JP2005244881A - Mobile telephone terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile telephone terminal which is capable of preventing a pen type input means from being lost and of improving communication environments. <P>SOLUTION: A terminal portion 7b of a pen type input means 7 is connected with a radio communication section 16 via a long wire 9, at least a part of the wire 9 is formed to transmit/receive radio waves, and a wire takeup mechanism 11 is incorporated for taking up the wire 9. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile phone terminal having an input display device having a touch sensor on a display panel and a pen type input means, and more particularly to a mobile phone terminal capable of storing and pulling out a pen type input means.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a mobile phone terminal that has a touch sensor on a display panel and can communicate and edit by operating the touch sensor has been used. Since the recent miniaturization of the mobile phone terminal makes it difficult to operate the touch sensor with a finger, there is a mobile phone terminal that operates the touch sensor using pen-type input means including an input pen.

  As an example of such a conventional cellular phone terminal, an antenna that transmits and receives radio waves, a wireless communication unit that is connected to the antenna and controls transmission and reception of radio waves, a microphone that inputs sound, and a received radio wave A speaker for converting into sound; a liquid crystal display panel (LCD); a touch sensor for touching and inputting; an internal storage unit; and a control unit for controlling the entire system. The input display device provided in is configured. The mobile phone terminal has pen-type input means for operating the input display device.

  The LCD is for displaying characters and figures, and the touch sensor is a transparent touch sensor that outputs coordinates of a position touched by a pen or a finger. Therefore, an input operation is performed by inputting a line or a character into the input display device using the pen-type input means.

  The internal storage unit stores various information for operating the mobile phone terminal, and has a dictionary storing data such as characters, symbols, lines, and figures. Furthermore, the internal storage unit has a function table that associates the display displayed on the input display device with the function corresponding to the display. This function table stores, for example, a coordinate group corresponding to a certain screen display and a telephone number corresponding to the screen display.

  Further, the control unit controls the mobile phone terminal. When executing a telephone function, when a call is instructed to a predetermined telephone number, the control unit controls the radio control unit to make a call. When a call operation is performed and an incoming call is received, the radio control unit is controlled to make a call possible state. In addition, when an input operation is performed on the touch sensor by a pen-type input unit or the like, an operation corresponding to the input operation is instructed. For example, a numeric keypad is displayed on the input display device, and a touch operation on the displayed key is sequentially touched with a pen-type input means or the like to input a desired telephone number, thereby performing a calling operation in the control unit. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

  In recent years, mobile phone terminals having an antenna built in a housing are often used.

  As an example of a mobile phone terminal incorporating such an antenna, it is composed of an upper casing and a lower casing that are foldably joined via a hinge, and is formed on the inner main surface of the upper casing. Is provided with a liquid crystal display device, and a keyboard surface is disposed on the inner main surface of the lower housing.

  Further, in the vicinity of the hinge portion of the lower housing, a protruding portion constituting an antenna area protruding obliquely upward on the outside is formed, and an antenna device is built in the protruding portion (for example, Patent Documents). 2).

JP 09-064959 A JP 2004-007310 A

  However, in recent years, when an input display device having a touch sensor on a display panel is configured due to miniaturization and multifunctionalization of mobile phone terminals, it becomes difficult to operate with a finger. When a pen type input means such as an input pen is used, there is a problem that the pen type input means is easily lost.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone terminal that can prevent the pen-type input means from being lost and can improve the communication environment.

  In order to achieve the above-described object, the cellular phone terminal according to the present invention is characterized by an input display device having a touch sensor on a display panel, a pen-type input means for operating the input display device, a wireless communication unit, The pen-type input means is connected to the wireless communication unit through a long wire, and at least a part of the wire is formed so as to be able to transmit and receive radio waves, and is wound by winding the wire. The removal mechanism is built-in.

  In addition, another feature of the cellular phone terminal according to the present invention is that it has another built-in antenna, and the other antenna is connected to the wireless communication unit.

  According to the mobile phone terminal of the present invention, the input display device can be easily operated by the pen-type input unit, and the wire connected to the pen-type input unit functions as an antenna. Can be secured.

  In addition, since the pen-type input means is connected to a wire and a wire take-up mechanism for winding the wire is built in, the pen-type input means is stored in the mobile phone terminal when the pen-type input means is not used. It is possible to prevent the pen-type input means from being lost.

  Furthermore, the communication environment of the mobile phone terminal can be improved by the long wire having the antenna function and the built-in antenna.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of a mobile phone terminal according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  1 is a partially broken front view showing an embodiment of a mobile phone terminal of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the mobile phone terminal of FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are diagrams of the mobile phone terminal of this embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a display of an input display apparatus.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile phone terminal 1 of the present embodiment has a substantially rectangular housing 2, and a front panel in the housing 2 includes a touch sensor on a display panel made of an LCD. An input display device 3, a plurality of input keys 4, a voice input microphone 5, and a voice output speaker 6 are arranged.

  Further, an opening (not shown) is formed on the upper surface of the housing 2 shown in FIG. 1, and is stored so that one end of a pen-type input means 7 to be described later protrudes from the opening. Yes.

  The pen-type input means 7 is made of a conductive material, and at one end thereof, a tapered pen tip 7a for performing input and editing operations in the input display device 3 is formed. A wire 9 made of a conductive material and having an antenna function capable of transmitting and receiving radio waves is connected to the end 7b, and the end on which the pen tip 7a is formed protrudes from the upper surface of the housing 2. ing.

