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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2007
Noriyoshi Sato, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuhiro Konishi, Yokohama, JP;
Kazunori Kono, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Omura, Sendai, JP;
Noriyoshi Sato, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuhiro Konishi, Yokohama, JP;
Kazunori Kono, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Omura, Sendai, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
It is aimed to attain compatibility between a size reduction, a thickness reduction of a portable terminal and the ensuring of an energizing force is attained. An upper caseis coupled with a connecting portionto proceed in a predetermined direction with respect to a lower case. Two caseshave a close state in which they are overlapped mutually and an open state in which the upper caseis extended by moving in a predetermined direction. One end of a coil portionA is fixed to a second holeand the other end of the coil portionA is fixed to a third hole, and the connecting portionhas a torsion coil springthat applies an energizing force to two casessuch that the casesare brought into the close state or the open state. The coil portionA is arranged in a clearancethat is formed by a part of two caseswhen the two cases oppose to each other in the moving direction, and the clearanceis arranged in a vicinity on a predetermined direction with respect to the third holein the close state.