Mobile Terminal And Control Method Therefor

• US 20200137207A1
• Filed: 02/02/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xi'An Zhongxing New Software Co., Ltd. (ZTE Corporation)
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Cao, Li
• Granted Patent: US 11,303,739 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0218 The hinge comprising input and/or output user interface means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0233 Including a rotatable display body part
• 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 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0017 with operator interface units

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a control method therefor including a primary body having a first display screen and at least one secondary body having a second display screen. An accommodating mechanism and a first connection mechanism are provided on at least one side of the primary body. The first connection mechanism has a retracted state accommodated in the accommodating mechanism and an extended state popped up from the accommodating mechanism. A second connection mechanism is provided on at least one side of the secondary body. The extended first connection mechanism is connected to the connection mechanism so that the primary body and the secondary body are combined into a multi-screen terminal.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, the terminal comprising:

a primary body with a first display screen and at least one secondary body with a second display screen, at least one side of the primary body being provided with a accommodation mechanism and a first connection mechanism, and the first connection mechanism having a retracted state in which the first connection mechanism is accommodated in the accommodation mechanism and a protruded state in which the first connection mechanism is ejected from the accommodation mechanism;

at least one side of the secondary body being provided with a second connection mechanism;

the first connection mechanism in the protruded state being configured to connect with the second connection mechanism to make the primary body and the secondary body be combined into a multi-screen terminal.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the accommodation mechanism comprises an accommodation cavity and an ejection mechanism, and the accommodation cavity is configured to accommodate the first connection mechanism and the ejection mechanism is configured to make the first connection mechanism be ejected from the accommodation cavity.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the ejection mechanism comprises a push frame, a groove, a link, and an ejection spring;

the push frame is disposed in the accommodation cavity, and one end of the push frame is abutted against the first connection mechanism, and the other end of the push frame is connected to a movable end of the ejection spring, and a fixed end of the ejection spring is fixedly connected to the primary body;

the groove is provided in the push frame, and its top is a symmetrical sliding lock structure, and a through-hole is provided at the bottom;

a fixed end of the link is fixedly connected to the primary body, and a movable end is inserted into the through-hole of the groove.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the ejection mechanism is disposed at a middle portion of the accommodation cavity, or is disposed at both ends of the accommodation cavity, respectively.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the first connection mechanism comprises a main housing, a connection shaft and a connection wire provided in an inner cavity of the main housing, and the connection shaft and the connection wire are configured to electrically connect with the secondary body.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein a surface of the main housing is provided with a strip-shaped position-limiting groove extending in an axial direction, and a raised operating lever is provided on the connection shaft, and the raised operating lever is slidably disposed in the position-limiting groove, and the operating lever is configured to control the connection shaft to retract or protrude from the main housing.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein an inner surface of the connection shaft is provided with a reed, one end of the connection wire connects with the primary body and is conductive, and the other end extends into the connection shaft, connects with the inner surface reed of the connection shaft and is conductive.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein an outer surface of the connection shaft is provided with a reed or a gold finger configured to electrically connect with the second connection mechanism.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein the connecting wire is a spring cable, and the spring cable comprises a rod-shaped cable and a spring, and the spring is nested on the rod-shaped cable.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the first connection mechanism further comprises a detection component, and the detection component is configured to detect a conducting state between the first connection mechanism and the second connection mechanism, and further provide a control signal for controlling a working mode of the mobile terminal.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein the detection component comprises a detection reed, a single-screen detection contact, and a multi-screen detection contact, and the detection reed is disposed on the connection shaft, and the single-screen detection contact and the multi-screen detection contact are arranged on an inner wall of a position-limiting groove, respectively;

when the detection reed is in contact with the single-screen detection contact to be conductive, a control signal for the mobile terminal in a single-screen working mode is provided;

