Disclosed is a hinge module including a hinge structure having a first sub-hinge structure including a first center bracket and a first hinge bracket that rotates through a specified angle in a first direction and a second sub-hinge structure including a second center bracket and a second hinge bracket that rotates through a specified angle in an opposite direction to the first direction. The first hinge bracket and the second hinge bracket are separated from each other and are disposed between the first center bracket and the second center bracket, and hinge motion of the first sub-hinge structure is performed independently of hinge motion of the second sub-hinge structure. The hinge module and a foldable display device including the hinge module suppress a phenomenon in which the hinge module is opened when the housing structures are twisted, thereby preventing damage to the foldable display device.

A hold lock mechanism for a vehicle door, the hold lock mechanism including a grip assembly configured to be mounted on a vehicle body, the grip assembly including a pair of grip members configured to releasably grip a door component and a hook provided on at least one of grip members, and a release assembly mounted on the door component, the release assembly including a release member configured to releasably engage with the hook.

A movable panel system is provided which has a guide provided with at least one rail, at least one glass panel and a carriage device slidingly supporting the at least one glass panel on the at least one rail. The carriage device has a carriage body engaged to the at least one glass panel, and a wheel group having at least two wheels, configured to slidingly engage the at least one rail, and a support frame, the at least two wheels being hinged, rotationally free, to the support frame. The carriage body and the support frame are mutually engaged by a hinge that allows reciprocal rotation.

The current invention relates to the field of hinges, more specifically locking hinges. It is often desirable to automatically secure a door at a position, for example while loading or unloading a vehicle, but most hinges on the market are unable to secure the door automatically. The current invention solves this problem by incorporating a securing means within the barrel of the hinge itself that is capable of releasably securing an attached door along the axis of rotation. The principal use of the preferred embodiment is on a travel trailer, the hinge serving to secure an entry door while loading or unloading the trailer.

There is disclosed in one example, an encasement for a mobile computer, including: an external casing in a clamshell form factor, the external casing including a base, a secondary display chassis hingedly connected to the base at a secondary hinge, and a primary display chassis hingedly connected to the secondary display chassis at a primary hinge disposed at a removed edge of the secondary display chassis from the secondary hinge, the primary display chassis to substantially overlay the secondary display chassis and the base when the primary hinge is in a closed position; and pivot means disposed to substantially bias the secondary hinge against movement from a selected position in at least one direction in the absence of an electrical input.

A hinge includes a base frame unit and two rotatable axle units. The base frame unit includes a base seat and a protective cover. The base seat has two guideways having upper and lower segments, and two shaft sliding slots. The protective cover has a base wall and two pivot pins. Each axle unit rotatably extends through the base seat, and includes a hinge shaft rotatably extending through the shaft sliding slot, a first rotary member non-rotatably fitted to the hinge shaft, a second rotary member connected with the first rotary member, and a support bracket non-rotatably fitted to the hinge shaft. The first rotary member has a guide key slidably engaged in the guideway. The second rotary member is pivoted to the pivot pin and has an engaging hole for receiving the guide key.

A hinge comprises a first body and a second body irremovably rotatably coupled along a rotational axis of the hinge. The first body and the second body comprise opposing radial bearing surfaces engaged only within a working rotational range of the hinge for fixing the relative position of the first body and the second body in a radial direction with respect to the rotational axis of the hinge. The first body and the second body further define opposing axial bearing surfaces engaged only within the working rotational range of the hinge for fixing the relative position of the first body and the second body in an axial direction with respect to the rotational axis of the hinge. The opposing radial bearing surfaces and the opposing axial bearing surfaces are not engaged outside of the working rotational range.

A side-open left-right-door arbitrary-opening structure of a refrigerator comprises four hinge shafts are fixedly connected at left and right sides of a refrigerator body in pairs respectively, left and right sides of upper and lower end faces of a refrigerator door are all provided with an opening neck, each hinge shaft is correspondingly placed in one opening neck, four hinge shaft stoppers are slidably arranged on the upper and lower end faces of the refrigerator door in pairs respectively, one spring is arranged between two hinge shaft stoppers in each pair, tail ends of the hinge shaft stoppers on the upper and lower end faces of the refrigerator door extend into the opening necks at the corresponding sides, and the hinge shafts at the corresponding sides are positioned in the opening necks.

A hinge includes a base frame unit and two rotatable axle units. The base frame unit includes a base seat and a protective cover. The base seat has two guideways having upper and lower segments, and two shaft sliding slots. The protective cover has a base wall and two pivot pins. Each axle unit rotatably extends through the base seat, and includes a hinge shaft rotatably extending through the shaft sliding slot, a first rotary member non-rotatably fitted to the hinge shaft, a second rotary member connected with the first rotary member, and a support bracket non-rotatably fitted to the hinge shaft. The first rotary member has a guide key slidably engaged in the guideway. The second rotary member is pivoted to the pivot pin and has an engaging hole for receiving the guide key.

A portable information handling system rotationally couples housing portions with a variable torque hinge having a first axle that rotates with a first housing portion, a second axle that rotates with a second housing portion and a synchronizing gear assembly that translates rotation between the first and second axles. Variable torque is applied by selectively engaging and disengaging a coupler gear with the synchronizing gear assembly to apply and remove an increased torque that resists housing rotation. In one embodiment, the coupler gear is an idler gear of the synchronizing gear mechanism that selectively applies and removes an increase torque of the second axle to the first axle. The coupler gear slides in response to an actuator, such as an electro-permanent magnet acting on a ferromagnetic material with high and low magnetic attraction states.