Mobile telephone

• US 10,237,382 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2018
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Finewell Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Finewell Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hosoi, Hiroshi, Hosoi, Yoji, Tanaka, Masahide
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Mahendra
• Application Number:
  US16/045,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20180332152A1
• Time in Patent Office: 236 Days
• Field of Search: 4555751, 455 413, 4555691, 455566, 1 1, 381 686, 381155
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3262 Power saving in digitizer or tablet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0264 for a camera module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/03 Constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. telephone hand-sets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/035 Improving the acoustic characteristics by means of constructional features of the housing, e.g. ribs, walls, resonating chambers or cavities
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2460/13 Hearing devices using bone conduction transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/11 Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/027 by controlling a display operation or backlight unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile telephone has a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall partly continuous with a side face, and a side wall, and includes a vibration-absorbing member between the top wall and each of the rear wall and the side wall, and a cartilage conduction vibration source on the inner side of the top wall. Opposite corner parts of the top wall partly continuous with the side face each serve as a cartilage conduction unit. Or a mobile telephone has a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, and a side wall, and includes a cartilage conduction vibration source that has a thin shape, that vibrates in a direction perpendicular to the thin shape, and that is affixed to the middle, in the left/right direction, of the inner side of the top wall in a direction parallel to the thin shape.

Claims

1. A handset comprising:

a data-input touch pen unit for data input on a touch panel of a mobile telephone;

a communication unit for near-field wireless communication with the mobile telephone;

an audio output unit for output of an audio signal received by the communication unit;

an audio input unit for input of an audio signal transmitted from the communication unit; and

an adjusting means, wherein

the audio output unit includes a cartilage conduction unit,

the adjusting means operable to adjust intensity of vibration of the cartilage conduction unit at least between a first intensity and a second intensity,

the handset operable to generate air-conduction sound whose volume changes as the intensity of the vibration changes, and

the first intensity is an intensity sufficient to generate air-conduction sound with a volume required in a measurement method conforming to a standard for a common mobile telephone.

2. The handset according to claim 1, further comprising:

an incoming-call notifying unit.

3. The handset according to claim 1, further comprising:

an incoming-call notifying unit, and wherein

the cartilage conduction unit also serves as the incoming-call notifying unit.

4. The handset according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit that displays an identification of the call destination.

5. The handset according to claim 4, wherein

the handset has a flat shape, and

the display unit can display text that identifies the call destination, and is provided on a the flat face of the flat shape.

6. The handset according to claim 1, further comprising:

a call destination storage unit, and wherein

through selection by a touch with the data-input touch pen unit, call destination data is received from the mobile telephone via the communication unit, and is stored in the call destination storage unit.

7. The handset according to claim 1, wherein the handset is operable in a configuration in which, when the touch panel of the mobile telephone is in a power-saving state, the audio output unit and the audio input unit are in an enabled state.

8. The handset according to claim 7, wherein the handset is operable in a configuration in which, when the touch panel of the mobile telephone is in a state capable of accepting input, the audio output unit and the audio input unit are disused.

9. The handset according to claim 1, wherein the handset is operable in a configuration in which, when the mobile telephone is in a videophone session, the audio output unit and the audio input unit are in an enabled state.

10. The handset according to claim 1, wherein the second intensity is an intensity insufficient to generate air-conduction sound with the volume required in the measurement method conforming to the standard for a common mobile telephone, the second intensity being such that a sound pressure inside an external auditory meatus as measured with the mobile telephone in contact with an ear cartilage with the vibration at the second intensity is higher than a sound pressure inside the external auditory meatus as measured with the mobile telephone out of contact with, but close to, an entrance of the external auditory meatus with the vibration at the first intensity.