Mobile communication device

• US 20060073848A1
• Filed: 10/04/2005
• Published: 04/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kwon, Jong Hun
• Application Number:
  US11/243,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20060073848A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/084 Pivotable antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/244 extendable from a housing along a given path
• 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: 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 1/0274 for an electrical connector module
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device

Abstract

A mobile communication device is disclosed, by which configurations of loaded antenna and card are enhanced. The present invention includes a body including elements performing wireless mobile communications and auxiliary functions, a socket provided to one side of the body to compensate functions of the body and to detachably receive a card for storing data, and a plane type antenna connected to a rim of the socket to transmit/receive wireless communication signals.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device comprising:

a body including elements performing wireless mobile communications and auxiliary functions;

a socket provided to one side of the body to compensate functions of the body and to detachably receive a card for storing data; and

a plane type antenna connected to a rim of the socket to transmit/receive wireless communication signals.

2. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the plane type antenna selectively opens/closes an entrance of the socket.

3. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the plane type antenna slides along one lateral side of the body.

4. The mobile communication device of claim 3, wherein a guide portion recessed inward is provided to the one lateral side of the body to guide a movement of the plane type antenna.

5. The mobile communication device of claim 4, wherein guide grooves are provided to both sides of the guide portion, respectively and wherein fitting protrusions are provided to both sides of the plane type antenna to be fitted in the guide grooves, respectively.

6. The mobile communication device of claim 3, wherein the socket is provided to an upper part of one lateral side of the body and wherein the plane type antenna projects from an upper side of the body to be fixed thereto when the socket is open.

7. The mobile communication device of claim 6, wherein a hanging protrusion is provided to the plane type antenna and wherein a hanging recess is provided to an upper part of the socket to lock the hanging protrusion therein.

8. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein one end of the plane type antenna is rotatably connected to one lateral side of the body and wherein the other end of the plane type antenna is selectively fixed to the one lateral side of the body.

9. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein the plane type antenna is rotated centering on a rotational axis parallel to the one lateral side of the body.

10. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein a guide portion recessed inward is provided to the one lateral side of the body to receive the plane type antenna therein.

11. The mobile communication device of claim 10, wherein one end of the plane type antenna is joined to the one lateral side of the body using a hinge and wherein the other end of the plane type antenna is selectively fixed to the one lateral side of the body using a hook.

12. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein if the plane type antenna is fully turned upwardly, the plane type antenna is held by the one lateral side of the body to sustain an upwardly projecting posture.

13. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the plane type antenna comprises a micro-strip board.

14. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein a first terminal is exposed within the socket and wherein a connecting terminal of the card is clamped between the first terminal and an inner lateral side of the socket to be fixed thereto.

15. A mobile communication device comprising:

a body including elements performing wireless mobile communications and auxiliary functions;

a socket provided to one side of the body to compensate functions of the body and to detachably receive a card for storing data; and

a plane type antenna sliding to move along a guide portion to open/close the socket and to transmit/receive wireless communication signals wherein the guide portion is recessed inward from a rim of the socket to guide a movement of the pane type antenna.

16. A mobile communication device comprising:

a body including elements performing wireless mobile communications and auxiliary functions;

a socket provided to one side of the body to compensate functions of the body and to detachably receive a card for storing data;

a plane type antenna opening/closing an entrance of the socket, the plane type antenna having one end rotatably connected centering on a rotational axis parallel to one lateral side of the body and the other end selectively fixed to the one lateral side of the body, the plane type antenna transmitting/receiving wireless communication signals; and

a guide portion recessed inward from a rim of the socket to receive the pane type antenna therein.