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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
May. 04, 2005
Chi-young Ahn, Seoul, KR;
Young S. Kim, Los Altos, CA (US);
Chang-hwan Hwang, Goyang-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Abstract
A sliding/folding-type portable apparatus includes a body housing; a sliding housing adapted to travel along the longitudinal direction of the body housing while continuously facing it to expose or hide the top surface of the body housing; a folding housing adapted to rotate about a first hinge axis to fold on or unfold from the sliding housing and to rotate about a second hinge axis, which is perpendicular to the first hinge axis, to reverse the top and bottom surfaces thereof; and a dual-axis hinge sliding module connected between the sliding housing and the folding housing to provide the folding housing with the first and second hinge axes.