Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Mobile Communications Development Corporation of U.s.a.

Akira Takahashi

David J Harvey

Yoji Inomata

Yasunobu Ikeda

Ryuichi Toyoda

James K Skurski

A portable telephone to which additional function units, such as a flip unit and a slide unit, that provide additional functions for the main body of a portable telephone, are easily mounted on the case of a basic unit that includes only the essential units required for speech. One or more of an LCD bezel, a flip cover, a keypad bezel, grips, a keypad slide coverand a slide cover, which are additional function units, are mounted on a basic unit. Therefore, this arrangement can cope with a request from a user who desires to alter a portable telephone he or she purchased to obtain a model he or she favors.

Portable telephone

A detachable carry clip assembly for an electronic device. The electronic device includes a housing and a power pack. The housing includes a power pack seat for receiving and retaining the power pack. A first portion of a member of the carry clip assembly couples into a recess on the top exterior of the electronic device and a second portion of a member extends into the power pack seat and is captured between the housing and the power pack when the power pack is received and retained in the power pack seat. The detachable carry clip assembly is detached from the electronic device by detaching the power pack from the power pack seat of the electronic device.

Detachable carry clip with swivel for electronic devices

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Duluth, GA, United States of America

Akira Takahashi