JP2001242958A - Portable electronic device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve convenience and operationality of a portable electronic device. SOLUTION: The cover body 20 of the portable electronic device, a key board side connection terminal part 31 provided on the cover body 20 in order to connect portable terminal device 200, and a portable terminal attaching mechanism 40 attaching to the cover body 20 the portable terminal device 200 connected to the key board side connection terminal part 31 are provided to integrate the portable terminal device and the portable electronic device.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a PHS (Person
The present invention relates to a portable electronic device that is extremely suitable for being applied to a portable keyboard with a lid that is operated to perform communication processing by connecting a portable terminal device such as an Al Handy phone System).

More specifically, a portable terminal mounting mechanism is provided on a cover on which connection terminals are arranged, and the portable terminal mounting mechanism mounts the portable terminal device connected to the connection terminals on the cover, so that the portable electronic device is provided. This makes it possible to improve the convenience and operability of the system.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, portable electronic devices and terminal devices have become popular. Among them, for example, a portable keyboard with a lid as a portable electronic device and a PHS (Personal Handy phone System) as a portable terminal device are examples. The portable keyboard with a lid is provided with a keyboard on the upper surface of the main body, and a lid is provided on the main body so as to be openable and closable so as to cover the keyboard. The PHS has a communication unit for communicating with a base station, an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) for displaying information, and the like.

These are often used by being connected to each other by connecting lines such as cables. For example, when using an Internet service, communication is performed by PHS, and by operating the keyboard of a portable keyboard with a lid, it is possible to easily perform surfing, input to e-mail, and the like.

[0005]

However, since the portable keyboard with a lid according to the conventional method is connected to the PHS only through the cable, the portable keyboard and the PHS are independent from each other. There is a problem that the keyboard must be operated while holding both the portable keyboard with the lid and the operability. In addition, there is a problem that a cable is in the way, and a PHS (hereinafter, referred to as a portable terminal device) hangs from a portable keyboard with a lid (hereinafter, referred to as a portable electronic device), thereby hindering convenience.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and has as its object to provide a portable electronic device capable of improving convenience and operability.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a portable electronic device according to the present invention operates by connecting a portable terminal device having a communication unit and a display function to perform communication processing. In the portable electronic device, a connection terminal provided on the cover for connecting the cover and the portable terminal device, and a portable terminal attachment for attaching the portable terminal device connected to the connection terminal to the cover. And a mechanism.

According to the portable electronic device of the present invention, the portable terminal device connected to the connection terminal provided on the cover is attached to the cover by the portable terminal attaching mechanism. For example, in this portable terminal mounting mechanism, the slide plate covered by the connection terminal provided on the lid is slid in the connection direction with the contact of the portable terminal device, and the connection terminal is exposed to connect the portable terminal device. Is done. Then, the slide plate is urged by the elastic means in a direction to cover the connection terminal, and the portable terminal device in contact with the slide plate is urged. Since the biased portable terminal device is suppressed by the inhibiting means, the portable terminal device can be attached to the lid.

Therefore, when the portable terminal device is connected to perform the communication processing, the portable terminal device can be integrated with the portable electronic device, so that the portable terminal device and the portable electronic device are separately independent. Convenience and operability can be improved as compared with the system.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of a portable electronic device according to the present invention will be described in detail. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a configuration example of a portable electronic device according to the present invention. In this embodiment, a portable terminal mounting mechanism is provided on the lid on which the connection terminal is arranged, and the portable terminal mounting mechanism attaches the portable terminal device connected to the connection terminal to the lid, so that the portable electronic device is It is intended to improve convenience and operability.

The present invention is applied to a portable electronic device to which a portable terminal device such as a PHS (Personal Handyphone System) is connected and used to use a communication service or the like. It is a portable keyboard 100. The portable keyboard 100 with a lid has a main body 10 and a lid 20. The main body 10 has a rectangular shape of, for example, about 170 × 100 mm, and an input key group 11 composed of a plurality of input keys is arranged at a front portion of the upper surface.

The input key group 11 is operated for inputting characters and other control instructions, and has a full keyboard configuration. The thickness of the main body 10 at the portion where the input key group 11 is arranged is, for example, about 12 mm. A power source such as a battery (not shown) is built in the rear portion of the upper surface of the main body 10, and the thickness of the main body 10 at this portion is, for example, about 30 mm.

