Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
  • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
  • G06F1/00—Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00
  • G06F1/16—Constructional details or arrangements
  • G06F1/1613—Constructional details or arrangements for portable computers
  • G06F1/1626—Constructional details or arrangements for portable computers with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
  • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
  • G06F1/00—Details not covered by groups G06F3/00 - G06F13/00 and G06F21/00
  • G06F1/16—Constructional details or arrangements
  • G06F1/1613—Constructional details or arrangements for portable computers
  • G06F1/1632—External expansion units, e.g. docking stations

Definitions

• the invention relates to a recording as a tablet computer u. ⁇ . serving console with a base plate and a frame.
• So-called tablet computers such as the Apple iPad have enjoyed great popularity in recent years for both business and personal use. They are characterized by their compactness and fast and flexible application possibilities. Any use around the Internet, e-mail, etc. is possible in a particularly comfortable way, because these computers are compared to PC's, laptops or laptops practically immediately and because of their low weight and their reduction to the main aggregates are used everywhere.
• tablet computers are particularly easy to handle due to the operation via a touch screen.
• the mentioned compactness entails that such a tablet computer can be used practically anywhere in and out of the home. This is done not only at tables or better still desks, but also on chairs in and out of home, sofas, on beds, in bed, in the car or train, etc. Especially with a prolonged use of this computer, the use is then often uncomfortable, especially the tablet computer just without existing
• Support surface must always be held at least with one hand by the user. This makes it cumbersome, for example, to operate the touchscreen and thus also the integrated keyboard in such circumstances.
• the present invention has the object to provide a console for a tablet computer, which always allows a particularly simple and less burdensome use of this tablet computer.
• This object is achieved in that the frame between a pivoted position in which the frame is flush with the base plate and at least one swung-out working position for supporting the tablet computer o. ⁇ . is adjustable.
• Such a console is used in the sense of a support device or a desk for receiving the tablet computer or similar devices in one or more inclined positions and can, if this is not used, collapse to a minimum size.
• the console on a frame which terminates in its pivoted position, at least substantially flush with the base plate.
• Parts of the frame, such. B. support plate, support bar, cross-brace or additional support can be pivoted by a sophisticated design of this frame and close in this state all or among each other at least largely flush with the base plate.
• the rack is first brought into the pivoted-out, inclined position in which it is used to hold the tablet computer.
• Such a console is thus particularly suitable for use while sitting or lying, that is to say positioning on the thighs of the user.
• the tablet computer can be used easily and gently with both hands.
• the frame has a pivotally mounted at its lower end to the base plate, serving to support the back of the tablet computer
• Support plate has. Ie. the support plate is pivotally mounted and can thus be brought into at least one inclined position.
• a variant of the invention provides that the support plate is resiliently mounted so that it pivots automatically when loosening from the pivoted position in an inclined.
• the tablet computer is with his back then s.der described support plate, for which purpose they must have a corresponding size.
• Support strip has.
• the tablet computer In the swung-out state of the frame, the tablet computer thus rests with its lower edge on the support bar and with its back flat on the support plate.
• an increase is appropriate. It may be a continuous bar or individual projections.
• support plate and support bar are pivotally mounted about a common axis. Specifically, this looks so that when swiveling the support plate, the support bar is still designed to additional pivotable about 90 °, then to realize an optimal end position of the frame for receiving the tablet computer on support plate and bar.
• a particularly easy to handle embodiment of the frame provides that the support plate is supported to the rear. It is to be regarded as particularly simple and therefore cost-effective construction, if an optionally also plate-like cross-support serves to stabilize the support plate in at least one inclined position, so that an ultimately complex spring mechanism is unnecessary.
• cross support and support plate are connected approximately centrally by a joint.
• the base plate has internals on which the cross-brace is lockable in at least one position.
• Particularly advantageous is one or two parallel rows of fixtures, between which the transverse support can be used with its lower end for positioning the frame.
• any part of this frame should be flush with the base plate. Since some components have to be accommodated here with the support plate, support strip and cross strut, a certain interaction is required. This is achieved by virtue of the fact that the support plate has an opening formed in correspondence with the support ledge and / or an opening formed corresponding to the transverse support. When swiveling towards the base plate, the three grab
