KR20070030413A - Slide type mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention main body; A slide body coupled to the front surface of the main body to enable a sliding movement; The contact surface of the main body and the slide body is installed on the main body side and both sides inside the main plate having a set of guide slits, and installed on the slide body to face the main plate and coupled to the guide slit of the main plate on both sides A slide module comprising a slide plate having a guide rail to enable sliding movement; In the slide-type mobile communication terminal comprising a, the guide slit and the guide rail of the slide module is formed to be inclined so as to have a predetermined angle of inclination, so that the slide body in the diagonal direction of the upper left or right upper left from the main body By being configured to open, the slide-type mobile communication terminal that can be equipped with a rotary camera and operation buttons in the additional space secured after opening the slide body, as well as to increase the utilization by mounting the additional button in the same space. To provide.

Mobile terminal, slide module, diagonal, opening and closing

Description

Sliding type mobile communication terminal

 1 is a front view showing an open state of a slider of a conventional slide type mobile communication terminal.

2 is a front view illustrating a configuration of a slide module installed in a conventional slide type mobile communication terminal.

3 is a front view showing an open state of the slider of the slide-type mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a front view showing an open state of a slider of a slide-type mobile communication terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a front view showing the configuration of a slide module installed in the slide-type mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

* Description of symbols on main parts of the drawings *

A-Mobile communication terminal 10-Main body

11-Keypad 12-Transmitter

13-camera module coupling 14-camera module

15-Flash 16-Control Button

20-Slide Body 21-LCD Screen

22-receiver 23-function keys

30-Slide Module 31-Main Plate

31a-Guide Slit 32-Slide Plate

32a-guide rail 33-elastic member

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, in a slide type mobile communication terminal, by improving the slide module to open in one diagonal direction of the upper left or upper right when the slide body coupled to the front of the main body is opened. The present invention relates to a slide-type mobile communication terminal that can utilize various spaces secured after opening the slide body.

Due to the rapid development of the information and telecommunications industry, mobile communication terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs are not only functions as telephones for making voice calls with other parties, but also photo and video viewing functions, camera and camcorder functions, or electronic organizers and electronic dictionary functions. It is expanding variously.

Therefore, since a larger size of the LCD screen is required to display a larger amount of information at one time, the terminal is manufactured in a slide type that can increase the size of the LCD screen compared to the existing terminal.

Hereinafter, a conventional slide type mobile communication terminal will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a front view showing an open state of a slider of a conventional slide-type mobile communication terminal, Figure 2 is a front view showing the configuration of a slide module installed in a conventional slide-type mobile communication terminal.

1 and 2, the slide type mobile communication terminal according to the related art includes a main body 100 having a keypad 111 and a transmitter 112 on the front surface for inputting a signal of a character or a symbol; A slide body 200 coupled to the front surface of the main body 100 in a structure capable of sliding movement in a direction parallel to the front surface of the main body 100 and having a liquid crystal display 211 and a receiver 212; It is configured to include a slide module 300 is installed on the contact surface of the main body 100 and the slide body 200 to be installed to enable the opening and closing of the slide body 200.

Accordingly, the user may input a signal using the keypad 111 while the front surface of the main body 100 is opened to expose the keypad 111 and the talker 112, and the talker 112 and A telephone call can be made using the receiver 212.

The slide module 300 is installed on the main body 100 and is mounted on the main plate 310 and the slide body 200 to form guide slits 311 on both sides to move up and down, and the guide of the main plate 310. The slide plate 320 is formed between the main plate 310 and the slide plate 320 to insert the guide rails 312 so as to be inserted into the slit 311 to move the direction of the pressing force of the slide plate 320. It is composed of an elastic member 330 to change.

Thus, the guide rail 312 of the slide plate 320 seated on the slide body 200 is moved along the guide slit 311 of the main plate 310 seated on the main body 100, wherein the elastic member Since the 330 changes the direction of the pressing force, the slider 200 has a structure that can be opened and closed by a semi-automatic type.

However, in the conventional slide type mobile communication terminal, since the slide plate 320 of the slide module 300 installed to enable the sliding movement of the slide body 200 moves linearly on the main plate 310, the main body is moved. The front upper end of the 100 has the disadvantage that it becomes useless space.

