Lg Electronics Inc.

Ha-Yong Kim

Jong-Hwan Kim

Tae-Wan Kim

Sung-Eun Bang

Yong-Duck Cha

Han-Bin Lee

Disclosed is a mobile terminal including, first and second bodies rotatably coupled to each other, and a driving unit configured to allow a relative rotation of the first and second bodies between a closed configuration and an open configuration, the first and second bodies being overlaid by each other in the closed configuration and rotated away from each other in the open configuration, wherein the driving unit includes rotation motion units connected to each of the first and second bodies and configured to generate the relative rotation, and slide motion units cooperatively operating with the rotation motion unit and configured to relatively slide the first and second bodies with respect to the driving unit between the closed configuration and the open configuration.

Mobile terminal

A mobile communication device for receiving and transmitting wireless communication signals including a body having a border portion, a display supported by the body, a touch screen adjacent the display and defining an exterior surface of the mobile communication device such that the display is visible through the touch screen, the touch screen transferring an input signal through electrodes disposed at an edge portion of the touch screen, and an electrode covering layer located above the electrodes of the touch screen. The border portion of the body and the outermost portion of the touch screen are substantially coplanar.

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Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

Ha-Yong Kim