PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20110237310A1
• Filed: 03/08/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: KUBO, Hiroshi, KAJIWARA, Yoshifumi, YADA, Haruyoshi, SUGIMORI, Kenta, TAKITA, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,494,598 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/22 Illumination; Arrangements for improving the visibility of characters on dials

Abstract

A portable terminal device includes a front panel covering the front of a housing; a circuit board placed inside the housing so as to face the front panel and having a cutout portion; a flexible substrate having a base end portion connected to the circuit board, extending from the base end portion to the cutout portion, and having a distal end portion placed on a facing surface of the circuit board facing the front panel; an electronic component having a bottom, the bottom which is connected to an intermediate portion of the flexible substrate, and being disposed at a position distant from the front panel than the facing surface of the circuit board; and a light source having a bottom, the bottom which is connected to the distal end portion of the flexible substrate, is smaller in thickness than the electronic component, and emits light toward the front panel.

Claims

1. A portable terminal device comprising:

a front panel covering the front of a housing;

a circuit board placed inside the housing so as to face the front panel and having a cutout portion formed in a part thereof;

a flexible substrate having a base end portion connected to the circuit board, extending from the base end portion to the cutout portion, and having a distal end portion placed on a facing surface of the circuit board facing the front panel;

an electronic component having a bottom, the bottom which is connected to an intermediate portion of the flexible substrate, and being disposed at a position distant from the front panel than the facing surface of the circuit board; and

a light source having a bottom, the bottom which is connected to the distal end portion of the flexible substrate, is smaller in thickness than the electronic component, and emits light toward the front panel.

2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the intermediate portion of the flexible substrate extending to the cutout portion and the distal end portion of the flexible substrate placed on the facing surface of the circuit board are connected by a connecting portion that is smaller in width than the intermediate portion and the distal end portion.

3. The portable terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a bottom raising component, wherein the bottom raising component is placed between the facing surface of the circuit board and the distal end portion of the flexible substrate.