JP2000232544A - Communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication terminal that is provided with a turnable and movable touch panel display device by which display contents of the screen can be recognized even in the case of replacing recording paper. SOLUTION: When a turn support member 42 is turned toward a rear side of a main body 2 around a lower hinge, a stopper 51 is pressed into contact with a hinge cover 45 to prevent the turn support member 42 from being turned moreover. Then a touch panel display device 3 is turned toward a front side of the main body 2 around an upper hinge. The lower end of the touch panel display device 3 is pressed into contact with a hollow 41a formed in front of a display device support base 41. As a result, the touch panel display device 3 is fixed at a most upright attitude. In this state, an operation panel 4 is freely opened/closed. Furthermore, even when the operation panel 4 is open, a screen 3a cannot be hidden when viewing from the front side of the main body 2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a communication terminal device having a touch panel display.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the spread of the Internet, not only personal computers (hereinafter referred to as PCs),
2. Description of the Related Art A client having a WWW browser function including a portable information terminal (hereinafter, referred to as a PDA) accesses a WWW server and browses an HTML document.

Some of these clients have a touch panel display without a keyboard. Normally, this type of client uses a soft keyboard when inputting characters in the input portion of an HTML document displayed on a screen. At the time of input, switching of the input mode of a soft keyboard for hiragana, katakana, kanji, alphabets, numerals, and the like is performed.

[0004]

However, in the conventional communication terminal device, when characters are input to the input portion of the HTML document, it is necessary to start up the soft keyboard one by one, and to switch the input mode. Is annoying. Also, even after the soft keyboard starts up, the screen is occupied by the soft keyboard and the HT
The area where the ML document can be viewed is reduced.

[0005] Therefore, it is common to equip the communication terminal device with a hard keyboard at the same time. In this case, the customer
Since a hard keyboard or a soft keyboard can be selected and used according to a preference, it is possible to respond to a variety of customers.

In a communication terminal device having a recording unit such as a normal facsimile device, an operation panel provided with a hard keyboard is openable and closable. When exchanging recording paper, the operation panel is opened. 2. Description of the Related Art Recording paper is set in a recording paper storage section provided in an apparatus main body. For this reason, the touch panel sometimes hinders the opening and closing of the operation panel. In addition, when the operation panel is opened, if the touch panel display is moved to a position that does not hinder the opening and closing of the operation panel, the screen of the touch panel may not be visible.
For example, if the user tries to print the contents of the home page while browsing the home page, but the recording paper is out, if the operation panel is opened to replace the recording paper, the screen is hidden, and the home page may not be viewed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a communication terminal device which allows the user to understand the contents of the screen even when the recording paper is replaced.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a touch panel display unit in a retractable position where the contents of the screen can be viewed when a cover unit for opening and closing a recording paper storage unit attached to the apparatus main body is opened. By fixing, even if the recording paper is replaced, the display contents on the screen can be understood.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A communication terminal device according to a first aspect of the present invention includes a touch panel display section for displaying a screen and receiving an input to the screen, and a touch panel display section for controlling an angle and a position of the screen. An attachment member attached to the apparatus main body so as to be freely changeable, a recording unit for performing recording on recording paper, a recording paper storage unit provided in the apparatus main body for storing the recording paper, and an opening and closing mechanism for the apparatus main body A cover portion that is freely attached and closes the recording paper storage portion; and a retreat position fixing portion that fixes the touch panel display portion to a retreat position where the contents of the screen can be viewed when the cover portion is opened. Take the configuration.

A second aspect of the present invention, in the communication terminal device according to the first aspect, employs a configuration in which the cover unit includes hard keys for receiving an input to the screen of the touch panel display unit.

According to these configurations, the touch panel display unit rotatably and movably attached to the apparatus main body is fixed to the retract position where the contents of the screen can be viewed even when the cover unit is opened by the retract position fixing unit. Accordingly, the contents of the screen can be browsed when the cover unit closing the recording paper storage unit is opened, so that the display contents of the screen can be understood even when the recording paper is replaced.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

On the upper surface of the main body 2 of the facsimile machine 1, a touch panel display 3 is attached so as to be freely opened and closed.

