US 6,983,175 B2 · Mobile station

Abstract

Described is a mobile station for receiving/transmitting information of every kind including at least one auxiliary keyboard having a plurality of auxiliary input keys therein, whereby the information is received/transmitted through the auxiliary input keys when a user wants to transmit the information by the mobile station. For that purpose, provided are a main body (1) having a plurality of input keys mounted on an upper surface of the mobile station, a first and second assist keyboards (8 and 9) being folded or unfolded centering around hinge joints, the key boards hinge-jointed rotationally on the opposite portions of both sides of the body (1) to a horizontal direction, respectively, and a plurality of auxiliary input keys (10) and (11) on upper surfaces of the first and second auxiliary keyboards (8) and (9) for inputting characters and numbers when the first and second auxiliary keyboards are unfolded from the body (1).

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Dependent claims

A mobile station comprising:

a body having a plurality of input keys on an upper surface;
a first and a second auxiliary keyboards hinge-jointed respectively to both confronting parts of a lower surface of the body so as to rotate to move horizontally wherein entire parts of the first and second auxiliary keyboards are inserted into the body so as to be folded or the rest parts of the first and second auxiliary keyboards except the hinge-jointed parts are drawn out from the body so as to be unfolded;
and
a plurality of auxiliary input keys on upper surfaces of the first and second auxiliary keyboards so as to input characters, numbers with the input keys of the body when the first and second auxiliary keyboards are unfolded.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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