In addition, such a conventional slide-type mobile communication terminal is not easy to set the mounting position for the installation of additional devices, such as a camera, it was a common method to mount on the back of the terminal.

However, when the camera is located at the rear of the main body as described above, the self-photographing of the user was inconvenient, and there is a method for operating the camera as a separate structure as a means for facilitating this, but this is a factor of increasing the thickness of the terminal There is a drawback.

In addition, recently, as multimedia functions such as enhanced game functions and TV viewing are emphasized, additional buttons are required, and in addition, there is a problem in that a terminal lacks additional mounting space.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the conventional slide-type mobile communication terminal, an object of the present invention is to slide the slide body from the main body to open in one diagonal direction of the upper left or right It is to provide a slide-type mobile communication terminal to improve the module to utilize the upper space of the main body of the dead space in the existing slide-type terminal.

This invention the main body; A slide body coupled to the front surface of the main body to enable a sliding movement; The contact surface of the main body and the slide body is installed on the main body side and both sides inside the main plate having a set of guide slits, and installed on the slide body to face the main plate and coupled to the guide slit of the main plate on both sides A slide module comprising a slide plate having a guide rail to enable sliding movement; In the slide-type mobile communication terminal comprising a, the guide slit and the guide rail of the slide module is formed to be inclined so as to have a predetermined angle of inclination, so that the slide body in the diagonal direction of the upper left or right upper left from the main body It is characterized in that it is configured to open.

The main body may include a camera coupling part penetrating a predetermined portion in one side space secured when the slide body is opened, and the camera coupling part may be coupled in a rotatable structure to photograph an external image. have.

In addition, an operation button used as a shutter or a zoom switch of the camera module may be additionally provided at the bottom or the top of the camera module.

In addition, the main body, a plurality of key buttons may be arranged in one side space portion secured when the slide body is opened.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings such that those skilled in the art can easily implement the present invention.

3 is a front view illustrating an open state of a slide body of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention has a main body 10, a slide body 20, and a slide body 20 on one side of a top left or right side from the main body 10. It is configured to include a slide module 30 is installed to open in a diagonal direction.

The main body 10 is formed in an enclosure to enable the mounting of various electronic elements therein, the front panel is provided with a keypad 11 for signal input of various characters or symbols, the microphone at the bottom center to input the sound signal There is provided a sending unit 12 including.

In addition, when the slide body 20 is opened at an upper end of the main body 10, the camera coupling part 13 is formed through the camera coupling part 13 in a space secured, and the camera coupling part 13 has a camera that is rotatable 180 degrees. The module 14 may be mounted to change the photographing direction toward the front and the rear of the terminal.

In addition, the camera module 14 is equipped with a built-in component such as a flash 15 so that shooting at night or in a dark place to rotate together in accordance with the shooting direction of the camera (14).

In addition, the additional space at the bottom or the top of the camera module 14 may further include a plurality of operation buttons 16 used as a shutter or a zoom switch of the camera module 14 or used when using various multimedia services.

Meanwhile, when the slider 20 is opened, only a plurality of buttons 17 may be mounted in the space to be secured as shown in FIG. 4.

In other words, in recent years, with the enhancement of game functions, multimedia functions such as TV viewing are emphasized to provide a mounting space of the buttons 17 to be additionally provided.

The slide body 20 includes a liquid crystal screen 21 for displaying image information on a front surface thereof, and a receiver 22 including a speaker to output an audio signal at an upper center of the liquid crystal screen 21, and includes a liquid crystal display. The lower side of the screen 21 is provided with a function key 23 used when using the various functions of the terminal.

A predetermined slide module 30 is installed on the contact surface between the main body 10 and the slide body 20, so that the slide body 20 is opened from the main body 10 in one diagonal direction on the upper left or right side.

Referring to the slide module 30 mounted in the mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to the drawings as follows.

5 is a front view showing the configuration of a slide module constituting a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, the slide module 30 is elastically installed to open and close the main plate 31, the slide plate 32, and the semi-automatic type when opening and closing the slide plate 32 from the main plate 31. The member 33 is comprised.

