Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Makoto Takemoto

Wataru Matsumoto

Tsutomu Endo

Yuji Iwata

Jiro Nakasu

An antenna device includes a first antenna capable of moving between a storage position where the first antenna is contained within an equipment housing and an extended position where the first antenna is pulled out of the device housing for receiving and/or transmitting a signal. A second antenna is attached to the tip of the first antenna for receiving and/or transmitting a signal when the first antenna assumes the storage position. The rotator rotates the first antenna with respect to the device housing in the extended position.

Retractable, extendable and rotatable dual antenna system

In a unit body of a portable information terminal is assembled a display and a pressure-sensitive input device overlying the display. An opening and closing cover is attached to the unit body for covering the pressure-sensitive input device. An operating button device provided in the cover exposes, when the cover is closed, its operating surface from the surface of the cover. The operating button device exerts a pressing force applied to the operating surface onto the surface of the pressure-sensitive input device. Thus, with the cover closed, major function entry or data entry can be carried out.

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Kamakura, Japan

Makoto Takemoto