US 11,758,676 B2
Folding device stand for portable devices
Sophia Hoem, San Jose, CA (US); and Wesley G. Brewer, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Assigned to Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US)
Filed by MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC., Boise, ID (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/9,415.
Application 17/009,415 is a division of application No. 15/458,516, filed on Mar. 14, 2017, granted, now 10,798,840.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/308,136, filed on Mar. 14, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2020/0396856 A1, Dec. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. H05K 7/10 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01); F16M 11/10 (2006.01); F16M 13/00 (2006.01); F16M 13/02 (2006.01); F16M 11/20 (2006.01); F16M 11/38 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/10 (2013.01) [F16M 11/10 (2013.01); F16M 11/2021 (2013.01); F16M 11/38 (2013.01); F16M 13/00 (2013.01); F16M 13/02 (2013.01); G06F 1/1626 (2013.01); G06F 1/1628 (2013.01); G06F 1/1632 (2013.01); H05K 5/0226 (2013.01); H05K 5/0234 (2013.01); F16M 2200/024 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An integrated stand for a portable device, comprising:
a storage device configured to store data therein, the storage device having a front end opposite a back end, each of the front end and the back end configured to have at least one connector extruded therethrough;
an actuator coupled to the storage device to cause the at least one of the connectors to extrude through at least one of the back end or front end of the storage device;
a first segment coupled to a side of the storage device, the first segment having a first end opposite a second end, the first end rotatively coupled around a hinged joint positioned along an end of the side of the storage device and the second end coupled to a further hinged joint; and
a second segment rotatively coupled around the further hinged joint positioned along the second end of the first segment.