Mobile terminals and combined terminal equipment

• US 10,116,778 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2016
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zhejiang Geely Automobile Research Institute Company Limited (Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.), Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Zhejiang Geely Automobile Research Institute Company Limited (Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.), Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Li, Shufu
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Junpeng
• Application Number:
  US15/545,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20180020086A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0249 Details of the mechanical connection between the housing parts or relating to the method of assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0256 wherein the modules are operable in the detached state, e.g. one module for the user interface and one module for the transceiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0287 being disposable or recyclable
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

Provided are mobile terminals and a combined terminal equipment. The mobile terminals comprise: a display screen; a first side surface and a second side surface, which are located on opposite sides of the display screen and are parallel to each other; and a first magnetically attractive element arranged on the first side surface and a second magnetically attractive element arranged on the second side surface; when one mobile terminal is joined to a current mobile terminal, the first magnetically attractive element on the first side surface of the current mobile terminal attracts the second magnetically attractive element on the second side surface of the other mobile terminal, such that the first side surface of the current mobile terminal fits, in alignment, with the second side surface of the other mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal for splicing a plurality of said mobile terminals into a combined terminal device, said mobile terminal comprising:

a display screen;

a first side surface and a second side surface located at two opposing sides of the display screen;

a first conductive contact arranged at said first side surface;

a second conductive contact arranged at said second side surface, wherein said first and second side surfaces are planes parallel to each other;

a first magnetic adsorbing element arranged at said first side surface and a second magnetic adsorbing element arranged at said second side surface, wherein the positions of said first and second magnetic adsorbing elements are arranged such that;

when the other one of said mobile terminals and a current one of said mobile terminals are spliced, said first magnetic adsorbing element at said first side surface of the current one of said mobile terminals and said second magnetic adsorbing element at said second side surface of the other one of said mobile terminals can attract each other, so that said first side surface of the current one of said mobile terminals and said second side surface of the other one of said mobile terminals are bonded in alignment with each other,

wherein the positions of the first and second conductive contacts are arranged such that;

when said first side surface of the current one of said mobile terminals and said second side surface of the other one of said mobile terminals are bonded in alignment with each other, said first conductive contact at said first side surface of the current one of said mobile terminals and said second conductive contact at said second side surface of the other one of said mobile terminals can make electrical contact with each other,

wherein at least one of said first conductive contact and said second conductive contact is made of an elastic material or biased by a spring so as to be able to move in a direction perpendicular to the side surface where it is located, said first conductive contact is composed of a plurality of bow-shaped metal sheets, said second conductive contact is recessed into said second side surface; and

said first conductive contact of the current one of said mobile terminals and said second conductive contact of the other one of said mobile terminals abut each other, so that said second side surface of the other one of said mobile terminals and said first side surface of the current one of said mobile terminals are bonded in alignment with each other by deforming said first conductive contact in the direction perpendicular to the side surface where it is located.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said first magnetic adsorbing element does not protrude out of said first side surface, and said second magnetic adsorbing element does not protrude out of said second side surface.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said first conductive contact and said second conductive contact is formed as an active contact which can move between an extended position and a retracted position, wherein said active contact protrudes, when being in said extended position, out of a side surface where it is located.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, wherein the side surface where said active contact is located is provided with a recessed portion for accommodating said active contact.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 4, further comprising:

a detachable contact cover for sealing said recessed portion,

wherein when said contact cover seals said recessed portion, said contact cover is flush with a side surface where it is located.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a manual operation key arranged at said first side surface and/or second side surface, wherein said manual operation key is formed within a second groove of a side surface where it is located, so that the profile of said manual operation key is not beyond of the side surface where it is located.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said mobile terminal is a rectangle without rounded corners as a whole.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein a left magnetic adsorbing element and a right magnetic adsorbing element disposed along a width direction of said display screen are arranged at a rear side of said mobile terminal, and the positions of said left and right magnetic adsorbing elements are arranged such that:

when the other one of said mobile terminals abuts a current one of said mobile terminals back to back, said left magnetic adsorbing element and said right magnetic adsorbing element of the current one of said mobile terminals and said left magnetic adsorbing element and said right magnetic adsorbing element of the other one of said mobile terminals can attract each other, so that a back face of the current one of said mobile terminals and a back face of the other one of said mobile terminals are bonded in alignment with each other.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said display screen is substantially rectangular and is set to L:

W≥

2.5, where L is the length of said display screen, and W is the width of said display screen.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein L:

W=(205˜

215);

[(290˜

304)/n], where n is a positive integer and n≥

4.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein n is 4 or 5.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein said display screen is substantially rectangular and is set to L:

W=(205˜

215);

[(290˜

304)/n], where L is the length of said display screen, W is the width of said display screen, and n is a positive integer and n≥

2.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein n is 2 or 3.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein in the length direction of said display screen, at least one of the two sides of said mobile terminal arranged opposite to each other are arranged in a frameless or a narrow frame form.

15. A combined terminal device, formed by splicing N identical mobile terminals according to claim 1 in the width direction and/or the length direction of said display screen, and enabling said display screens of said N mobile terminals to be formed into a single rectangular screen as a whole.

16. The combined terminal device according to claim 15, wherein the value of N is the same as n.