JP2001211241A - Flip-type mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flip-type mobile phone number of required loudspeaker and microphones of which can be decreased. SOLUTION: In the flip-type mobile phone, an upper end of a body case 1 and a lower end of a cover case 2 are connected by a hinge 3, a key operation face is provided to an inner face of the main body case 1 and an image display face is provided to the inner face of the cover case 2. Furthermore, a transmission section 6 is provided to the lower end of the body case 1, in a state where the transmission section 6 is not completely covered, even when the body case 2 is closed. On the other hand, a main reception section exposed to the case inner face is provided to the upper end of the cover case 2, when the cover 2 is open, and an auxiliary reception section 7 exposed to a case rear face is provided to the lower end of the cover case 2. The auxiliary reception section 7 has a function of generating incoming call tone at the arrival of an incoming call, and a user can make a speech with the transmission section 6 and the auxiliary reception section 7, with the cover case 2 in the closed state.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a foldable portable telephone in which a lid case is connected to a main body case so as to be openable and closable.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a foldable portable telephone, a main body case and a lid body case are folded down when carrying the portable telephone, and a key operation surface provided on an inner surface of the main body case is opened and closed during transmission and reception by opening both cases. While exposing the transmitting section, the image display surface and the receiving section provided on the inner surface of the lid case can be exposed to enable a call. Such a foldable mobile phone is not only convenient to carry, but also when being carried in a bag or the like, since the operation keys are covered by a lid case, the keys are pressed against the intention. There is no fear and it is safe.

[0003] However, in the above-mentioned foldable portable telephone, when an incoming call is received, a call cannot be made unless the lid case is opened to expose the receiver or the transmitter, which is inconvenient. . Therefore, a foldable mobile phone has been proposed in which a receiving unit and a transmitting unit are provided on the back of the lid case so that a call can be made even when the lid case is closed (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-187098 [H04M1]). / 02]).

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned foldable portable telephone, a transmitting section is provided on both the inner surface of the main body case and the rear surface of the lid case, and both the inner surface and the rear surface of the lid case are provided. It is necessary to provide a receiver and further provide a speaker (ringer) for notifying an incoming call when receiving an incoming call, which increases the number of speakers and microphones, which is a great factor in reducing the size and weight of a mobile phone. Had been a problem.

[0005] It is therefore an object of the present invention to reduce the number of speakers and microphones required in a foldable portable telephone capable of making a call while the main body case and the lid case are folded.

[0006]

In the foldable portable telephone according to the present invention, the upper end of the main body case (1) and the lower end of the lid case (2) are connected to each other via a hinge mechanism (3). The key operation surface is provided on the inner surface of the main body case (1), and the image display surface is provided on the inner surface of the lid case (2). A lid case is provided at the lower end of the main body case (1).
A transmitting section (6), at least a part of which is exposed when (2) is closed, is provided. Meanwhile, the lid case (2)
A main receiver (5) exposed on the inner surface of the lid case (2) in a state where the lid case (2) is opened is provided at an upper end of the lid case (2), and a lower end of the lid case (2) is provided. Is provided with an auxiliary receiving section (7) exposed on the back of the lid case (2). The auxiliary receiver (7) is constituted by an auxiliary speaker (71) having a function of generating a ring tone upon receiving an incoming call, and a cover case.
With (2) closed, a call can be made by the transmitting unit (6) and the auxiliary receiving unit (7).

In the foldable portable telephone of the present invention, at the time of an incoming call, the auxiliary receiver (7) on the back of the lid case (2).
The auxiliary speaker (71) constituting the function as a ringer, and notifies an incoming call. Then, when the lid case (2) is opened from the main body case (1), the transmitting section on the inner surface of the main body case (1)
(6) is exposed and performs the function of the microphone,
The main receiver (5) on the inner surface of the lid case (2) is exposed to perform the function of a speaker. Here, the main receiving unit (5) corresponds to the position of the ear and the transmitting unit (6) corresponds to the position of the mouth. A call using the unit (6) becomes possible. On the other hand, when the off-hook operation is performed at the time of an incoming call with the lid case (2) folded on the main body case (1), the auxiliary speaker (7) constituting the auxiliary receiver (7) on the back of the lid case (2) is formed. 71) is switched to the function as the receiving speaker. Also, lid case (2)
Even if is closed, the transmission section (6) is not completely closed, and the function of the microphone is maintained. Here, the auxiliary receiver (7)
Corresponds to the position of the ear and the transmitting section (6) corresponds to the position of the mouth, so that a telephone call using the auxiliary receiving section (7) and the transmitting section (6) becomes possible.

