Wrist-mounted telephone device

• US 20040209657A1
• Filed: 01/16/2004
• Published: 10/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Firooz Benjamin Ghassabian
• Original Assignee: Firooz Benjamin Ghassabian
• Inventors: Ghassabian, Yoram
• Application Number:
  US10/759,383
• Publication Number:
  US 20040209657A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts

Abstract

A cellular telephone device comprising two C-shaped members which are configured to be detachably secured around a wrist of a user. The members have an inside surface, which is in contact with the user'"'"'s wrist when the device is in the closed position. On the inside surface is disposed either a keypad unit for providing signals to the cellular telephone device or at least one display unit. The device comprises a cellular phone mechanism and a battery, which are housed in the members. In a preferred embodiment, the two members are C-shaped and are pivotably connected at one end by a hinge and are detachably connected at a second end by a releasable clasp mechanism. The second end of each member also comprises a speaker unit and a microphone, respectively, such that, when the device is in an open position, the speaker unit and the microphone are positionable proximate to a user'"'"'s ear and mouth. An outer surface of the members may comprise a display unit, a keypad, a watch unit, or a speaker unit and microphone.

Claims

1. A bracelet-shaped wrist-mounted communication device comprising at least a first section and a second section, wrapped around a wearer'"'"'s wrist, wherein;

said first and second sections, are, fixedly and pivotally, attached to each other at one end, and axe, openably, attached to each other at the other end, and wherein;

said sections are manufactured so that in a closed position and an open position, each of said sections, keeps, approximately, its original C-shaped form

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said first section, generally, wraps around one side of a wearer'"'"'s wrist, and said second section, generally, wraps around the other side of said wearer'"'"'s wrist.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said device, further, comprises a telephony system, wherein a microphone unit and a speaker unit of said telephony system, axe, respectively, integrated within said first and second sections.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein said microphone unit and said speaker unit are located, respectively, at the openable ends of said first and second sections.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein said device, further, comprises:

at least a keypad unit for providing signals into said device, and;

at least one display unit,

wherein at least one of said keypad unit and said display unit are located within an inside surface of at least one of said sections.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein said device, further, comprises a watch unit.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein said watch unit is integrated within a separate housing disposed from said bracelet, said housing being attached to one of said sections,

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein said housing of said watch unit is integrated within one of said sections, so that said section and said watch, together, form said C-shaped-formed section.

9. The device according to claims 6, wherein said watch unit functions independently from said wrist-mounted device.