Lucent Technologies Inc.

Joseph James Giordano, Jr

Pratod V Kasbekar

Harish S Mangrulkar

William Vincent Jackwicz

Romano M Zambon

James R Graham

Michael John Nuttall

John Henry Schaffeld

Christopher A Robinette

Susan L Tuttle

Michael L Moroze

Joseph J Rizzo

Joel Thomas Holl

William E Venth

Karl Edward Werner

A hinge assembly which has a limited number of stable positions and in which the hinge automatically moves to the closest of such stable positions is disclosed. The movement of the hinge is accomplished in one illustrative embodiment by positioning the protrusion on one of a pair of ramps inclined opposite to one another and toward the adjacent recess so that the parts of the hinge rotate relative to one another, moving the protrusion into the adjacent recess. The protrusion is pressed against the ramps and the grooves by a connecting portion that joins the arm portions and is flexed when the hinge parts are assembled so as to bias the arm portions toward one another.

Hinge assembly

Portable telephone handset

Growing community of inventors

Belle Mead, NJ, United States of America

Joseph James Giordano, Jr