An input key group 11 is provided on the upper surface of the main body 10.
Cover 20 is provided so as to cover the
Is mounted to be openable and closable via a hinge portion 12. The lid 20 has a size of, for example, about 100 × 75 × 18 mm. And the main body 10 where the hinge 12 is located
An opening 13 is provided on the upper surface.
Is provided with an infrared transmitting unit 14 for performing infrared communication. Here, assuming that the surface of the cover 20 facing the input key group 11 is a back surface, the cover 20 has a groove 21 and an image display LCD (Liquid Crystal Displa) on the back surface.
y) 30 and a CCD camera 35 on the surface of the lid 20.

The groove 21 is recessed on the left side of the back surface of the lid 20. One end of the groove 21 is disposed on the left side of the lid 20, thereby opening the left side of the lid 20. A PHS 200 described later is inserted into the groove 21. On one side surface of the groove 21, an infrared communication opening 22 penetrates toward the opening 13, and the infrared communication opening 22 serves as an infrared communication path during infrared communication.

Assuming that the other end of the groove portion 21 is a bottom surface, a keyboard-side connection terminal portion 31 composed of three terminals for connecting to the PHS 200 protrudes from the bottom surface of the groove portion 21. The PH inserted into the groove 21 is
DC power supply terminal 23 for supplying DC power to S200
Are arranged. Further, in the groove 21, the PHS 200 is connected to the keyboard-side connection terminal 31, and
A mobile terminal mounting mechanism 40 for mounting the mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal mounting mechanism 40 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

An LCD 3 is located on the right side of the rear surface of the lid 20.
0 is provided, and an image based on the image data input to the portable keyboard with lid 100 is displayed. CCD camera 35 on the surface of the lid 20
Is embedded, and an image of a subject is taken and image data is taken in. Here, the CCD camera 35 is of a fixed type, but may be of a movable type.

The side surface of the lid 20 on the open end side has a CC
As a switch for operating the D camera 35, a shutter switch 36 is provided. When the shutter switch 36 is pressed, the CCD camera 36
Is imaged. Shutter switch 3
A timer switch 37 is provided next to the button 6 and is depressed to set the timer photographing for operating the CCD camera 37 after a predetermined time. This time setting can be arbitrarily set by the user (user).

Here, the PHS 200 inserted into the groove 21 of the portable keyboard 100 with a lid will be described. The PHS 200 is a simplified mobile phone having a communication function for using a communication service and a display function for displaying information, and has a size of 105 × 40 × 1.
It has a housing 201 of about 7 mm. An input key group 210 is provided on the front surface of the housing 201. The input keys 210 include a call key for instructing a call or answering an incoming call, an end key for ending a call, a numeric keypad for inputting a telephone number, a key for searching telephone directory data, and the like. Are arranged.

Above the input key group 210, an LCD 220 serving as a display screen is provided.
Information input at 0, information received at the communication service, and the like are displayed. The PHS 200 has another electronic device (for example, a portable keyboard 100 with a lid) on the side of the housing 201.
And the like, and an infrared receiving section 230 for performing infrared communication is provided. When the infrared receiving section 230 is inserted into the groove section 21 of the portable keyboard 100 with a lid, the infrared receiving section 230 faces the opening section 22 for infrared communication.

Further, a DC terminal 260 and a concave portion 240 are provided on the back surface of the housing 201. This DC terminal 260 is connected to the DC power supply terminal 23 of the groove 21 when the PHS 200 is
C power is supplied. The recess 240 is made of PHS
It is used to engage with the mobile terminal mounting mechanism 40 when the 200 is mounted on the lid 20. This housing 20
A PHS-side connection terminal portion 250 including five PHS-side terminals 251 a to 251 b is provided on the bottom surface of 1, and is connected to the keyboard-side connection terminal portion 31 of the groove 21.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing a configuration example of the portable terminal mounting mechanism 40. The mobile terminal mounting mechanism 40 includes a slide plate 41, a guide plate 42, a torsion spring 4
3 and a convex portion 44. First, the slide plate 41 has a plate shape having an “L” -shaped cross section, and one piece of the slide plate 41 has three slit portions 45a to 45c penetrating therethrough. In addition, a slide opening 46 that is elongated in the direction of the penetration axis of the slit portion 45b is provided through the other piece,
A cylindrical rocking piece 47 is provided between the slit 45b and the slide opening 46 so as to hang down.

The slide plate 41 is inserted from the inside of the lid 20 into the bottom opening 24 formed in the bottom of the groove 21. At this time, the cylindrical fulcrum piece 25 provided inside the lid 20 is loosely inserted into the slide opening 46. This allows
The slide plate 41 is arranged as if it covers the vicinity of the bottom of the groove 21.
It can slide freely on the bottom.

