Patent ID: 7019964

Claim:
A portable electronic device comprising: a base module including a housing that has front and rear end portions and opposite first and second sides that extend between said front and rear end portions in a longitudinal direction, said base module further including a pair of pivots mounted on said rear end portion of said housing and disposed adjacent to said first and second sides of said housing, respectively, each of said pivots being rotatable relative to said housing; and an LCD module having opposite first and second sides, each of which is formed with an elongated guiding groove that has an end portion and that receives and that engages slidably a respective one of said pivots therein so as to permit co-rotation of said LCD module and said pivots relative to said base module when said end portions of said guiding grooves in said first and second sides of said LCD module engage respectively and slidably said pivots, and so as to permit sliding movement of said LCD module on said pivots in said longitudinal direction when said LCD module is disposed at a parallel position relative to said base module.