• the transverse support should have a corresponding formed to the support bar offset. Ie. Approximately below its center, the cross brace jumps backwards by a distance that corresponds approximately to the strength of the support bar.
• console, support device or desk provides that the support plate in the region of its upper end has a pivotally mounted additional support for pivoting the support plate in a further, flat working position.
• the support plate has a further support which can be pivoted out of it and, due to its comparatively small height, allows the support plate to be positioned at a comparatively small angle relative to the base plate after unfolding. This is on the already described and given by the positioning of the cross brace with respect to the base plate side internals addition, a further, just comparatively flat positioning for the support plate created after swinging the additional support.
• the console according to the invention is to be used particularly advantageously if there is no support surface through a table, desk or the like. is created and the user would put the tablet computer on his thighs.
• the console according to the invention is thus particularly advantageously usable if it rests with its underside on the thighs of the user.
• the base plate on its underside on a cushion such as a kind of large-area as possible on the underside of the base plate attached bag, which is filled with a soft, coarse-grained material.
• the pad is fixed removable on the underside of the base plate.
• Velcro fastener is fixed to the bottom of the base plate, d. H. one
• Velcro zips z. B the base plate at the bottom in a corresponding to the pad assembly.
• the upholstery can then be easily and quickly assembled or disassembled there, depending on the location of the console for the tablet computer.
• the invention is characterized in particular by the fact that a Kosole for receiving a tablet computer o. ⁇ . is created, which allows a lighter, more convenient, more comfortable and gentler use of a tablet computer and can be folded at the same time in the unused state to a minimum.
• Decisive component for this is a frame, consisting of a support plate for the back of the tablet computer, as
• Pad for this serving support bar as well as a cross support for
• Pivot base plate and / or with each other so that the base plate then occupies only a minimum of space.
• U. a. the interaction of these components is facilitated by the support plate and bar are pivotally mounted about a common axis, that in the support plate a corresponding formed to the support bar opening is provided or that the support plate is a corresponding to the
• a pad can be mounted on the underside of the base plate so that the console is particularly suitable for resting a tablet computer on the user's thighs, for example while sitting or lying down on a chair, sofa, bed, on the train, in the car. Plane etc.
• Figure 2 is a console in the swung state in
• Figure 3 shows a console in the swung state in
• Figure 4 shows a console in the swung out state in
• FIG 1 shows a console 1, which could also be referred to as a support device or desk, inußschwenktem state.
• the console 1 comprises a Well recognizable here is that these components 4, 5, 8 and 18 complement each other or so are arranged and formed corresponding to each other, that the frame 3 in the in FIG 1 can swing folded state shown.
• the support plate 4 serves to receive the back of a tablet computer, not shown here, and can be swung by immersing one or two fingers in the recess 27 in cooperation with a pivoting movement.
• the additional support 18 is positioned, which allows a support of the receiving plate in a comparatively small angle.
• the cross member is designated, of which only a part is recognizable because they are below the
• the frame 3 is then swung out in the illustration according to FIG. 2. Both the support plate 4 and the support bar 5 have been swung out around the axis 25 provided in the region of the lower end 6, the support bar 5 is still approximately 90 ° further than the support plate 4.
• the transverse support 8 serves as a further part for supporting the support plate 4 of the frame 3 '.
• the base plate 2 has a variety of examples here with the
• Reference numerals 1 1 to 14 provided internals, between which the transverse support 8, 3 'is determined, depending on the desired angular position of the support plate 4. Not shown is the pivoting of the additional support 18 in the axis 26, so that in a support of the support plate 4 on the swung-out additional support 18 an even smaller angle could be realized, as if the transverse support 8 in the region of the rear baffles 29, 30 is located.
• Figure 3 additionally shows in particular the strip-like, continuous or as here interrupted increase 23 on the front plate 24 facing away from the support plate 4.
• a slip-resistant coating is prevented even in a
• Support plate 4 and cross support 8 are connected approximately centrally by a hinge 9 together.
• the transverse support 8 in turn has an offset 16 in the region of its center, in the region of which the transverse support 8 jumps a little way back, which corresponds to a corresponding design to the support strip 5 and makes itself felt during pivoting of this the frame 3 forming components advantageous , Good to see here is the pad 20 on the bottom 21 of the base plate. 2
• FIG. 4 shows the frame in swung-out position

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