JPH05236156A - Facsimile equipment attached to telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To exchange a connection terminal for a conventional telephone set and a connection terminal for an automatic answering telephone set in the facsimile equipment attached to telephone set. CONSTITUTION:The facsimile equipment attached to telephone set 1 having a 1st telephone set connection terminal 1a for the connection of a conventional telephone set TEL1 and a 2nd telephone set connection terminal 1b for the connection of an automatic answering telephone set TEL2 having an automatic incoming call function is provided with an inversion operation switch 11a and a changeover control means A to invert the function of the 1st telephone set connection terminal 1a and the 2nd telephone set connection terminal 1b by the operation of the switch 11a.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement of a facsimile machine equipped with a telephone.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, a telephone-equipped facsimile machine has been developed and used in which a telephone is attached to a facsimile machine and the telephone call and the facsimile transmission are efficiently switched and operated. FIG. 3 shows such a facsimile device 100, in which a first telephone connection terminal 101a provided on the left side surface of the main body is connected to an ordinary telephone (attached to the facsimile device in the figure by way of a cable C1). The handset type telephone (shown as a handy type telephone) is connected, while the answering machine 102 can be connected via the cable C2 to the second telephone connection terminal 101b provided on the back surface of the main body. There is.

By the way, in such a telephone-equipped facsimile machine 100, when a call signal arrives through the telephone line L when the automatic switching mode is set, whether or not the incoming call is immediately received and the calling side attempts to perform facsimile transmission. Simultaneously with the determination, the telephone 10 connected to the first telephone connection terminal 101a a predetermined number of times (for example, about 5 times)
A pseudo call signal is output to 1 and a pseudo call sound is emitted.
Then, when you hear this pseudo ring and pick up the handset and answer, the call starts, but if there is no answer,
When a pseudo call signal is output to the second telephone connection terminal 101b in addition to the first telephone connection terminal 101a and the ring tone sounds for the number of times set on the answering machine 102 (for example, twice), an automatic incoming call is received. A predetermined voice message is sent out so that it can be efficiently switched regardless of whether the calling side makes a facsimile transmission or a call.

However, such a facsimile machine 1
In 00, when the answering machine 102 is connected to the first telephone connection terminal 101a, the pseudo answering sound is sounded only twice after the automatic incoming call, and the answering machine automatically receives the call immediately before the dweller picks up the handset and answers. Since the voice message is transmitted, the answering machine must be connected to the second telephone connection terminal 101b without fail.

For this reason, for example, an answering machine 102 is installed on the left side of the facsimile machine, and an ordinary telephone 101 is installed.
Even if you want to have a layout in which the telephone is placed on the desk away from the facsimile machine 100, the answering machine 10
The second connection cable C2 is always the second telephone connection terminal 10
1b, a connection cable C1 for a normal telephone 101
Must be connected to the first telephone connection terminal 101a, and the wiring is tedious and the appearance is unsatisfactory, so improvement has been desired.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been proposed in view of the above circumstances, and the connection terminals of an ordinary telephone and an answering machine provided in a facsimile machine can be replaced with each other, whereby the wiring can be connected. It is an object of the present invention to provide a telephone-equipped facsimile machine that is easy to install and has improved usability.

[0007]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention proposed to achieve the above object is to connect a first telephone connection terminal for connecting an ordinary telephone and an answering machine having an automatic incoming call function. A telephone-equipped facsimile apparatus having a second telephone connection terminal for operating the first telephone, which has a reversing operation switch and which operates in accordance with the operation of the switch.
The switch control means for inverting the functions of the telephone connection terminal and the second telephone connection terminal is provided.

In such a facsimile device of the present invention, the wiring connection itself between the first telephone connection terminal and the second telephone connection terminal can be replaced by the reversing operation switch of the switching control means. For example, a configuration may be adopted in which the control of the signal processing unit for controlling the first telephone connection terminal and the second telephone connection terminal provided in the switching control means is reversed by switching the reversing operation switch. it can.

[0009]

In the facsimile machine equipped with the telephone of the present invention,
A first telephone connection terminal for connecting an ordinary telephone and a second telephone connection terminal for connecting an answering machine having an automatic incoming call function in response to the operation of the reversing operation switch of the switching control means. Is reversed. For this reason, depending on the installation location and installation situation of ordinary telephones and answering machines,
The user can arbitrarily use the first and second telephone connection terminals by exchanging them, and the wiring can be laid easily.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a configuration example of a telephone-equipped facsimile apparatus 1 of the present invention. In the figure, 1a is a first telephone connection terminal for connecting an ordinary telephone (such as an attached telephone) TEL1 and 1b. Is an answering machine TEL2
A second telephone connection terminal 1c for adding a telephone line L and so on. Further, 10 is a signal processing unit including a CPU for performing signal processing of each unit, 11 is a key operation unit having various operation keys including an inversion operation switch 11a, and 12 is the first telephone connection terminal 1a connected to the telephone line L or A control relay switchably connected to the pseudo call signal generation circuit 16 side, a control relay 13 switchably connects the second telephone connection terminal 1b to the telephone line L or the pseudo call signal generation circuit 16 side, and 14 and 15 are first and first. An off-hook detection circuit for detecting an off-hook of the telephones TEL1 and TEL2 connected to the telephone connection terminal of No. 2 (handset up or equivalent operation), 17 is a line for terminating the telephone line L and receiving the call under the control of the signal processing unit 10. It is a relay. Furthermore,
Reference numeral 18 is a dial signal sending circuit, 19 is a calling signal detection circuit for detecting a calling signal transmitted through a telephone line, 20
Is a modem for transmitting image data and the like. 2
Reference numeral 1 is an image reading unit that reads an image of a transmission document and converts it into image data, 22 is a print output unit that prints out the image data on recording paper, and 23 is an RO that stores a processing program and the like.
M and 24 are RAMs for temporarily storing data in the signal processing process, and switching control is performed by the signal processing unit 10, the switching control relays 12 and 13, the off-hook detection circuits 14 and 15 and the pseudo call signal generation circuit 16 described above. It constitutes means A.

