Portable terminal apparatus with TV function and TV antenna with function as input pen

A portable terminal apparatus with TV function, comprising:

• a display/input section capable of displaying a TV image and receiving an input from a touch panel;
• a controller for controlling the display/input section to display the TV image thereon;
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• a TV receiving antenna formed of elastically combined conductive materials and connected to the controller, wherein:
• the TV receiving antenna includes a TV antenna with function as an input pen configuring a part of the TV receiving antenna and functioning as an input pen for providing input to the display/input section and further includes a mounting portion antenna, wherein:
• the TV antenna with function as an input pen is configured to be extendable and contractible in the longitudinal direction thereof, and is mounted on the apparatus so that, while the TV antenna is mounted on the apparatus, a pushing portion of an operational member provided for pushing the TV antenna into the apparatus in the longitudinal direction of the TV antenna is exposed outside the apparatus and a portion of the TV antenna configured integrally with a contact input portion contacted with the display!input section to provide input cannot be pushed into the apparatus.

A portable terminal apparatus with TV function, comprising:

• a display/input section capable of displaying a TV image and receiving an input from a touch panel;
• a controller for controlling the display/input section to display the TV image thereon;
• and
• a TV receiving antenna formed of elastically combined conductive materials and connected to the controller, wherein the TV receiving antenna includes a TV antenna with function as an input pen configuring a part of the TV receiving antenna and functioning as an input pen for providing input to the display/input section and further includes a mounting portion antenna;
• a latch mechanism for supporting the TV antenna with function as an input pen on the portable terminal apparatus with TV function in such a manner that the TV antenna is demountable from the apparatus by being pushed into the apparatus in a longitudinal direction when mounted on the apparatus, wherein:
• the TV antenna with function as an input pen is pushed into the apparatus by contracting a portion formed of elastically combined conductive materials and detachably mounted on the apparatus;
• the TV antenna with function as an input pen has a movement lock concavity provided for limiting longitudinal movement thereof by the latch mechanism;
• the latch mechanism includes a sandwiching member for sandwiching and supporting the TV antenna with function as an input pen with the movement lock concavity;
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• when the TV antenna is in the locked state, the sandwiching member is fixed in a state of sandwiching it from both sides in a direction substantially vertical to the longitudinal direction of the TV antenna so as to lock the TV antenna and prevent it from coming off the apparatus.

A portable terminal apparatus with TV function, comprising:

• a display/input section capable of displaying a TV image and receiving an input from a touch panel;
• a controller for controlling the display/input section to display the TV image thereon;
• and
• a TV receiving antenna formed of elastically combined conductive materials and connected to the controller, wherein:
• the TV receiving antenna includes a TV antenna with function as an input pen configuring a part of the TV receiving antenna and functioning as an input pen for providing input to the display/input section and further includes a mounting portion antenna, wherein the TV receiving antenna includes:
• a multistage antenna section of the TV antenna with function as an input pen;
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• an in-apparatus antenna section configured to be electrically conductive with the multistage antenna section when the TV antenna with function as an input pen is mounted on the apparatus, and connected to the controller, wherein:
• the multistage antenna section is configured by concentrically combining a plurality of cylindrical bodies;
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• the cylindrical body with the smallest radius in the concentric circles is most distant from the contact input portion contacted with the display/input section to provide input while the multistage antenna section is extended and housed inside the TV antenna with function as an input pen while the multistage antenna section is contracted;
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• the TV antenna with function as an input pen includes an extension preventing section for preventing extension of the multistage antenna section when the TV antenna with function as an input pen is not mounted on the apparatus.