Portable telephone

A portable telephone comprising a telephone proper in which the front side includes operating buttons and a display thereon, and the back and both sides are hand-held sections, and an antenna which is mounted to be extendable and retractable through the top side of the telephone proper,

• wherein one side of said telephone proper is equipped with an operating switch in the upper section of the hand-held sections and the operating switch has three selections:
• off mode, on (standby) mode, and talk mode;
• wherein there is provided an antenna moving mechanism which moves said antenna upwards when the talk mode is selected and moves the antenna downwards when the standby mode is later selected;
• and
• wherein the telephone further comprises a control circuit for controlling the antenna moving mechanism including
• a pulse generator, having an output for sending out pulse signals, activated when the operating switch is in the talk position and inactivated when standby is selected,
• a first timer circuit connected to the output of the pulse generator for sending an output signal for a first designated period of time for moving the antenna upward to the antenna moving mechanism when the pulse generator is activated;
• and
• a second timer circuit connected to the output of the pulse generator, in parallel with the first timer circuit, for sending a second output signal to the antenna moving mechanism for a second designated period of time for moving the antenna downward when the pulse generator is inactivated.