RU2264693C2 - Method for using mobile phone and mobile phone for implementing this method - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: mobile phones.

SUBSTANCE: in order to turn images on mobile phone display and control panel through 0 to 180 deg, display and control panel are removed from their seats, turned through desired angle, and replaced; respective seat contacts make it possible for display and control panel to function in turned position; in addition, turning through 189 deg. mechanically interchanges positions of microphone and dynamic speaker.

EFFECT: ability of retaining microphone and speaker functions upon interchanging their positions.

3 cl, 15 dwg

Description

This technical solution relates to communications, such as mobile portable phones, and relates to methods of using mobile phones. The technical solution is intended for the use of mobile phones and to provide the opportunity to increase their ergonomic qualities, versatility and unification of the components of phones that reduce production costs.

A well-known mobile phone, including a housing in which a display is installed, a removable control panel with control buttons, a microphone, while the socket in which the removable control panel is installed, is configured to install other control panels with other functions and other control buttons [1 ].

In the housing socket under the control panel are electrical conductors forming a group of electrical conductors, and on the control panel are made response groups of electrical conductors that come into contact with a group of electrical conductors that are located in the housing socket.

This technical solution makes it possible to readjust the mobile phone by quickly replacing one removable control panel from the front of the phone with a second or third removable control panel stored by the user of the telephone with other functions than the functions of the first control panel. With this replacement, disassembly of the phone is not required.

In the well-known technical solution of a mobile phone, its control panel is made in the middle and lower parts of the phone body, and the display is located in the upper part of the phone body. When using a telephone (with a traditionally established display arrangement in the upper part of the body), the control buttons located on the control panel appear in the lower part of the body and in the lower part of the user's palm, while the display is located in the area between the thumb and forefinger.

When using the phone in a mode above average load, significant stresses arise on the thumb control buttons located in the lower part of the palm of the hand, which leads to fatigue of the hand and discomfort of controlling the phone. On the other hand, the display located between the thumb and forefinger in the upper part of the case is exposed in conditions of, for example, high sunlight from direct effects of light rays causing, firstly, glare on the screen, and, secondly, excessive illumination makes it difficult to read information from the display, since it discolors the image on the display.

The above disadvantages are present in all currently manufactured mobile phones with an upper display and a lower control panel.

In recent years, new technical solutions have appeared in the patent documentation that eliminate the drawbacks of the technical solution [1], while the aforementioned drawbacks are eliminated by arranging the control buttons in the upper part of the telephone body and, accordingly, by arranging the display in the lower part of the telephone body.

Mobile phones with the aforementioned lower display and upper control buttons are known from published patents for industrial designs of Russia, Germany, and the USA [2-7].

The front side of the mobile phone case is also known, comprising a front panel in the form of an elongated parallelepiped, auditory openings, a display screen, a command dial keyboard and a group of function keys, the screen being located at the bottom of the handset and the dialing keyboard at the top of the case [ 8].

Known mobile phones described in technical solutions [2-8], with a lower display and upper control buttons require the creation of new modifications of the phones associated with significant structural changes.

The closest technical solution to the declared in essence and the achieved effect is a method of using a mobile phone, including the operation of turning the phone on, installing the phone in the palm of your hand, a set of commands by pressing the control buttons on the control panel with your thumb, visual reading of the images on the display, sending audio messages through a microphone and receiving audio messages through a speaker [1].

This method is implemented by means of a mobile phone, including a housing in which an electric power source and a telephone control unit, a display, a microphone, a speaker and a control panel with control buttons with alphabetic, digital and other images are connected [1].

A significant disadvantage of the known method of using a mobile phone is that the telephone control buttons, located on the control panel in the lower part of the telephone body, are in the palm of a person’s hand in a difficult to reach area for the thumb in which the phone is located. As noted above, this creates the inconvenience of using the phone with one hand of a person. Moreover, as noted above, in high light conditions of the environment in which the telephone user is located, it is difficult to read messages from the display in the aforementioned conditions. The listed disadvantages of the known technical solution characterize the mobile phone and the method of its use as a technical solution with unsatisfactory ergonomic qualities in relation to the use of the phone with one hand of the user. Since the dynamics of the development of mobile phone designs indicates the minimization of the overall dimensions of phones, the use of the phone with one hand of the user requires increasing the usability of the phone. At the same time, the creation on the basis of the existing mobile phone (with the upper display location) of another, new mobile phone, with the lower location of the display and the upper position of the control buttons, is associated with the need to change the design of the phone case.

