Electricity saving device for a user interface terminal device of cellular phone

• US 20050143150A1
• Filed: 02/16/2005
• Published: 06/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GUAN Technologies LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Lite-On Technology (Lite-On Technology Corporation)
• Inventors: Chen, James
• Application Number:
  US11/058,294
• Publication Number:
  US 20050143150A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.100
• 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 1/0235 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• 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: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

An electricity saving device for a user interface terminal device of a cellular phone is used for a cellular phone. The cellular phone includes two devices, one of them is a net communicator, and the other is a user interface terminal device. The net communicator consists of a base frequency module, radio frequency module and bluetooth module, which are responsible for building a communication with a cellular telephone base station. And, the user interface terminal device consists a bluetooth, display, keyboard, horn and microphone, which are responsible for outputting voice, displaying message, accepting keyboard input, and voice input, respectively. The keyboard is a retractable keyboard; the pressing-back action of a keyboard will activate a contact switch. A voltage signal is generated and sent into a central processing unit of the user interface terminal device after the contact switch is activated, the central processing unit command a bluetooth module of the user interface terminal device to enter into a park mode so as to save electricity.

Claims

1. An electricity saving device for a user interface terminal device of a cellular telephone, mainly comprising a retractable keyboard and contact switch, wherein said contact switch is mainly disposed at a route for drawing out and pressing back a retractable keyboard of a cellular telephone;

said contact switch being activated (untouched) to cause a bluetooth module to enter into a park mode when said keyboard of said cellular telephone is drawn out, said contact switch being activated (touched) to cause said bluetooth module to recover back to a normal mode when said drawn-out keyboard is pressed back in the middle of a telephone communication.

2. The electricity saving device of claim 1, wherein a voltage signal is changed after said contact switch is activated.

3. The electricity saving device of claim 2, wherein said voltage signal is sent into a CPU of said user interface terminal device.

4. The electricity saving device of claim 3, wherein a net communicator commands said bluetooth module of said user interface terminal device to recover back to said normal mode if a user message is received by said cellular telephone when said bluetooth module is in said park mode.

5. The electricity saving device of claim 3, wherein said bluetooth module is entered into said park mode after said CPU receives said voltage signal when said keyboard is pressed back and said contact switch is activated (touched).

6. The electricity saving device of claim 1, 4 or 5, wherein said contact switch is a keyboard type contact switch, one of two terminals of said switch is connected to a high voltage signal source and another is connected to said CPU.

7. The electricity saving device of claim 6, wherein an elastic plate that is used for disconnecting and conducting electricity is further disposed at said contact switch, only one end of said elastic plate is fixed to and contacts with one of said two terminals of said two terminals of said switch.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein another end of said elastic plate separates from another terminal and said voltage signal is changed when said keyboard is drawn out.

9. The device according to claim 7, wherein another end of said elastic plate touches another terminal and said voltage signal is changed when said keyboard is pressed back.

10. The device according to claim 1, said contact switch is installed at the end of said route.

11. A cellular phone structure, comprising two devices, one is a net communicator which is responsible for building a communication with a cellular phone base station and the other is a user interface terminal device which are responsible for outputting voice, displaying messages, accepting a keystroke input, and voice input, respectively.

12. The structure of claim 11, wherein said net communicator consists of a base frequency module, radio frequency module and bluetooth module.

13. The structure of claim 11, wherein said user interface terminal device consists of a bluetooth module, display, keyboard, speaker and microphone.

14. The structure of claim 11, 12 or 13, wherein said net communicator and user interface terminal device are maintained a communication through said bluetooth modules.