Portable terminal

• US 20050158617A1
• Filed: 04/15/2003
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Yasuyuki, Yamaguchi, Seiya, Satoh, Noriyoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/511,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20050158617A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/96
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0073 having multiple insertion slots, the respective slots suited for the same or different card form factors
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3816 Mechanical arrangements for accommodating identification devices, e.g. cards or chips; with connectors for programming identification devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3883 Arrangements for mounting batteries or battery chargers
• 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 1/0262 for a battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device

Abstract

An object of the invention is to provide a portable telephone which is easily detachable an information recording medium while avoiding the enlargement of its size.

The portable telephone according to the invention includes a battery attachment portion (101c) of a concave shape to which a battery (107) is attached, a step portion (101d) protruded in the drawing-out direction (opposite direction to an arrow D in the figure) of the battery (107) with respect to the bottom surface of the battery attachment portion (101c), a UIM card connector (115) which is disposed near the surface extending across the corners of the step portion 101d and has a configuration that the one major surface of a UIM card (122) exposes on the surface of the step portion (101d) at the time of attaching the UIM card (122), and a battery cover (107a) which covers the step portion (101d) and the battery attachment portion (101c) at the time of attaching the battery (107).

Claims

1. A portable terminal comprising:

a battery attachment portion to which a detachable battery is attached;

an information recording medium storage portion for detachably storing an information recording medium in which information is recorded toward a battery attachment portion side, the information recording medium storage portion being disposed in adjacent to the battery attachment portion; and

a battery housing portion, for storing the battery, which is constituted by the battery attachment portion and the information recording medium storage portion, both an outer face of the battery and an outer face of the information recording medium being covered with a cover member,

wherein one major surface of the information recording medium is exposed when the cover member is detached from the battery housing portion.

2. The portable terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the battery housing portion is provided in a housing of an almost rectangular parallelepiped, and

wherein a second information recording medium storage portion, for storing in a detachable manner an information recording medium in which information is recorded, is disposed in adjacent to the battery attachment portion along a longitudinal direction of the housing within the housing.

3. The portable terminal according to claim 2,

wherein the housing includes:

a first housing;

a second housing; and

a hinge portion for coupling the first housing and the second housing in a manner of capable of being folded.

4. The portable terminal according to claim 2,

wherein each of the information recording medium and the second information recording medium has an almost rectangular parallelepiped shape,

wherein the information recording medium storage portion is disposed in a manner that a longitudinal direction of the information recording medium coincides with a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the housing, and

wherein the second information recording medium storage portion is disposed in a manner that a longitudinal direction of the second information recording medium coincides with the longitudinal direction of the housing.

5. The portable terminal according to claim 2,

wherein the housing has an opening portion for storing the second information recording medium within the second information recording medium storage portion, and

wherein the opening portion is covered by an open/close lid in a manner that the lid moves in a direction orthogonal to a housing direction of the second information recording medium and rotates in a freely closing and opening manner with respect to the housing.

6. The portable terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the information recording medium storage portion and an input/output portion for inputting and outputting information are disposed in an overlapped manner at a side of the information recording medium opposite to a surface of the information recording medium being exposed.