Portable digital communication device usable as a gaming device and a personal digital assistant (PDA)

• US 20050107119A1
• Filed: 09/22/2004
• Published: 05/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Young-Keun, Gullickson, Mark, Sterzick, Mark, Higashi, Jeff, Morioka, Seiji
• Granted Patent: US 7,292,882 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.100
• 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 1/1671 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: H04B 1/3805 with built-in auxiliary receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0247 comprising more than two body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a portable digital communication device usable as a gaming device and a personal digital assistant. The device comprises a body housing, a center sliding housing for opening or closing a top surface of the body housing while being continuously opposite to the top surface of the body housing, and at least one side sliding housing attached to a side surface of the body housing and adapted to slide while being continuously opposite to the side surface of the body housing. The side sliding housing is arranged in parallel with the center sliding housing.

Claims

1. A portable digital communication device usable as a gaming device and a personal digital assistant, comprising:

a body housing;

a center sliding housing for opening or closing a top surface of the body housing while being continuously opposite to the top surface of the body housing; and

at least one side sliding housing attached to a side surface of the body housing and adapted to slide while being continuously opposite to the side surface of the body housing, the side sliding housing being arranged in parallel with the center sliding housing.

2. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the side sliding housing comprises a first side sliding housing attached to one side surface of the body housing, and a second side sliding housing attached to the other side surface of the body housing, the first and second side sliding housings being arranged symmetrically to each other about the body housing.

3. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the side sliding housing includes a side surface moved in a sliding motion while being continuously opposite to a side surface of the center sliding housing.

4. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the center sliding housing and the side sliding housing are moved in a sliding motion in opposite directions.

5. The device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a first key array arranged on the top surface of the body housing, the first key array comprising a plurality of keys.

6. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the center sliding housing includes a top surface having a wide display unit arranged thereon.

7. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the lengths of the body housing and the center sliding housing are larger than the widths of the body housing and the center sliding housing.

8. The device as set forth in claim 2, wherein the first side sliding housing includes a top surface having a single key and a camera lens mounted thereon, the camera lens being disposed next to the single key.

9. The device as set forth in claim 2, wherein the second side sliding housing includes a top surface having a second key array mounted thereon, the second key array comprising at least one key.

10. A portable digital communication device usable as a game machine and a personal digital assistant, comprising:

a body housing;

at least one stationary housing extendable in a horizontal direction to the body housing;

a center sliding housing for opening or closing a top surface of the body housing while being continuously opposite to the top surface of the body housing; and

at least one side sliding housing attached to a side surface of the body housing and adapted to slide while being continuously opposite to the side surface of the body housing, the side sliding housing being arranged in parallel with the center sliding housing and adapted to slide while being continuously opposite to a top surface of the stationary housing for opening or closing the top surface of the stationary housing.

11. The device as set forth in claim 10, wherein the stationary housing comprises a first stationary housing formed at one side surface of the body housing, and a second stationary housing formed at the other side surface of the body housing, the first and second stationary housings being spaced apart from each other and arranged in a symmetrical fashion.

12. The device as set forth in claim 11, wherein the side sliding housing comprises a first side sliding housing attached to one side surface of the body housing for opening or closing in a sliding motion a top surface of the first stationary housing, and a second side sliding housing attached to the other side surface of the body housing for opening or closing in a sliding motion a top surface of the second stationary housing, the first and second side sliding housings being arranged symmetrically to each other about the body housing.

13. The device as set forth in claim 10, wherein the side sliding housing includes a side surface moved in a sliding motion while being continuously opposite to a side surface of the center sliding housing.

14. The device as set forth in claim 10, wherein the center sliding housing and the side sliding housing are moved in a sliding motion in opposite directions.

15. The device as set forth in claim 10, further comprising a first key array arranged on the top surface of the body housing, the first key array comprising a plurality of keys.

16. The device as set forth in claim 10, wherein the center sliding housing includes a top surface having a display unit arranged thereon.

17. The device as set forth in claim 10, wherein the lengths of the body housing and the center sliding housing are larger than the widths of the body housing and the center sliding housing.

18. The device as set forth in claim 12, wherein the first side sliding housing includes a top surface having a single key and a camera lens mounted thereon, the camera lens being disposed next to the single key.

19. The device as set forth in claim 12, wherein the second side sliding housing includes a top surface having a second key array mounted thereon, the second key array comprising at least one key.

20. The device as set forth in claim 11, wherein the first stationary housing includes a top surface having a third key array mounted thereon, the third key array comprising a plurality of keys, and wherein the second stationary housing includes a top surface having a fourth key array mounted thereon, the fourth key array comprising a plurality of keys.

21. The device as set forth in claim 10, wherein the stationary housing and the side sliding housing are arranged symmetrically to each other about the body housing.

22. The device as set forth in claim 10, wherein the top surface of the body housing and the top surface of the stationary housing together form a step-shaped portion.

23. The device as set forth in claim 10, wherein the body housing includes a front surface having a fifth key array mounted thereon, the fifth key array comprising at least one key.