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Sliding electronic apparatus

AssigneeNEC Corporation

InventorsTakahiro Sakai, Toshiki Yamanaka, Hiroshi Yamada

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Abstract

A sliding electronic apparatus that prevents foreign matter from entering a housing is provided. In the apparatus, upper housing 1 and lower housing 2 are slidably coupled, and it is switched by sliding one of upper housing 1 and lower housing 2 with respect to the other, a closed state in which operation section 2b provided on lower housing 2 is covered by upper housing 1 and an open state in which operation section 2b is exposed. The apparatus includes opening 1c formed in a lower surface of upper housing 1, opening 2c formed in an upper surface of lower housing 2, and FPC 3 for electrically connecting wiring board 9 and wiring board 10. FPC 3 includes cover portion 3a mounted on the lower surface of upper housing 1 so as to cover opening 1c and cover portion 3b mounted on the upper surface of lower housing 2 so as to cover opening 2c. Cover portion 3a is electrically connected to wiring board 9 in upper housing 1, and cover portion 3b is electrically connected to wiring board 10 in lower housing 2.

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Dependent claims

A sliding electronic apparatus in which a first housing and a second housing laid on top of each other are coupled together so as to be able to slide relative to each other, the sliding electronic apparatus being switchable, by sliding one housing , from among the first housing and the second housing, with respect to each other, between a closed state in which an operation section provided on the second housing is covered by the first housing and an open state in which the operation section is exposed, the sliding electronic apparatus comprising:

a first wiring board accommodated in the first housing;
a second wiring board accommodated in the second housing;
a first opening formed in an opposite surface of the first housing which lies opposite the second housing;
a second opening formed in an opposite surface of the second housing which lies opposite the first housing;
and a flexible printed circuit configured to electrically connect the first wiring board and the second wiring board together,
wherein the flexible printed circuit includes a first cover portion mounted on the opposite surface of the first housing so as to cover the first opening, and a second cover portion mounted on the opposite surface of the second housing so as to cover the second opening, and the first cover portion is electrically connected to the first wiring board, and the second cover portion is electrically connected to the second wiring board.

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Facts

Application: 13/130,394Filed 24 Nov 2009
Priority: JP 2008-33080325 Dec 2008
Published: US 2011/0228491 A122 Sep 2011
Granted: 29 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04M 1/0237
Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation…
H05K 1/147
Structural association of two or more printed circuits: at least one of the printed circuits being bent or folded, e.g. by using a flexible…
H02G 11/00
Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts
H04M 1/026
Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets: details of the structure or mounting of specific components

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US 2011/0228491 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Sep 2011
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