MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20140079231A1
• Filed: 09/05/2013
• Published: 03/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: AHN, Sung-Sang, YU, Jae-Young
• Granted Patent: US 9,226,054 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0281 for providing single handed use or left/right hand conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/03 Constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. telephone hand-sets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/02 Casings; Cabinets ; Supports therefor; Mountings therein H04R1/28 takes precedence ; attachments for microphones H04R1/08; mounting of transducers in earpieces H04R1/1075

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal including: a window glass provided on a front side of a terminal main body; a speaker hole formed on an edge of the terminal main body corresponding to an edge of an outer portion of the window glass, exposed to the outside, and formed to correspond to a speaker provided in the terminal main body; and a sensor connected to the speaker, and sensing a direction in which the terminal main body is slanted, wherein the sensor controls the speaker to open or close the speaker hole according to the direction in which the terminal main body is slanted.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a window glass provided on a front side of a terminal main body;

a speaker hole formed on an edge of the terminal main body corresponding to an edge of an outer portion of the window glass, exposed to an outside, and formed to correspond to a speaker provided in the terminal main body; and

a sensor connected to the speaker, and sensing a direction in which the terminal main body is slanted, wherein

the sensor controls the speaker to open or close the speaker hole according to the direction in which the terminal main body is slanted.

2. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein

the sensor is an acceleration sensor for switching a screen of a terminal display.

3. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein

the speaker hole includes a first speaker hole and a second speaker hole provided to a right edge and a left edge at a top of the terminal main body, respectively.

4. The mobile communication terminal of claim 3, wherein

when the top of the terminal main body is slanted in a first direction, the first speaker hole is opened and the second speaker hole is closed, and

when the top of the terminal main body is slanted in a second direction, the second speaker hole is opened and the first speaker hole is closed.

5. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein

the speaker hole includes a first speaker hole and a second speaker hole that are provided to a right edge and a left edge at a top of the terminal main body, respectively, and a third speaker hole and a fourth speaker hole that are provided to a right edge and a left edge at a bottom of the terminal main body, respectively.

6. The mobile communication terminal of claim 5, wherein

when the top of the terminal main body is inclined in the first direction, the first speaker hole is opened and the second speaker hole is closed, and

when the top of the terminal main body is inclined in the second direction, the second speaker hole is opened and the first speaker hole is closed, and the third speaker hole and the fourth speaker hole are closed.

7. The mobile communication terminal of claim 3, wherein

the speaker holes are opened when the terminal main body stands in the vertical direction.

8. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein

a curvature radius of an outer portion edge of the window glass is formed to be greater than a curvature radius of an outer portion edge of the terminal main body.

9. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein

an outer portion edge of the window glass has a corner-cutting form forming a straight line.

10. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a window glass provided on a front side of a terminal main body having a generally rectangular shape with two surfaces, four edges and first, second, third and fourth corners where the four edges meet;

a first speaker hole formed on a first corner of the terminal main body corresponding to an outer portion of the window glass, exposed to an outside, and formed to correspond to a first speaker provided in the terminal main body;

a second speaker hole formed on a second corner of the terminal main body corresponding to an outer portion of the window glass, exposed to an outside, and formed to correspond to a second speaker provided in the terminal main body; and

a sensor connected to the first and second speaker, and sensing a direction in which the terminal main body is slanted, said sensor controls the first and second speakers to open or close the first and second speaker holes according to the direction in which the terminal main body is slanted, with only one of said first speaker hole or said second speaker open at one time.

11. The mobile communication terminal of claim 10, wherein the sensor is an acceleration sensor for switching a screen of a terminal display.

12. The mobile communication terminal of claim 11, wherein when a top of the terminal main body is slanted in a first direction, the first speaker hole is opened and the second speaker hole is closed, and

when the top of the terminal main body is slanted in a second direction, the second speaker hole is opened and the first speaker hole is closed.

13. The mobile communication terminal of claim 12, further composing:

a third speaker hole formed on a third corner of the terminal main body corresponding to an outer portion of the window glass, exposed to an outside, and formed to correspond to a third speaker provided in the terminal main body; and

a fourth speaker hole formed on a fourth corner of the terminal main body corresponding to an outer portion of the window glass, exposed to an outside, and formed to correspond to a fourth speaker provided in the terminal main body.

14. The mobile communication terminal of claim 13, wherein

when the top of the terminal main body is inclined in the first direction, the first speaker hole is opened and the second speaker hole is closed, and

when the top of the terminal main body is inclined in the second direction, the second speaker hole is opened and the first speaker hole is closed, and the third speaker hole and the fourth speaker hole are closed.

15. The mobile communication terminal of claim 14, wherein

the first and second speaker holes are opened and the third and fourth speaker holes are closed when the terminal main body stands in the vertical direction.

16. The mobile communication terminal of claim 14, wherein

the first, second, third and fourth speaker holes are opened when the terminal main body stands in the vertical direction.

17. The mobile communication terminal of claim 10, wherein

a curvature radius of an outer portion edge of the window glass is formed to be greater than a curvature radius of an outer portion edge of the terminal main body.

18. The mobile communication terminal of claim 10, wherein

an outer portion edge of the window glass has a corner-cutting form forming a straight line.