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US 7,444,175 B2Granted
Foldable mobile terminal with antennas and a selector selecting a diversity transceiving system based on folding-out or folding-in terminal
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsTakayoshi Ito, Shuichi Sekine
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Abstract
A foldable mobile terminal comprises a pair of housings which are coupled through a hinge to make the terminal foldable, at least one antenna arranged on each of the housings, a switch connected to the antenna, at least one radio unit mounted on one of the housing and connected selectively to the antenna through the switch, and a selector to select a diversity transceiving system according to folding-out or folding-in of the terminal.
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A foldable mobile terminal comprising:
- a pair of housings which are coupled through a hinge to make the terminal foldable;
- at least two antennas arranged on the housings, respectively, in diagonal relationship to fail to overlap with each other in a state that the terminal is folded in;
- a switch connected to the antennas;
- at least two radio units mounted corresponding with the antennas on one of the housing and connected selectively to the antennas through the switch;
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- a selector to select, only on the basis of whether the terminal is folded-out or folded-in, a synthesis diversity transceiving system for synthesizing detection signals of the radio units when the terminal is folded-out and select a selective diversity transceiving system for selecting one of the antennas that provides a receiving level higher than other of the antennas, when the terminal is folded in.
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A foldable mobile terminal comprising:
- a pair of housings which are coupled through a hinge to make the terminal foldable;
- at least two antennas arranged on the housings;
- a switch connected to the antennas;
- at least two radio units connected selectively to the antennas through the switch;
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- a switch controller to control the switch to respectively connect the antennas to the radio units in a synthesis diversity transceiving mode for synthesizing detection signals of the radio units when the terminal is folded-out and connect only one of the antennas to only one of the radio units in a selective diversity transceiving mode when the terminal is folded-in.
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