Cellular telephone and personal digital assistant

• US 20050043056A1
• Filed: 09/13/2004
• Published: 02/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter V Boesen
• Original Assignee: Martha Trout
• Inventors: Boesen, Peter V.
• Granted Patent: US 7,983,628 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1671 Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop G06F1/1666 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1679 for locking or maintaining the movable parts of the enclosure in a fixed position, e.g. latching mechanism at the edge of the display in a laptop or for the screen protective cover of a PDA G06F1/1681 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0216 Foldable in one direction, i.e. using a one degree of freedom hinge
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0237 Sliding mechanism with one degree of freedom
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0256 wherein the modules are operable in the detached state, e.g. one module for the user interface and one module for the transceiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1016 Earpieces of the intra-aural type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/107 Monophonic and stereophonic headphones with microphone for two-way hands free communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2460/13 Hearing devices using bone conduction transducers

Abstract

The handheld personal electronic device has a first body having a display, a second body having a plurality of manual inputs, the second body capable of attachment to the first body, the personal electronic device having an open position wherein the display of the first body and the manual inputs of the second body are accessibly exposed. And, the personal electronic device having a closed position wherein the display of the first body is protected by the second body and the manual inputs of the second body are accessibly exposed.

Claims

1-26. -26. (Cancelled).

27. A personal communications device, comprising:

a first body having a top end and a bottom end;

a second body operatively connected to the first body such that the first body slides along the second body and the top end of the first body elevates in transitioning from a closed position to an open position;

a wireless transceiver disposed within one of said first body and second body.

28. The personal communications device of claim 27 wherein the first body includes a display.

29. The personal communications device of claim 27 further comprising a short range transceiver disposed within one of said first body and said second body.

30. A personal communications device, comprising:

a first personal communication device body;

a second personal communication device body;

the first personal communication device body slideably connected to the second personal communications device body such that the first body transitions outwardly and upwardly from a closed position to an open position.

31. The personal communications device of claim 30 further comprising a wireless transceiver disposed within one of the first personal communications device body or the second personal communications device body.

32. The personal communications device of claim 31 further comprising a short range transceiver disposed within one of the first personal communications device body and the second personal communications device body.

33. The personal communications device of claim 30 wherein the first body includes a display.

34. The personal communications device of claim 30 wherein the second body includes a display.

35. The personal communications device of claim 30 wherein the first body includes a plurality of buttons.

36. The personal communications device of claim 30 wherein the second body includes a plurality of buttons.

37. A personal communication device comprising:

a housing comprising a first body and a second body;

a voice transceiver disposed within the housing;

a display and a plurality of buttons disposed on the first body;

a plurality of buttons disposed on the second body;

the first body slidably connected to the second body for transitioning between an open position and a closed position;

the display and the plurality of buttons disposed on the first body accessibly exposed for use by an operator both in the open position and the closed position.

38. The personal communications device of claim 37 further comprising a short range transceiver disposed within the housing.

39. The personal communications device of claim 37 further comprising a second display disposed on the second body accessibly exposed for use by an operator in the open position.