Portable electronic equipment and charger for portable electronic equipment

Abstract

To provide portable electronic equipment and a charger for the portable electronic equipment which allows achievement of a system as a whole with the portable electronic equipment placed in the charger to be compact as small as possible and easy removal of the portable electronic equipment from the charger. The portable electronic equipment has engagement recesses formed on side portions of the equipment housing at positions having a distance away from other end of the equipment housing in such a way that when the other end of the equipment housing is pushed down in a state it is placed in and held by the charger, one end of the equipment housing is pivoted about the engagement projections in such a way to move upward and to produce a moment sufficient to disengage the engagement of the engagement latch from the engagement hole. The charger has engagement projections formed at positions where they engage with the engagement recesses which are formed on side portions of the equipment housing at positions having a distance away from the other end of the equipment housing in such a way that when the other end of the equipment housing is pushed down in a state that the portable electronic equipment is held by the charger, the one end of the equipment housing is pivoted about the engagement projections to move upward and to produce a moment sufficient to disengage the engagement latch from the engagement hole.

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