Portable terminal equipment

• US 20070291015A1
• Filed: 06/15/2007
• Published: 12/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Mori, Eijiro
• Application Number:
  US11/818,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20070291015A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

Portable terminal equipment contains plane display device made of a transparent or translucent material and a touch sensor made of a transparent or translucent material. The touch sensor mounts the plane display device. The portable terminal equipment also contains a casing that holds the plane display device by fastening the plane display device from both sides thereof.

Claims

1. Portable terminal equipment comprising:

plane display device made of any one of transparent and translucent materials;

a touch sensor made of any one of transparent and translucent materials, said touch sensor mounting the plane display device; and

a casing that holds the plane display device by fastening the plane display device from both sides of the plane display device.

2. The portable terminal equipment according to claim 1 wherein the plane display device is constituted of a light-emitting display panel and its display-driving mechanism.