Mobile phone

• US 20050075127A1
• Filed: 09/19/2003
• Published: 04/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Shaanan, Gad, Sitachitt, Sidney, Simek, Mark Edward, Ganton, Robert B.
• Application Number:
  US10/665,691
• Publication Number:
  US 20050075127A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof by improving visibility H04M1/22

Abstract

A mobile phone includes a mobile phone housing including a front face, a left side face, a right side face, and a width W between the left side face and the right side face; a speaker disposed in and outwardly directed from the front face of the housing; a microphone disposed in and outwardly directed from the front face of the housing and spaced a distance D from the speaker when the mobile phone is ready for taking or placing a call; a display disposed in and outwardly directed from the front face of the housing; a phone number keypad including a plurality of telephone number input keys to dial a phone number to place a call, the telephone number input keys located in a position other than centered on the front face with respect to the left side face and the right side face; and the ratio of the distance D to the width W being greater than 4.

Claims

1. A mobile phone, comprising:

a mobile phone housing including a front face, a left side face, a right side face, and a width W between the left side face and the right side face;

a speaker disposed in and outwardly directed from the front face of the housing;

a microphone disposed in and outwardly directed from the front face of the housing and spaced a distance D from the speaker when the mobile phone is ready for taking or placing a call;

a display disposed in and outwardly directed from the front face of the housing;

a phone number keypad including a plurality of telephone number input keys to dial a phone number to place a call, the telephone number input keys located in a position other than centered on the front face with respect to the left side face and the right side face;

wherein the ratio of the distance D to the width W is greater than 4.

2. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein the telephone number input keys are linearly aligned.

3. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein the telephone number input keys are located on one of the left side face and the right side face.

4. The mobile phone of claim 1, further including a left edge where the left side face and the front face intersect and a right edge where the right side face and the front face intersect, and the telephone number input keys are located on one of the left edge and the right edge.

5. The mobile phone of claim 1, further including a left edge where the left side face and the front face intersect and a right edge where the right side face and the front face intersect, and the telephone number input keys are located on the front face adjacent one of the left edge and the right edge.

6. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein the mobile phone includes a thickness T, and the ratio of the width W to the thickness T is less than 2.

7. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein the mobile phone includes ten respective telephone number input keys for inputting the numbers 0-9.

8. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein the mobile phone includes five telephone number input keys for inputting the numbers 0-9, each telephone number input key to input two different numbers.

9. A mobile phone, comprising:

a mobile phone housing including a front face, a left side face, a right side face, and a width W between the left side face and the right side face;

a speaker, a microphone, a display, a phone number keypad carried by the housing, the microphone spaced a distance D from the speaker when the mobile phone is ready for taking or placing a call;

the speaker, the microphone, the display, and the phone number keypad positioned so that the ratio of the distance D to the width W is greater than 4.

10. The mobile phone of claim 9, wherein the phone number keypad includes a plurality of telephone number input keys that are linearly aligned.

11. The mobile phone of claim 10, wherein the telephone number input keys are located on one of the left side face and the right side face.

12. The mobile phone of claim 10, further including a left edge where the left side face and the front face intersect and a right edge where the right side face and the front face intersect, and the telephone number input keys are located on one of the left edge and the right edge.

13. The mobile phone of claim 10, further including a left edge where the left side face and the front face intersect and a right edge where the right side face and the front face intersect, and the telephone number input keys are located on the front face adjacent one of the left edge and the right edge.

14. The mobile phone of claim 9, wherein the mobile phone includes a thickness T, and the ratio of the width W to the thickness T is less than 2.

15. The mobile phone of claim 10, wherein the mobile phone includes ten respective telephone number input keys for inputting the numbers 0-9.

16. The mobile phone of claim 10, wherein the mobile phone includes five telephone number input keys for inputting the numbers 0-9, each telephone number input key to input two different numbers.

17. A mobile phone, comprising:

a mobile phone housing including a front face, a left side face, and a right side face;

a speaker disposed in and outwardly directed from the front face of the housing;

a microphone disposed in and outwardly directed from the front face of the housing;

a display disposed in and outwardly directed from the front face of the housing;

a phone number keypad including a plurality of linearly aligned telephone number input keys to dial a phone number to place a call, the telephone number input keys located in a position other than centered on the front face with respect to the left side face and the right side face.

18. The mobile phone of claim 17, wherein the telephone number input keys are located on one of the left side face and the right side face.

19. The mobile phone of claim 17, further including a left edge where the left side face and the front face intersect and a right edge where the right side face and the front face intersect, and the telephone number input keys are located on one of the left edge and the right edge.

20. The mobile phone of claim 17, further including a left edge where the left side face and the front face intersect and a right edge where the right side face and the front face intersect, and the telephone number input keys are located on the front face adjacent one of the left edge and the right edge.