JPH0865367A - Portable communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To perform operation for answering an incoming naturally as a blinking place needs only to be pressed as it is by arranging an incoming lamp which blinks when there is a telephone call and an outgoing/incoming key which is operated to answer the incoming in the same place. CONSTITUTION: The incoming/outgoing key has a microphone 15, the incoming lamp 9, and a switch 16 incorporated in a cover 14. The cover 14 has its front surface constituted translucently and the whole key illuminates by the light emission of the lamp 9. The microphone 15 is arranged at the rear part of a hole 17 bored in the front surface of the cover 14 and the voice that a user vocalizes is guided to the microphone 15 through the hole 17. The switch 16 is open when the cover 14 projects from a housing 2 and switched to a closed state when the cover 14 is put in the housing 2. The microphone 15, lamp 9, and switch 16 are connected to the electric circuits of a control part and the portable telephone set is switched between the on-hook and off-hook states by turning ON and OFF the switch 16.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable communication device, and more particularly, to an outgoing / incoming key or an incoming key of a portable communication device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 5, a conventional portable communication device (hereinbelow, referred to as a portable telephone) has an earpiece 3 on the upper front side of a housing 2 and a display section 5 below the earpiece 3. The keyboard 6 is provided under the display unit 5, the transmitter unit 4 and the ringer 10 are provided under the keyboard 6, and the antenna 7 is provided on the upper surface of the housing 2.
The keyboard 6 has an outgoing / incoming call key 8 at the upper left and an incoming call lamp 9 above the housing 2.

[0003] The transmitting section 4 has a structure in which the transmitting section is protruded so as to make the distance between the transmitting section of the portable telephone and the mouth of the user short. FIG. Is shown in the lower front part of the housing 2. When the outgoing / incoming call key 8 is pressed from the mobile phone or when the incoming call is received from the mobile phone,
It has a function of bringing the mobile phone into an off-hook state, connecting the mobile phone to a wireless telephone line, and making it possible to communicate with the other party. When a call is made, the ringer 10 emits a ringing tone and the incoming lamp 9 flashes to notify the user that the mobile phone has been called.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. Hei 4-2244 discloses a portable telephone in which a microphone unit is projected when used, and is accommodated in a main body when not used, similarly to the above-described transmitting unit 4. Have been.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional portable telephone, the incoming call lamp which blinks when a call is made and the incoming / outgoing call key which is operated when answering the incoming call are separately arranged. It is necessary to operate the outgoing / incoming keys separately arranged while paying attention to the blinking incoming lamp, so that an unnatural operation is forced and the position of the incoming / outgoing keys has to be searched. There is.

Also, depending on the method of holding the mobile phone,
Since it is far from the transmitter, it picks up a lot of ambient noise,
There is a problem that the voice of the user cannot be transmitted clearly.

[0007] It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned problems and to provide a portable communication device in which the operation of answering a call is easy.

[0008]

According to the present invention, in a portable communication device for communicating by connecting to a communication line by operating an incoming / outgoing key or an incoming / outgoing key, an incoming / outgoing lamp is provided on the outgoing / incoming key or the incoming key. A mobile communication device characterized by being built-in is obtained.

Further, according to the present invention, there is provided a portable communication device, wherein the outgoing / incoming call key or the incoming call key has a transmitting section provided with a microphone.

Further, according to the present invention, when the on-hook key or the incoming key is on-hook, the surface thereof and the main body surface of the portable communication device are flat,
A mobile communication device is obtained which is configured to project from the main body surface when off-hook.

[0011]

The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 is an external perspective view of the portable communication device of the present invention in an on-hook state, FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the portable communication device shown in FIG. 1 in an off-hook state, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram for explaining the operation of the portable communication device shown in FIG. Hereinafter, an embodiment will be described in detail using a portable communication device as a portable telephone.

In FIG. 1, a portable telephone 1 has a receiver 3 on the upper front of a housing 2 and a display 5 below the receiver 3.
And a keyboard 6 below the display unit 5, a ringer 10 below the keyboard 6, an incoming / outgoing / incoming / receiving key 8 having a built-in incoming call lamp 9 and a transmitting unit 4. And an antenna 7. The outgoing / incoming call key 8 has a function of connecting the mobile phone to a wireless telephone line and making a callable state with the other party.

The portable telephone 1 is in an on-hook state as shown in FIG.
As shown in, the surface of the outgoing / incoming key 8 is flat with the main body surface of the mobile phone 1. Here, by depressing the outgoing / incoming call key 8 in a state where the outgoing / incoming call key 8 is accommodated, the mobile phone 1 goes into an off-hook state. In this case, the outgoing / incoming / outgoing key 8 protrudes from the main body of the mobile phone 1 as shown in FIG. vice versa,
From the state where the mobile phone 1 is in an off-hook state, that is, the state in which the call key 8 is projected as shown in FIG.
When the mobile phone 1 is depressed, the mobile phone 1 enters an on-hook state, and a state in which the transmission / reception key 8 is housed as shown in FIG.