Solved and achievable technical task of the present invention is the creation of a universal and easy to use mobile phone with upper and lower display and control panel.

The stated technical problem is solved in that in the method of using a mobile phone, including the operation of turning the phone on, installing the phone case in the palm of the hand, a set of commands by pressing the control buttons on the control panel with your thumb or by pressing your finger on images simulating buttons for buttonless control panels, visual reading of images on the display, sending audio messages through a microphone and receiving audio messages through the speaker, before turning on the phone in work swap the speaker and microphone or change the speaker function to the microphone function, and change the microphone function to the speaker function, rotate the display and control panel with control buttons or images instead of buttons by a predetermined angle around the image axes in the plane of the front side of the phone body or by electromagnetic rotation the mentioned angle is digital and alphabetic and other images on the control buttons, or rotate the images on the control panel so that the control buttons or their image zheniya located between the thumb and forefinger of the hand, and the longitudinal axis is parallel to the display line connecting the eyes of the user, after which include the phone to work.

Images on the control panel and display are rotated simultaneously with the operation of applying them to the display and control panel on the outside of the telephone using a magnetic device separate from the telephone, for example, using a magnetic pen.

The technical problem is achieved by the implementation of the method by means of a mobile phone, including a housing in which the power supply and the telephone control unit, display, microphone, speaker and control panel with digital, letter or other images or with control buttons with letter letters are connected to it by electric conductors , digital and other images, while the microphone and speaker are made interchangeable and installed in the housing with the possibility of changing places or the possibility of changing The functions of the speaker on the function of the microphone, and the functions of the microphone on the function of the speaker, the display and the control panel are configured to rotate in the plane of the front side of the housing or to rotate in the said plane at a given angle of the images on the display or the images on the control buttons.

The phone case is made with sockets for a display, a control panel, a speaker and a microphone, which are detachably mounted in the sockets of the case with the possibility of being taken out of the sockets and separated from the case from its front side, while the sockets, display, control panel, speaker and microphone are made with the electrical conductors forming the corresponding groups, the speaker and microphone are identical in shape and, accordingly, they have the sockets in which they are located, each display and control panel sockets are made with an additional at least at least one group of electrical conductors, which is installed at an angle to the main group of electrical conductors in the plane of the front side of the phone.

The telephone is made with an electromagnetic unit for turning images on the display, control panel or control buttons in the plane of the front side of the telephone body, as well as with an electromagnetic unit for changing the speaker function to the microphone function, and the microphone function to the speaker function, while the said blocks are connected to the control unit by phone.

The electromagnetic unit for rotating images on the display and control buttons has a means of automatically rotating the images on the display, control panel or control buttons depending on the rotation of the telephone body and fixing the images in operating positions.

This method and a mobile phone provide the ability to create a universal mobile phone, the design of which will allow the user to independently (without technical assistance and opening the phone case) install the display and control panel in the case or rotate the images on the display and control panel to such positions that would correspond consumer needs related to the physiological characteristics of users and the environment in which the mobile phone is used.

Figure 1 shows a mobile phone in an upright position with an upper display and a lower control panel.

Figure 2 - the same mobile phone in an upright position with a lower display and upper control panel, the phone is rotated 180 degrees in the plane of the front side of the phone.

Figure 3 - the same mobile phone in a horizontal position with a sequentially arranged display and control panel located on a horizontal line, while the display and control panel are rotated 90 degrees in the plane of the front side of the phone case.

Figure 4 - phone in an upright position with a lower display in the palm of the user, ergonomic design.

Figure 5 - phone in a horizontal position with a sequentially arranged display and control panel in the palm of the user, ergonomic diagram.

Figure 6 - phone in an upright position with a lower display, protected by the user's fingers with images from discoloration and glare on the display and control panel from direct light, an ergonomic design.

7 is an ergonomic diagram of the interaction of the contact spot of the user's finger with the telephone control buttons in a position where the telephone display is located in the lower part of the user's palm.

On Fig is an explanatory diagram of a mechanical rearrangement of the display, control panel, microphone and speaker.