  Further, a conductive plate-like antenna 8 is built in the upper end of the housing 2, and a wire winding mechanism 11 that winds the antenna 8 and the wire 9 is connected by a conductive wiring 10. ing.

  The wire winding mechanism 11 is entirely made of a conductive material, and a mounting shaft 13 is provided in a casing 12 that is formed at a lower end portion in the housing 2 and accommodates the wire 9 in a plane. A pulley 14 is rotatably mounted on the mounting shaft 13, and the wire 9 is wound around the outer periphery of the pulley 14. The wire 9 drawn from the pulley 14 is automatically rewound by a spring 15. It is configured to be.

  A spiral spring, a torsion coil spring or the like is used as the spring 15, one end is attached to the pulley 14, the other end is attached to the attachment shaft 13, and when the wire 9 is pulled out, the spring 15 is When the wire 9 is compressed and deformed and the fixing of the wire 9 is released, the wire 9 is automatically rewound by the restoring force of the spring 15.

  The base of the wire 9 is attached to the pulley 14 and connected to the end 7b of the pen-type input means 7. The rotation of the pulley 14 allows the pen-type input means 7 to be pulled out and stored. It has become.

  The wiring 10 is attached to the outer surface of the casing 12 of the wire winding mechanism 11, and the wire 9 and the wire winding mechanism 11 constitute one antenna device.

  In the housing 2, as shown in FIG. 2, a radio communication unit 16 for performing communication such as telephone and mail, a control unit 17 for performing various controls of the input display device 3 and the mobile phone terminal 1, and And an information storage unit 18 for storing each control and each information in the mobile phone terminal 1.

  The control unit 17 has a function table that associates each control stored in the information storage unit 18 with the display of the input display device 3 and the function of each input key 4.

  Next, the operation of the cellular phone terminal 1 of the present embodiment having such a configuration will be described.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the input display device 3 on standby in the cellular phone terminal 1 of the present embodiment uses “phone book search”, “dial key display”, “mail”, and “menu”. Functions with high frequency are displayed, and the functions of “call” and “end call” are assigned to each input key 4.

  Here, when a call is made using the pen-type input unit 7, first, the pen-type input unit 7 housed in the housing 2 is pulled out and the “dial key display” displayed on the input display device 3 is pressed. To do.

  When “dial key display” is pressed on the input display device 3, the controller 17 causes the input display device 3 to display numbers “0” to “9”, “*”, for example, as shown in FIG. 4. , “#”, “Dial”, “Cancel” dial keys are displayed, and when these dial keys are pressed by the pen-type input means 7, the dial signal is modulated by the control device 17, and the radio communication unit 16 Further, a dial signal is transmitted through the antenna 8, the wire 9, and the wire winding mechanism 11, so that a call can be performed.

  When the input or editing operation by the pen-type input unit 7 is completed, the drawn-out pen-type input unit 7 is taken up by the wire take-up mechanism 11 together with the wire 9 and stored in the housing 2.

  Further, when an incoming call is received during standby, pressing the input keys 4 makes it possible to control the call or the end of the call.

  As described above, according to the cellular phone terminal 1 of the present invention, the input operation of the input display device 3 can be easily performed by the pen-type input unit 7, and the pen-type input unit 7 is connected to the wire 9, Since it is connected to the wireless communication unit 16 via the wire winding mechanism 11, it is possible to prevent the pen-type input unit 7 from being lost.

  Furthermore, since the wire 9 and the wire winding mechanism 11 are made of a conductive material and connected to the antenna 8, the communication environment of the mobile phone terminal 1 can be improved.

  Further, since the input display device 3 can be finely operated by the pen-type input means 7, the mobile phone terminal 1 can be downsized.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to embodiment mentioned above, A various change is possible as needed. For example, in the cellular phone terminal 1 of the present embodiment, the wire winding mechanism 11 and the built-in antenna 8 are connected by a normal wiring 10 having no antenna function, but are connected by a wire having an antenna function. It is good.

  In addition, for example, it is possible to incorporate a CCD camera in the mobile phone terminal 1 of the present embodiment. In this case, for example, a lens of the CCD camera is disposed on the back side of the housing 2 and each input key 4 is provided. In addition, by providing input keys for camera activation and shooting, it is possible to take an image while confirming an image captured by the camera with the input display device 3. Editing is also possible.

The partially broken front view which shows embodiment of the mobile telephone terminal of this invention The block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile telephone terminal of FIG. Explanatory drawing which shows the example of a display of the input display apparatus of the mobile telephone terminal of this embodiment Explanatory drawing which shows the example of a display of the input display apparatus of the mobile telephone terminal of this embodiment

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cellular phone terminal 2 Housing | casing 3 Input display apparatus 4 Input key 5 Microphone 6 Speaker 7 Pen type input means 8 Antenna 9 Wire 10 Wiring 11 Wire winding mechanism 12 Casing 13 Mounting shaft 14 Pulley 15 Spring 16 Wireless communication part 17 Control part 18 Information storage

Claims (2)

In a mobile phone terminal having an input display device having a touch sensor on a display panel, pen-type input means for operating the input display device, and a wireless communication unit,
The pen-type input unit is connected to the wireless communication unit via a long wire, and at least a part of the wire is formed so as to be able to transmit and receive radio waves, and has a built-in wire winding mechanism for winding the wire. A mobile phone terminal characterized by that.   2. The mobile phone terminal according to claim 1, further comprising another antenna built therein, wherein the other antenna is connected to the wireless communication unit.