Next, the operation of the portable communication device according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In this case as well, the portable communication device will be described as a portable telephone as described above. In FIG.
When the mobile phone receives an incoming signal by radio waves from the base station, the received incoming signal is transmitted to the antenna 7 and the radio unit 12.
Is sent to the microprocessor 11 via the, and the microprocessor 11 judges whether the received incoming signal includes its own identification code registered in advance. here,
When the incoming signal includes its own identification code, the microprocessor 11 causes the control unit 13 to transmit a control signal to the ringer 10. The ringer 10 emits a ringing tone in response to the control signal, and at the same time, the incoming lamp 9 incorporated in the outgoing / incoming key 8 emits light and the entire outgoing / incoming key 8 emits light. Therefore, the user recognizes that the mobile phone is called by the ringing sound and the light emission.

During reception of the incoming signal, the user depresses the emitting / receiving key 8 which emits light, so that the microprocessor 11 allows the portable telephone to communicate with the base station via the radio unit 12 and the antenna 7. It connects to a telephone line and performs an incoming call response process for putting the mobile phone in an off-hook state. The wireless telephone line connected by the incoming call response process makes it possible to make a call via the receiver 3 and the transmitter 4. .

FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of the transmission / reception key. The outgoing / incoming call key 8 has a microphone 15 inside the cover 14,
An incoming call lamp 9 and a switch 16 are built in. The front surface of the cover 14 is semi-transparent, and the entire incoming / outgoing key 8 is illuminated by the illumination of the incoming lamp 9. The microphone 15 is arranged in the rear part of the hole 17 provided in the front surface of the cover 14, and the voice uttered by the user is guided to the microphone 15 through the hole 17. Switch 1
6 is configured to switch to open when the cover 14 projects from the housing 2 and to close when the cover 14 is housed in the housing 2. Microphone 15
The incoming lamp 9 and the switch 16 are each connected to an electric circuit of the control unit. Therefore, the mobile phone is configured to switch between off-hook and on-hook by opening and closing the switch.

Although the above-described portable telephone is an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to an incoming / outgoing key, the present invention can be applied to an incoming key as well in the same manner as described above. In this case, the incoming call key, unlike the outgoing / incoming call key, has a function of connecting the mobile phone to the wireless telephone line and making the call possible with the other party only when a call is received by the mobile phone.

Further, the portable telephone may have a transmission key arranged at a different position from the reception key together with the reception key. In this case, the outgoing key has a function of connecting the mobile phone to the wireless telephone line by pressing down the key when making a call from the mobile phone, so that the mobile phone can talk with the other party.

[0019]

As described above, in the portable communication device of the present invention, the incoming call lamp which blinks when a call is made and the incoming / outgoing call key operated when answering the incoming call are arranged at the same place. It is only necessary to press the blinking portion as it is while watching the incoming call lamp blinking at a time, so that the operation of answering the incoming call is natural.

Further, since the blinking part is the call key,
Since there is no need to specifically search for the position of the incoming / outgoing key, the incoming call response operation is easy.

Furthermore, since the transmitter portion is projected during a call, the distance between the mouth of the user and the transmitter portion does not increase.
Since it is difficult to pick up ambient noise, there is an effect that voice can be transmitted clearly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a mobile communication device according to the present invention in an on-hook state.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the mobile communication device shown in FIG. 1 in an off-hook state.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram for explaining the operation of the mobile communication device shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of a transmission / reception key.

FIG. 5 is an external perspective view showing the structure of a conventional portable communication device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cellular phone 2 Case 3 Receiver 4 Transmitter 5 Display 6 Keyboard 7 Antenna 8 Outgoing / Incoming call key 9 Incoming lamp 10 Ringer 11 Microprocessor 12 Radio unit 13 Control unit 14 Cover 15 Microphone 16 Switch 17 Hole

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A portable communication device for connecting to a communication line to perform communication by operating an incoming / outgoing call key or an incoming / outgoing key, wherein the incoming / outgoing key or the incoming key has a built-in incoming call lamp. Communication equipment. 2. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein the outgoing / incoming call key or the incoming call key has a transmitter section provided with a microphone. 3. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein the outgoing / incoming call key or the incoming call key has a flat surface and a main body surface of the portable communication device when on-hook, and is off-hook. A portable communication device, wherein the portable communication device is configured to sometimes protrude from the main body surface.