Figure 9 is an explanatory diagram of a mechanical rearrangement of the display, control panel, microphone and speaker with rotation of the display and control panel in the plane of the front side of the phone.

Figure 10 - mobile phone with an elongated control panel, a magnetic change in the functions of the speaker and microphone and images on the display and control buttons.

11 - a mobile phone with an elongated control panel, a magnetic change in the functions of the speaker and microphone and images on the display and control buttons after changing the functions of the speaker and microphone and image rotation.

On Fig - mobile phone with an elongated control panel, a magnetic change in the functions of the speaker and microphone and rotation of the images on the display and control buttons after changing the functions, rotation of the images and rotation of the phone casing in the plane of the front side of the phone by 180 degrees.

In Fig.13 - a mobile phone with an elongated control panel, a magnetic change in the functions of the speaker and microphone and rotation of the images on the display and control buttons after changing the functions, rotation of the images and the phone case in the plane of the front side of the phone by 90 degrees.

On Fig - a mobile phone with electronic pen input images on the smooth contact surface of the control panel, which does not have control buttons.

On Fig is a structural diagram of a mobile phone.

The method of using a mobile phone is illustrated by the operation of a mobile phone, which includes a housing 1 (Fig. 1) with a power supply 2 installed therein (Fig. 15), connected to a source 2 by electric conductors 3, a telephone control unit 4, a display 5, a microphone 6, a speaker 7 and a control panel 8 with control buttons 9 (FIG. 1). The display 5 shows conventionally the image 10, on the control buttons 9 there are digital and other images 11, 12, it should be noted that the image data on a buttonless telephone can take place directly on the telephone control panel 8 (Fig. 14) and operate by touch to them magnetic pen described below.

In one example of a telephone, its microphone 6 and speaker 7 are interchangeable in shape (Figs. 1-4, 8) and are installed in the housing 1 with the possibility of reversing them. In another example of a telephone, its speaker and microphone are configured to change the function of the speaker 7 to the function of the microphone 6 and the ability to change the function of the microphone 6 to the function of the speaker 7. A device that allows changing the above-mentioned functions is not disclosed in the present description. The display 5 and the control panel 8 are arranged to rotate in the plane of the front side 13 of the housing (Fig. 9) or to rotate in the said plane by a given angle of images 10-12 on the display 5 and on the control buttons 9 (Figs. 2, 3 9, 11-14).

The phone housing 1 is made with sockets 14-17 (Fig. 8), respectively, under the display 5, control panel 8, speaker 7 and microphone 6, which are detachably mounted in their respective sockets 14-17 of the housing with the possibility of removal from the sockets and separation from the housing with front side 13 of the phone. The sockets 14-17, the display 5, the control panel 8, the speaker 7 and the microphone 6 are made with electrical conductors forming the corresponding groups of 18 electrical conductors, the speaker 7 and the microphone 6 are made identical in shape and, accordingly, they have the sockets 16 and 17 in which they are located working provisions. Slots 14 and 15 of the display 5 and the control panel 8 are made with additional groups of 19 electrical conductors. Each additional group 19 of electrical conductors of socket 14 or socket 15 is mounted either parallel to the main group of electrical conductors 18, or at an angle to the main group 18 of electrical conductors in the plane of the front side 13 of the telephone.

The mobile phone (Fig. 15) is made with an electromagnetic block 20 for turning images on the display, on the control panel 8 or on the control buttons 9 (which are located on the control panel) in the plane of the front side 13 of the phone and with the electromagnetic block 21 changing the speaker function to the microphone function , and the microphone function to the speaker function, wherein said units 20 and 21 are connected to the telephone control unit 4. A block 22 is connected to the block 22 automatic rotation of the images depending on the rotation of the phone in the aforementioned plane and the automatic fixation of images in predetermined operating positions.

In one example of a mobile phone, an option is provided in which the control panel is made without control buttons (Fig. 14). In this example, the control panel 23, denoted by a dashed line, is made contact, has a smooth magnetic surface, which works in conjunction with the magnetic pen 24 that is attached to the phone. When the pen 24 touches the surface of the contact panel 23, digital, letter, font or other images identical to the images on the known telephone control buttons are obtained on the contact panel. In this case, the user sets the angle of rotation in the said plane of the front side 13 of the telephone, on which the images on the control contact panel 23 are rotated, based on the ergonomic requirements of using the telephone and the convenience of controlling it.

