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

• US 6,519,483 B1
• Filed: 11/28/2000
• Issued: 02/11/2003
• 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): Urban, Edward F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gary, Erika A.
• Application Number:
  US09/724,235
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575, 455/550, 455/90, 455/566, 455/348, 455/351, 379/428.01, 379/433.01, 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

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 main body unit having a first and a second casing rotatably coupled together, the first casing having a transmitter unit, and the second casing having a receiver unit and a data display unit which is movably provided on one of the first and second casings of the main body unit such that the data display unit may be caused to project beyond the main body unit and be seen by a user when the receiver unit and the transmitter unit are being used, wherein a wireless communication path is provided between the main body unit of the terminal and the data display unit and wherein the main body unit is a terminal unit which has at least two sides substantially opposite to one another, in which the transmitter unit is closer to a first side than a second side of the two sides of the main body unit of the terminal, and in which the data display unit is tiltable with respect to the main body unit in such a direction that the data display unit is spaced from the first side, with respect to an axial line along the second side, and disposed near to the second side.

2. A portable wireless information terminal apparatus comprising a main body unit having a receiver unit and a transmitter unit, the receiver unit and the transmitter unit being in respective casings which are rotatably coupled together, and a movable body which is movably provided on one of the casings of the main body unit of the terminal, in which the movable body includes an operational section for operating the main body unit of the terminal, and a data display unit, wherein the data display unit is able to project beyond the main body unit and be seen by a user of the receiver unit and the transmitter unit when they are being used and wherein an infrared ray communication path is provided between the main body unit of the terminal and the movable body wherein an infrared ray communication is carried out between the terminal main body unit and the movable body, and the movable body is moved along a communication path of the infrared ray communication, when being moved into the terminal main body unit and wherein the main body unit of the terminal has at least two sides provided substantially opposite to one another, in which the transmitter unit is arranged closer to a first side than to a second side of the two sides in the main body unit of the terminal, and in which the movable body is tiltable in a direction spaced from the first side, with respect to an axial line along the second side disposed near to the second side.