IP Library Granted Patent US 7,660,411
Granted Patent B2
US 7,660,411 · App. 10/594,237 · Granted Feb 9, 2010

Portable telephone

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,660,411
App. No.
10/594,237
Granted
Feb 9, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A portable telephone in which two bodies thereof are placed in superposed relation, and one body slides relative to the other body to change how far they superpose, thus expanding and contracting the overall length of the telephone in the sliding direction. The one body can pull out relative to the other body with an area left where a part of the one body is superposed on the other body in the extended state. Engaging members, i.e. engaging pawls and sliders, that serve as a rotation preventing mechanism for preventing the two bodies from relative rotating are intensively provided in the superposed area within the extended state.

Claims (9)

1. A portable telephone, comprising:

a first body; and

a second body slidably superposed opposed to the first body, wherein the portable telephone has a closed state in which opposite faces totally superposes each other and an opened state in which the opposite faces partially superposes each other,

wherein said first body, within an area in which the first body is superposed on the second body in the opened state, includes:

a first slit in which a slider fixed on the second body is slidably engaged; and

a boss, provided at a position adjacent to an end of the first slit, which is configured to project upwardly above the first body, wherein the slider contacts with the end of the first slit in the closed state,

and wherein said second body, within an area in which the second body is superposed on the first body in the opened state, includes a second slit in which the boss is slidably engaged.

2. The portable telephone according to claim 1 further comprising:

an engaging pawl provided in one of the two bodies being slidably engaged with the other body within the area in which the first body and the second body are superposed on each other in the opened state.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 30, 2012
From: CLIFF ISLAND LLC
To: RPX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028130/0985 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 29, 2011
From: APPLE INC.
To: CLIFF ISLAND LLC
Reel/Frame 027294/0526 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 26, 2011
From: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 026180/0925 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2007
From: OI, KENICHI
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 019544/0188 →