Patent ID: 6928297

Claim:
A portable telephone comprising a plurality of input buttons for inputting various indications; at least one light emitting element which emits a light, when any one of said a plurality of input buttons is pushed on; said light emitting located under said a plurality of input buttons any one of said plurality of buttons being a diffuser to diffuse said light emitted from said light emitting element; said diffuser including: an incidence portion which has a receiving plane positioned near said light emitting element and receiving said light emitted from said light emitting element; and a projecting portion which has a reflecting plane for reflecting said light received by said incidence portion to an upper side of said a plurality of input buttons; an illumination plane that transmits or reflects the light from the light emitting element: a first transmission light directed onto the center of the incidence portion and transmitted through the illumination plane; and a second transmission light reflected once on the illumination plane and thereafter transmitting through the illumination plane; and a progressing light which progresses within said buttons by reflection or diffusion and transmits through said illumination plane at the projecting portion.