MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONFIRMING REMAINING CAPACITY OF FUEL CELL

• US 20100304248A1
• Filed: 05/25/2010
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takanashi, Shin, Naruse, Tetsuya, Takatsuka, Susumu
• Application Number:
  US12/786,578
• Publication Number:
  US 20100304248A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/428
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/04186 of liquid-charged or electrolyte-charged reactants
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/04208 Cartridges, cryogenic media or cryogenic reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/50 Fuel cells

Abstract

A mobile terminal includes a fuel accommodation section that accommodates a fuel within a body, at least one face of the fuel accommodation section being formed by a transparent or translucent member, a fuel cell section that generates electricity on the basis of the fuel accommodated in the fuel accommodation section, a body orientation detection section that detects an orientation of the body, a storage section that stores scale display information concerning a plurality of orientations of the fuel accommodation section, a display section disposed on the face of the fuel accommodation section formed by the transparent or translucent member, and a control section that obtains the scale display information corresponding to the orientation detected by the body orientation detection section from the scale display information stored in the storage section, and displays the obtained scale display information on the display section.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a fuel accommodation section that accommodates a fuel within a body, at least one face of the fuel accommodation section being formed by a transparent or translucent member;

a fuel cell section that generates electricity on the basis of the fuel accommodated in the fuel accommodation section;

a body orientation detection section that detects an orientation of the body;

a storage section that stores scale display information concerning a plurality of orientations of the fuel accommodation section;

a display section disposed on the face of the fuel accommodation section formed by the transparent or translucent member; and

a control section that obtains the scale display information corresponding to the orientation detected by the body orientation detection section from the scale display information stored in the storage section, and displays the obtained scale display information on the display section.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein a scale that the control section causes the display section to display is a scale displayed with a line substantially parallel to a horizontal surface of the fuel in the fuel accommodation section.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the control section causes the display section to display the scale on the basis of a predetermined operation.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising an illumination section that illuminates the fuel accommodation section.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a remaining amount detection section that detects a remaining amount of the fuel accommodated in the fuel accommodation section, wherein the control section causes the display section to display the remaining amount detected by the remaining amount detection section.

6. A method for confirming a remaining capacity of a fuel cell, comprising the steps of:

detecting an orientation of a body that forms a terminal;

storing scale display information concerning a plurality of orientations;

obtaining the scale display information corresponding to the detected orientation from the stored scale display information; and

displaying a scale based on the obtained scale display information on a transparent or translucent face which is one of faces of a housing of a fuel accommodation section that accommodates the fuel.