CN1258179A

CN1258179A - Device capable of making subscriber see message display in folding cover closed folding mobile phone

Info

Publication number: CN1258179A
Application number: CN99124789A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李锡根
Original assignee: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
Current assignee: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
Priority date: 1998-12-15
Filing date: 1999-12-06
Publication date: 2000-06-28
Also published as: JP2000184023A; KR20000039641A

Abstract

To provide a portable communication terminal equipment which can recognize information displayed on a screen even if a folder is not opened like a folder type portable telephone set, for example, and to provide the information display structure therefor. The main body 10 of the folder type portable telephone set provided with a microphone 116 is provided with one LCD module, a touch screen in which a touch sensitive panel 114 is stacked/installed in its prescribed area and data can be inputted by a touch operation, and an information display part 112 where an LCD module widow is installed in the other area of the LCD module where the touch sensitive panel 114 is stacked/installed and various outputted information can be displayed. A transparent window 212a which can view information displayed on the information display part 112 in a state where it is closed against the main body 10 is provided with a folder 20 provided with an ear piece 210 including a speaker.

Description

Can make the user see the information device shown of the Foldable mobile phone of flype closure

The present invention relates to a kind of Foldable mobile phone, can under the state of flype closure, see the information device shown in especially a kind of Foldable mobile phone.

Usually, mobile phone has developed three kinds of structure types, i.e. stripe shape, flip-type and folded form such as HHP, CT-2, portable phone, PCS etc.The practical structures of stripe shape mobile phone generally includes the keyboard of being located at LCD module below that LCD modular unit, that upside that the fuselage, of the various electronic installations of an encapsulation is installed in fuselage is located at the loud speaker below near the antenna element, of loud speaker has alphanumeric and function key, and one is installed in the bottom of this fuselage and the microphone unit below keyboard.Compare with it, the flip-type mobile phone has one to be articulated in fuselage and to cover renovating of keyboard, as disclosed in the United States Patent (USP) 5629979.This is renovated and is used for preventing when the phone standby to by mistake the pushing of key, and is used for concentrating speech in communication process, and in addition, microphone can be installed in and renovate.

Foldable mobile phone comprises a fuselage that an antenna element, a keyboard and microphone arranged, be attached to the lower end of this fuselage so that cover the flype of fuselage with one by an articulated mounting, thereby this flype can open up into the angle of communication from fuselage, as disclosed in the United States Patent (USP) 5628089.Loud speaker is installed in the upper end of this flype usually.The LCD module can be installed on the fuselage, or is installed in the loud speaker below of flype.Be similar to renovating of flip-type mobile phone, this flype also is used for preventing when the phone standby to by mistake the pushing of key, and concentrates speech in communication process.And Foldable mobile phone more helps reducing mobile phone in size, because loud speaker and LCD module can be installed in the flype.

One of factor that the restriction mobile phone in size reduces is that the distance between microphone and the loud speaker is matched with user's mouth and the distance between the ear, and the distance between mouth and the ear approximately is 14cm or bigger.Therefore, the mobile phone of flip-type or flype type helps reducing mobile phone in size, and wherein, this distance can guarantee by the communication angle of regulating between fuselage and the flype.

With reference to Fig. 1 and 2, common Foldable mobile phone comprises fuselage 10, flype 20, and is used to connect fuselage and flype so that open and close the articulated mounting of flype with respect to fuselage.This fuselage comprises the antenna element 110 that is installed on upside, a pair of microphone 116 that is used to connect side arm 101, keyboard 40 and the keyboard below of this articulated mounting.LCD module 30 shows various information, and information comprises field intensity, battery remaining power, time, the date that antenna receives and represents the icon etc. of various functions.For common like this Foldable mobile phone,, can not see that the field intensity that resembles reception, battery remaining power, time, date etc. are presented at the information on the LCD module if this flype closes on the fuselage.Therefore, in this mobile phone standby process, as long as no matter when need check these important informations of field intensity that resemble the energy content of battery and reception, the user must open this flype.

