STAF Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture) and VAIO Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture) have developed and commercialized unique hinges that can be opened smoothly with one hand, by each company's respective strengths in hinge development and notebook PC development.
Under the recent expansion of the new work style "telework" in COVID-19 disaster, many people work at home and open spaces with a telephone and a notebook PC.
One of the most common situations is when you try to open the laptop display with one hand, the keyboard floats together.
We have developed a "one-handed open hinge" to solve this difficulty in use.
The features of "Hand Open Hinge" are as follows.