Mobile terminal
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsChiyoung Kim, Seongwoo Choi
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Abstract
To enable stable opening and closing and minimize an increase in volume and weight of a swivel type mobile terminal, the mobile terminal includes a swivel body and a main body located behind the swivel body to overlap therewith, and a hinge assembly configured to join the swivel body and the main body to rotate the swivel body based on a rotation axis in a front and rear direction A first slider of the hinge assembly move along the first rotation rail of the hinge assembly during the rotation, a main restoration part generate a restoring force for the swivel body to be in a closed or open state based on a first threshold rotation angle, and an auxiliary restoration part configured to press the main restoration part to generate a restoring force for assisting a motion of the main restoration part.
Claims20
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a swivel body configured to provide a first screen on a front side of the swivel body;
- a main body located behind the swivel body to overlap with the main body and configured to provide a second screen on a front side of the main body;
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- a hinge assembly coupling the swivel body and the main body such that the swivel body is rotatable based on a rotation axis in a front and rear direction with respect to the main body to allow the swivel body to cover or uncover the second screen,
- wherein the hinge assembly comprises:
- a rotary plate coupled to the swivel body;
- a fixed plate coupled to the main body;
- a hinge configured to provide a rotation axis for a rotation of the rotary plate with respect to the fixed plate;
- a first rotation rail provided at one of the rotary plate or the fixed plate and a first slider provided at a remaining one of the rotary plate or the fixed plate to move along the first rotation rail, wherein the first rotation rail comprises an arc shape;
- an elastic part coupled to the rotary plate at a first side of the elastic part and coupled to the fixed plate at a second side of the elastic part and configured to provide a restoring force that causes the swivel body to be biased toward a closed or open state based on a first threshold rotation angle, wherein the closed state corresponds to the swivel body covering the second screen on the main body and the open state corresponds to the swivel body rotating with respect to the main body to uncover the second screen, wherein the first threshold rotation angle corresponds to a case in which the swivel body is in the closed state;
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- an auxiliary elastic part configured to provide a force to the elastic part for assisting a motion of the elastic part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.