An object of the present invention is to provide a kind of Foldable mobile phone, this phone has a kind of device that can see the information that shows on the LCD when flype is closed.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of Foldable mobile phone, and this phone has the composed component that reduces number.

According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of Foldable mobile phone, it has a fuselage, fuselage has a microphone, one has the flype that is used to cover fuselage of a loud speaker, and one be used to connect fuselage and flype so that open the articulated mounting of flype to the communication angle with respect to fuselage, and this phone has one can make the user see the device of the display message on the mobile phone when flype is closed.This device comprises a LCD module that is installed on the fuselage, one is located at the touch pad as data input device of the presumptive area of this LCD module, one is installed in all the other regional LCD module windows that this LCD mould is determined, make and to see the various information that show on this LCD module, and one pass the transparent flype window that this flype forms, and makes and can see the various information that show on this LCD when flype is closed.

By embodiment the present invention is described more specifically now with reference to accompanying drawing.

Fig. 1 is the schematic perspective view of the common Foldable mobile phone of flype closure;

Fig. 2 is the schematic perspective view of the common Foldable mobile phone opened of flype;

Fig. 3 is the view that is similar to Fig. 1, but has the device that can see the information that shows on the LCD when flype is closed according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the view that is similar to Fig. 2, but has the device that can see the information that shows on the LCD when flype is closed according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is the sectional view of Fig. 3, so that the structure of device of the present invention to be shown;

Fig. 6 is the view that is similar to Fig. 5, but contains according to a second embodiment of the present invention the device that can see the information that shows on the LCD when flype is closed;

Fig. 7 is the view that is similar to Fig. 4, but has the device that can see the information that shows on the LCD when flype is closed of an a third embodiment in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 8 is the view that is similar to Fig. 5, but has the device of the information that can show on the fashionable LCD of seeing of flype of an a third embodiment in accordance with the invention.

All accompanying drawing all adopts identical Reference numeral to represent the identical functions element.In addition, for simplicity, omitted detailed description here to not directly related common components with the present invention.Though device of the present invention only is described with respect to Foldable mobile phone, can be used for the flip-type mobile phone.

With reference to Fig. 2 to 5, according to first embodiment, this can see when flype 20 is closed that the device of the information that shows on the LCD comprises that one is installed on LCD modular LCD 1 and on the fuselage 10 and is positioned at transparent flype window on this flype 20.This LCD modular LCD 1 comprises that also one comprises the presumptive area 15b of this LCD module and at the data input unit of establishing the touch pad 114 on this zone, and a remaining area 15a and who comprises this LCD module is installed in the data output unit of the LCD module window 112 on this zone.This transparent flype window is made of an interior transparent panel 212a and an outer transparent panel plate 212b.

Usually, this Foldable mobile phone comprises fuselage 10, is used to cover the flype 20 of fuselage, and one is used to connect fuselage and flype so that this flype is opened to the articulated mounting of about 140 ° to 170 ° communication angle.This fuselage 10 comprise an antenna element 110 that is installed on upside, a pair of this articulated mounting of connection that forms at the two ends of upside respectively side arm 101, be located at the input and output part below the side arm, an and microphone 116 that is installed in the lower end.

In the present embodiment, data input unit preferably comprises the presumptive area 15b and the touch pad 114 that is installed on the 15b of this zone of LCD modular LCD 1, by touching the coordinate of input X and Y, shown in Figure 4 and 5.In addition, data output unit comprises the remaining area 15a and the LCD module window 112 that is installed in the display message on the 15a of this zone of this LCD module.This touch pad 114 is divided into a plurality of zones of being operated expression alphanumeric and function key respectively by finger, stylus or stylus.

This flype 20 is mounted thereon the loud speaker of end, and the inside and outside transparent panel 212a and the 212b that are installed in its inboard 202 and the outside 203 respectively, and transparent panel constitutes the transparent window of this flype.The size of this flype window is consistent with the size of touch pad 114 and LCD module window 112.The electric wire of loud speaker enters in the fuselage by passage that forms on side arm and the center pivot arm that is formed on this flype 20.Therefore, the user can see through the two transparent panel 212a and the 212b that close at the flype 20 on the fuselage and sees the information that is presented on the LCD along the direction of as shown in Figure 5 arrow.Reference numeral 150 expressions are installed in the main printed circuit board in the fuselage.