The drawings show a button 25 for changing the functions of the speaker and microphone and changing the position of images on the display 5, control panel 8 or on the phone control buttons 9. Position 26 shows the power button of the phone.

The method of using the mobile phone is illustrated by the operation of the telephone.

If the dimensions of the mobile phone, the dimensions of the user's palm, the shape of the phone’s body, the above-mentioned illumination of the environment in which the user is located on the phone, provide a convenient set of commands on the control panel and unhindered reading of information from the display, then the phone is used in the position shown on figure 1.

If the dimensions of the mobile phone, the dimensions of the user's palm, the shape of the phone’s body, make it inconvenient to press the control buttons with the finger of one hand, and the illumination of the environment in which the user is on the phone creates due to the light glare on the display or due to discoloration display interference when reading information from it, then presented in figure 1, the phone is used in the position shown in figure 2. To do this, swap speaker 7 and microphone 6 or change the speaker function to the microphone function, and the microphone function change to the speaker function.

In the first case (the mechanical example of changing the phone shown in Fig. 8), the speaker 7 is removed from the socket 16, the microphone 6 is removed from the socket 17, after which the speaker 7 is installed in the socket 17, and the microphone 6 is installed in the socket 16. In the second electromagnetic example changes to the phone using the button 25 enable the electromagnetic unit 21 to change the functions of the speaker and the microphone and change the function of the speaker 7 to the function of the microphone 6, and the function of the latter is changed to the function of the speaker. In this case, mechanical rearrangement of the display and microphone is excluded.

In the case of a mechanical embodiment of the telephone, the display 5 is removed from the housing socket 14 (Fig. 8) and the control panel 8 is removed from the socket 15, then the control panel 8 is installed in the housing socket 14, and the display 5 is installed in the housing slot 15. In this case, the groups of electrical conductors of the display and the control panel, which are located on their inner sides, enter into contacts with the corresponding groups of 19 electrical conductors, and the telephone with a mechanical version of its change is ready for operation. Then, the telephone housing 1 is rotated 180 degrees around an axis perpendicular to the front side 13 of the telephone so that the telephone power button 26 and the function and image position change button 25 are in the upper position shown in FIG. 4, and enable the telephone to operate and use it in a known manner.

During a conversation on the phone, his case is almost in a horizontal position, after listening to messages, information is read from the phone’s display, when his case is also in a horizontal position, and in this advantageous position, commands are typed with one finger with one hand. It should be noted that for a certain group of users of the phone, the preferred option for the location of the phone casing in the palm of the user may be the horizontal arrangement of the casing (Fig. 5).

Due to the foregoing, if the telephone is most preferred for the user in the palm of the hand, as shown in Fig. 5, then all the above operations of mechanical modification of the telephone are repeated, and after removing the display 5 and the control panel 8 from their sockets, they are first rotated around their own axes 27 and 28 (Fig. 9) in the direction of the arrows at an angle of 90 degrees, and then install the display 5 in the socket 15, and the control panel 8 is installed in the socket 14, while located on the reverse sides of In the panel and control panels, their electrical conductors enter into contacts with additional electrical conductors 19, which are located at an angle of 90 degrees to the main electrical conductors 18. Then, using the button 26, the telephone is switched on. The rotation of the phone casing by the user by an angle of 90 degrees in the plane of the front side 13 of the phone casing (after turning the display and control panel) provides the most convenient reading of images from the display and control panel or from the control buttons, provided that the straight line 29 (Fig. 4), connecting the eyes of the user, is parallel to the axial lines 30 of the display and the control panel, passing longitudinally and parallel to the images 10 on the display and images 11 and 12 on the control panel 8.

In the second embodiment, the technical solution includes a button 25 to change the functions and position of the images; an electromagnetic unit 20 for changing and rotating images on the display 5 and control buttons 9, rotate the images on the display, control panel or control buttons to the selected rotation angle (figure 2 , 3), fix the images on the control panel or control buttons and display in predetermined operating positions and, accordingly, the position of the images, place the phone case in the palm of your hand. Then they turn on the phone and then use it in the usual way.

