Folding-type portable apparatus

• US 20060121959A1
• Filed: 10/19/2005
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Chang-Soo, Park, In-Gon, Cha, Seong-Won
• Application Number:
  US11/253,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20060121959A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.100
• 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 1/0235 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 1/0264 for a camera module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264

Abstract

A folding-type portable apparatus having a display device and a camera lens, gradually and simultaneously exposed as the slider slides. The folding-type portable apparatus includes a body; a folder having a first display device positioned on the top surface thereof; and a slider provided with a camera lens housing having a camera lens and adapted to slide in the longitudinal direction of the folder while continuously facing the first display device to expose/hide the first display device and the camera lens, simultaneously and gradually as it slides.

Claims

1. A folding-type portable apparatus comprising:

a body;

a folder having a first display device positioned on a top surface thereof; and

a slider provided with a camera lens and adapted to slide in a longitudinal direction of the folder while continuously facing the first display device to selectively expose and cover the first display device and the camera lens.

2. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the camera lens is positioned on a bottom surface of a camera lens housing such that it always faces a bottom surface of the folder and is exposed together with the first display device as the slider slides.

3. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the folder has an opening means to receive the camera lens housing.

4. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a guide support means having a pair of support arms, between which the opening means is positioned.

5. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the opening means comprises a number of openings which are open towards the top, bottom, and front surfaces of the folder, respectively.

6. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the folder has a guide support means to support the sliding of the camera lens housing.

7. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the guide support means comprises a pair of support arms, between which the opening means is positioned.

8. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body has an information input/output device positioned on a top surface thereof and the folder has a second display device positioned on a bottom surface thereof.

9. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the slider is adapted to slide linearly.

10. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the camera lens housing is box-shaped.

11. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the camera lens housing is integral with the slider.

12. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the camera lens housing has a lighting device positioned on a bottom surface thereof adjacent to the camera lens.

13. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the camera lens housing protrudes from a bottom surface of the slider so as to be received in the folder.

14. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the folder is completely folded on the body and the slider is completely folded on the folder, the first display device is completely hidden by the slider and the camera lens is completely hidden by the body and, when the slider is completely unfolded from the folder, both the first display device and the camera lens are exposed.

15. The portable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the folder is completely folded on the body and the slider is completely folded on the folder, the first display device is partially exposed by the slider and the camera lens is completely hidden by the body and, when the slider is completely unfolded from the folder, both the first display device and the camera lens are exposed.