Patent ID: 7502637

Claim:
A mobile terminal comprising: a first antenna as an omnidirectional antenna; a second antenna as directional antenna; a switching unit for switching over the antenna for receiving; a printed circuit board mounted with the first antenna and the second antenna; a first body holding the printed circuit board; and a second body rotatably secured to the first body, wherein the first antenna is provided in a vicinity of a front edge portion on a side opposite to a securing side of the first body on the printed circuit board so as to keep the first antenna remote from a human body by extending the first body away from the securing side and away from the human body when the first body and the second body are unfolded and the second body is held in a hand of the human, and the second antenna is provided on a flip side of the side of the printed circuit board facing the second body when the first body and the second body are folded together so as to set a directional antenna pattern to face away from the human body when the mobile terminal is kept next to the human body in a folded state in which a flip side surface of the second body facing the first body also faces the human body.