Portable data unit

• US 20050190291A1
• Filed: 09/03/2004
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Ikeda, Minoru, Kota, Yuichiro
• Application Number:
  US10/933,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20050190291A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/376
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0237 Sliding mechanism with one degree of freedom
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/531 being rotatable or detachable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/64 Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers furniture aspects of television cabinets A47B81/06

Abstract

A slide type portable data unit which has satisfactory interior mounting efficiency, having a first casing, a second casing and a slide mechanism portion connecting the first casing and the second casing so that the two casings are slidable in one direction, wherein the slide mechanism portion connects the first casing and the second casing so that the first casing and the second casing have a fore-and-aft relationship, and are taken in a first condition in which the second casing is superposed with the first casing, and in a second condition in which the two casings are displaced from each other in the one direction, and the first casing has one end part, in the one direction, which is not superposed with the second casing in the first condition, and a camera portion is incorporated in this part which is not superposed.

Claims

1. A portable terminal unit comprising a first casing, a second casing and a slide mechanism portion for connecting these two casings so that these two casings are slidable in one direction,

wherein the slide mechanism portion connects the first casing and the second casing so that the first casing and the second casing have a fore-and-aft relationship, and are taken in a first condition in which the second casing is superposed with the first casing in rear of the first casing, and in a second condition in which the two casings are displaced from each other in the direction,

the first casing has one end part, in the one direction, which is not superposed with the second casing in the first condition, and a camera portion is rotatably incorporated in this part which is not superposed.

2. A portable data unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein said camera portion is provided so as to rotatable even in any of both first and second conditions.

3. A portable data unit as set forth in claim 1 wherein the camera portion has a peripheral part formed therein with a recess.