Sliding portable telephone

• US 8,554,291 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2012
• Issued: 10/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takagi, Hisamitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): HANNON, CHRISTIAN A
• Application Number:
  US13/666,136
• Publication Number:
  US 20130059629A1
• Time in Patent Office: 341 Days
• Field of Search: 455/550.1, 455/556.1, 455/575.1, 455/575.4, 455/575.8
• US Class Current: 455/575.4
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 11/00 Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0237 Sliding mechanism with one degree of freedom
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264

Abstract

A sliding portable telephone in which a second display section is provided on a surface exposed when an upper housing is slid, enabling self-shooting by a built-in camera. Further, in the telephone, a mechanism for stopping the upper housing before a fully opened position is provided so that, when a fingerprint sensor is built-in in an end section of a lower housing, fingerprint authentication is enabled without fully opening the telephone. Also, a recess is formed between sliding surfaces of the upper and lower housings, a flexible circuit board is received in the recess, the flexible circuit board is inserted and led through a slit that is provided only in one end surface of the recess, the insertion section is sealed, and as a result, there is no problem even if water droplets are splashed on the sliding portable telephone in an extended state.

Claims

1. A sliding portable apparatus in which an upper housing and a lower housing overlap each other when in an overlapped state, and overlapping faces of the upper housing and the lower housing, respectively, are gradually exposed when the upper housing and the lower housing are slid from each other from the overlapped state in a sliding direction using sliding rails arranged in parallel, the sliding portable apparatus further comprising:

an operating portion having keys provided on the overlapping face of the lower housing and which is exposed when the upper housing and the lower housing are slid from each other;

a display portion provided on a face of the upper housing which is exposed at all times; and

a fingerprint sensor provided on a bottom face of a recess on the face of the upper housing, and which is touched by a finger in fingerprint recognition.

3. The sliding portable apparatus as in claim 1, wherein the fingerprint sensor is provided on the bottom face of the recess on the face of the upper housing so that, when a finger is put in the recess to thereby slide the upper housing and the lower housing from each other from the overlapped state, fingerprint authentication is made by the fingerprint sensor in a period of time from when the finger is put in the recess to when the upper housing is fully opened from the overlapped state.

2. A sliding portable apparatus in which an upper housing and a lower housing overlap each other when in an overlapped state, and overlapping faces of the upper housing and the lower housing, respectively, are gradually exposed when the upper housing and the lower housing are slid from each other from the overlapped state in a sliding direction using sliding rails arranged in parallel, the sliding portable apparatus further comprising:

keys provided on the overlapping face of the lower housing and which are exposed when the upper housing and the lower housing are slid from each other;

a display provided on a face of the upper housing which is exposed at all times; and

a fingerprint sensor provided on a bottom face of a recess on the face of the upper housing, and which is touched by a finger in fingerprint recognition.

4. The sliding portable apparatus as in claim 2, wherein the fingerprint sensor is provided on the bottom face of the recess on the face of the upper housing so that, when a finger is put in the recess to thereby slide the upper housing and the lower housing from each other from the overlapped state, fingerprint authentication is made by the fingerprint sensor in a period of time from when the finger is put in the recess to when the upper housing is fully opened from the overlapped state.