The present invention relates to a support stand, and more particularly to a support stand for electronic equipment.
A known electronic device, such as a projector, is attachable to a support stand to increase the height thereof for facilitating projection of images. An example is Taiwan Utility Model M507480, which discloses a projection system that includes, as shown in FIG. 1 of the document, a lower moving mechanism that is provided on a support base to be operatively cooperative with an upper moving mechanism, such that a relative movement between the upper moving mechanism and the lower moving mechanism causes a change in relative position of a machine body with respect to the support base for adjusting an elevation angle thereof for image projection. Such a known device is limited in functionality as it allows only adjustment of the elevation angle of projection.
Further, Taiwan Patent No. 501743 discloses a projector elevating/lowering adjustment device, which, as shown in FIG. 3 thereof, generally comprises components including a main body, an adjustment button, and a support frame. Pressing down the adjustment button that is provided, in a protruding form, on a front side surface of the main body would cause disengagement from or engagement with a positioning tooth of the support frame, so that the support frame that is located inside a slide sleeve is allowed to freely move upwards/downward with the slide sleeve as being acted upon by an elastic element, in order to adjust an inclination condition of the projector. Such a known device is limited in functionality as it allows only adjustment of inclination.
The prior art electronic equipment of the above two projection devices provide functionality for only adjusting elevation angle or inclination and is only usable as being positioned on a desktop. Further, the prior art electronic equipment of the above two projection devices allows only for projecting an image or playing an image in one single direction or a fixed direction, so that in case that the projection direction has to be change in response to a change of the operation environment, it is necessary to move the main body of the electronic equipment in order to change the projection direction. This is very inconvenient.
To overcome the above problem, the present invention provides a securely mountable/dismountable electronic equipment support stand, which comprises: electronic equipment and a support stand. The electronic equipment is provided with a first arc groove. The support stand comprises a bottom base, a top base, and a supporting portion. The top base is provided with two first pegs corresponding to the first arc groove. The bottom base is formed with a receiving space corresponding to the supporting portion. The supporting portion has two ends respectively pivoted to and arranged between the bottom base and the top base.
Preferably, the arc groove comprises a sliding zone and a retaining zone, and the sliding zone has an inside diameter that is greater than an inside diameter of the retaining zone.
Preferably, the first arc groove comprises a first groove segment and a second groove segment, and the first groove segment and the second groove segment are provided therebetween with a spacing distance.
Preferably, the bottom base of the support stand is provided with a second arc groove.
Preferably, an adaptor board is disposed at one side of the support stand, and the adaptor board is provided with two second pegs.
The securely mountable/dismountable electronic equipment support stand according to the present invention makes use of the collaborative combination between the first arc groove and the two first pegs to securely retain and fix the electronic equipment to the top base of the support stand, but still allowing the electronic equipment to rotate so that the electronic equipment demonstrates a capability of adjustment for various orientations on the support stand, allowing convenient watching of the images displayed on and projected from the electronic equipment, and further, the bottom base of the support stand can be retained on and fixed to the adaptor board, with the adaptor board being mountable to a wall by using screws, so that the support stand and the electronic equipment can be securely fixed on the wall without detachment and falling, providing the support stand with functions of supporting and elevating and lowering the electronic equipment and also achieving an effect of orientation changeability and securely mounting to a wall.
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The electronic equipment 11 may comprise a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a microcomputer, a micro television set, or a projector. The electronic equipment 11 may comprise at least one connection port 111, a processor (not shown), and a screen 112 (or a lens). The at least one connection port 111 may comprise a universal serial bus (USB) connection port, a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) connection port, and/or a USB-C connection port. The electronic equipment 11 receives, by means of the at least one connection port, an audio-video file; the processor processes the audio-video file; and the screen 112 (or the lens) plays or projects images of the audio-video file. However, details concerning the structure and operation of the electronic equipment 11 are publicly known in this field and are not novel part of the present invention, so that such details will be omitted therein. As shown in
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In summary, the securely mountable/dismountable electronic equipment support stand 1 according to the present invention makes use of the collaborative combination between the first arc groove 113 and the two first pegs 124 to securely retain and fix the electronic equipment 11 to the top base 122 of the support stand 12, but still allowing the electronic equipment 11 to rotate so that the electronic equipment 11 demonstrates a capability of adjustment for various orientations on the support stand 12, allowing convenient watching of the images displayed on and projected from the electronic equipment 11, and further the bottom base 121 of the support stand 12 can be retained on and fixed to the adaptor board 13, with the adaptor board 13 being mountable to a wall 2 by using a plurality of fastening elements 133 (screws), so that the support stand 12 and the electronic equipment 11 can be securely fixed on the wall 2 without detachment and falling, providing the support stand 12 with functions of supporting and elevating and lowering the electronic equipment 11 and also achieving an effect of orientation changeability and securely mounting to a wall 2.
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