In a specific configuration, an off-hook key (11) and an on-hook key which can be operated with the lid case (2) open and closed are provided on both sides or one side of the main body case (1). (12) is deployed. Therefore, a call can be made by operating the off-hook key (11) with the lid case (2) closed, and the call is ended by operating the on-hook key (12) with the lid case (2) closed. You can do it.

More specifically, each of the off-hook key (11) and the on-hook key (12) has
Exposed on the inner surface of (1) and part of the surface is the main body case
The push-down operation is possible with the cover case (2) being opened while being exposed to the side surface of (1), and the push-down operation is also possible with the cover case (2) closed. Therefore, it is possible to press the lid case (2) with the cover case (2) closed and open without making the off-hook key (11) and the on-hook key (12) special.

In a specific configuration, the lid case (2)
An auxiliary display (22) for displaying incoming information such as a telephone number when an incoming call is received is provided on the back of the device. This allows the user to keep the lid case (2) closed when receiving a call,
You can know the phone number of the other party.

[0011]

According to the foldable portable telephone according to the present invention, as described above, in both the closed state and the open state of the cover case, the transmitting section performs the function of the microphone and the auxiliary receiving section. Since the unit performs the function of a ringer when receiving an incoming call and the function of a receiving speaker when the lid case is closed, the number of necessary speakers and microphones can be reduced as compared with the conventional case.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to FIGS. The foldable mobile phone according to the present invention includes a flat main body case (1) and a lid case (2) as shown in the figure, and the upper end of the main body case (1) and the lower end of the lid case (2) are formed. Opening and closing operation is performed between a state where the lid case (2) is opened as shown in FIG. 1 and a state where the lid case (2) is closed as shown in FIG. It is possible. Also, body case
On the back of (1), a telescopic antenna (4) is provided.

On the inner surface of the main body case (1), an off-hook key (11), an on-hook key (12), a numeric keypad (13), an up /
While multiple keys such as down key (14) are deployed,
A microphone (61) is built in the lower end of the main body case (1), and constitutes a transmitting section (6) exposed on the inner surface of the main body case (1). An opening / closing detection switch (8) for detecting opening / closing of the lid case (2) is provided on the inner surface of the main body case (1).
Has been deployed.

The cover case (2) is in a closed state so as to expose a part of the transmitting section (6) to the outside even when the cover case (2) is closed as shown in FIG. 2 (b). The length in the body case
It is formed to be slightly shorter than (1). Therefore, the transmitting section (6) can input sound to the microphone (61) with the lid case (2) opened as shown in FIG. 1, and the lid case (2) as shown in FIG. It is possible to input a sound to the microphone (61) even when is closed.

The off-hook key (11), on-hook key (12) and up / down key (14) shown in FIG. 1 are all exposed on the inner surface of the main body case (1). At the same time, even when the lid case (2) is closed, a part of the key surface is exposed from the side of the main body case (1).
It is installed at the side end of the main body case (1). Therefore, each key can be pressed while the lid case (2) is open as shown in FIG. 1 and a finger is held on the end of the key even when the lid case (2) is closed as shown in FIG. A push operation can be performed by multiplying.

On the other hand, a main display (21) is provided on the inner surface of the lid case (2), and a main speaker (51) is built in the upper end of the lid case (2). Case (2)
The main receiving section (5) exposed on the inner surface of the main receiver is constituted. still,
The main display (21) displays the date and time, various messages, the telephone number and name of the other party at the time of the incoming call, the telephone number of the other party at the time of the outgoing call, and the like, as in the conventional case.

The lower end of the lid case (2) is
As shown in (b), an auxiliary speaker (71) is built in and a lid case
An auxiliary receiver (7) exposed on the back of (2) is provided.
The auxiliary speaker (71) has both a function as a ringer for generating a ring tone upon receiving a call and a function as a receiving speaker during a call (see, for example, WO98 / 42454), and functions as a ringer upon receiving a call. Then, the function as the receiving speaker is automatically switched by the off-hook operation thereafter. An auxiliary display (22) is provided on the back of the lid case (2) in the vicinity of the auxiliary receiver (7), so that the telephone number of the other party can be displayed at the time of an incoming call. . Further, on the back of the lid case (2), there is provided an incoming call notification LED (23) which blinks upon receiving an incoming call.