With reference to Fig. 6, compare with first embodiment that has adopted a LCD modular LCD 1, second embodiment has adopted two LCD modular LCDs 2 and LCD3, is used separately as data input and output device.Just touch pad 114 is located on the LCD modular LCD 2.And a LCD module window 112 is arranged on the 2nd LCD modular LCD 3, thereby can be presented on the 2nd LCD modular LCD 3 by the data of touch-screen input.Therefore, the user can see the information that is presented on the LCD through the transparent flype window that closes at the flype on the fuselage along the direction of arrow as shown in Figure 6.

Adopted the touch-screen 114 on the whole surface of the LCD modular LCD 4 that covers monolithic with reference to Fig. 7 and 8, the three embodiment.In this case, this LCD module can be used for data input and two kinds of patterns of data output.Mode conversion can be finished by independent key input, can be after the input data is that the circuit of output mode carries out automatically with this mode switch by touching this touch-screen by a design perhaps.The touch of touch-screen can be waited by finger, stylus and finish.Therefore, the user can see through the transparent flype window that closes at the flype on the fuselage and sees the information that is presented on the LCD along the direction of arrow as shown in Figure 8.

As mentioned above, the invention provides a kind of Foldable mobile phone, this phone has the device that can see the information that shows on the LCD when flype is closed.Though the present invention is described with respect to accompanying drawing and certain embodiments, concerning those those skilled in the art, clearly can makes various changes and modifications and can not break away from aim of the present invention it.

Claims

One kind in Foldable mobile phone, can when flype is closed, make the user see the device of the information that shows on this mobile phone, this phone has a fuselage, that a microphone is housed that the flype that is used to cover described fuselage of a loud speaker is arranged, and one be used to connect described fuselage and flype so that open the articulated mounting of flype to a communication angle with respect to described fuselage, and this device comprises:

One is installed in the LCD module on the described fuselage;

One is located at the touch pad as data input device of the presumptive area of described LCD module;

One is installed in all the other regional LCD module windows of described LCD module, makes to see the various information that show on the described LCD module; And

One passes the transparent flype window that described flype forms, and makes and can see the various information that show on the described LCD module when flype is closed.
2. device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described transparent outer window comprises the outside and inboard outer transparent panel and the interior transparent panel that is arranged in described flype.
One kind in Foldable mobile phone, can when flype is closed, make the user see the device of the information that shows on this mobile phone, this phone has a fuselage, that a microphone is housed that the flype that is used to cover described fuselage of a loud speaker is arranged, and one be used to connect described fuselage and flype so that open the articulated mounting of flype to a communication angle with respect to described fuselage, and this device comprises:

Be installed in the first and second LCD modules on the described fuselage;

One is located at the touch pad as data input device on the described LCD module;

One is installed in the LCD module window on described the 2nd LCD module, makes to see the various information that show on described the 2nd LCD module; And

One passes the transparent flype window that described flype forms, and makes and can see the various information that show on the described first and second LCD modules when flype is closed.
4. device as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, described transparent outer window comprises the outside and inboard outer transparent panel and the interior transparent panel that is arranged in described flype.
One kind in Foldable mobile phone, can when flype is closed, make the user see the device of the information that shows on this mobile phone, this phone has a fuselage, that a microphone is housed that the flype that is used to cover described fuselage of a loud speaker is arranged, and one be used to connect described fuselage and flype so that open the articulated mounting of flype to a communication angle with respect to described fuselage, and this device comprises:

One be installed in described fuselage so that be operated in the LCD mould husband that data input or output pattern.

One be located at a described LCD module as the touch pad of data input device, whether described LCD module is touched according to described touch-screen is operated in described data and inputs or outputs pattern; And

One passes the transparent flype window that described flype forms, and makes and can see the various information that show on the described LCD module when flype is closed.
6. device as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, described transparent outer window comprises the outside and inboard outer transparent panel and the interior transparent panel that is installed in described flype respectively.