The guide plate 42 for slidably fixing the slide plate 41 to the inner surface of the lid 20 has a rectangular shape, and the center in the short direction is recessed to guide the slide of the slide plate 41. The shape is made. The recessed piece is referred to as a guide piece 3, and the pieces at both ends thereof are referred to as fixed pieces 4a and 4b. The guide piece 3 is provided with an escape portion 48 so as not to hinder the sliding of the cylindrical rocking piece 47 and so that the tip of the cylindrical rocking piece 47 projects from the lower surface of the guide piece 3.

A relief 49 is provided so that the tip of the cylindrical fulcrum piece 25 penetrating the slide opening 46 projects from the lower surface of the guide piece 3. For this reason, the slide plate 41 can be slidably attached by fixing the upper surfaces of the fixing pieces 4a and 4b to the inner surface of the lid 20 while the slide plate 41 is positioned on the upper surface of the guide piece 3. Screws or adhesives are used for fixing the fixing pieces 4a and 4b (not shown).

The cylindrical fulcrum piece 25 and the cylindrical swinging piece 47 projecting from the lower surface of the guide piece 3 of the guide plate 42.
, A torsion spring 43 is stretched. At this time, the cylindrical oscillating piece 47 is moved by the torsion spring 43 to the cylindrical fulcrum piece 25.
, The slide plate 41 is always urged in a direction protruding from the bottom of the groove 21. Of course, the torsion spring 43 is not limited to this, but may be any as long as it has the same effect.

Here, the keyboard-side terminals 32 a to 32 c constituting the keyboard-side connection terminal portion 31 are provided through the terminal block 33. The terminal block 33 is made of an insulating material such as a resin, for example.
32c and is insulated between the keyboard terminals 32a to 32c. Terminal block 33 has keyboard side terminal 3
Ribs 34a and 34b are integrally formed so as to sandwich 2a to 32c. These keyboard side terminals 32a-3
2c is connected to the PHS side terminals 251b to 251d, and the ribs 34a and 34b are inserted into the PHS side terminals 251a and 251e.

This terminal block 33 has slit portions 45a to 45
The keyboard-side terminals 32 a to 32 c are located in the bottom opening 24 with the keyboard-side terminals 32 a to 32 c located behind the c. As a result, the keyboard-side terminals 32 a to 32 c protrude from the bottom of the groove 21 while being covered by the slide plate 31. At this time, the ribs 34a and 34b are not covered with the slide plate 31, but may be covered with slits for ribs. The groove 21 is provided with a convex portion 44, and the concave portion 240 of the PHS 200 inserted into the groove 21.
Is adapted to be engaged.

Here, an example of attaching the PHS 200 to the portable keyboard 100 with a lid as an embodiment according to the present invention will be described.

FIG. 3 shows a portable keyboard 100 with a lid.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of a mounting example (part 1) viewed from the side,
FIG. 4 is a top view including a partial cross section showing a mounting example (No. 2). Here, PHS2 is used as the portable terminal device.
It is assumed that 00 is used. As shown in FIG. 3A, first, the bottom surface of the PHS 200 is
1 at a predetermined angle. At this time,
Since the side surface near the bottom surface of the PHS 200 is guided by the groove 21, the positioning of the PHS side connection terminal 250 and the keyboard side connection terminal 31 has already been performed.

Then, in this state, the PHS 200 is inserted into the groove 2.
1 is pressed against the slide plate 41 so as to slide inside. As a result, the slide plate 41 slides into the lid 20, and the slit portions 45a to 45c (see FIG. 2).
The keyboard-side terminals 32a to 32c are exposed. Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 3B, the PHS 200 is tilted toward the groove 21 while sliding the slide plate 41. Thereby, the concave portion 240 of the PHS 200 is
The slide plate 41 is urged leftward in the figure by a torsion spring 43 as shown in FIG.

For this reason, the PHS 200 is urged by the torsion spring 43 via the slide plate 200, and the urged PHS 200 is restrained by the convex portion 44, so that the PHS 200 is in a state of being gripped.
Is attached to the lid 20. At this time, the keyboard side terminal 32a is connected to the PHS side terminal 251b. Similarly, the keyboard side terminal 32b is connected to the PHS side terminal 2
51c, the keyboard side terminal 32c is the PHS side terminal 25.
1d. The rib 34a is connected to the PHS side terminal 2.
51a, and the rib 34b is connected to the PHS side terminal 251e.
Is inserted into. Further, the infrared receiving section 230 faces the infrared communication opening 22, and the DC power supply terminal 23 is connected to the DC terminal 260.

