Electronic device

• US 8,698,761 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2010
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Arastafar, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): MANDEVILLE, JASON M
• Application Number:
  US12/771,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20110267281A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/157, 345/161, 345/173, 455/566, 455/575.1, 455/575.4, 455/90.3
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• 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 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

An electronic device includes a body and a display assembly. The display assembly includes a housing, a display on one face of the housing, and a first input device located on an opposing face of the housing, adjacent at least one side of the display assembly. The display assembly is connected to the body and moveable relative to the body, between a first position in which the first input device is covered by the body and a second position in which the input device is exposed.

Claims

1. A handheld electronic device comprising:

a body comprising a keyboard;

a display assembly comprising a housing having a front face, a rear face, and four opposing sides forming a rectangle,

a display on the front face of the housing, and

a first touch-sensitive input device and a second touch-sensitive input device, both the first and second touch-sensitive input devices respectively comprising a capacitive touch-sensitive overlay including capacitive touch sensors, located on the rear face of the housing, the first touch-sensitive input device having a first tactile guide located around a periphery of the first touch-sensitive input device and the second touch-sensitive input device having a second tactile guide located around a periphery of the second touch-sensitive input device,

the first touch-sensitive input device being located along one of the opposing sides of the housing such that the first touch-sensitive input device is off-centered along the width of the rear face of the housing, the second touch-sensitive input device being located along another one of the opposing sides of the housing, opposite the first touch-sensitive input device, such that the second touch-sensitive input device is off-centered along the width of the rear face of the housing and the first touch-sensitive input device and the second touch-sensitive input device are separated from each other along the width of the housing,

the display assembly connected to the body and slidable relative to the body between a first position in which the display is exposed but the first touch-sensitive input device, the second touch-sensitive input device, and the keyboard are covered by the body, and a second position in which the display, the first touch-sensitive input device, the second touch-sensitive input device, and the keyboard are all exposed.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the display comprises a touch-sensitive display.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the display assembly comprises a touch-sensitive overlay disposed on the display.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the display comprises a touch-sensitive display including a controller and wherein the first touch-sensitive input device and the second touch-sensitive input device are connected to the controller.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the first tactile guide and the second tactile guide comprise formations on the rear face of the housing.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein each of the formations comprise at least one of a ridge, a depression, or a dimple.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the touch-sensitive overlay comprises a capacitive touch-sensitive overlay.