The operation of the facsimile apparatus 1 of the present invention having such a configuration will be described later, but basically, the signal processing section 1 at the time of an incoming call according to the operation of the reversing operation switch 11a.
The switching control of the control relays 12 and 13 by 0 is reversed, whereby the functions of the first telephone connection terminal and the second telephone connection terminal are switched.

Next, the operation of the above-described facsimile apparatus 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In the description, it is assumed that the reversing operation switch 11a is switch-connected to the contact a side, whereby 1a is set as the first telephone connection terminal and 1b is set as the second telephone connection terminal. In the standby state, the signal processing unit 10 turns off the line relay 17 (switch connection to the contact a side), turns on the control relay 12 (switch connection to the contact b side), and turns off the control relay 13 (switch connection to the contact a side). ) Has been performed (step 10 in FIG. 2).
00). When a ringing signal (16 Hz, 1 second on, 2 seconds off) arrives through the telephone line L, the ringing signal detection circuit 19 detects it and immediately outputs the detection signal to the signal processing unit 10. Then,
In the signal processing unit 10, the line relay 17 is turned on (switch connection to the contact b side) to automatically receive an incoming call (step 100 in FIG. 2).
1, 1002). The signal processing unit 10 monitors whether a CNG signal (calling tone) is transmitted through the modem 20 via the telephone line L for a predetermined time (about 3.5 seconds). As a result of this monitoring, when the CNG signal is transmitted, a predetermined fax reception process is executed, and when the reception is completed, the line relay 17 is turned off (switch connection to the contact a side) to disconnect the line (FIG. 2). Steps 1003, 1004, 1014, 101
5). However, as a result of the monitoring, when the CNG signal is not transmitted within the predetermined time, the signal processing unit 10 initializes the parameter n indicating the number of callings to 0 (see steps 1003 to 1005 in FIG. 2). The signal processing unit 10 outputs a control signal to the pseudo call signal generation circuit 16, outputs the pseudo call signal from the first telephone connection terminal 1a, and then increments the parameter n by 1. As a result, a pseudo ringing sound is output from the telephone TEL1 (steps 1006 and 100 in FIG. 2).
7). Subsequently, the signal processing unit 10 sends a DIS signal (digital identification signal indicating the standard function of the called terminal) to the telephone line L side through the modem 20, and in response to this, a DCS signal (designates the standard function). When a digital command signal) is received, the process proceeds to fax reception processing, and when the handset of the telephone TEL1 is picked up and detected by the off-hook detection circuit 14, the signal processing unit 10 causes the control relay 12 and the line relay 17 to operate. Is turned off (switch connection to the contact a side) to execute the call processing (see steps 1008 to 1010, 1012, 1013 in FIG. 2). Even if the above operation is repeated until the parameter n = 5, when the DCS signal is not received and the off-hook is not detected, then the signal processing unit 10 turns on the control relay 13 (contact b side). And the parameter m indicating the number of calls is initialized to 0 (steps 1006 to 1011, 1016, 1 in FIG. 2).
017). The signal processing unit 10 outputs a control signal to the pseudo call signal generation circuit 16 to output the first and second telephone connection terminals 1
The pseudo call signal is output from a and 1b, and thereafter, the operation of incrementing the parameter m by 1 is repeated. As a result, when the answering machine TEL2 automatically receives a call (normally, the call is received when the pseudo call signal is received twice), the off-hook detection circuit 15 sends a detection signal to the signal processing unit 10, and the signal processing unit 10 causes the control relay 13 to operate. Also, the line relay 17 is turned off (switch connection is made to the contact a side) to make an answering response. When the answering machine is not set to answering machine, the telephones TEL1 and TEL2 are set to 10
The circuit is adapted to be cut off after ringing (see steps 1018 to 1023 and 1015 in FIG. 2).

In the above description, the reversing operation switch 11a is used.
In the above description, the switch operation is set to the contact a side. However, when the reversing operation switch 11a is set to the contact b side, the control operations of the signal processing unit 10 of the control relay 12 and the control relay 13 are reversed, and Causes the telephone connected to the second telephone connection terminal to make a pseudo call after an automatic incoming call, and if no response is made even after making a pseudo call a predetermined number of times, the telephone connected to the second telephone connection terminal Since the pseudo call signal is also sent to the side, the functions of the first and second telephone connection terminals can be completely interchanged.

[0014]

As can be understood from the above description, according to the telephone-equipped facsimile apparatus of the present invention, the functions of the first and second telephone connection terminals can be reversed only by operating the reversing operation switch. Therefore, it is possible for the user to appropriately switch and set according to the installation situation of an ordinary telephone or an answering machine, and wiring can be easily laid and a flexible layout can be adopted.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration example diagram of a telephone laying type facsimile apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the facsimile device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional facsimile apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Telephone-equipped facsimile machine 1a ... 1st telephone connection terminal 1b ... 2nd telephone connection terminal 11a ... Reverse operation switch A ... Switching control means TEL1 ... Normal telephone TEL2 ... Answering machine

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A telephone-equipped facsimile apparatus having a first telephone connection terminal for connecting an ordinary telephone and a second telephone connection terminal for connecting an answering machine having an automatic incoming call function. In addition, the telephone installation is characterized in that it has a reversing operation switch and is provided with a switching control means for reversing the functions of the first telephone connection terminal and the second telephone connection terminal according to the operation of the switch. Type facsimile machine.