| US 7,574,242 B2 | ||
| Portable terminal having replaceable modules | ||
| Woo-Ram Lee, Yongin-si (Korea, Republic of); Sang-Min Hyun, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); and Chang-Soo Lee, Incheon (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 15, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/356,689. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0021803 (KR), filed on Mar. 16, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0234785 A1, Oct. 19, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/08 (2006.01); H04B 1/38 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 455—575.1 [455/575.4; 455/90.1; 455/348] | 13 Claims |
| 1. A portable terminal having replaceable accessory modules, the portable terminal comprising:
a body;
at least one accessory module which is selectively mountable to the body, for providing additional function to the portable
terminal; and
a movable frame which is mounted to the body of the portable terminal to keep the at least one accessory module rigidly fixed
to the body of the portable terminal, and which surrounds the at least one accessory module when it is mounted to the body
to prevent the at least one accessory module from being separated from the body, the movable frame including a pair of guide
frames which are received at one end thereof in the body of the portable terminal and outwardly extend at the other end thereof
from the body of the portable terminal to maintain a distance corresponding to a width of the accessory module and a pressing
frame which extends between the other ends of the guide frames to connect the guide frames to each other, for pressing an
upper side of the accessory module when the accessory module is mounted to the body of the portable terminal.
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