An operation panel 4 is provided on the upper surface of the main body 2.
Is provided. The operation panel 4 includes a dial key 5
And a cursor key 6 are provided. Dial key 5
Is input means for inputting a telephone number when making a telephone call or transmitting a facsimile, and for inputting a number or the like in an input portion of the screen 3a. The cursor keys 6 are instruction means for freely moving a cursor and a pointer displayed on the screen 3a in four directions.

On the surface of the operation panel 4, dial keys 5
And a pair of projections 7, 8 so as to sandwich the cursor key 6.
Are juxtaposed. The projections 7 and 8 are formed continuously over the entire vertical length of the area where the dial keys 5 and the cursor keys 8 are arranged. The highest point of the projections 7 and 8 is located higher than the dial key 5 and the cursor key 6.

A handset 9 is attached to a side surface of the main body 2. Although a handset with a cord is used for the handset 9 in this example, a cordless handset may be used. In addition, a scanner paper feed unit 10 and a printer paper discharge unit 11 are provided on the front surface of the main body 2.

The operation panel 4 of the main body 2 is opened upward. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state where the operation panel is opened in the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment. As shown in FIG. 2, the operation panel 4 is opened, and the roll-shaped printing paper 12 is set.

FIG. 3 is a hardware block diagram of the facsimile apparatus according to the above embodiment.

The touch panel display 3 includes an LCD display 3A and a touch panel 3B.

The CPU (Central Processing Unit) 21
Perform the desired processing according to the program.

The ROM (Read Only Memory) 22 is a read only memory that stores a basic program such as a start program.

A RAM (Random Access Memory) 23 is
A main memory in which the CPU 21 reads and executes programs and data.

A flash memory (hereinafter referred to as FROM) is a nonvolatile semiconductor memory that can be erased and rewritten, and mainly stores application programs, execution programs such as HTML documents, and data.

Line control unit (hereinafter referred to as NCU) 25
Controls transmission and reception of signals to and from a public line network (hereinafter, referred to as PSTN) 26. The NCU 25 performs processing such as calling and receiving. The handset 9 and the built-in speaker 27 are connected to the NCU 25.

The communication control unit 28 performs data communication and facsimile communication via the PSTN 26. In this example, it is a facsimile modem, but it may be a DSU or a terminal adapter (TA). Facsimile modems also digitize voice signals.

The audio processing unit 29 encodes and compresses the digitized audio signal, or decodes and expands the compressed audio signal.

The touch panel display 3 is composed of a liquid crystal panel display as display means and a touch panel as input means. The touch panel display 3 displays information and accepts a user operation. Specifically, on the screen 3a of the touch panel display 3, various information, an input screen, an operation menu, icons, buttons, and the like are displayed. Screen 3a,
By touching with a pen or a finger, input of characters or pictures and selection of a menu or the like can be performed.

Also, a soft keyboard function is provided for realizing a keyboard operation in a software manner in which characters and the like that can be input on the screen 3a are displayed in the form of a keyboard and input is performed.

The dial key 5 is used not only for dialing a telephone, but also for inputting a number or the like into an input field displayed on the touch panel display 3.

The external I / O 30 controls data communication with external devices such as a PC, a TA, a barcode reader, and an external modem. The external I / O 30 is, for example, a serial interface or a USB (Universal Serial Bus).

The PC card interface 31 is a PC
Controls data transmission and reception between the card and the main unit. PC
Various cards such as a flash memory card, a modem card, a LAN card, and an ISDN card can be used as the card.

The scanner 32 reads a document.
The printer 23 prints various data such as images and texts.

The bus 34 includes the CPU 21, the ROM 22,
This is a line connecting each unit such as the RAM 23.

Next, a tilt mechanism of the touch panel display in the facsimile apparatus according to the above embodiment will be described.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the facsimile apparatus according to the above embodiment. FIG. 5 is a vertical sectional view showing a tilt mechanism portion in the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment.

A display support 41 is provided on the upper surface of the main body 2 behind the operation panel 4. The rotation support member 42 is placed on the display support 41.
Supports the touch panel display 3.
The rotation support member 42 is a wide and flat member.
As shown in FIG. 5, the lower end portions of the rotation support member 42 are
It is attached to a mounting bracket 44 of the main body 2 via a lower hinge 43. This attachment part is a hinge cover 45
Covered with.