In the position of the telephone (Figs. 3, 4) in high light conditions when working with the telephone with a lower display location, it is possible to shadow cover the display screen with the fingers of the hand in the palm of which the telephone is located.

To do this, it is enough to bring the fingers of the palm of the hand (Fig. 6) above the display so that the display screen is in the user's field of view, and there is a shadow on the screen from the fingers, which, firstly, eliminates glare on the screen, and, in -second, provides in high light conditions the manifestation of images on the display. In the case of luminous control buttons, the shadow of the fingers also contributes to the appearance of images on the buttons.

When you press the buttons 9 with your thumb on the top of the control panel located (figure 4), this finger works in the area between its extreme right position and the little finger. Due to the upper position of the control panel, the thumb has great working capabilities and mobility in the said area, turning around the points ZGS, denoting the joints of the hand. Turning around these points, the conventionally marked contact spot F at the end of the thumb contacts the telephone control buttons 9 (Fig. 7) when pressed without undue stress (in comparison with the lower location of the control panel), which provides ease and convenience of pressing the buttons 9 on the control panel 8 when it is in the upper position.

Use the method and the phone to implement the method of the presented technical solution in the design of the phone with an elongated control panel 8 (Fig.10-12) can also be two ways. One way is mechanical when the display 5 and the control panel 8 shown in FIG. 10 are removed from the phone’s front side 13 from their sockets, then the display and the control panel are rotated 180 degrees in the plane of the phone front side 13 and reinserted into their nests, while the display and control panel occupy the positions shown in Fig.11. Next, the speaker 7 and microphone 6 are rearranged in the manner described above, the phone is turned 180 degrees so that the display 5 is at the bottom, and the control panel 8 is at the top (Fig. 12) and the phone is used in the manner described above. Electronically, the images on the control panel 8 or on the control buttons 9 and on the display 5 of the telephone shown in FIGS. 10-13 are turned by pressing and turning (does not open) the buttons 25 for changing the functions of the speaker and microphone and changing the position of the images by a predetermined angle of 180 or 90 degrees around the vertical axis of the phone, perpendicular to the front side 13 of the phone (Fig.12 and 13). Then, the function of the speaker is changed electromagnetically to the function of the microphone, and at the same time, the function of the microphone is changed to the function of the speaker, or they are rearranged in the manner described above. Use a phone with a lower display in the palm of the hand (Fig) or with a sequential arrangement of the display and control panel (Fig). The rotation of the images by 90 and 180 degrees does not exclude their rotation by other angles around the axes passing perpendicular to the planes in which the said images are located. It is obvious that the control panel and the display can be round in shape, in contrast to the shape of their execution square (Fig.1-9) or in the form of parallelograms (Fig.10-14).

For telephones having instead of the control buttons a smooth surface of the telephone control contact panel 23 (Fig. 14), the images on the display 5 and the control panel 23 are rotated with a magnetic pen 24, then the images are fixed in working positions and the telephone is then used in a known manner.

Sources of information

1. US 2003 \ 0153349 A1, 455/550, 2003.

2. RU 51096, 14-03, 2002.

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Claims (4)

1. A way to improve the usability of a mobile phone with an upper or lower display, which provides the ability to rotate the images on the display and control panel by an angle from 0 to 180 ° with the change of the speaker functions to the microphone function, and the microphone function to the speaker function when the images are rotated through an angle of 180 °, while the images on the display and the control panel are rotated by removing the control panel and the display from the sockets and rotating them to the appropriate angle when rotating through an angle of 180 °, OMe order mechanically interchange microphone and speaker. 2. A mobile phone, characterized in that it contains a removable display and a rectangular control panel with contact groups located away from the center on the reverse front side, and the slots for the display and control panel contain three groups of contacts arranged in such a way as to provide the operation of the display and the control panel when they are rotated in the sockets by an angle of 90-180 °, the microphone and speaker are made removable, identical in shape, and the microphone and speaker jacks are made identical in shape with contact groups, ying in such a way to ensure the interchangeability of microphone and speaker. 3. The mobile phone according to claim 2, characterized in that in a plan view, all sides of the display and the control panel are equal to each other. 4. The mobile phone according to claim 2, characterized in that in the top view the display and control panel, speaker and microphone are respectively made in the form of two pairs of equal parallelograms.

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