Portable personal computer and mobile telephone device

• US 5,189,632 A
• Filed: 07/23/1991
• Issued: 02/23/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Company KG (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Hoglund, Tom, Terho, Mikko, Paajanen, Reijo
• Primary Examiner(s): MALZAHN, DAVID H
• Application Number:
  US07/734,731
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 364/705.05, 379/110
• US Class Current: 708/109
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1671 Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop G06F1/1666 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2223/05 composed of hingedly connected sections
• 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 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/066 Telephone sets adapted for data transmision

Abstract

A portable computer telephone device comprising a portable personal computer and a mobile phone integrated into one and the same body structure said body having a display screen (3) and a keyboard member (2) for operating the computer and the mobile telephone. To improve the convenience of use of such an integrated device, the keyboard member (2) is arranged to be movable between open and closed positions with respect to the rest of the body structure (1) in such a way that in the open position the whole display screen (3) and at least the whole keyboard (4, 5) of the computer are accessible for operating the computer and in the closed position the keyboard member (2) covers a part of the display screen and leaves the buttons (6) of the mobile telephone part 3(a) of the display screen accessible for operating the mobile telephone.

Claims

1. A portable computer/telephone device comprising a body structure, a personal computer unit and a mobile telephone unit housed in said body structure, said body structure comprising a first part having a display screen on one side thereof or visually displaying the results of operations of said computer and telephone units, a second part pivotally connected to said first part for movement between an open position and closed position, said second part having a computer keyboard containing at least some of the keys for operating said computer unit on one side thereof that lies adjacent said display screen and is accessible to a user of said computer unit when said second part is in the open position and having a telephone keypad on an opposite side thereof containing at least some of the keys for operating said telephone unit, said one side of said second part lying against said one side of said first part and covering over a portion of the display screen when said second part is in the closed position.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the display screen displays the results of operation of said keyboard of said computer unit in a first portion thereof and the results of operation of said keypad of said telephone unit in a second portion thereof, said second part covering over said first portion of the display screen so that only said second portion is visible to the user of the device and said keypad being adjacent to said second portion of the screen when said second part is in the closed position.

3. The device of claim 2, including additional keys for operating said computer unit on said first part adjacent the display screen;

said second part in the closed position covering over said additional keys and said keyboard of the computer unit.