| US 7,574,241 B2 | ||
| Sliding/folding-type portable apparatus | ||
| Chi-Young Ahn, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Young S. Kim, Los Altos, Calif. (US); and Chang-Hwan Hwang, Goyang-si (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on May 04, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/122,185. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/568974, filed on May 06, 2004. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0028428 (KR), filed on Apr. 06, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0266897 A1, Dec. 01, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04M 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 455—575.1 [455/575.3; 455/575.4] | 11 Claims |
| 1. A portable apparatus comprising:
a body housing having a body top surface including a second region and a first region receiving a first keyboard composed
of an array of a number of keys;
a sliding housing continuously facing the body top surface;
a folding housing having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the folding housing rotating about
a first hinge axis parallel to a sliding direction along a longitudinal direction of the body housing to fold on or unfold
from the sliding housing and rotating about a second hinge axis perpendicular to the first hinge axis to alternate the first
surface and the second surface to face the sliding housing, both the sliding housing and the folding housing sliding together
with respect to the body housing in the sliding direction to expose or hide the first region, the second region being hidden
regardless of whether the sliding housing is slid; and
a rotating hinge sliding module connected between the sliding housing and the folding housing to provide the folding housing
with the first hinge axis, the rotating hinge sliding module being positioned at a center of a lateral end of the sliding
housing.
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