Patent ID: 8184103

Claim:
A mobile terminal, comprising: a main body; a touch screen disposed at a surface of the main body; a fixed keypad disposed adjacent to the touch screen at the surface of the main body; and a moving keypad to move between a first position at which the touch screen is completely exposed to the outside and a second position at which the fixed keypad is completely exposed to the outside, wherein the moving keypad comprises at least one key disposed at a surface thereof and exposed to the outside, and at least one protrusion disposed at a surface opposite to the surface at which the at least one key is disposed, wherein each protrusion corresponds to each key comprising the moving keypad, wherein the moving keypad transmits signals to a circuit of the mobile terminal through the protrusion, and wherein the main body further comprises a position detector to detect a position of the moving keypad and a controller to recognize a signal of the fixed keypad generated by pressing a key of the moving keypad as a signal of the moving keypad when the moving keypad is positioned at the first position and a signal of the touch screen generated by pressing the key of the moving keypad as a signal of the moving keypad when the moving keypad is positioned at the second position.