Tablet Notebook Flip Device Biaxial Hinge Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Tablet computers lack stability and efficiency in data entry, limiting their use primarily to leisure and recreation, and when used with a peripheral keyboard, they become less portable and offer a poorer user experience.
Innovation Solution
A tablet notebook flip device with a base portion, biaxial shafts, mounting connector, and upper and lower axes, allowing for separate functioning of the keyboard and tablet, enabling angle adjustment and protection of internal components, and featuring a holder and clamp plate for secure data input and protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a peripheral keyboard is added to the tablet computer, then data input efficiency is improved, but portability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the tablet computer and keyboard into a single integrated device called a tablet notebook. The keyboard is not a separate peripheral but is built into the same chassis as the tablet screen, allowing users to get both tablet functionality and keyboard-based data input without carrying separate devices, thus maintaining portability while improving data input efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The tablet notebook serves multiple functions: it can be used as a tablet computer for media consumption, as a notebook computer for data input and productivity tasks, and can be adjusted to different viewing angles. This multi-functionality allows a single device to replace both a tablet and a traditional notebook computer, improving productivity without sacrificing portability
2Ease of operation
If the tablet is adjusted to different angles by setting the panel backwards, then viewing comfort is improved, but typing stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates a hinge mechanism that allows the tablet screen to be dynamically adjusted to different angles relative to the keyboard base. This dynamic adjustment capability enables users to optimize the viewing angle for comfort while maintaining a stable typing surface, resolving the contradiction between viewing comfort and typing stability by allowing the configuration to change based on usage needs
Data Source
AI summary
This paper discloses a tablet notebook flip device comprising a base portion for main body, biaxial shafts, a mounting connector and an upper axis. The main body is arranged above the base portion for the main body, having a keyboard above. A tablet cover is configured on a holder. A clamp plate with a mounting connector below is on a side of the biaxial shafts. A support flap with main body of the shaft on a side is configured below the mounting connector. A lower axis and the upper axis are configured within the main body of the shaft. The benefit: the tablet notebook acts as a notebook computer when the keyboard is adopted for data input, and functions independently as a tablet computer when the flip device is turned around in a 360° rotation becoming a protective case or is turned to a reversal angle to form an A-shape for another type of user experience.