When the PHS 200 is to be detached from the lid 20, the bottom of the PHS 200, that is, the top (left side in FIG. 3) of the PHS 200 is lifted around the right side of the PHS 200 in FIG. 44 and recess 240
By disengaging from the PHS 200, the PHS 200 can be easily removed using the biasing force of the torsion spring 43.

Therefore, even when the PHS 200 is brought into contact with the keyboard terminals 32a to 32c in a direction in which the PHS 200 is bent when the PHS 200 is mounted, for example, the slide plate 41 does not slide even if the PHS 200 comes into contact with the keyboard terminals 32a to 32c. The keyboard terminals 32a to 32c can be protected. In addition, the ribs 34a and 34b can reduce the shear stress applied to the keyboard terminals 32a to 32c at the time of attachment, at the time of attachment completion, and at the time of removal, and the keyboard terminals 32a to 32c can be reduced.
Can be further improved in durability.

FIG. 5 shows a portable keyboard 100 with a lid.
3 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of FIG. Here, it is assumed that PHS 200 is connected, and this PHS 200 is connected.
An example of the internal configuration of 200 will be described at the same time. The portable keyboard 100 with a lid shown in FIG. 5 has, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 51, an input key group 11, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 52, and a RAM
(Random Access Memory) 53 and the infrared transmission unit 14. The CPU 40 has an input key group 1
1, the ROM 52, the RAM 53, and the infrared communication unit 14 are connected.

The input key group 11 generates input information based on the pressed input key. The ROM 52 has C
A program executed by the PU 51, a text table including text data, and the like are stored. RAM5
Reference numeral 3 stores data generated under the control of the CPU 51 and is used as a working area. CPU5
In step 1, text data is read from the text table of the ROM 52 using the input information generated from the input key group 11 as access data, and sent to the infrared transmitter 14. The infrared transmission unit 14 modulates the text data into infrared light and transmits it to the PHS 200.

The PHS 200 includes, for example, an input key group 21
0, LCD 220, infrared receiving section 230, PHS side connection terminal section 250, control section 261, ROM 262, RAM 2
63, a nonvolatile memory 264, a communication unit 265, and an antenna 266. The control unit 261 has an input key group 2
10, LCD 220, infrared receiving section 230, PHS side connection terminal section 250, control section 261, ROM 262, RAM
263, the non-volatile memory 264, and the communication unit 265 are connected. The infrared receiving section 230 receives infrared rays from the infrared transmitting section 14 of the portable keyboard 100, demodulates the received infrared rays into text data, and sends the data to the control section 261.

The communication section 265 has an antenna 266.
Is connected, for example, to transmit and receive text data and image data to and from the base station. The control unit 26 is stored in the ROM 262.
1 and a font table composed of font data. The RAM 263 stores data generated under the control of the control unit 261 and is used as a working area. Various data transmitted from the control unit 261 is stored in the nonvolatile memory 264. These data can be deleted by a user (user).

In the control unit 261, the input key group 11
And the text data received by the communication unit 265 are stored in the non-volatile memory 264, and the text data is converted into font data using the font table of the ROM 262, and
20 is displayed in characters. Upon receiving the image data, the control unit 261 transmits the image data to the PHS-side connection terminal unit 25.
Send to 0. The transmitted image data is supplied to the keyboard-side connection terminal 31 of the portable keyboard 100 with a lid connected to the PHS-side connection terminal 250.

Here, a portable keyboard 100 with a lid is provided.
Is a keyboard-side connection terminal 31, a CPU 61,
ROM 62, RAM 63, nonvolatile memory 64, LCD
30, a CCD camera 35, a shutter switch 36, and a timer switch 37. And this CPU 61
Has a keyboard-side connection terminal 31, a ROM 62, a RAM 6
3, nonvolatile memory 64, LCD 30, CCD camera 3
5, the shutter switch 36 and the timer switch 37 are connected respectively.

This keyboard side connection terminal 31 is a PHS
The image data from the side connection terminal unit 250 is sent to the CPU 61. The ROM 62 stores programs executed by the CPU 61 and the like. The RAM 63 is used as a working area for image data. Non-volatile memory 64
Stores the image data sent from the CPU 61. These image data can be deleted by a user (user).

The CPU 61 controls compression and decompression of the transmitted image data. The CPU 61 controls the shutter switch 36 and the timer switch 37 based on user operations. CCD in CPU61
PHS2 and image data of the subject captured by the camera 35
The image data transmitted from 00 is stored in the nonvolatile memory 64 and displayed on the LCD 30.

Next, an operation example of the portable keyboard 100 with lid according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. Here, a case will be described in which, for example, text data and image data are received and input text data is transmitted using a communication service. First, the text data and the image data received by the communication unit 265 via the antenna 266 shown in FIG.

