which is formed on its periphery with a convex wall portion or a concave groove portion, and which houses a fixed member and a movable member. A holding memb... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7480961 | Miniature hinge A miniature hinge includes a hinge housing, a first cam having a shaft portion, and a plurality of first can protrusions provided with facing cam surfaces defining a valley-shaped portion and an aperture passing through the first cam, a second cam having a plurality... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7434296 | Hinge device and electronic device using hinge device The present invention provides an object a novel hinge device which is extremely valuable as a commercial product and an electronic instrument using the hinge device. A hinge device for pivoting a first member (1) and a second member (2) to be r... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434295 | Spring hinge using clutch structure for eyeglasses A spring hinge using clutch structure for eyeglasses of the invention includes a hinge bracket, a end-meshing element, a central-meshing element; a hinge cannula, a resilient element received in the hole of the central-meshing element; a fixing element; and a slide ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430786 | Triple positioning hinge A triple positioning hinge that is compact and securely retains a monitor of a portable electronic device at three determined positions permanently. The triple positioning hinge has a body, a pivoting member, a first positioning element, a second positioning element... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7404235 | Hinge assembly for portable electronic devices A hinge assembly (200) for joining a cover section (110) to a body section (120) of a foldable electronic device (100) includes a main shaft (10), a rotating member (20), a sliding member (30), and a spring (40... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401381 | Folding mechanism A folding mechanism is provided in which a rotor substantially tubelike is arranged between the stationary body and movable body; cams with given gaps are arranged at both ends of the rotor and on the facing surfaces of the stationary body and movable body; and a lu... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401382 | Hinge assembly for a foldable electronic device A hinge assembly (100) includes a shaft (10), a rotary cam (20), a follower cam (30), a positioning member (50), and an urging means (40). The shaft includes a securing portion (12) at one end thereof and has a slot (... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7386918 | Hinge device A projection part 33 is formed on an end face 32 of a first turnable member 3. A short recess 43 and a long recess 44 are formed in an end face 43 of a second turnable member 4. The short recess 43 is provided ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7383618 | Hinge for a portable device A hinge for a portable device has a body, a spring, a slide and a shaft. The body has a cavity and multiple retaining tabs. The spring is mounted in the cavity in the body. The slide is mounted slidably in the cavity in the body, abuts the spring and has a positioni... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383617 | Hinge assembly An exemplary hinge assembly includes a hollow housing (100), a shaft (300), an urging mechanism (400), a cam (500), and a follower (700). The housing includes an open end, and a hole (104) in an opposite second end. A periph... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383616 | Hinge assembly for portable electronic device A hinge assembly (100) for joining a cover section (110) to a body section (120) of a foldable electronic device includes a main shaft (1), a cam (2), a follower (3), a first elastic element (4), a control (5),... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7369882 | Sliding/swing-type portable apparatus having self-retaining function A sliding/swing-type portable apparatus having a self-retaining function includes a main body; a battery cover coupled to the bottom surface of the main body in a predetermined position so that it can rotate about a first hinge axis toward or away from the main body... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359506 | Opening and closing device and electronic equipment using the same Inclined plane is provided at the tip of rotor cam. On the other hand, inclined planes are also provided in specific positions of stator cam. Because of this structure, in the specific positions, the inclined planes are in resilient contact with each other. Thus, th... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353568 | Hinge assembly for foldable electronic device A hinge assembly (100) includes a rotating cam (10) having an inner screw thread (122) and a first cam surface (14) at one end thereof, a shaft (20) having an outer screw thread (242) engaging with the inner screw thread at ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356826 | Disk player casing with buffered lid A casing (10) for a disk player includes a housing (12), a lid (14) movable with respect to said housing between an open position and a closed position, and a resilient member (64). The housing houses a disk playing mechanism of said disk... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346377 | Folding mechanism and electronic apparatus using the same To provide a folding mechanism capable of securely holding its opened and closed positions and an electronic apparatus employing the same. The folding mechanism is constructed by disposing outer circumferential fixed cam on the outer circumferential side and inner c... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337498 | Electronic device and hinge assembly thereof An electronic device and a hinge assembly thereof. The electronic device includes a base, an elastic member, a first cam, a second cam, and a third cam. The elastic member is disposed on the base. The first cam is disposed on the base in a manner such that the first... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334296 | Hinge device and portable terminal having the same A hinge device for a portable terminal having a first housing and a second housing rotatably coupled to the first housing such that the second housing is moved between an opened position and a closed position with respect to the first housing is provided. The hinge ... | 02/26/2008 |
