PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS

• US 20110291915A1
• Filed: 05/24/2011
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Mezaki, Tomona, Aihara, Takeki, Yoshihara, Takeru, Tani, Minako
• Granted Patent: US 8,629,848 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/1.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1622 with enclosures rotating around an axis perpendicular to the plane they define or with ball-joint coupling, e.g. PDA with display enclosure orientation changeable between portrait and landscape by rotation with respect to a coplanar body enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/026 Video wall, i.e. juxtaposition of a plurality of screens to create a display screen of bigger dimensions
• 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 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

A portable terminal apparatus is provided. The portable terminal includes a first unit including a first display part, a second unit including a second display part, and a switching part configured to cause the first unit and the second unit to switch between a first position in which the first unit covers the second display part and a second position in which at least a part of the second display part is exposed to an outside. The first unit is configured such that an opposite side of the first unit is visible through the first display part.

Claims

1. A portable terminal apparatus comprising:

a first unit including a first display part;

a second unit including a second display part; and

a switching part configured to cause the first unit and the second unit to switch between a first position in which the first unit covers the second display part and a second position in which at least a part of the second display part is exposed to an outside,

wherein the first unit is configured such that an opposite side of the first unit is visible through the first display part.

2. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first unit includes a first input part configured to detect an input on the first display part, and

wherein the second unit includes a second input part configured to detect an input on the second display part.

3. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first display part includes a transparent liquid crystal display.

4. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the switching part includes a sliding mechanism configured to cause the first unit and the second unit to slide with respect to each other, and

wherein in the second position, the first display part and the second display part are arranged in a direction parallel with display surfaces of the respective display parts.

5. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first unit includes a frame part surrounding a display surface of the first display part, the frame part being transparent.

6. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a wiring configured to supply power to the first display part from the second unit,

wherein the sliding mechanism includes a slide part provided to the first unit, and a guide hole provided to the second unit, and the slide part is slidable along the guide hole,

wherein the slide part is formed with a hole portion, and

wherein the wiring passes though the hole portion and the guide hole.

7. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transparent cover configured to cover the first unit in the first position.

8. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the switching part is configured to cause the first unit and second unit to switch between the first position and the second position by the first unit being moved with respect to the second unit in parallel to the second display part.