Portable terminal
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorsTatsuya Sano, Naka Shibata
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A portable terminal including a first housing including a first display; a second housing including a second display; and a hinge portion that couples the first housing and the second housing so as to be openable and closable with respective opposing end portions of the first housing and the second housing adjacent to each other and with respective surfaces of the first housing and the second housing positioned in the same plane as each other in an open state. The hinge portion is disposed so as to not be visible from a front side of the first display and the second display when the first housing and the second housing are in the open state.
Claims21
A portable terminal including:
- a first housing including a first display;
- a second housing including a second display;
- and
- a hinge portion that couples the first housing and the second housing so as to be openable and closable with respective opposing end portions of the first housing and the second housing adjacent to each other and with respective surfaces of the first housing and the second housing positioned in the same plane as each other in an open state, wherein
- the hinge portion is disposed so as to not be visible from a front side of the first display and the second display when the first housing and the second housing are in the open state, wherein
- the hinge portion includes a drawing mechanism that generates a drawing force for bringing the opposing end portion of the second housing closer to the opposing end portion of the first housing when the first housing and the second housing are within a predetermined range proximate to a closed state.
A portable terminal including:
- a first housing;
- a second housing;
- a hinge portion that couples the first housing and the second housing so as to be openable and closable;
- and
- a flexible cable that electrically connects between the first housing and the second housing, wherein
- the hinge portion includes at least one arm member and a slide member, and
- a first intermediate point of the flexible cable is fixed to a predetermined position of the one arm member, and a second intermediate point of the flexible cable is fixed to a predetermined position of the slide member.
A portable terminal including:
- a first housing including a display;
- a second housing including the display;
- and
- a hinge portion that couples the first housing and the second housing so as to be openable and closable with respective opposing end portions of the first housing and the second housing adjacent to each other and with respective surfaces of the first housing and the second housing positioned in the same plane as each other in an open state, wherein
- the hinge portion is disposed so as to not be visible from a front side of the first housing and the second housing when the first housing and the second housing are in the open state, wherein
- the hinge portion includes a drawing mechanism that generates a drawing force for bringing the opposing end portion of the second housing closer to the opposing end portion of the first housing when the first housing and the second housing are within a predetermined range proximate to a closed state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.