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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2004
Hisamitsu Takagi, Kawasaki, JP;
Shigeru Yamaguchi, Inagi, JP;
Hisamitsu Takagi, Kawasaki, JP;
Shigeru Yamaguchi, Inagi, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Frontech Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a portable apparatus such as a mobile phone or a notebook type personal computer, an object of which is to improve the durability of a flexible flat cable without lowering the degree of freedom of a curled portion thereof and prevent the same from being locally worn. This portable apparatus includes a first housing having a printed board module, a second housing coupled at one end thereof with the first housing via a hinge mechanism and having a printed board module, a flexible flat cable connected at one end thereof with the printed board module in the first housing and at the other end thereof with the printed board module in the second housing, while being at least once curled at a position corresponding to the hinge mechanism, and an insert member to be inserted into the curled portion of the flexible flat cable. This insert member is not fixed to either the first housing or the second housing but the movement thereof is restricted.