Patent ID: 6950686

Claim:
An opening/closing device of a mobile terminal, comprising: a housing having a polygonal section including a pair of parallel planar guide portions of the inner wall thereof and at least one planar portion on the outer wall thereof to be dispose in a hinge of cover constituting the mobile terminal; elastic means inserted into the housing; a rotary cam shaft provided at one end with an insertion shaft which is inserted into contact with said elastic means and which has a pair of planar sidewalls which slidably contact the pair of planar guide portions of said housing, and at the other end with opposed cam faces, each of said cam faces being unintermittently constituted of an escarpment a, a top b and an inclination c; a shaft penetrating said rotary cam shaft, said elastic means and said housing in sequence, said shaft being provided at one end with a stepped recess into which a snap ring is fastened to prevent said shaft from being released from said housing, and at the other end with a hinge piece fixedly inserted into a hinge of a body of the mobile terminal; and a follower protrusion projected at the outer periphery of said shaft as integral and spaced with/from said hinge piece, and being moved with the end contacting to said cam faces of the rotary cam shaft.