In the above-mentioned foldable portable telephone, the open / close state of the lid case (2) is detected by the open / close detection switch (8), and when the lid case (2) is closed according to the detection result. , Auxiliary speaker (71) and microphone (6
When 1) is in an operable state and the lid case (2) is open, the main speaker (51) and the microphone (61) are in an operable state.

When there is an incoming call with the lid case (2) closed, the incoming call notification LED (23) starts blinking,
The auxiliary speaker (71) functions as a ringer and notifies an incoming call. The auxiliary display (22) displays the telephone number of the other party. Then, as shown in FIG.
When (2) is opened, this is detected by the open / close detection switch (8), and the main speaker (51) and the microphone (61) become operable. The auxiliary speaker (71) is turned off. Here, the line is opened by pressing the off-hook key (11), and a telephone call using the main receiver (5) and the transmitter (6) becomes possible. At this time, the up / down key (14) functions as a volume control key. When the on-hook key (12) is depressed after the call, the line is disconnected.

FIG. 2A and FIG. 2B when there is an incoming call.
When a call is to be made with the lid case (2) closed as in the above, with the lid case (2) closed, the off-hook key (11) exposed on the side of the main body case (1) is used. Press. As a result, the auxiliary speaker (71) switches to a function as a receiving speaker, and the transmitting unit (6) and the auxiliary receiving unit (7)
Can be used. After the call, cover case
If the on-hook key (12) is pressed with (2) closed, the line is disconnected.

When the lid case (2) is closed, the up / down key (14) functions to scroll the registered telephone number displayed on the auxiliary display (22), and the telephone number of the other party is displayed. When the off-hook key (11) is pressed in the displayed state, a call is made to the telephone number. As a result, a telephone call using the transmitting section (6) and the auxiliary receiving section (7) becomes possible.

According to the foldable portable telephone according to the present invention, as described above, the microphone (6) functions as a microphone in both the closed state and the open state of the lid case (2). At the same time, the auxiliary receiver (7) exhibits the function of the ringer when receiving a call and the function of the receiving speaker when the lid case (2) is closed, so that only one microphone and two speakers need to be provided. In addition, the number of microphones and speakers is reduced one by one as compared with the related art, and the size and weight of the mobile phone can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a foldable mobile phone according to the present invention.
It is a front view in the state where the lid body case was opened.

FIG. 2 shows a foldable mobile phone according to the present invention.
It is the side view (a) and the front view (b) in the state where the lid body case was closed.

[Explanation of symbols]

 (1) Main unit case (11) Off-hook key (12) On-hook key (14) Up / down key (2) Lid case (21) Main display (22) Auxiliary display (23) Receive LED (3) Hinge mechanism (5 ) Main receiver (51) Main speaker (6) Transmitter (61) Microphone (7) Auxiliary receiver (71) Auxiliary speaker

Claims (4)

[Claims] A cover case (2) is openably and closably connected to the body case (1), a key operation surface is provided on an inner surface of the body case (1), and an image is displayed on an inner surface of the cover case (2). In a foldable mobile phone provided with a surface, an upper end of a main body case (1) and a lower end of a lid case (2) are connected to each other via a hinge mechanism (3), and a lower end of the main body case (1) is provided. The transmitter is at least partially exposed with the lid case (2) closed.
While (6) is deployed, the upper end of the lid case (2)
A main earpiece (5) that is exposed on the inner surface of the lid case (2) with the lid case (2) opened is provided, and a lid case is provided at a lower end of the lid case (2). An auxiliary receiver (7) exposed on the back of (2) is provided, and the auxiliary receiver (7)
It consists of an auxiliary speaker (71) having a function of generating a ring tone when an incoming call is received, and a telephone call can be made by the transmitting unit (6) and the auxiliary receiving unit (7) with the lid case (2) closed. A foldable mobile phone, comprising: 2. An off-hook key (11) and an on-hook key (12) that can be operated with the lid case (2) open and closed, on both sides or one side of the main body case (1).
The foldable mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein a mobile phone is provided. 3. An off-hook key (11) and an on-hook key
In (12), the entire surface is exposed on the inner surface of the body case (1), and a part of the surface is exposed on the side surface of the body case (1). 3. The foldable mobile phone according to claim 2, wherein the foldable mobile phone is operable and can be pressed even when the lid case (2) is closed. 4. The foldable mobile phone according to claim 1, further comprising an auxiliary display (22) for displaying incoming information when an incoming call is received, on a back surface of the lid case (2). .