Portable telephone and multifunctional protective housing therefor
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsHisamitsu Takagi, Akihide Nishiyama, Masashi Tomura
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Abstract
A portable telephone having a cover to which a functional module such as an electronic calculator or a clock module is detachably mounted. The cover is rotatably mounted to a body of the portable telephone. Plural kinds of functional modules are replaceably mounted to the cover, thereby making the portable telephone multifunctional. Also disclosed herein is a construction that a multifunctional module mounting member is rotatably mounted to the body of the portable telephone, and a desired functional module is mounted to this mounting member by plug-in connection employing connectors.
Claims2
A portable telephone comprising:
- a body including a speaker, a microphone, and switch means;
- a cover rotatably mounted to said body, said cover being adapted to cover at least said switch means when said cover is in a closed condition;
- cover holding means for rotatably holding said cover with respect to said body, said cover holding means comprising:
- a cover mounting projection integrally formed with said body and having a pair of holes formed therein;
- a pair of shafts each respectively rotatably inserted through one of said holes, each of said shafts having a first end fixed to said cover and a second end having a plate portion;
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- a pair of U-shaped springs fixed to said body so as to respectively nip said plate portions of said shafts to maintain said cover at a stable position when said cover is in an open condition;
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- a functional module detachably mounted to said cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.