JP2505165Y2 - Telephone additional device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial application] The present invention provides a handset, a telephone circuit,
The present invention relates to a telephone addition device that adds a function to a basic telephone composed only of a dial circuit and a ringer circuit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Due to the liberalization of the telecommunications business, the opening of communication terminal equipment accompanying it, and the remarkable progress of semiconductor technology, in recent years, telephones have rapidly become electronic from the old electromagnetic type. Along with this, even with so-called single phones, music on hold function, speed dial function, redial function, answering machine function, speaker reception function, hands-free call function, ring volume / sound quality switching function, reception volume switching function, etc. In addition to the basic functions of the original telephone,
Many multifunctional telephones with various additional functions have been put to practical use.

These multi-function telephones are more effectively used in offices where telephones are frequently used, and various functions as described above are now recognized as ordinary functions of telephones in ordinary households. As a result, individual telephones having these various functions have become widespread.

Such a multi-function telephone is relatively expensive because it has various functions, and in general households mainly for the elderly, it is hardly possible to use all of these functions. In most cases, the dial function and the transmission / reception function, which are the basic functions of the original telephone, are not used at all.

In addition, even now, there are still many users who continue to rent telephones under the direct management system of the telephone before the liberalization of the telecommunications business.
For such users, the phone is a borrowed item, and if the user wants to add necessary additional functions, the phone itself cannot be improved. Therefore, the phone itself is changed to a multifunctional phone having many additional functions. I have no choice.

[0006]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Especially in a home where there are elderly people whose hearing is deteriorating, it is difficult for these elderly people to use a multifunctional telephone due to the presence of many buttons. In many cases, as a function that the telephone requests from the telephone, it is desired to make the listening volume loud and easy to hear.

In view of this, the present invention adds a minimum function of increasing the reception volume without modifying the existing telephone, so that the telephone can be used especially for a person with hearing impairment such as an elderly person. It is an object of the present invention to provide a low-cost telephone addition device that is convenient and can be used by the same operation as an existing telephone.

[0008]

The present invention provides a handset,
A device main body of a telephone composed of a calling circuit, a dial circuit, and a ringer circuit, in which a handset detached from a hook is placed, and a handset of the telephone that is hung on the hook of the telephone instead of the handset of the telephone And an additional handset of the same shape as the handset of the telephone.
When it is removed from the
Off-hook detector to activate the ringer circuit
Ringtone detector that detects a ringtone and the ringtone detector of the ringtone detector.
Depending on your knowledge, you will receive a high volume or visual
A receiver for receiving a voice signal generated from a receiver of the telephone by acoustic coupling, an amplifier for amplifying an output signal of the receiver, and a transmitter of the telephone. Means for transmitting a voice signal to the device by acoustic coupling, and the additional handset is the telephone
Alarm when not hooked properly on machine hook
An off-hook alarm device is provided, and the additional handset is provided with a handset connected to the amplification means and a handset connected to the transmission means.

[0009]

According to the present invention, when a telephone call is made, a voice signal generated from the handset of the telephone is amplified by the amplifying means and is emitted from the handset of the additional handset.

Further, the voice of the caller uttered to the transmitter of the additional transmitter / receiver is transmitted to the transmitter of the telephone by the transmitting means of the main body of the apparatus.

[0011]

1 is a circuit block diagram of a telephone addition device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, an existing telephone 1 represented by a thick line is composed of a handset 2, a telephone circuit 3, a dial circuit 4, a ringer circuit 5 and a hook switch 6, and is connected to a telephone exchange facility of a telephone station via a telephone line 7. Connected.

The telephone additional device 8 represented by the one-dot chain line is
The device main body 9, an additional handset 10 having the same shape as the telephone 1, and an optional incoming call display 11 are provided.

The apparatus main body 9 is opposed to the handset 2 of the existing telephone 1 and is a speaker 1 corresponding to the transmitting means of the present invention for transmitting voice to the transmitter 2t by acoustic coupling.
2, a pickup 13 corresponding to the receiving means of the present invention for receiving voice from the handset 2r by acoustic coupling, a receiving amplifier 14 corresponding to the amplifying means of the present invention for amplifying a voice signal received by the pickup 13, an additional handset 1
0, a transmitter amplifier 15 for amplifying a voice signal from the transmitter 10t, a control circuit 16, a volume controller 17, a usage time indicator 18, an off-hook alarm 19, a calendar / time indicator 2
It consists of zero.

The telephone addition device 8 has a power supply circuit (not shown), and electric power required for its operation is supplied from a commercial power supply.

An off-hook detector 21 and a ringing tone detector 22 connected to the control circuit 16 are mechanically and acoustically coupled to the telephone 1 from the outside.

Further, as the incoming call indicator 11, a buzzer 23 and a strobe flash 24 which generate a high volume are provided.
Is provided, the incoming call display 11 is an option,
It is not necessary for a person who can hear the bell volume of the telephone 1 to use the telephone addition device 8 of the present invention,
This is provided for people who are more deaf and cannot hear the bell of a regular telephone.

Telephone additional device 8 having the above-mentioned configuration
The operation of will be described. Telephone additional device 8 to telephone 1
, The transmitter 2t of the telephone 1 faces the speaker 12 of the apparatus main body 9, and the receiver 2r is picked up by the pickup 13
The handset 2 of the telephone 1 is placed on the device main body 9 of the telephone addition device 8 so as to face. Then, the telephone additional device 8
The additional handset 10 of the above is hooked on the hook (not shown) of the telephone 1 instead of the handset 2 of the telephone 1. Further, the off-hook detector 21 and the ring tone detector 22 are attached to the telephone 1. This state is a standby state where the telephone is not used.