when the detection reed is in contact with the multi-screen detection contact to be conductive, a control signal for the mobile terminal in a multi-screen working mode is provided.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the second connection mechanism comprises a secondary housing, and a jacking cylinder and a jacking spring arranged in the secondary housing, and an inner surface of the secondary housing is provided with a gold finger or a reed configured to contact with the connection shaft of the first connection mechanism to be conductive;

one end of the jacking spring is connected to the secondary body, and the other end is connected to the jacking cylinder, and the jacking spring is configured to make the jacking cylinder be tightly abutted against the connection shaft of the first connection mechanism.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein the connection shaft is a conical rod body, and a diameter of an end of the conical rod body adjacent to the second connection mechanism is smaller than a diameter of an end away from the second connection mechanism;

the secondary housing has a conical hollow cavity, and a diameter of an end of the conical hollow cavity adjacent to the first connection mechanism is larger than a diameter of an end away from the first connection mechanism.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein the gold finger or the reed on the inner surface of the secondary housing is disposed at an end away from the first connection mechanism, and the reed or the gold finger on the outer surface of the connection shaft is disposed an end adjacent to the second connection mechanism, so that the reed or gold finger on the outer surface of the connection shaft is not in contact with the gold finger or reed on the inner surface of the secondary housing when the connection shaft is partially inserted into the hollow cavity of the secondary housing, and the reed or gold finger on the outer surface of the connection shaft is in complete contact with the gold finger or reed on the inner surface of the secondary housing only when the connection shaft is completely inserted into the hollow cavity of the secondary housing.

15. A mobile terminal, said terminal comprising:

a primary body having a first display screen, and at least one side of the primary body is provided with an accommodation mechanism and a first connection mechanism for combining a multi-screen terminal, and the first connection mechanism has a retracted state in which the first connection mechanism is accommodated in the accommodation mechanism and an protruded state in which the first connection mechanism is ejected from the accommodation mechanism.

16. The mobile terminal according to claim 15, wherein the accommodation mechanism comprises an accommodation cavity and an ejection mechanism, and the accommodation cavity is configured to accommodate the first connection mechanism, and the ejection mechanism is configured to make the first connection mechanism be ejected from the accommodation cavity.

17. The mobile terminal according to claim 16, wherein the ejection mechanism is disposed at a middle portion of the accommodation cavity, or is disposed at both ends of the accommodation cavity, respectively;

the first connection mechanism comprises a main housing, a connection shaft and a connection wire provided in an inner cavity of the main housing.

18. The mobile terminal according to claim 15, wherein the first connection mechanism further comprises a detection component, and the detection component comprises a detection reed, a single-screen detection contact, and a multi-screen detection contact, and the detection reed is disposed on the connection shaft, and the single-screen detection contact and the multi-screen detection contact are arranged on an inner wall of a position-limiting groove, respectively;

when the detection reed is in contact with the single-screen detection contact to be conductive, a control signal for the mobile terminal in a single-screen working mode is provided;

when the detection reed is in contact with the multi-screen detection contact to be conductive, a control signal for the mobile terminal in a multi-screen working mode is provided.

19. A control method for a mobile terminal, wherein the mobile terminal comprises a detection component, and the detection component comprises a detection reed, a single-screen detection contact, and a multi-screen detection contact;

the control method comprises;

providing a control signal for the mobile terminal in a single-screen working mode when it is determined that the single-screen detection contact and the detection reed are conductive;

providing a control signal for the mobile terminal in a multi-screen working mode when it is determined that the multi-screen detection contact and the detection reed are conductive.

20. The control method according to claim 19, wherein providing the control signal for the mobile terminal in the single-screen working mode when it is determined that the multi-screen detection contact and the detection reed are conductive, comprising:

when it is determined that the multi-screen detection contact and the detection reed are conductive, further determining whether a connection shaft of a primary body and a gold finger of a secondary housing are conductive, and if yes, providing a control signal for the mobile terminal in the multi-screen working mode, otherwise providing a control signal for the mobile terminal in the single-screen working mode.