IP Library Granted Patent US 8,543,175
Granted Patent B2
US 8,543,175 · App. 11/991,154 · Granted Sep 24, 2013

Mobile terminal device

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,543,175
App. No.
11/991,154
Granted
Sep 24, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a mobile terminal device that can eliminate influence of static electricity upon signal lines of a signal-line flexible board that is placed through a connecting unit that connects two casings to be able to overlie one another. In the mobile terminal device, one of the casings and the other casing are connected through a connecting unit to be able to overlie one another, and a signal-line flexible board that connects circuit boards housed in one of the casings and the other casing, respectively, is placed through the connecting unit. The mobile terminal device includes a pair of frame-grounded flexible boards that are formed wider than the signal-line flexible board to have a conductor pattern frame grounded, and sandwich both outer surfaces of the signal-line flexible board therebetween.

Claims (14)

1. A mobile terminal device comprising:

two casings, each containing a circuit board, connected through a connecting unit to be able to overlie one another;

a signal-line flexible board that is provided through the connecting unit to connect the circuit boards of the casings; and

a pair of frame-grounded flexible boards that are formed wider than the signal-line flexible board to have a conductor pattern frame grounded, and sandwich both outer surfaces of the signal-line flexible board therebetween,

wherein the frame-grounded flexible boards have a reinforcement of a nonconductor material on both sides of an outer surface not facing to the signal-line flexible board, and edge faces of the reinforcement wider than the signal-line flexible board are intermittently peeled in the longitudinal direction of the frame-grounded flexible boards to expose the conductor pattern.

2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein

the connecting unit has a foldable hinge structure, and armored cases of the casings are metallic cases, and

a part of the armored cases in the hinge structure at which the signal-line flexible board is placed, is made of a resin material.

3. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein

one of the casings includes a grounded antenna plate near the connecting unit, and

the antenna plate includes an extended plate member that is extended into the connecting unit to turn around outside of the signal-line flexible board from a part of the antenna plate.

4. The mobile terminal device according to claim 3 , wherein the extended plate member is formed wider than the signal-line flexible board.

5. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the signal-line flexible board includes plural boards.

6. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the connecting unit has a foldable hinge structure, and the signal-line flexible board is curled to make one turn in the hinge structure.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 20, 2018
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Reel/Frame 047555/0862 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2008
From: KOBAYASHI, HIDEKATSU; MURATA, WATARU; MATSUDA, HIROAKI; KAJIWARA, YOSHIFUMI; WATANABE, MASAMICHI; ARAKI, TATSUHITO; KATO,YOSHIAKI
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 020613/0746 →