The main plate 31 is fixedly installed on the contact surface of the main body 10 and the slide body 20 on the main body 10 side, and the slide plate 32 slides on the contact surface of the main body 10 and the slide body 20. It is fixedly installed on the body 20 side.

Therefore, sliding the slide body 20 on the main body 10 is the same as sliding the slide plate 32 of the slide body 20 on the main plate 31 of the main body 10.

The main plate 31 is provided with a set of guide slits 31a inside both sides, and on both sides of the slide plate 32 is provided with guide rails 32a in a structure that is coupled to the guide slits 31a and capable of sliding movement. .

Therefore, the guide rail 32a of the slide plate 32 is closely inserted into the guide slit 31a of the main plate 31 to enable sliding movement in the longitudinal direction of the terminal.

At this time, the guide slit 31a and the guide rail 32a are formed to be inclined at an angle of a predetermined inclination so that the movement direction of the sliding movement is made in the diagonal direction.

That is, when the slide body 20 is opened so that a portion of the camera module 14 and the operation button 15 mounted at one top of the main body 10 is exposed to the outside, the slide plate 32 And the guide slit 31a and the guide rail 32a, which are coupling portions of the main plate 31, are formed to be inclined at a predetermined inclination angle, thereby sliding the slide plate 32 by sliding along the main plate 31. The body 20 is opened in a diagonal direction on one side of the upper left or the upper right from the main body 10, and the camera module 14 and the operation button 16 mounted on the main body 10 are externally opened according to the opening operation. Is exposed.

In this case, the slide plate 32 is configured to be opened to the upper left side so that the slide module 30 is configured to be inclined to the left side. Since the slide body 20 is conveniently opened while the terminal is held by the left hand, the left hand is mainly used. It is suitable for users who use it.

In addition, the slide plate 32 is configured to be opened to the upper right side, so that the slide module 30 is configured to be inclined to the right side, and the right side is mainly used to open the slide body 20 while the terminal is held by the right hand. It is suitable for users who use it.

On the other hand, the slide module 30 can adjust the size of the space exposed when the slide body 20 is opened by changing the angle of the stroke and tilt, and the arrangement of the keypad in the vertical direction to deform similar to the horizontal slider. It may be.

Meanwhile, at least one elastic means 33 is interposed between the main plate 31 and the slide plate 32. That is, while interposed between the main plate 31 and the slide plate 32, one end is fixed to a fixing hole (not shown) formed in place of the main plate 31, the other end is formed in place of the slide plate 32 By using the torsion spring fixed to the fixing hole (not shown) serves to change the direction of the pressing force in the direction in which the slide plate 32 is opened or closed, the slide body 20 is the main body ( 10) to open and close semi-automatically.

As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated in detail using the preferable Example, the scope of the present invention is not limited to a specific Example and should be interpreted by the attached Claim. In addition, those skilled in the art should understand that many modifications and variations are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention.

According to the slide-type mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention as described above, the conventional method by mounting the rotary camera and the operation button in the additional space secured by opening the slide body in the diagonal direction from the main body, Compared to this, the thickness of the terminal can be reduced, and the buttons can be additionally mounted in the same space to increase the utilization thereof.

Claims (4)

Main body; A slide body coupled to the front surface of the main body to enable a sliding movement; The contact surface of the main body and the slide body is installed on the main body side and both sides inside the main plate having a set of guide slits, and installed on the slide body to face the main plate and coupled to the guide slit of the main plate on both sides A slide module comprising a slide plate having a guide rail to enable sliding movement; In the slide-type mobile communication terminal comprising a, The guide slit and the guide rail of the slide module are formed to be inclined to have an inclination of a predetermined angle, so that the slide body is configured to open in a diagonal direction on one side of the upper left or the upper right from the main body. . The method of claim 1, In the main body, It is provided with a camera coupling portion penetrating a predetermined portion in one side space portion secured when opening the slide body, The camera coupling unit is a slide type mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the camera module for photographing the external image is coupled in a rotatable structure. The method of claim 2, At the bottom or top of the camera module, Slide-type mobile communication terminal, characterized in that further provided with an operation button used as a shutter or a zoom switch of the camera module. The method of claim 1, In the main body, Slide-type mobile communication terminal, characterized in that a plurality of key buttons are installed in one side space portion secured when opening the slide body.

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