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Portable telephone set

Assignee: NEC Corp
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Filing: 1993-12-20
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Granted: 1995-04-04
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Expires: 2013-12-20
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Abstract

Abstract A rod antenna is contained to be slant in a housing case, such that a top of the rod antenna is positioned on the side of the housing case remote from a user head, and a bottom of the rod antenna is on the side of the housing case near the user head. The remote and near sides are opposite to each other. When the rod antenna is pulled up out of the housing case, the rod antenna top becomes more remote from the user head in accordance with the slantly contained mode.

Inventors

  • 👤 Yoshiharu Tamura

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-01 12:58
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04B; H04B1/00; H04B1/38; H04B1/3827; H04B1/3833; H01; H01Q; H01Q1/00; H01Q1/12; H01Q1/22; H01Q1/24; H01Q1/241; H01Q1/242; H01Q1/245

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim 163 words
A portable telephone set, comprising: a housing case for containing telephone communication units, said housing case having at least a speaker portion which is in contact with an ear of a user in operation, and being of a configuration having a first side plane on which said speaker portion is provided, and a second side plane opposite to said first side plane; and a rod antenna contained in said housing case and being pulled up to be extendable from a top plane of said housing case; wherein said rod antenna is contained to be slant in the housing case, such that a top of said rod antenna is positioned on an inside of said second side plane, and a bottom of said rod antenna is positioned on an inside of said first side plane, whereby said top of said rod antenna is more remote from a head side of said user, as said rod antenna is pulled up out of said housing case.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 163 words
A portable telephone set, comprising: a housing case for containing telephone communication units, said housing case having at least a speaker portion which is in contact with an ear of a user in operation, and being of a configuration having a first side plane on which said speaker portion is provided, and a second side plane opposite to said first side plane; and a rod antenna contained in said housing case and being pulled up to be extendable from a top plane of said housing case; wherein said rod antenna is contained to be slant in the housing case, such that a top of said rod antenna is positioned on an inside of said second side plane, and a bottom of said rod antenna is positioned on an inside of said first side plane, whereby said top of said rod antenna is more remote from a head side of said user, as said rod antenna is pulled up out of said housing case.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 20 words
A portable telephone set, according to claim 1, wherein: said rod antenna is of a multi-steps shrinkable and expandable type.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 66 words
A portable telephone set, according to claim 1, wherein: said housing case which is provided with said speaker portion thereon, and a second case which is provided with a microphone portion, said first case and said second case being connected by a connection pivot, so that said second case is rotated on said connection pivot to be immediately in front of a mouth of said user.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 60 words
A portable telephone set, according to claim 3, wherein: said speaker portion is convex on said first side plane, and said microphone portion is concave on said first side plane, so that said first and second cases are folded in a manner of said second case on said first case to be contacted with each other by said connection pivot.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 164 words
A portable telephone set, comprising: a housing case for containing telephone communication units, said housing case having at least a speaker portion which is in contact with an ear of a user in operation, and being of a configuration having a first side plane on which said speaker portion is provided, and a second side plane opposite to said first side plane; and a rod antenna contained in said housing case and being pulled up to be extendable from said second side plane of said housing case; wherein said rod antenna is contained to be slant in the housing case, such that a top of said rod antenna is positioned on an inside of said second side plane, and a bottom of said rod antenna is positioned on an inside of said first side plane, whereby said top of said rod antenna is more remote from a head side of said user, as said rod antenna is pulled up out of said housing case.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 164 words
A portable telephone set, comprising: a housing case for containing telephone communication units, said housing case having at least a speaker portion which is in contact with an ear of a user in operation, and being of a configuration having a first side plane on which said speaker portion is provided, and a second side plane opposite to said first side plane; and a rod antenna contained in said housing case and being pulled up to be extendable from said second side plane of said housing case; wherein said rod antenna is contained to be slant in the housing case, such that a top of said rod antenna is positioned on an inside of said second side plane, and a bottom of said rod antenna is positioned on an inside of said first side plane, whereby said top of said rod antenna is more remote from a head side of said user, as said rod antenna is pulled up out of said housing case.

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