US 12,326,567 B2
Hinged head-mounted display device
Weston Taylor Skye, Mountain View, CA (US); and Philip Andrew Frank, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/194,525.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/371,000, filed on Aug. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0053614 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 27/0176 (2013.01) [G02B 2027/0154 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0169 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hinge assembly for a head-mounted display device, the hinge assembly comprising:
a four-bar linkage comprising a first linkage, a second linkage, a third linkage, and a fourth linkage;
wherein the first linkage is rotatably coupled to the second linkage and the third linkage, and is mountable to or forms part of a wearable article for a head of a user;
wherein the second linkage and the third linkage are each rotatably coupled to the first linkage and to the fourth linkage;
wherein the fourth linkage is rotatably coupled to the second linkage and the third linkage, and is mountable to or forms part of a display device.