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US 7,443,979 B2Granted
Portable communication terminal having a housing capable of both sliding and swinging
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorYoung S. Kim
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Abstract
A portable communication terminal having a sliding/swinging housing is disclosed. The portable communication terminal includes a body housing; and a sliding/swinging housing which slides lengthwise along the body housing while being closely opposed to the body housing and is then swung to be placed in parallel to the body housing beside the body housing.
Claims9
A portable communication terminal comprising:
- a body housing having an upper surface;
- and
- a sliding/swinging housing having a lower surface closely facing the upper surface, the sliding/swinging housing movably coupled to the body housing, the sliding/swinging housing being fully closed onto the body housing at a first position, the sliding/swinging housing sliding along the body housing from the first position to a second position while maintaining the lower surface being closely facing the upper surface, the sliding/swinging housing swinging from the second position to a third position while maintaining the lower surface parallel to and facing the upper surface, wherein the upper surface of the body housing is fully exposed when the sliding/swinging housing is completely swung in the third position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.