Telephonic communications – Terminal – Housing or housing component
Reexamination Certificate
1997-12-19
2001-03-13
Chiang, Jack (Department: 2742)
Telephonic communications
Terminal
Housing or housing component
C379S452000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06201867
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a portable telephone, such as general portable telephone, PHS telephone or others, more specifically to a display device which is fashionable enough to meet young generation's tastes.
Recently prevalence of portable telephones including PHS has explosively increased as prices of the portable telephones and telephone services become inexpensive, and the generation of their users tend to shift from workers who have been users of the conventional portable telephones to students who belong to the young generation. In accordance with this tendency, portable telephones of various designs have been marketed by the portable telephone makers to meet a wide variety of young people's tastes.
As designs of the portable telephones become thus various, it is expected that one person will want to own a plurality of portable telephones of different designs to change the portable telephones in accordance with various scenes.
For one person to own a plurality of portable telephones, a purchasing money and a basic service fee are necessary for each portable telephone, and the costs are unrealistically too high to satisfy the above-described desire. In consideration of the almost saturated state of the telephone lines, it is not preferable for one person occupy a plurality of telephone lines.
In view of such actual state the present invention has been made, and an object of the present invention is to provide a portable telephone which can meet a wide variety of tastes of the young generation and can have a different design in accordance with a scene where it is used.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The above-described object is achieved by a portable telephone comprising a portable telephone body, and a body cover for covering the portable telephone body. A plurality of the body covers of different designs are owned, and the body covers alone are changed to thereby select, without changing the portable telephone body, the body cover of that of the designs suitable to a scene where the portable telephone is used. The portable telephone is covered with the body cover, and the body cover is useful to protect the portable telephone body.
In the above-described portable telephone, it is preferable that the body cover comprises: a receiving unit cover for covering a receiving unit of the portable telephone body; and a battery cover being removable from the receiving unit cover, for covering a battery unit of the portable telephone body. When the battery has run out, the battery unit cover alone is removed from the receiving unit cover to replace the battery by a new one. The work of disassembling the entire body cover for only replacing the battery is unnecessary.
In the above-described portable telephone, it is preferable that the receiving unit cover has at least one opening formed in for exposing an operational button, a display, an antenna, and a receiving mouth or a transmitting mouth. For example, the opening is formed in alignment with the operational button, whereby the operational button can be operated directly through the opening. The opening is formed in alignment with the display unit, whereby display information can be more clearly provided to the user, and a step defined by the opening can protect the display unit from external forces. When the opening is formed in alignment with the antenna, the antenna can be projected outside through the body cover, whereby higher sensitivity is available. When the opening is formed in alignment with the receiving mouth or the transmitting mouth, voices can be more clearly received and transmitted.
In the above-described portable telephone, it is preferable that the receiving unit cover includes a button member interlocked with the operational button of the receiving unit. The button operation is ensured even with the portable telephone body covered with the body cover.
In the above-described portable telephone, it is preferable that the body cover is transparent or semitransparent. For example, various information displayed in the liquid crystal display or others of the portable telephone body can be seen through the body cover.
In the above-described portable telephone, it is preferable that a paint is applied to a back side of the body cover. The portable telephone can readily have an original design of a color corresponding to a user's taste. By using a fluorescent paint or a light storing paint as the paint the portable telephone can emit light in dark places, such as dark rooms, movie theaters, etc., whereby the portable telephone amusingly gives visual impacts.
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Chiang Jack
Dickstein , Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, LLP
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