Patent ID: 8134509

Claim:
An electronic device comprising: a housing that has a rectangular plate section and a sidewall section provided upright on the plate section, and that houses electronic components therein, the sidewall section being provided with a control opening for slide control member provision, and an antenna housing groove extending in a longitudinal direction of the sidewall section; a protrusion that is provided upright at a point adjacent to one end of the antenna housing groove in the housing, the protrusion extending in a width direction of the antenna housing groove; a plate piece-like antenna unit that has a length to be completely housed in the antenna housing groove and including a radio communication antenna, the antenna unit having, at one end, an insertion hole drilled through the antenna unit in a thickness direction thereof to allow the protrusion to be inserted therein, being housed in the antenna housing groove with the protrusion inserted in the insertion hole, and protruding from the housing by being rotated about the protrusion serving as a rotation shaft; a control member that is placed to extend across inside and outside of the housing through the control opening, and that has, at the outside of the housing, a control piece to be slid; and a lever member that is placed in the housing, and that has a rotation shaft, an engaging section receiving movement of the control member, at one end, and a working section working on the antenna unit, at the other end, the lever member rotating about the rotation shaft in response to slide of the control piece, and thereby pushing out the antenna unit from the housing by using the working section.