Accessory device for use in connection with a mobile telephone

• US 20020090982A1
• Filed: 07/02/2001
• Published: 07/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Borgstrom, Anders, Schack, Goran, Hollstrom, Magnus
• Application Number:
  US09/898,634
• Publication Number:
  US 20020090982A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/569.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6058 involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone

Abstract

An accessory device (8; 19) for use in connection with a mobile telephone (1) and connectable to at least one sound reproducing unit (13) comprises means for playing back audio files as audibly perceptible signals via the sound reproducing unit (13). It further comprises cable means (9) for connection to the mobile telephone (1), and a microphone (11). By using a cable between the accessory device and the mobile telephone the two devices can be placed separated from each other. This removes the risk of breaking the two devices from each other, and the accessory device can be designed independently of the design of a specific phone model. By further incorporating a microphone in the device there is no longer a need for having a microphone in the headset, and thus a normal standard headset without a built-in microphone can be used.

Claims

1. An accessory device (8;

19) for use in connection with a mobile telephone (1) and connectable to at least one sound reproducing unit (13), said device (8;

19) comprising means for playing back audio files as audibly perceptible signals via the sound reproducing unit (13), characterized in that it further comprises;

cable means (9) for connection to said mobile telephone (1), and

a microphone (11).

2. An accessory device according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises a clip (16) for attaching the accessory device (8;

19) to clothing.

3. An accessory device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it is designed to have an exterior form (8) similar to a tie knot.

4. An accessory device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it is designed to have an exterior form (19) similar to a brooch.