Mobile terminal

• US 20060098119A1
• Filed: 11/04/2005
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Sung-Ho
• Application Number:
  US11/267,745
• Publication Number:
  US 20060098119A1
• 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 constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings

Abstract

A mobile terminal which includes: a first body; a second body slidingly opened or closed with respect to the first body; and a camera mounted on the first body and exposed to the outside when the second body is opened in relative to the first body can minimize contamination of a lens of the camera due to dust from the outside and prevent damage to the lens because of scratches thereon generated by a physical effect.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a first body;

a second body slidingly opened or closed with respect to the first body; and

a camera mounted on the first body and exposed to the outside when the second body is opened in relative to the first body,

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first body comprises:

a display;

a keypad;

a first printed circuit board configured to receive/transmit a first signal from/to at least one of the display and the keypad in one side and to receive/transmit a second signal from/to the camera in another side.

3. The terminal of claim 2, wherein the first printed circuit board comprising a first electronic element associated with the display in the one side.

4. The terminal of claim 2, wherein the first printed circuit board comprising a second electronic element associated with the camera in the another side.

5. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first printed board transmitting/receiving the second signal from the camera through a second printed circuit board.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first body is provided with a display on the front thereof and a camera on the back thereof.

7. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the camera is mounted on part of the first body which is exposed when the second body is opened in relative to the first body.

8. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the second body has a keypad mounted on its part which is exposed when the second body is opened in relative to the first body.

9. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the camera comprises:

a lens receiving an outside image; and

a flash for irradiating light on the outside image.

10. The terminal of claim 9, further comprising:

a reflecting mirror for imaging an outside image for precise focusing of the outside image.

11. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the first body is provided with a keypad on one side thereof (front) and a camera on the other side (back).

12. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the camera is mounted on part of the first body which is exposed when the second body is opened in relative to the first body.

13. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the second body is provided with a display on its part which is exposed when the second body is opened in relative to the first body.

14. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the camera is connected with the PCB by a flexible printed circuit board supplying power and transferring a signal to the camera.

15. A mobile terminal comprising:

a first body provided with a display;

a second body slidingly opened or closed with respect to the first body and provided with a keypad; and

a camera mounted on an opposite surface to one surface of the first body provided with the display and exposed to the outside when the second body is opened in relative to the first body.

16. The terminal of claim 15, wherein the camera comprises:

a lens receiving an outside image; and

a flash for irradiating light on the outside image.