JPH1155375A - Wall-mount and desktop compatible telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce manufacturing costs, and to improve convenience. SOLUTION: A wall-mount and desktop compatible telephone set 1 is constituted of a main body case 2 and a handset 5. The main body case 2 is constituted of an upper case 3 and a lower case 4, and an attachable and detachable wall and desk bracket 20 is provided on the bottom face of the lower case 4. Then, the bottom face of the lower case 4 is constituted of a horizontally formed central part 8, and a rear part 9 and a front part 10 formed with the same inclination. The wall and desk bracket 20 can be formed so as to be freely attachable and detachable for the rear part 9, the front part 10, and the central part 8.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wall-mounted table used for both a wall-mounted table used on a wall or the like and a table-mounted table used on a desk such as a table or a table. Phone related.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a telephone of this type is used for a desk, a bottom surface of a lower case of a main body casing, that is, a bottom surface of the main body casing is improved in order to improve visibility and operability of an operation section of a main body casing of the telephone. A bracket is attached to the bottom surface on the side away from the operator, the bottom surface on the rear side is separated from the surface of the desk, and the operation surface on the rear side is higher than the operation surface on the front side. On the other hand, when used for wall hanging, a bracket is attached to the bottom surface on the front side of the lower case in order to prevent the handset hung on the operation unit of Is mounted so that the bottom surface on the front side is separated from the surface of the desk, and the operation surface on the front side is higher than the operation surface on the rear side.
The bracket is configured such that the mounting direction is reversed on the front side and the rear side of the bottom surface and the bracket is selectively mounted so that the bracket can be commonly used for a tabletop and a wall.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional wall-mounted desk phone, when used as a desk,
There are cases where it is desired to further increase the operation angle of the operation unit for the purpose of further improving visibility or operability. In particular, in recent years, telephones equipped with a display that displays the telephone number of the caller and the telephone charge have been used in many cases. In this telephone, visibility is required to make the display contents of the display easier to see. Have been. In this case, in addition to the above-mentioned common bracket for desktop and wall mounting, a special bracket for changing the operation angle at the time of desktop is required separately. Since two wall brackets must be prepared in this way, not only the production cost increases on the supply side, but also the parts management becomes complicated. On the other hand, there is a problem on the user side that it is not needed when hanging on a wall, so that it is easily lost, and cannot be used the next time the user wants to use it on a desktop.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a wall-mounted desk phone that can reduce manufacturing costs and improve usability.

[0005]

In order to achieve the object, a desk-top dual-purpose telephone according to the present invention has a handset placed on an operation surface on a front surface, and a bottom surface on a back surface is viewed from a center to a front side in a side view. The main body housing is formed at the same inclination angle diagonally upward toward the rear side, and is detachably attached to the front or rear of the bottom surface of this main body housing. And a wall / desktop bracket that is inclined for use. The bottom of the main body housing is formed in a trapezoidal shape in a side view, and the wall / desktop bracket is detachable at the center of the bottom. Therefore, the operation angle of the operation unit for the desktop can be increased by attaching the wall-mounted desktop dual-use bracket to the center of the bottom of the main body housing.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a side view showing a state in which the desk-top dual-purpose telephone according to the present invention is used for hanging on a wall, and a portion for explaining a connection state with a wall-standtop dual-purpose bracket is cut away, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a cutaway view of a portion for explaining the state of attachment to the wall hanging member.
FIG. 4 is a bottom view, and FIG. 4 is a side view showing a state in which the wall-mounted desk phone according to the present invention is used as a desk.
FIG. 5 is a bottom view of the same for explaining the connection state with the wall-mounted desk-top bracket, FIG. 5 is a bottom view thereof, and FIG. 6 is a state in which the wall-mounted desk-top telephone according to the present invention is used at a different operation angle for desktop use. And FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the same. In FIGS. 3, 5, and 7, for convenience of description, hatching is applied to the outer periphery of the wall-mounted desk-top bracket.

[0007] In these figures, the reference numeral 1 generally designates a wall-mounted desk-top telephone, which comprises a telephone main body housing 2 in which various control circuits such as a speech circuit are built in, and a handset 5. Have been. The housing 2 is composed of an upper case 3 formed in a box shape with a lower opening, and a lower case 4 formed in a box shape with an upper opening, and these two cases 3 and 4 are aligned with each other. It is united by the screw. The upper case 3 is formed in an elongated rectangular shape when viewed from the side, and the surface thereof is provided with a dial button 6a and the like, and forms an operation surface 6 on which the handset 5 is placed.

