Automatic signal transfer apparatus for mobile phone

• US 20020090977A1
• Filed: 01/08/2001
• Published: 07/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Syagration Limited
• Original Assignee: Syagration Limited
• Inventors: Chen, Gordon
• Application Number:
  US09/755,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20020090977A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/006 Call diverting means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724

Abstract

Automatic signal transfer apparatus for mobile phone is composed of an interface circuit, a transmitter/receiver signal transfer circuit, a DC power supply circuit, a line state detection circuit, a change over control circuit, a change over device, and a ringing circuit. With this structure the apparatus is able to automatically identify whether the input signal comes from the commercial telecom line, or from the mobile phone, and automatically transfers to the indoor telephone. By so, in order to receive both calling coming from the telecom line and calling to the mobile phone, and transfer the callings to the indoor telephone set without going through a tedious presetting procedure, it is only required to connect the mobile phone to an interface circuit. With such scheme, the apparatus of the present invention will never affect function and operation of the indoor telephone.

Claims

1. Automatic signal transfer apparatus for mobile phone comprising:

a mobile phone interface circuit for connecting to terminals of an earphone, a microphone interface circuit for connecting to terminals of an earphone, a microphone and a charging battery unit of the mobile phone;

a T/R (Transmitter/Receiver) signal transfer circuit for transforming a voice signal to the mobile phone to a T/R signal acceptable to an indoor telephone connected to the telecom line;

a DC power supply circuit for supplying DC power to all electrical circuits of said apparatus and the indoor telephone;

a line state detection circuit for detecting whether the indoor line is on line or not, and also for detecting if there is a calling signal to the mobile phone;

a change over control circuit for receiving signal from said line state detection circuit informing the line state so as to change over the line connection;

a change over device for changing the line connection to the mobile phone side or to the telecom line side; and

a ringing circuit responsible for receiving bell signal of the mobile phone and transforming it into a bell signal for the indoor telephone;

with such a scheme of the circuits, a voice signal inputted to the mobile phone is transformed to T/R voice signal acceptable for the indoor telephone by said T/R signal transfer circuit through earphone and microphone terminals of the mobile phone thereby realizing the transformation between voice signal of the mobile phone and T/R signal of the indoor telephone.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said DC supply circuit is usable for charging the mobile phone.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operation principle of said electrical circuit is:

said line state detection circuit restlessly detects if there is a ringing signal to the mobile phone, if the answer is yes, said detection circuit then detects whether the indoor telephone is in use or not, in case it is on hook, a signal is sent to said change over control circuit to operate a line switch in said change over device to switch the indoor telephone to the mobile phone side of said T/R signal transfer circuit so as to receive the signal transmitted from the mobile phone, said mobile phone interface circuit transmit a bell signal of the mobile phone to said ringing circuit which in turn sends a bell signal to the indoor telephone for ringing.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein if the indoor telephone is detected to be on hook in use, said change over control circuit never sends any change over signal to said change over device such that the indoor telephone stays continually in telecom line.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the response of said electrical circuit to a call to the mobile phone including, said ringing circuit outputs a bell signal for ringing the indoor telephone;

said line state detection circuit detects whether the indoor telephone is in use or not, if it is yes, said detects circuit then sends a signal to said mobile phone interface circuit to instruct the mobile phone to receive the calling;

the input voice signal to the mobile phone is transformed into T/R signal acceptable to the indoor telephone by said T/R signal transfer circuit and transferred from the earphone and the microphone terminals to the indoor telephone.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein steps of ending a telephone call by said electrical circuits includes:

detecting that the indoor telephone has been hung on by said line state detection circuit;

sending a hang on signal to said interface circuit to interrupt the mobile phone communication by said detection circuit;

sending a change over signal from said detection circuit to said change over control circuit to operate said change over device thereby switching the line connection back to the telecom line therefore restoring the indoor telephone to its normal operation mode.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said DC power supply circuit is directly connected to a DC source, in case said DC power supply circuit loses its DC source, said DC power supply circuit is able to introduce the power from the telecom line and supply said electrical circuit of said apparatus with required DC working power through necessary transformation.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a buzzer or a bell can be equipped with said ringing circuit for informing a call is coming to the mobile phone without ringing the indoor telephone.