KR200379476Y1 - Portable interface device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a portable interface device, and more particularly, to a portable interface device that communicates with a computer, a mobile phone, a memory card, and can charge a mobile phone. Portable interface device according to the present invention is an outer case of the portable interface device; A USB interface provided at one end of the outer case and communicating with the computer in a USB manner, and electrically and physically connected to the computer; A mobile phone interface provided at the other end of the outer case and communicating with the mobile phone and electrically and physically connected to the mobile phone; A memory card interface provided in a groove formed on one surface of the outer case and configured to read and write a memory card mounted on the groove, and to be electrically and physically connected to the memory card; And protected by an outer case, and may include a main body for controlling communication with a computer, a mobile phone and a memory card.

Description

Portable interface device

The present invention relates to a portable interface device, and more particularly, to a portable interface device that communicates with a computer, a mobile phone, a memory card, and can charge a mobile phone.

The market for information products shows the rapid development of products with small size, high capacity and multi-media functions, and many memory cards are being put to practical use. Here, the memory card is a portable storage device, and refers to a storage device mainly used for a digital camera. These types of memory cards are very diverse, and as a storage medium having convenience and efficiency of data storage, various products of various standards have been released. That is, there are many types of Sony Memory Stick cards, Matsushita's Secure Digital cards, Compact Flash cards, Multi Media cards, and Smart Media cards.

Along with the popularization of such memory cards, card readers for reading and writing memory cards are also widely used. Generally, various memory cards are used together with a USB method, but a card reader according to the related art is manufactured based on simply communication between a memory card and a computer. In particular, due to the popularization of mobile phones, there is a need for a connection service with a mobile phone, but there is a problem in that there is no portable interface device capable of communicating with a computer and a mobile phone.

The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art, and provides a portable interface device that can communicate with a computer, a mobile phone, a memory card, and can charge a mobile phone.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a portable interface device that detects a device connected to an interface and performs multilateral communication by designating the detected device as a host or a slave, and other objects of the present invention are described in detail and It will be further embodied by the claims.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention can provide a portable interface device that communicates with a computer, a mobile phone, a memory card, and can charge a mobile phone.

According to a preferred embodiment, the portable interface device comprises: an outer case of the portable interface device; A USB interface provided at one end of the outer case to communicate with a computer in a USB manner and electrically and physically connected to the computer; A mobile phone interface provided at the other end of the outer case to communicate with a mobile phone and to be electrically and physically connected to the mobile phone; A memory card interface provided in a groove formed on one surface of the outer case and configured to read and write a memory card mounted on the groove, and to be electrically and physically connected to the memory card; And a main body that is protected by the outer case and controls communication with the computer, the mobile phone, and the memory card.

The main body unit may include: an interface device controller for recognizing and controlling communication when at least one device of the computer, the mobile phone, and the memory card is combined; And a switching unit for performing switching according to a command of the interface device controller.

The interface device controller may include a recording unit for recording data on the memory card; A connection detector for detecting a device connected to the interface; And a communication control unit for performing communication between connected devices according to the communication command. The switching unit may be a switching hub for controlling multi-party communication between the computer, the mobile phone, and the memory card. The main body may include a mobile phone charging unit for charging the mobile phone.

Hereinafter, a configuration of a portable interface device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and in the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings, the same or corresponding components regardless of reference numerals are given the same reference numerals. And duplicate description thereof will be omitted.

1A and 1B illustrate the appearance of a portable interface device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1A and 1B, the portable interface device 100 includes a USB interface 110, a memory card interface 120, and a mobile phone interface 130, which are coupled to the main body 140. . The portable interface device 100 may further include a cover 115 corresponding to the USB interface 110 and a lead-out unit 135 corresponding to the mobile phone interface 130.

Here, FIG. 1A is a diagram illustrating a case in which the mobile phone interface extractor 135 is tensioned in order to connect with a mobile phone, and FIG. 1A illustrates a case in which a mobile phone interface extractor 135 is inserted in order to protect the cellular phone interface. Figure is shown.

The portable interface device 100 according to the present invention may detect a connection state of a computer, a memory card, and a mobile phone in real time, perform communication between the connected devices, and charge the mobile phone. Here, data may be stored or read in the memory card 200 mounted in the groove formed in the main body. The memory card mountable in the groove provided in the front side is defined in Table 1 below, but it is obvious that the memory card is not limited thereto.

PCMCIA CompactFlash Smartmedia MultimediaCard Secure Digital Memory Stick USB memory key Length 85.6 mm 36.0 mm 45.0mm 32.0mm 32.0mm 50.0mm varies Width 54.0mm 43.0mm 37.0mm 24.0mm 24.0mm 21.5mm varies Height 3.3 mm (Type I); 5.0 mm (Type II); 10.5mm (Type III) 3.3 mm (Type I); 5.0mm (Type II) 0.76 mm 1.4 mm 2.1mm 2.8mm varies Connector Contacts 68 50 22 7 7 N / A 4 Commonly Used With Notebook computers, handheld computers Digital cameras, MP3 players Digital cameras, MP3 players Digital cameras, MP3 players Digital cameras, MP3 players, newer Palm PDAs Digital cameras, video cameras, Sony computers Computers equipped with USB ports Maximum Capacity 5 GB 1 GB 128 MB 128 MB 128 MB 128 MB 256 MB

As shown in Table 1, the memory card is various, such as a compact flash (CF), memory stick (MS), smart media (SM), extreme digital (XD), the groove corresponding to the type of the memory card is a variety of memory cards Can be installed and used.

2 is a view showing the configuration of a portable interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, the main body 140 of the portable interface device according to the present invention includes an interface device controller 150, a switching unit 160, and a power supply unit 180, and a mobile phone charging unit 190 for charging a mobile phone. And a mobile phone communication unit 195 for communicating with the mobile phone.