The lower case 4 is formed in a trapezoidal shape having four sides of an upper opening edge 7 forming an upper surface and bottom surfaces 8, 9, 10 in a side view. That is, the upper opening edge 7 and the central portion 8 of the bottom surface are formed horizontally so as to be parallel to the operation surface 6 of the upper case 3 described above, and the bottom is an angle formed by the rear portion 9 of the bottom surface and the upper opening edge 7. Angle A and bottom front 1
A base angle B, which is an angle between 0 and the upper opening edge 7, is formed at the same angle α. In other words, the rear part 9 and the front part 10 of the bottom face are formed to have the same angle α upward toward both ends. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 5,
Four rectangular engaging holes 12, 15, and 19 are formed at the four corners of the central portion 8, the rear portion 9, and the front portion 10, respectively.
Two rubber feet 13 are attached to two front corners of the front part 10.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a tongue piece 17 having a base end 17a side connected to the rear part 9 is formed at the center of the front end of the rear part 9 of the bottom surface. Is formed in a concave shape inside the rear portion 9 so that the free end portion 17b extends rearward along the rear portion 9. This tongue piece 17
Is formed such that the width of the base end 17a is wider than the width of the free end 17b, and between the base end 17a and the free end 17b,
A projection 17c is provided to project. Reference numeral 18 denotes an engagement wall which is provided upright from the side portion 9 corresponding to the tongue piece 17 and has an outer shape larger than the tongue piece 17 and is formed in an inverted U-shape with an open front end. At the tip of the engaging wall 18, a bottom 18a parallel to the surface of the rear portion 9 is integrally formed, and at the bottom 18a, an engagement hole 18b whose outer shape is slightly larger than the tongue piece 17 is formed. The bottom 18a of the engagement wall 18 and the tongue piece 17
The distance between the flange portion 27 and the flange portion 27 of the wall
It is formed slightly larger than the thickness of a.

Numeral 20 denotes a wall-mounted desktop combined bracket,
Opposite front and rear are different in height so that the upper part is opened and the width is substantially the same as the width of the housing 2 and is formed in a box shape, and the upper opening part 23 is formed to be inclined at an angle C with respect to the horizontal plane in side view. A pair of opposed walls 22 and 21 are formed. The inclination angle C of the opening 23 is an attachment angle when attaching the wall-hung desktop bracket 20 to the bottom surfaces 8, 9, and 10 of the lower case 4, as described later. It is formed twice as large as 2α. The pair of elastic engaging pieces 24, 25 whose front claw faces the opening 23 correspond to the engaging holes 12, 15, 19 at the bottom of the lower case 4. Are integrally provided from the bottom 26 and one of the opposing walls 22. In addition, a rectangular window 24a is formed in the bottom portion 26 so as to correspond to the elastic engaging piece 24 and to cut the elastic engaging piece 24.

The height H of the other opposing wall 21 is defined as L being the total length of the central portion 8 and D (== the angle formed by the central portion 8 and the rear portion 9).
Assuming that the angle is A), it is formed as represented by the equation of H = L × sinD. Further, the tongue piece 17 and the engaging wall 1 described above are provided on the side of the opposed wall 21 at the center in the longitudinal direction of the bottom portion 26.
A tongue piece and an engaging wall having the same structure as in FIG. 8 are formed. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 27 denotes a wall-hanging member which is formed in a substantially cylindrical shape and is screwed to a wall 28, and has a flange portion 27 a formed at an end thereof. The diameter of the flange portion 27 a It is formed smaller than the width of the base end 17a and larger than the width of the free end 17b.

Next, a description will be given of a state in which the wall-mounted desk-top telephone having such a configuration is used as a wall-mounted or desk-mounted telephone. First, a state when used for hanging on a wall will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, when used as a wall-mounting device, the wall-mounting tabletop bracket 20 is attached to the front portion 10 of the bottom surface of the lower case 4.
Attach to In this case, the opposing wall 22 having a higher height is located on the front side of the front part 10 and the opposing wall 21 having a lower height is located on the front part 1
The engaging portions 19 of the elastic engaging pieces 24 and 25 are engaged with the engaging holes 19 of the front portion 10 so as to be positioned on the rear side of the front portion 0.

[0013] In this manner, the tabletop bracket 2 for hanging on a wall is provided.
Then, the rear end 9 and the lower end side of the engaging hole 18b of the engaging wall 18 of the wall-mounting desk-top bracket 20 are engaged with the flange portion 27a of the wall-hanging member 27 fixed to the wall 28. Thereafter, when the main body housing 2 is moved downward along the wall 28, the flange portion 27a
The upper end of the tongue 17 is engaged with the upper inner wall of the engagement wall 18 corresponding to the free end 17b of the tongue 17 while elastically deforming the tongue 17 by abutting the projection 17c of the tongue 7. At this time, the free end 17b
And the bottom portion 18a of the engagement wall 18 sandwich the flange portion 27a.
Attached to

According to the above configuration, as shown in FIG. 1, the height H of the opposing wall 21 is formed as H = L × sinD, and the mounting angle C of the wall-mounted desktop bracket 20 is two angles A and B.
Since the angle is formed as 2α, which is twice as large, the inclination angle of the upper opening edge 7 of the lower case 4 becomes α. Accordingly, the operation angle of the operation surface 6 with respect to the wall 28 is also α, and the front side of the operation surface 6 is separated from the wall 28, so that the drop of the handset 5 is prevented.

