Palm-sized computer with a stylus holding arrangem

专利名称：Palm-sized computer with a stylus holding

arrangement

发明人：Kwang-Youb Lee,Jung-Woo Cha申请号：US09281796申请日：19990331公开号：US06392639B1公开日：20020521

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摘要：An arrangement for safely keeping a stylus as the input unit in the housing of apalm-sized computer contains a guide opening formed in one side of the housing, astylus holding channel extending from the guide opening towards the inside of the

housing for holding the stylus inserted through the guide opening, the cross section ofthe stylus holding channel being designed to snugly receive the stylus, at least a grooveformed on the circumference of the stylus, a resilient strip formed integrally with theinside of the stylus holding channel by cutting the wall of the stylus holding channel, theresilient strip elongated in the direction of the stylus holding channel and having a freeend, and a hook projected from the free end of the resilient strip towards the inside ofthe stylus holding channel, wherein the hook may engage the groove to safely keep thestylus inserted into the stylus holding channel. Preferably, the stylus has more than onegrooves so as to be inserted into the stylus holding channel step by step. The

arrangement further includes a flange radially formed on the rear end of the stylus, anda slot formed in one side of the housing adjacent to the guide opening as to engage andexpose the flange of the stylus completely inserted into the stylus holding channel,whereby the flange may be manually pressed upon retracting the stylus out of the stylusholding channel. The hook contains a radius of curvature the same as that of a groove ofa stylus allowing for surfaces, instead of points, to meet when the hook locks into agroove of a stylus.

申请人：SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, CO., LTD.

代理人：Robert E. Bushnell, Esq.

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