The portable device controller 150 may include a reading unit 151 for reading data of a memory card, a recording unit 153 for recording data on the memory card, and a connection detecting unit 155 for detecting a device connected to an interface. And a communication control unit 157 for performing communication between connected devices according to the communication command. Herein, when the communication control unit 157 receives the communication command, the communication control unit 157 sets the host and the slave to each device according to a preset method, and performs communication in a host-slave manner to perform the switching operation of the switching unit 160. Configured to control. Here, when a plurality of communication is made, the switching unit 160 may perform a hub switching function for controlling the on-off operation.

The portable storage device 100 according to the present invention may include a USB interface 110 for connecting the main body 140 to a computer and a mobile phone interface 130 for connecting with a mobile phone. Here, after being connected to the computer through the USB interface 110, not only the power supplied from the computer can be supplied to the main body 140, but also the power can be applied to the mobile phone to charge the mobile phone.

In the connection structure of the USB interface according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, referring to Table 2 below, the use of a line connected to each pin of the USB connector is described in detail.

contact number signal name typical writing assignment One V Red 2 D- White 3 D + Green 4 GND Black

Typically, the USB interface is connected by four lines, two of which supply power and two of which are used for data.

Operation structure of the switching unit

3A and 3D are diagrams illustrating an operation structure of a switching unit according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The switching unit according to the present invention performs a switching operation between the subjects according to the communication subjects, and may perform a switching hub operation when multi-party communication is performed.

3A is a view showing the operation structure of the switching unit according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3A, the structure of the switching unit of the operation of the portable interface device when the cellular phone and the memory card are connected is illustrated. When the mobile phone and the memory card are connected to the interface of the portable interface device, it detects this, sets the mobile phone as a host, and sets the memory card as a slave. Here, the mobile phone can communicate with the memory card through a user interface of a program that can read, search, and store the memory card.

3B is a view showing the operation structure of the switching unit according to the second embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3B, when connected to a mobile phone and a computer, a structure of a switching unit of the operation of the portable interface device is illustrated. When the mobile phone and the computer are connected to the interface of the portable interface device, it detects this, sets the computer as the host, and sets the mobile phone as the slave. Here, although data can be transmitted and received between the computer and the program using the program provided in the mobile phone, in general, any computer 180 by embedding a mobile terminal management program such as a conventional sink program in the computer 180 The convenient keyboard keyboard allows you to use and manage your phone as conveniently as a PDA. According to the present invention, through a portable interface device equipped with a program for managing a mobile terminal on the computer 180, not only the function is superior to the program embedded in the mobile terminal, but also the convenience of operation using the keyboard. Can be provided to the user. Such communication may be performed at a high speed by a USB method, and the mobile terminal may be charged while performing such a task.

3c is a view showing the operation structure of the switching unit according to a third embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3C, the structure of the switching unit of the operation of the portable interface device when connected to a computer and a memory card is shown. When a computer and a memory card are connected to the interface of the portable interface device, it detects this, sets the computer as a host, and sets the memory card as a slave.

3d is a view showing an operation structure of the switching unit according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3C, the structure of the switching unit of the operation of the portable interface device when connected to a computer, a mobile phone, and a memory card is illustrated. When a computer, a mobile phone, and a memory card are connected to the interface of the portable interface device, the computer is configured to detect, set the computer as a host, and operate the mobile phone and the memory card as first and second slaves. When performing a plurality of communication commands, the switching unit may perform a hub function to perform communication by performing a switching in a time division manner.

As described above, the present invention communicates with a computer, a mobile phone, and a memory card, and has an effect of providing a portable interface device capable of charging a mobile phone.

In addition, the present invention has the effect of detecting the device connected to the interface, and by operating the switching unit by designating the detected device as a host or a slave.

Although described above with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it will be understood that this is for the understanding of the invention and not for the limitation thereof. In addition, one of ordinary skill in the art can understand that the present invention can be variously modified and changed within the scope without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention described in the utility model registration claims below. will be.

1a and 1b are views showing the appearance of a portable interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention,

2 is a view showing the configuration of a portable interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention,

Figure 3a is a view showing the operation structure of the switching unit according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3b is a view showing the operation structure of the switching unit according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3c is a view showing the operation structure of the switching unit according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3d is a view showing the operation structure of the switching unit according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

110: USB interface

120: memory card interface

130: mobile phone interface

140: main body

150: interface device control unit

160: switching unit

180: power supply

190: mobile phone charging unit

195: mobile phone communication unit

Claims (5)

In the portable interface device, An outer case of the portable interface device; A USB interface provided at one end of the outer case to communicate with a computer in a USB manner and electrically and physically connected to the computer; A mobile phone interface provided at the other end of the outer case to communicate with a mobile phone and to be electrically and physically connected to the mobile phone; A memory card interface provided in a groove formed on one surface of the outer case and configured to read and write a memory card mounted on the groove, and to be electrically and physically connected to the memory card; And Protected by the outer case, the main body for controlling communication with the computer, the mobile phone and the memory card Portable interface device comprising a. The method of claim 1, The main body portion An interface device controller for recognizing and controlling communication when at least one device of the computer, the mobile phone, and the memory card is combined; And A switching unit for switching according to a command of the interface device controller Portable interface device comprising a. The method of claim 2, The interface device controller A recording unit for recording data on the memory card; A connection detector for detecting a device connected to the interface; And A communication control unit for performing communication between connected devices according to the communication command Portable interface device comprising a. The method of claim 2, And the switching unit controls multi-party communication between the computer, the mobile phone, and the memory card. The method of claim 1, The main body portion Portable interface device comprising a mobile phone charging unit for charging the mobile phone.