Next, a case where the wall-mounted desk phone is used for a desk will be described mainly with reference to FIGS. First, in FIG. 2, when the main body housing 2 is moved upward along the wall 28, the flange portion 27 of the wall hanging member 27 is moved.
The projection 17c of the tongue piece 17 abuts on a, and the tongue piece 17 is elastically deformed, so that the base end portion 17a of the tongue piece 17 is located at the flange portion 27a. Therefore, the engagement of the bottom portion 18 a of the engagement wall 18 with the flange portion 27 a is released, and the main body housing 2 is removed from the wall hanging member 27. Next, in FIG. 1, a finger is inserted from the window 24 a of the wall-mounted desktop dual-purpose bracket 20 to elastically deform the elastic engagement piece 24, and the engagement hole 19 is formed.
Then, the engagement between the elastic engagement piece 25 and the engagement hole 19 is released, and the wall-hung desktop dual-purpose bracket 20 is removed from the lower case 4.

As shown in FIG. 4, the front and rear directions of the detached wall-hung table-top bracket 20 are reversed, and the claws of the elastic engaging pieces 24 and 25 are engaged with the engaging holes 15 of the rear part 9 of the lower case 4. By combining them, the wall-mounted desktop combined bracket 7
To the rear 8. With such a configuration, when the main body 2 is placed on the table 30, the rear surface of the upper case 3 is lifted upward so that the operation surface 6 is inclined at an angle α, so that the operability and visibility of the operation surface 6 are improved. I do.

Here, when the inclination angle of the operation surface 6 is desired to be more than α in order to further improve the operability and visibility of the operation surface 6, the bracket 20 for both the wall and the desk is detached from the rear portion 9 and the desktop for the wall is also used. The bracket 20 is attached to the central portion 8 as shown in FIG. At this time, the inclination angle of the central portion 8 is the same inclination angle 2α as the mounting angle C of the wall-hung desk-purpose bracket 20, so that the operation surface 6 is also inclined at an angle 2α with respect to the surface of the desk 30. As described above, when the operation surface 6 is used as a desktop, the operation angle of the operation surface 6 can be selected by one wall-mounted desktop dual-purpose bracket 2.
Since the number of parts can be reduced to 0, the number of parts does not increase and there is no loss. Therefore, the manufacturing cost is reduced and the usability is improved.

In the present embodiment, the tabletop bracket for wall hanging is formed in a trapezoidal shape in a side view, but may be formed in a triangular shape without providing one opposing wall 21.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, the manufacturing cost is reduced and the usability is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a state in which a wall-mounted desk-top telephone according to the present invention is used as a wall-mounted desk-top telephone, in which a portion for explaining a coupling state with a wall-mounted desk-top bracket is cut away. .

FIG. 2 is a side view showing a state in which the wall-mounted desk-top telephone according to the present invention is used for hanging on a wall, in which a portion for explaining a state of being attached to a wall-hanging member is cut away.

FIG. 3 is a bottom view showing a state in which the wall-mounted desk phone according to the present invention is used for hanging on a wall.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing a state in which the wall-mounted desk-top telephone according to the present invention is used as a desk-top telephone, in which a portion for explaining a connection state with a wall-mounted desk-top bracket is cut away. .

FIG. 5 is a bottom view showing a state in which the wall-mounted desk phone according to the present invention is used as a desk.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a state in which the wall-mounted desk-top telephone according to the present invention is used as a desk-top with a different operation angle, in which a portion for explaining a connection state with the wall-mounted desk-top bracket is cut away. It is shown.

FIG. 7 is a bottom view showing a state in which the wall-mounted desk-top telephone according to the present invention is used as a desk-top with a different operation angle.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Wall-mounted desk-top telephone, 2 ... Body housing, 3 ... Upper case, 4 ... Lower case, 6 ... Operation surface, 8 ... Central part,
9 ... rear part, 10 ... front part, 12, 15, 19 ... engagement hole, 2
0: Wall-mounted table-and-top bracket, 24, 25: elastic engagement piece, 27: wall-mounted member, 28: wall, 30: table.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A main body housing in which a handset is placed on an operation unit on a front surface, and a bottom surface of a rear surface is formed obliquely upward from a center to a front side and a rear side at the same inclination angle from a center in a side view. A wall-mounted desktop bracket that is detachably attached to the front or rear portion of the bottom surface of the housing and inclines the operation angle of the operation unit of the main body housing for desktop and wall mounting, and the bottom of the main body housing is trapezoidal in a side view. And the wall-mounted desk-top bracket is made detachable at the center of the bottom. 2. The wall-mounted desk-top telephone according to claim 1, wherein the mounting angle of the wall-mounted desk-top dual-purpose bracket is formed to be twice as large as the bottom angle of the bottom of the main body housing in a side view.