Mobile radio communication apparatus

• US 7,596,358 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2004
• Issued: 09/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takagi, Hisamitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Jamal; Alexander
• Application Number:
  US10/790,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20050037821A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,036 Days
• Field of Search: 37942801-440, 4555501-5759, 455/90.3
• US Class Current: 455/90.3
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 11/0081 for transmitting energy, e.g. electrical cable routing
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 11/1007 with positive locking
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 3/10 with non-parallel pins
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/1223 with a compression or traction spring
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2999/00 Subject-matter not otherwise provided for in this subclass
• 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 1/1681 Details related solely to hinges hinge details related to the transmission of signals or power are classified in G06F1/1683
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0212 with a two degrees of freedom mechanism, i.e. folding around a first axis and rotating around a second axis perpendicular to the first
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0216 Foldable in one direction, i.e. using a one degree of freedom hinge

Abstract

A mobile radio communication apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing foldable over the first housing, and a hinge part that foldably connects the second housing to the first housing around a rotational center axis, wherein the hinge part includes a one touch opening part that automatically opens the second housing from a folded state by a first angle relative to the first housing around the rotational center axis in a non-stop motion, and an auxiliary rotational part that rotates the second housing around an orthogonal shaft orthogonal to the rotational center axis of the hinge part.

Claims

1. A mobile radio communication apparatus, comprising:

a first housing;

a second housing foldable over said first housing;

a hinge part that foldably connects said second housing to said first housing around a rotational center axis, the hinge part including a one touch opening part that automatically opens said second housing, relative to said first housing around said rotational center axis in a non-stop motion, from a folded state by a callable angle that enables a user to call without further opening the second housing, a free stop part that maintains the second housing at an angle different from the callable angle relative to the first housing when the second housing is unfolded relative to the first housing, and an auxiliary rotational part that rotates said second housing around an orthogonal shaft orthogonal to the rotational center axis of said hinge part; and

a flexible printed circuit board wound around the orthogonal shaft, said flexible printed circuit board electrically connecting said first and second housings to each other,

wherein the hinge part further includes a pair of cams and a spring that applies a compression force to the pair of cams, the cams being commonly used for the one touch opening part and the free stop part, both cams being engaged with each other and rotating together in unfolding the second housing by the one touch opening part, and one of the pair of cams being fixed relative to the other of the pair of cams due to the compression force when the free stop part operates.

2. A mobile radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said auxiliary rotational part includes a cam part that clicks and provides a semifixed state whenever said second housing rotates by a predetermined angle around the orthogonal shaft.

3. A mobile radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first reinforcing member that covers an outer periphery of the orthogonal shaft.

4. A mobile radio communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said second housing is inserted rotatably into said first reinforcing member.

5. A mobile radio communication apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a second reinforcing member at an insertion part at which said second housing is inserted into said first reinforcing member, said second reinforcing member being provided in said second housing, and said second reinforcing member reinforcing the orthogonal shaft, and being fixed onto the orthogonal shaft with said second housing.

6. A mobile radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said hinge part includes an approximately cylindrical hinge cover having a slit that extends along the rotational center axis, and

wherein the orthogonal shaft is inserted into the slit and said auxiliary rotational part is provided on the hinge cover.

7. A mobile radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the flexible printed circuit board is wound around the rotational center axis of said hinge part.

8. A mobile radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said free stop part does not work while said second housing that has been opened by said one touch opening part is being folded.

9. A mobile radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said free stop part works while said second housing that has been opened by said one touch opening part is being folded.

10. A mobile radio communication apparatus, comprising:

a first housing;

a second housing foldable over said first housing; and

a hinge part that foldably connects said second housing to said first housing around a rotational center axis,

wherein said hinge part includes;

a one touch opening part that automatically opens said second housing, relative to said first housing around said rotational center axis in a non-stop motion, from a folded state by a callable angle that enables a user to call without further opening the second housing;

a free stop part that maintains the second housing at an angle different from the callable angle relative to the first housing when the second housing is unfolded relative to the first housing;

an auxiliary rotational part that rotates said second housing around an orthogonal shaft orthogonal to the rotational center axis of said hinge part;

a damper part that brakes an opening action of said second housing by said one touch opening part; and

a pair of cams and a spring that applies a compression force to the pair of cams, the cams being commonly used for the one touch opening part and the free stop part, both cams being engaged with each other and rotating together in unfolding the second housing by the one touch opening part, and one of the pair of cams being fixed relative to the other of the pair of cams due to the compression force when the free stop part operates.

11. A mobile radio communication apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said damper part brakes said second housing when said second housing forms a third angle or larger relative to said first housing.

12. A hinge part that foldably connects, around a rotational center axis, a first housing that includes an input part, to a second housing that includes a speaker and a display part, said hinge part comprising:

a one touch opening part that automatically opens the second housing, relative to said first housing around said rotational center axis in a non-stop motion, from a folded state by a callable angle that enables a user to call without further opening the second housing;

a free stop part that maintains the second housing at an angle different from the callable angle relative to the first housing when the second housing is unfolded relative to the first housing

an auxiliary rotational part that rotates the second housing around an orthogonal shaft orthogonal to the rotational center axis of said one touch opening part;

a damper part that brakes an opening action of said second housing by said one touch opening part; and

a pair of cams and a spring that apolies a compression force to the pair of cams, the cams being commonly used for the one touch opening part and the free stop part, both cams being engaged with each other and rotating together in unfolding the second housing by the one touch opening part, and one of the pair of cams being fixed relative to the other of the pair of cams due to the compression force when the free stop part operates.