JPH0683481A - Portable electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the width and depth of the portable electronic equipment when it is carried and to facilitate operation by widening the gap between operation members at the time of information operation by providing control pads which have operation members such as a key, switches, and a stick and can be divided and drawn out to the right and left side of an electronic equipment body. CONSTITUTION:A display part 5 is provided with an engagement part 5a which is engaged with the equipment main body 2 to maintain a state wherein the display part 5 is fallen on the equipment main body 2. A part which is lower than a step part 2a is formed on the front side of the equipment body 2 to provide rails 6, and two control pads 7a and 7b which are divided having their top surfaces in level with the top surface of the equipment body 2 are provided so that they can be slid on the rails 6 and drawn out. On the top surface of the control pad 7a, a key 8 with a cross display which can select an operation direction depending upon the depression position of a four-way switch is provided, and the control pad 7b, on the other hand, is provided with three switches 9a, 9b, and 9c which can be pressed selectively and individually.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable electronic device, for example, a portable electronic device in which a display unit is attached to a main body of the electronic device, and information is operated by operating an operating member while observing the display. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional portable electronic device of this type, a key switch for operating information is provided on the front side of the main body of the electronic device, and a liquid crystal display for displaying the progress of the information operation is provided on the rear side of the key switch. It is provided, and information is operated by pressing the switch while looking at this display.

[0003]

However, in the conventional portable electronic device, since the operating members such as keys, switches, and sticks operated by fingertips are provided on the upper surface of the electronic device main body, the spacing between the operating members is small. The width of the control panel is at most within the width of the main body of the electronic device, and it is difficult to operate the operating member due to its narrow width, and when the operating member is a stick or the like, it is difficult to grasp it. It was

Further, if an attempt is made to widen the space between the operation members such as keys, the width of the electronic equipment body is widened, which causes a drawback that it is difficult to carry.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems in the conventional portable electronic device, and the width of the electronic device when being carried is the same as the width of the conventional portable electronic device. An object of the present invention is to make the spacing between the operation members at the time of information operation approximately the same as the shoulder width so that the operation members can be easily operated and further easily carried.

[0006]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a display section provided on an electronic equipment main body, and keys, switches, and the like which can be separately pulled out on the left and right sides of the electronic equipment main body.
A control pad provided with an operation member such as a stick is provided, and information is operated by pulling out the control pad to the left and right sides.

[0007]

In the portable electronic device of the present invention, the control pad can be pulled out to the left and right. Therefore, if the control pad is pulled out to the left and right, the spacing between the operation members provided on the control pad will be
It can be expanded to the left and right to have a shoulder width, and the interval is widened, which facilitates the operation.

When the control pad pulled out to the left and right is pulled back, the width of the electronic device body including the control pad becomes the same as the width of the conventional electronic device body, and the size of the entire device can be made smaller than before. It becomes easy to carry.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, a liquid crystal display 3, an adjusting knob 4 for adjusting the brightness thereof, and the like are provided on the back side of the main body 2 of the portable electronic device 100 in which the main switch 1 is provided. The display unit 5 is rotatably supported.

The display section 5 is provided with an engaging section 5a which engages with the apparatus main body 2 and maintains the state in which the display section 5 is laid down on the apparatus main body 2 and makes it convenient to carry. Has been.

On the front side of the equipment main body 2, a stepped portion 2a forms a further lower portion, and a rail 6 is provided at this portion so that the upper surface is flush with the upper surface of the equipment main body 2 and is divided into two. The control pads 7a and 7b are provided so as to slide on the rail 6 and can be pulled out to the left and right.

On the upper surface of the control pad 7a,
There is provided a key 8 having a + -shaped display for selecting the operation direction depending on the position where the four-way switch is pressed. The control pad 7b has three switches 9a, 9b which can be selected and pressed. , 9c are provided.

Next, the operation will be described. In the present invention, if the control pads 7a and 7b are slid to the left and right, the keys 8 provided on the control pads 7a and 7b and the keys 9a, 9b and 9c are provided.
It is possible to widen the distance between and to about the shoulder width, and due to the wide width, it becomes easy to operate these keys 8, 9a, 9b, 9c, and the right side keys 9a, 9b, 9c and the left side key 8 It is possible to eliminate the risk of operating by mistake.

Also, the expanded control pad 7
If a and 7b are returned to the center side, the widths of the left and right control pads 7a and 7b fall within the width of the device main body 2, and the display unit 5 is laid down on the control pad 7a and 7b, and the folded width is set to the device main body 2 and the front and rear. The length in the direction can be reduced to about half, which makes it easy to carry.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the control pads 7a and 7b can be pulled out by sliding the control pads 7a and 7b to the left and right with respect to the device body 2. The control pads 7a and 7b can be pivoted and the control pads 7a and 7b can be opened left and right by the rotation.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the two control pads provided with keys and other operating members for operation can be pulled out to the left and right of the electronic device body, the interval between the keys and other operating members provided on this can be set to, for example, shoulder width. Since it can be expanded to, it is extremely easy to perform the operation.

When the control pad that has been pulled out is returned to the main body of the device, the width of the main body of the device including the control pad becomes the same as the width of the main body of the device, and the size of the device can be reduced, and the device can be carried. It will be easier.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state where a control pad of an embodiment of a portable electronic device according to the present invention is stored on an electronic device main body.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which a control pad of the above is pulled out from a device body.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 electronic device main body 5 display unit 6 rails 7a, 7b control pad 8, 9a, 9b, 9c key 100 portable electronic device

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A display unit provided on the body of an electronic device, and a control pad provided with operating members such as keys, switches, and sticks that can be pulled out separately on the left and right sides of the body of the electronic device. A portable electronic device, comprising: a control pad that is pulled out to the left and right to perform information operations.