Handheld electronic device

• US 8,489,156 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Issued: 07/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Huang, Hsiao-Chuan
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DANH C
• Application Number:
  US13/091,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20110195755A1
• Time in Patent Office: 817 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575.1, 455/575.3, 455/575.4, 361/683, 741/50
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0237 Sliding mechanism with one degree of freedom
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection

Abstract

A handheld electronic device includes a display body, an input body and at least a track. The input body and the display body are overlapped with each other. The track is disposed between the display body and the input body, wherein the extending direction of the track is substantially neither perpendicular to nor parallel to the longitudinal direction or the traverse direction of the display body or the input body, and the track enables the display body to switch between at a first position and at a second position relative to the input body. The traverse direction of the display body is substantially parallel to the traverse direction of the input body when the input body is at the first position, and the longitudinal direction of the display body is substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the input body when the input body is at the second position.

Claims

1. A handheld electronic device, comprising:

a display body;

an input body, overlapped with the display body; and

at least a track, disposed between the display body and the input body, wherein an extending direction of the track is rectilineal and is substantially neither parallel nor perpendicular to the longitudinal direction or the traverse direction of the display body or the input body, wherein the track enables the display body to be rectilineally switched between at a first position and at a second position relative to the input body, and wherein the traverse direction of the display body is substantially parallel to the traverse direction of the input body when the display body is at the first position and the longitudinal direction of the display body is substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the input body when the display body is at the second position.

2. The handheld electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the display body completely overlays the input body when the display body is at the first position, and at least a part of the display body overlaps the input body when the display body is at the second position.

3. The handheld electronic device according to claim 1, wherein a length of the display body is less than a length of the input body.

4. The handheld electronic device according to claim 1, wherein during a translational motion of the display body relative to the input body, the track makes the longitudinal direction of the display body substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the input body.

5. The handheld electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising at least a guiding block disposed between the input body and display body so that a relative movement of the guiding block along the track causes a translational motion of the display body relative to the input body.

6. The handheld electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising an image output interface disposed on the display body.

7. The handheld electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the translational motion of the display body relative to the input body along the track provides an operation mode switch between a first operation mode and a second operation mode, and wherein the first operation mode allows the image output interface to operate in a portrait display mode, while the second operation mode allows the image output interface to operate in a landscape display mode.

8. The handheld electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the input body has a first area and a second area locally overlapped with the first area, and the first area is exposed when the display body is at the first position.

9. The handheld electronic device according to claim 8, further comprising a press input interface disposed on the input body.

10. The handheld electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the press input interface includes a dialing keypad and a standard keypad, the dialing keypad is disposed at the first area, the standard keypad is disposed at the second area and some keys of the standard keypad and some keys of the dialing keypad are shared by each other.

11. The handheld electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the press input interface is at least one selected from the group consisting of a standard keyboard, a video play key, numeric keys, dialing keys, navigation keys, hot keys, speed dialing keys, a Windows key and an ending key.