US 7,599,724 B2
Portable terminal having sliding case
Jin-woo Cho, Seongnam-si (Korea, Republic of); Jun-tai Kim, Yongin-si (Korea, Republic of); Sangchul Ko, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Young-tae Kim, Seongnam-si (Korea, Republic of); and Jung-ho Kim, Yongin-si (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Mar. 28, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/390,202.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0034016 (KR), filed on Apr. 25, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0240881 A1, Oct. 26, 2006
Int. Cl. H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04M 1/03 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—575.4  [455/350] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable terminal comprising:
a body case including a button operation unit and a circuit unit;
at least one sliding case which is slidably connected to the body case to protrude from the body case and forms a closed, empty void with the body case when the at least one sliding case protrudes, the empty void being a resonance chamber which amplifies sound produced therein; and
at least one speaker which is installed in the resonance chamber formed by the sliding case and the body case when the at least one sliding case protrudes.