Handheld mobile phone with a detachable battery pack
View Patent ↗In a handheld mobile phone ( 10 ) having a detachable battery pack ( 20 ) which can be removably mounted to a body ( 11 ) of the handheld mobile phone, the detachable battery pack has a memory card receiving recess ( 22 ) for removably receiving a body of a memory card ( 30 ), and the body of the handheld mobile phone has a plurality of contacts ( 15 ) which are brought into electrical contact with contact terminals ( 31 ) of the memory card mounted to the detachable battery pack when the detachable battery pack is mounted to the body of the handheld mobile phone.
1. A handheld mobile phone having a detachable battery pack which can be removably mounted to a body of the handheld mobile phone, wherein said detachable battery pack has a memory card receiving part for removably receiving a body of a memory card, said memory card receiving part including guiding grooves for guiding said memory card as it is slidably engaged with said battery pack and a retaining slider for retaining said memory card in said memory receiving part of said battery pack, and wherein the body of the handheld mobile phone has a plurality of external contacts which are brought into electrical contact with contact terminals of a memory card that is mounted in said memory card receiving part of said detachable battery pack when said detachable battery pack is mounted to the body of the handheld mobile phone.
2. A handheld mobile phone claimed in claim 1 wherein said memory card receiving part of said detachable battery pack is so configured to receive said memory card in such a condition that said contact terminals of said memory card are exposed to the body of the handheld mobile phone, and wherein said plurality of external contacts provided in the body of the handheld mobile phone are formed of a plurality of springy contacts which are brought into resilient contact with said contact terminals of said memory card mounted to said detachable battery pack when said detachable battery pack is mounted to the body of the handheld mobile phone.
3. A handheld mobile phone claimed in claim 2 wherein said detachable battery pack includes a receiving port through which said memory card is inserted, a guide means for guiding said memory card from said receiving port to said memory card receiving part, and a retaining means for detachably latching said memory card accommodated in said memory card receiving part.
4. A handheld mobile phone claimed in claim 3 wherein said receiving port is exposed when said detachable battery pack is mounted to the body of the handheld mobile phone.
5. A handheld mobile phone claimed in claim 4 wherein said detachable battery pack includes a spring provided at a deep end of said memory card receiving part, for exerting on said memory card a biasing force pushing said memory card toward said receiving port.
6. A handheld mobile phone claimed in claim 5 wherein said memory card receiving part has a stopper for preventing said memory card from being inserted to said memory card receiving part when said memory card is improperly inserted from said receiving port, and wherein said memory card has a cut which is never contacted with said stopper when said memory card is properly inserted from said receiving port to said memory card receiving part.
7. A handheld mobile phone claimed in claim 1 , further including a said memory card mounted in said memory card receiving part of said detachable battery pack mounted to the body of the handheld mobile phone.
8. A handheld mobile phone as recited in claim 1 , wherein said body of said mobile phone includes a receiving recess for receiving said detachable battery pack when said detachable pack is mounted to said body of said handheld mobile phone and wherein said plurality of external contacts are located within said receiving recess.