Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Michiyoshi Kudo

Ryoichi Kaiwa

Hidehiro Yanagibashi

Yutaka Masutani

Yuichiro Suganuma

Naotomo Adachi

Keiki Kobayashi

A portable telephone has a connecting portion as well as a first housing portion and a second housing portion which are connected by the connecting portion in such a manner as to be capable of being folded. An external video camera unit is inserted in a camera-unit attaching portion . Various video camera units having different specifications, such as a color video camera unit, a monochromatic video camera unit, a wide-angle video camera unit, and a tele video camera unit, can be attached to or detached from the camera-unit attaching portion . The portable information communication terminal is capable of identifying the specifications of the attached video camera unit and of switching over its internal operation in accordance with the specifications.

Portable information communication terminal apparatus

A portable type mobile radio telephone wherein a battery holding device and a handset cradle is formed on one wider surface of the flat-shaped transceiver unit to be in parallel to each other. The transceiver unit has a guide hole and a first connector at a narrower surface thereof, and a base plate is attached to the battery holding device and the cradle so as to be interposed between the battery holding device and the transceiver unit, and the base plate has a curved portion at one end portion thereof such that the curved portion faces one narrower surface of the transceiver unit. The curved portion is provided with a guide pin and a second connector so that the first and second connectors are guided by connection of the guide pin and the guide hole and coupled with each other when the base plate is moved in a parallel direction with respect to the wider surface of the transceiver unit. The transceiver unit has an engaging projection on the wider surface thereof and the base plate has an engaging hole which is positioned to face the engaging projection when the first and second connectors are coupled with each other. The transceiver unit and the base plate are connected to each other by engagement of the engaging hole and the engaging projection.

Portable type mobile radio telephone

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Yokohama, Japan

Michiyoshi Kudo