Bar type portable wireless terminal

• US 7,203,529 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2004
• Issued: 04/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Jun, Park, Seung-Min, Kim, Sung-Kwon, Park, Jun-Sang, Lee, Chang-Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost; William
• Assistant Examiner(s): SANTIAGO CORDERO, MARIVELISSE
• Application Number:
  US10/795,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20040180703A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,128 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575.4, 455/575.8, 455/575.1, 379/433.12, 379/433.13, 379/428.04, 379/433.11, 361/679
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display

Abstract

A bar type portable wireless terminal includes a lower body installed at its one side surface with a camera lens unit, and at the other surface an image reproduction device is adapted to output images captured by the camera lens unit, and an upper body coupled to an upper end of the lower body so that it is rotatable in a twisting direction relative to a rotation axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the lower body, the upper body being installed at its front surface with a display device adapted to enable the output of the images captured by the camera lens unit. The portable wireless terminal can be used as a digital image device and functions as portable phone, PDA and so on.

Claims

1. A bar type portable wireless terminal comprising:

a lower body having installed at a first side surface a camera lens unit, and installed at a second side surface an image reproduction device adapted to output images captured by the camera lens unit;

an upper body coupled to an upper end of the lower body, rotatable relative to a rotation axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the lower body, the upper body having installed on a front surface a display device adapted to enable the output of the images captured by the camera lens unit;

first sliding guides longitudinally formed along both side edges of the display device;

second sliding guides longitudinally formed at both sides of a front surface of the lower body, the first sliding guides being aligned with the second sliding guides when the display device and the front surface of the lower body are positioned in the same plane; and

a slidable cover moving alone the first and second sliding guides to open and close the display device when the first sliding guides are aligned with the second sliding guides,

wherein, when the slidable cover closes the display device, the slidable cover is positioned on the entire length of the first sliding guides as well as on one end of the second sliding guides, thereby constraining rotation of the upper body about the rotation axis.

2. The bar type portable wireless terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the lower body further comprises a protective cover rotatably hinged to the second side surface of the lower body in order to open and close the image reproduction device.

3. The bar type portable wireless terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the lower body further comprises a protective cover slidably coupled to the second side surface of the lower body for sliding over the image reproduction device in order to open and close the image reproduction device.

4. The bar type portable wireless terminal as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a keypad located between the second sliding guides provided at the both sides of the lower body.

5. The bar type portable wireless terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the slidable cover is made of a transparent material.

6. The bar type portable wireless terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein, in a state wherein the slidable cover is positioned on the second sliding guides, the upper body is rotatable relative to the rotation axis.

7. The bar type portable wireless terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the upper body is provided at an upper end with a Man Machine Communication (MMC) slot, in which a multi-connector and an ear-microphone jack are installed.

8. The bar type portable wireless terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the upper body is provided at an upper end of the front surface with a receiver containing a speakerphone, and the lower body is provided at a lower end of a front surface thereof with a transmitter containing a microphone.

9. The bar type portable wireless terminal as set forth in claim 1, wherein the display device is constructed as a touch screen.