US 12,379,750 B2
Electronic device
Kyota Yamamoto, Osaka (JP); Shintarou Tanaka, Osaka (JP); Junichi Hasegawa, Osaka (JP); and Hiroki Kamezaki, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Aug. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/231,273.
Application 18/231,273 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/002318, filed on Jan. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-029438 (JP), filed on Feb. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0376082 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 1/1681 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1616 (2013.01); G06F 1/1679 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a first housing including a display;
a second housing including an operation unit; and
a rotation unit configured to connect the first housing to the second housing, and rotate the first housing relative to the second housing,
wherein
the second housing includes at least one rotation regulation portion that protrudes from a bottom face of the second housing and is configured to regulate rotation of the first housing with respect to the second housing,
the at least one rotation regulation portion includes an elastic member configured to rotate back and forth between a first mode and a second mode with different states of protrusion from the bottom face of the second housing, the elastic member being contactable with the first housing, and
the at least one rotation regulation portion is configured to, in the first mode, regulate rotation of the first housing with respect to the second housing in a first rotation range, and in the second mode, regulate rotation of the first housing with respect to the second housing in a second rotation range where the first housing is rotated with respect to the second housing to a greater extent than in the first rotation range.