The controller 261 stores the text data in the nonvolatile memory 264, converts the text data into font data using the font table of the ROM 262, and causes the LCD 220 to display characters as received information. At this time, the control unit 261 stores the image data in the nonvolatile memory 264 and then sends the image data to the CPU 61 via the keyboard-side connection terminal unit 31 connected to the PHS-side connection terminal unit 250. This C
After performing data processing such as decompression on the supplied image data, the PU 61 causes the LCD 30 to display an image composed of the image data.

Here, the portable keyboard 10 with a lid
When an input operation is performed with the input key group 11 of the “0”, text data indicating the input character is transmitted from the infrared transmitting unit 14 to the P
The infrared communication is performed to the infrared receiving unit of the HS 200. The text data from the portable keyboard with lid 100 is sent to the control unit 261. The control unit 261 stores the text data in the nonvolatile memory 264,
The data is converted into font data using the font table of the OM 262, and characters are displayed on the LCD 220 as input information.

The input text data is transmitted to the base station using the communication unit 265 by operating the input key group 11. Thus, simultaneous reception of image data can be performed while bidirectional reception of text data is performed.

As described above, according to the portable keyboard 100 with the lid according to the embodiment, the groove 21 of the lid 20 is formed.
The PHS 20 is connected to the keyboard-side connection terminal 31
The slide plate 41 that slides in the connection direction with the contact of 0 is covered, and the PHS-side connection terminal 250 can be connected to the keyboard-side connection terminal 31 that is exposed by sliding the slide plate 41.

Therefore, when the PHS 200 is connected to perform communication processing, the PHS 200 can be integrated with the portable keyboard 100 with the lid.
Convenience and operability can be improved as compared with the conventional system in which the portable keyboard 200 and the portable keyboard with a lid are separately independent.

[0048]

As described above, according to the portable electronic device of the present invention, when the portable electronic device having the communication section and the display function is operated to perform the communication processing, the connection is established. A portable terminal attachment mechanism is provided on a lid on which terminals are arranged, and the portable terminal attachment mechanism attaches the portable terminal device connected to the connection terminal to the lid.

According to this configuration, when the portable terminal device is connected to perform the communication processing, the portable terminal device can be integrated with the portable electronic device. Therefore, the portable terminal device and the portable electronic device are separately and independently provided. Convenience and operability can be improved as compared with the conventional method.

The present invention relates to a PHS (Personal Handy pho
The present invention is extremely suitable for application to portable electronic devices such as a portable keyboard with a lid to which a portable terminal device such as a ne system is connected and attached.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a configuration example of a portable keyboard with a lid 100 as an embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing a configuration example of the portable terminal mounting mechanism 40.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a mounting example (part 1) of the portable keyboard with lid 100 as viewed from the side.

FIG. 4 is a top view including a partial cross section showing a mounting example (part 2) of the portable keyboard 100 with a lid.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the portable keyboard with a lid 100.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Main body part 14 Infrared transmission part 20 Cover 21 Groove part 22 Infrared communication opening part 30 LCD 31 Keyboard side connection terminal part (connection terminal) 40 Mobile terminal mounting mechanism 41 Slide plate 43 Torsion spring (elastic means) 44 Convex part ( Suppressing part) 45 Slit part 100 Portable keyboard with lid 200 PHS (Portable terminal device) 230 Infrared receiving part

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A portable electronic device that is operated to perform communication processing by connecting a portable terminal device having a communication unit and a display function, wherein the lid is connected to the portable terminal device. A portable electronic device comprising: a connection terminal provided on a lid; and a portable terminal attachment mechanism for attaching a portable terminal device connected to the connection terminal to the lid. 2. The portable terminal mounting mechanism covers the connection terminal, and slides in the connection direction with the contact of the portable terminal device to expose the connection terminal; and a direction covering the connection terminal. And elastic means for urging the slide plate to urge the portable terminal device via the slide plate, and suppressing means for suppressing the portable terminal device urged by the elastic means. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The portable electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the concave portion is provided in the portable terminal device, and wherein the inhibiting means is a convex portion that engages with the concave portion. 4. The mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein the slide plate has a plate shape having a cross section of an “L” shape, and has a slit portion from which the connection terminal protrudes when slid. Electronics. 5. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device is provided with an infrared transmitting unit for transmitting infrared rays to the portable terminal device. 6. A display unit is provided on the lid, and when the portable terminal device is attached to the portable electronic device, image data received by the communication unit is transmitted to the portable terminal device through the connection terminal. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device is transmitted to a display unit.