Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Toyohiro Arakane

Kimiaki Imai

Foldable mobile equipment is provided with a first housingincluding a liquid crystal display part (display part) at the front face thereof, a second housingincluding an operation part at the front face thereof, and a hinge portionconnecting the first housingand the second housingto each other foldably about an open/close axis X and supporting the first housingso that the first housingcan be flipped over about a vertical axis Y vertical to the open/close axis X. The liquid crystal display part is supported on the first housingby means of a cam mechanism(a support mechanism) so as to be switchable between a portrait orientation and a landscape orientation.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Toyohiro Arakane