Patent ID: 8155716

Claim:
A portable radio device comprising: a first enclosure; a first printed circuit board provided in the first enclosure; a second enclosure; an antenna element provided in the second enclosure, and used at a predetermined frequency; a second printed circuit board provided in the second enclosure, and feeding power to the antenna element; a feeding section for feeding power to the antenna element from the second circuit board; a third enclosure interposed between the first enclosure and the second enclosure; a first hinge section that rotatably joins the first enclosure to the third enclosure around a first shaft center; and a second hinge section that rotatably joins the second enclosure to the third enclosure around a second shaft center perpendicular to the first shaft center, wherein the antenna element is disposed along the second shaft center, at a longitudinal end of the second enclosure in a vicinity of the second hinge section, the power is fed to the antenna element from a lateral end of the second enclosure opposing to an end in a vicinity of the first shaft center, the first hinge section includes, a first retaining section that contains a conductive material electrically connected to the first printed circuit board, and is disposed in the first enclosure, a second retaining section that contains a conductive material, is disposed in the third enclosure and overlaps the antenna element when the second enclosure and the third enclosure are closed around the second shaft center, and a first hinge shaft that electrically connects the first retaining section to the second retaining section and contains a conductive material, and is disposed in an area between a substantial center of a plane along which the first enclosure and the third enclosure face to each other and an end of a long side of the plane, at least one of the first retaining section and the second retaining section being disposed along the second shaft center, and an electrical path length of the first hinge section which is a sum of an electrical path length of a portion, in the first retaining section, protruding from an end of the first circuit board, an electrical path length of the second retaining section, and an electrical path length of the first hinge shaft, corresponds to a value that is not a substantially natural number multiple of λ/8, λ indicating a wavelength that corresponds to the frequency at which the antenna element is used.