When a call is received at this point, the ringer circuit 5 of the telephone 1 operates and the bell of the telephone 1 rings. The ring tone detector 22 detects the bell sound, the control circuit 16 controls the buzzer 23 to ring at a high volume, and the strobe flash 24 emits a flash to notify that a call is coming. . In this way, even an elderly person who is deaf can easily recognize an incoming call due to the effects of the high-volume buzzer 23 and the strobe flash 24. It is not always necessary to provide both the buzzer 23 and the strobe flash 24 as the incoming call display 11, and any one of them may be used.

A response can be made by manually picking up the additional handset 10 hooked on the hook of the telephone 1, and when the additional handset 10 is taken, the off-hook detector 21 detects off-hook. Then, the device body 9 starts to operate. The voice from the other party passes through the call circuit 3 of the telephone set 1 → the handset 2r of the handset 2 → the pickup 13 of the device main body 9 → the handset amplifier 14 and after being amplified by the handset amplifier 14, the handset 1 of the additional handset 10
It is emitted from 0r and reaches the ear of the caller. It should be noted that the reception volume in this case is adjusted to an appropriate volume by operating the volume controller 17. In addition, the loss due to the voice signal of the caller being relayed by the transmitter amplifier 15 to the transmitter 10t of the additional transmitter / receiver 10 → the transmitter amplifier 15 → the speaker 12 → the transmitter 2t of the transmitter / receiver 2 of the telephone 1. Will be compensated.
It should be noted that the transmission amplifier 15 can be omitted in some cases.

During the call, the use time indicator 18 operates to count the call time. Further, the calendar / time display 20 constantly displays the date and time.

After the call is finished, the telephone line is disconnected by hanging the additional handset 10 on the hook of the telephone 1 just like the operation of the ordinary telephone, and the off-hook detector 21
Detects an on-hook, and the operation of the apparatus main body 9 stops.

Next, when trying to make a call from here, the additional handset 10 is taken and the call is made by the dial (not shown) of the telephone set 1, which is no different from the operation of a normal telephone set. . Also in this case, as described above, the voice from the other party is amplified by the reception amplifier 14 of the device main body 9 of the telephone addition device 8 to have an appropriate volume for the caller and reaches the ear of the caller. Further, as in the case of receiving a call, during the call, the use time indicator 18 operates to count the call time, and the calendar / time indicator 20 constantly displays the date and time.

Thus, the telephone addition device 8 of the present invention
Since it can be used in exactly the same way as the operation of the conventional telephone 1, even an elderly person can conveniently use a telephone with an increased listening volume without being confused.

If the additional handset 10 is not correctly hooked on the hook of the telephone 1 after using the telephone, the control circuit 16 detects this by the off-hook detector 21, and the off-hook alarm 19 A warning is issued to notify the removal of the handset.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, the transmitter of the handset of the telephone is opposed to the receiving means of the main body of the device and acoustically coupled to each other, and the receiver is used as the transmitting means of the main body of the device. Since they face each other and are acoustically coupled to each other, the additional handset can be hung on the hook of the existing telephone.
By adding the minimum function of increasing the listening volume without any modification to the existing telephone, it is possible to make the telephone convenient, especially for the hearing impaired persons such as the elderly, and , It can be used by the same operation as an existing telephone. Further, since the existing telephone is used as it is, the cost can be reduced. Further off
Send and receive calls with hook and call detectors
Detected and activates the incoming call display and off-hook alarm
As a result, the existing telephones are
It can be left as is and easily done.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a circuit block diagram of a telephone addition device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Telephone 2 Handset 2r Handset 2t Handset 3 Communication circuit 4 Dial circuit 5 Ringer circuit 6 Hook switch 7 Telephone line 8 Telephone additional device 9 Device body 10 Additional handset 10r Handset 10t Handset 11 Incoming indicator 12 Speaker 13 Pickup 14 Receiver amplifier 15 Transmitter amplifier 16 Control circuit 17 Volume controller 21 Off-hook detector 22 Ring tone detector 23 Buzzer 24 Strobe flash

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hiroyuki Yamaguchi 1-2366, Kotobuki-cho, Saitama Prefecture (72) Inventor Kenji Koshigoe 1133-13 Kamiyakiri, Matsudo-shi, Chiba (56) Reference JP-A-56-115044 ( JP, A) Actually open 54-68512 (JP, U)

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A device main body of a telephone comprising a handset, a speech circuit, a dial circuit and a ringer circuit, on which the handset detached from the hook is placed, and a hook of the telephone instead of the handset of the telephone. An additional handset that has the same shape as the handset of the telephone set , and the additional handset
Detects that the handset has been unhooked from the telephone hook
An off-hook detector that puts the device body into operation
And a ring tone detector for detecting ringing of the ringer circuit,
Depending on the ring tone detection of the ring tone detector,
A receiving means for visually receiving an incoming call, the receiving means for receiving a voice signal generated from the handset of the telephone by acoustic coupling, and an amplifying means for amplifying an output signal of the receiving means in the apparatus body. And a transmitting means for transmitting a voice signal to the transmitter of the telephone by acoustic coupling ,
Make sure that the additional handset is properly hooked on the hook of the telephone.
An off-hook alarm device that issues an alarm when not in use, and the additional telephone set is provided with a handset connected to the amplification means and a handset connected to the transmission means.