Patent ID: 8644026
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: H01R,H04M

Abstract:
1. A portable terminal, comprising: a lower body having a first accommodation space; an upper body disposed to overlap the lower body, and formed to be in an open configuration that exposes a part of an upper surface of the lower body, and a closed configuration that covers the part by a sliding motion, and the upper body having a second accommodation space; a slide module configured to guide the upper body when the upper body moves to the open configuration or to the closed configuration; a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) having one end accommodated in the first accommodation space and another end accommodated in the second accommodation space, and the FPCB is formed to bend as the upper body moves with respect to the lower body; an FPCB retention unit disposed in the second accommodation space of the upper body, and the FPCB retention unit has a first rolling unit connected to the upper body and a second rolling unit formed on the slide module, and the FPCB being roll-contacted to the first rolling unit and to the second rolling unit, and wherein the slide module has a first slide member formed on the upper body, the first slide member covers the lower body in the closed configuration, and the first slide member has a first opening through which the FPCB passes, and wherein the slide module has a second slide member formed on the lower body, the second slide member covers the upper body in the closed configuration, and the second slide member has a second opening through which the FPCB passes, and wherein a distance between the first rolling unit and the second rolling unit is changed in the open configuration or the closed configuration, and wherein when the portable terminal is in the open configuration, the first opening and the second opening face each other, and wherein when the portable terminal is in the closed configuration, the first opening is covered by the second slide module, the second opening is covered by the first slide module, and a part of the FPCB is disposed between the first slide member and the second slide member.