On the other hand, both upper end portions of the rotation support member 42
It is attached to the back surface 3a of the touch panel display 3 via the upper hinge 46. As shown in FIG.
A hinge cover 4 is provided on the back surface 3a including the mounting portion.
7 are formed. The hinge cover 47 protrudes from the back surface 3a and is wider than the rotation support member 42. At a substantially central portion of the hinge cover 47, a concave portion 48 having a width capable of accommodating the rotation support member 42 is formed. In the concave portion 48, a tapered portion 49 that is inclined from the upper end to the lower end of the touch panel display 3 is formed.

As shown in FIG. 5, the lower end of the back surface 3a of the touch panel display 3, which may come into contact with the projections 7 and 8 provided on the surface of the operation panel 4, has a sliding surface. The member 50 is stuck.

Further, a stopper 51 that comes into contact with the hinge cover 45 when the rotation supporting member 42 is rotated to the rear side of the main body 2 is provided on the back side of the lower end portion of the rotation supporting member 42.

The operation of the tilt mechanism of the touch panel display 3 in the facsimile machine 1 having the above configuration will be described.

As shown in FIG. 7, when the rotation supporting member 42 is tilted to the rear side of the main body 2 around the lower hinge 43, the stopper 51 contacts the hinge cover 45 and the rotation supporting member 42 is further moved. Prevent it from falling down. Next, the touch panel display 3 is rotated to the front side of the main body 2 about the upper hinge 46. Touch panel display 3
Is in contact with a dent 41 a formed in front of the display support 41. As a result, the touch panel display 3 is fixed in the most upright posture. In this state, the operation panel 4 can be freely opened and closed as shown in FIG. Further, even when the operation panel 4 is opened, the screen 3a is not hidden from the front side of the main body 2, so that the screen 3a can be viewed when the recording paper is replaced.

Next, as shown in FIG. 9, the lower end of the touch panel display 3 is pulled out toward the user, and the touch panel display 3 is rotated around the upper hinge 46 toward the rear side of the main body 2 and the rotation supporting member 42 is moved. Flip it toward the front. Then, the lower end of the touch panel display 3 is connected to the projections 7 and 8 provided on the surface of the operation panel 4.
Abut on the upper end. As a result, the touch panel display 3 is fixed in a posture in which the screen 3a is directed slightly upward from the upright posture shown in FIG.

Further, when the lower end of the touch panel display 3 is pulled out while sliding on the uppermost vertices of the projections 7 and 8, the touch panel display 3 is further rotated around the upper hinge 46 toward the rear side of the main body 2 and rotated. The dynamic support member 42 falls down further toward the front side.

Here, the touch panel display 3
Although it comes into sliding contact with the projections 7 and 8, it does not come into contact with the dial key 5 and the cursor key 6 located at a position lower than the projections 7 and 8. Thus, it is possible to prevent the dial key 5 and the cursor key 6 from being damaged by opening and closing the touch panel display 3.

Since the sliding member is attached to the lower end of the touch panel display 3, the touch panel display 3 can be moved smoothly.

When the lower end portion is further pulled out, the rotation supporting member 42 comes into contact with the tapered portion 49 of the hinge cover 47, and the rotation of the touch panel display 3 around the upper hinge 3 toward the rear side of the main body 2 is prevented. You. In addition, the rotation support member 42 abuts on the upper surface of the display support table 41, and is prevented from falling forward. As a result,
As shown in FIG. 10, the touch panel display 3
The screen is fixed with the screen 3a facing upward most. At this time, the touch panel display 3 covers the operation panel 4 almost completely. The angle of inclination of the tapered portion 49 is such that the angle of the screen 3a of the touch panel display 3 is substantially the same as the angle of inclination of the operation panel 4 when the rotation support member 42 comes into contact, as shown in FIG. It is set to be.

When the operation panel 4 is covered by the touch panel display 3 with the screen 3a shown in FIG. 10 facing upward, soft keys having the same arrangement as the dial keys 5 and the cursor keys 6 are displayed on the screen 3a. .

As shown in FIG. 11, a soft keyboard 110 displayed on the screen of the touch panel display 3
Are displayed in the same arrangement as the dial keys 5 and the cursor keys 6 on the operation panel 4. Further, it is desirable that the size of the keys be about the same so that the operation can be performed with the same feeling as the operation panel 4.

