WO2002008876A2 - Folding cellular telephone and digital assistant with improved keyboard - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to mobile telecommunications devices, and in particular to a combination cellular telephone and portable digital assistant with an improved keyboard.
- the present invention provides a folding combination mobile telephone/computer which is sized as a cellular telephone when fully folded yet when fully opened provides a screen, a central processing unit, and a usefully-sized computer keyboard. It does this by having the keyboard divided into two halves hingedly connected along a fold line, to which the telephone and computer sections are hingedly connected.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the invention, fully folded;
- Fig. 2A is a perspective view of the invention, partially open;
- Fig. 2B is a perspective view of the invention, fully open;
- a combination mobile telephone and computer is designated generally as 10. It comprises a screen section 12, computer and battery section 14, and keyboard halves 16, 18.
- the device is hinged at hinges 20, 22, and at hinges 47 along joint 19 between sections 16, 18 so that the keyboard halves 16, 18 can first be folded behind screen section 12 and computer section 14, as shown in Fig. 2A, and then folded again to be sandwiched between the screen section 12 and computer section 14 as shown in Fig. 1.
- the device When fully folded as shown in Fig. 1 , the device operates as a cellular telephone and personal digital assistant.
- Screen section 12 is on the exterior and controls the function of the cellular telephone. It has a touch display screen 24, numeric telephone dialing buttons 26, power switch 23, send/end button 25, earpiece speaker 28 and microphone 30. It also has the function buttons 21 for operating a personal digital assistant ("PDA") so that it can function as a PDA in the folded position using touch screen 24.
- PDA personal digital assistant
- the antenna 32 for the telephone is contained in computer section 14 and can be extended as shown in Fig. 1 or retracted as shown in Fig. 2A.
- the battery for the telephone is contained in section 14. Electrical connections are made between each section through hinges 47, 20 and 22.
- the two keyboard halves 16, 18 are unfolded and the screen and battery sections 12, 14 are unfolded.
- the device When fully unfolded as shown in Fig. 2B and 4 the device functions as a personal digital assistant or computer, and can also function as a cellular telephone, for example sending data by modem, and dialing from screen 24 and using speaker- phone 53.
- Screen 24 functions as the computer screen and keyboard 32, composed of keyboard halves 16, 18 acts as the computer input.
- the back of section 14 contains some of the computer function keys 35 also. At least one of the keys 37 may be split along the fold line to permit folding of the keyboard as disclosed in the same inventor's US patent no. 6088220.
- Keyboard 32 has three rows 34, 36, 38 of letter keys.
- the letters are spaced at the normal spacing of a standard QWERTY keyboard, 19 mm measured center to center both horizontally and vertically (referring to the "up” direction in FIG. 3 as “vertical” and the “sideways” direction as “horizontal”).
- the center row 36 of the letter keys (ASDFGHJKL; ') are standard size keys.
- the top row 34 (QWERTYUIOPD) and bottom row 38 (ZXCVBNM, .1) are cut in half horizontally so that they are only 50% of the vertical size.
- the top row of keys 34 have a scalloped edge 40 along their upper edges and the bottom rows of keys 38 have a scalloped edge 42 along their lower edges.
- the key caps of the top and bottom rows are shaped to prevent the fingers from overrunning the keys by curving the upper or lower edges of the keys in the top and bottom rows upwardly.
- the spacebar 46 is 50 % of the width of a standard spacebar.
- FIG. 5 Another embodiment is shown in Fig. 5 in dotted outline, whereby the top surface 49 of the top and bottom rows slopes uniformly upwardly rather than having a curved upper surface.
- FIG. 6 A further embodiment is shown in Fig. 6, whereby the top surface 51 of the top and bottom rows 34, 38 is raised above center row 36 but is horizontal or flat on the upper surface 51 of the key.
- the approximate preferred dimensions for this device are as follows: fully folded dimensions: length 5-1/2 inches, width 1-7/8 inches, thickness 7/8 inches. Screen 24 is 5-1/4 inches by 1-1/4 inches. The unfolded length is approximately 11 inches.
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