INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20100184373A1
• Filed: 03/30/2010
• Published: 07/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: HEBIGUCHI, Hiroyuki, SASAKI, Makoto
• Application Number:
  US12/750,614
• Publication Number:
  US 20100184373A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 13/005 Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the human body

Abstract

A mobile phone includes a display unit for visually confirming the information and an input unit for inputting the information. The display unit includes a display element, and the input unit includes an operation button. The mobile phone contains an electrode pair formed of a human side electrode and an external electrode for human body communication inside the casing. The mobile phone has the external electrode disposed around the display unit, and the human side electrode disposed around the input unit.

Claims

1. An information terminal device provided with an electrode pair including a human side electrode and an external electrode for a human body communication, comprising:

a display unit with a display element for visually confirming information; and

an input unit with an input element for inputting the information, wherein;

the external electrode is disposed in the display unit, and the human side electrode is disposed in the input unit; and

the external electrode serves as an electrode contained in the display element.

2. The information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the human side electrode is disposed in at least one of an operation surface and a side surface of the input unit.

3. An information terminal device provided with an electrode pair including a human side electrode and an external electrode for a human body communication, comprising:

a display unit with a display element for visually confirming information; and

an input unit with an input element for inputting the information, wherein;

the external electrode is disposed in the display unit, and the human side electrode is disposed in the input unit; and

the human side electrode serves as an electrode contained in the input element.

4. The information terminal device according to claim 3, wherein the external electrode is disposed in at least one of a display surface, a back surface and a side surface of the display unit.