As described above, since the touch panel display 3 rotates about the upper hinge 46, the angle of the screen 3a of the touch panel display 3 can be freely changed. Further, since the rotation support member 42 rotates about the lower hinge 43, the rotation support member 42
Can be tilted in the front-rear direction of the apparatus main body. Thereby, the touch panel display 3 can be moved while maintaining or adjusting the angle of the screen 3a so that the screen 3a is always easy to see and operate. As a result, when only the touch panel display 3 is used as shown in FIG. 10 or when hard keys are used together as shown in FIG.
Further, as shown in FIG. 7, when the operation panel 4 is opened to change the recording paper, it is possible to take a posture suitable for each situation. Further, when the installation space of the facsimile machine 1 is limited, the touch panel display 3 can be made to take an attitude according to the installation space. As a result, it is possible to use it according to the customer's preference.

In particular, as shown in FIG. 10, when the touch panel display 3 is rotated so that the screen 3a faces upward, and the rotation support member 42 is tilted to the front side of the main body 2, the touch panel display 3 is used. The operation panel 4 is arranged at a position to be covered. This allows, for example,
As shown in FIGS. 7 and 9, when there is no room for erecting the touch panel display 3 and there is no depth, as shown in FIG.
And the touch panel display 3 is overlaid on the operation panel 4 to reduce the installation space. As a result, it is possible to meet various customer needs.

Further, as shown in FIG. 10, when the touch panel display 3 is overlaid on the operation panel 4, the angle of the operation panel 4 and the touch panel display 3 become substantially the same. The operation feeling can be made closer to the dial key 5 and the cursor key 6. As a result, the operability of the facsimile apparatus can be further improved.

As shown in FIG. 11, soft keys 110 are displayed on the screen 3a of the touch panel display 3 in the same arrangement as the dial keys 5 and the cursor keys 6, so that, as shown in FIG. When covered with the display 3, the soft keys 110
Can be used in the same manner as the dial key 5 and the cursor key 6. As a result, the operability of the facsimile machine 1 can be improved.

According to the facsimile apparatus 1 according to the above-described embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the operation panel 4 is made openable and closable, and the touch panel display 3 is moved to the rearmost side when the recording paper is replaced. Since the screen 3a is fixed in an upright posture, the contents of the screen 3a can be viewed even when the operation panel 4 is opened and the recording paper is exchanged, as shown in FIG. Can be prevented from increasing the installation area.

[0055]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The touch panel display is fixed in the retracted position and the contents of the screen can be viewed even when the cover is opened, so that the contents displayed on the screen can be understood even when the recording paper is replaced, improving operability. it can.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which an operation panel is opened in the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a hardware block diagram of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a side sectional view showing a tilt mechanism of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing the back side of the touch panel display of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing a state in which the touch panel display of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment is upright;

FIG. 8 is a side view showing a state where an operation panel of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment is opened.

FIG. 9 is a side view showing a state in which the touch panel display of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment is slightly tilted;

FIG. 10 is a side view showing a state in which the touch panel display of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment is folded down on the operation panel;

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing soft keys displayed on a touch panel display of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Facsimile apparatus 3 Touch panel display 4 Operation panel 5 Dial key 6 Cursor key 7, 8 Projection part 42 Rotation support member 43 Lower hinge 45 Hinge cover 46 Upper hinge 47 Hinge cover 49 Tapered surface 50 Sliding member 51 Stopper

Claims (2)

[Claims] A touch panel display unit that displays a screen and receives an input to the screen; a mounting member that attaches the touch panel display unit to an apparatus body so that an angle and a position of the screen can be freely changed;
A recording unit that performs recording on recording paper, a recording paper storage unit that stores the recording paper provided in the apparatus main body, and a cover unit that is openably and closably attached to the apparatus main body and closes the recording paper storage unit, A communication position device comprising: a retraction position fixing unit that fixes the touch panel display unit to a retraction position where the contents of the screen can be viewed when the cover unit is opened. 2. The communication terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the cover unit includes hard keys for receiving an input to the screen of the touch panel display unit.