Portable wireless information terminal, apparatus in which view of display unit and operation of operational section are easy to perform during using

• US 6,233,469 B1
• Filed: 04/16/1998
• Issued: 05/15/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Watanabe, Yosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gary, Erika A.
• Application Number:
  US09/061,748
• Time in Patent Office: 1,125 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575, 455/550, 455/566, 455/90, 455/351, 455/348, 455/556, 361/814, 379/428, 379/433, 379/55.1, 379/56.1, 379/56.3, D14/137, D14/138
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• 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 1/0235 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 1/0247 comprising more than two body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

In a portable wireless information terminal apparatus, a terminal main body unit having a receiver unit and a transmitter unit. A data display unit is movably provided on the terminal main body unit.

Claims

1. A portable wireless information terminal apparatus comprising:

a terminal main body unit having a receiver unit and a transmitter unit, said terminal main body unit having at least two sides provided to substantially oppose to each other, said transmitter unit being disposed closer to a first side than a second side among said two sides in said terminal main body unit; and

a movable body which is movably provided on said terminal main body unit such as to be movable along a predetermined path, said movable body including an operational section for operating said terminal main body unit and a data display unit, each of the movable body and the terminal main body unit including infrared ray communication units structured and arranged such that infrared ray communication may be performed between said terminal main body unit and said data display unit at any position along said predetermined path, said data display unit being slidable along said predetermined path in a direction such that said data display unit is further spaced from said first side.

2. A portable wireless information terminal apparatus comprising:

a terminal main body unit having a receiver unit and a transmitter unit, said terminal main body unit having at least two sides provided to substantially oppose to each other, said transmitter unit being disposed closer to a first side than a second side among said two sides in said terminal main body unit; and

a movable body which is movably provided on said terminal main body unit such as to be movable along a predetermined path, said movable body including an operational section for operating said terminal main body unit and a data display unit, each of the movable body and the terminal main body unit including infrared ray communication units structured and arranged such that infrared ray communication may be performed between said terminal main body unit and said data display unit at any position along said predetermined path, said data display unit being tiltable along said predetermined path in a direction in which said data display unit is spaced from said first side, with respect to an axis line along said second side disposed near said second side.