Patent ID: 7564215

Claim:
A portable electronic device comprising: a main body defining a locking hole therein; and an auxiliary body comprising a latch therein, the latch including: a button; a slider including a locking portion retractably inserted into the locking hole, the slider being slidably engaged with the button in a manner that when the button is pressed along a first direction, the slider is pushed by the button to slide along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, thereby retracting the locking portion from the locking hole; and a spring member positioned between the button and a portion of the auxiliary body for elastically loading the button in a third direction opposite to the first direction; wherein the button includes a pair of lug portions, each of the lug portions defines a slot therein oriented in an oblique direction relative to the first direction, and the slider forms a pair of pins slidably engaged in the slots.