Folding Cellular Phone and Slide Cellular Phone

• US 20060229118A1
• Filed: 06/21/2006
• Published: 10/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yasuhiro Kaneko
• Original Assignee: Yasuhiro Kaneko
• Inventors: Kaneko, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/425,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20060229118A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.300
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0245 using open/close detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

A folding cellular phone and a slide cellular phone with excellent usability. A folding cellular phone 1 has a status detection unit 20 which detects whether the folding cellular phone 1 is in a folded status or an opened status, a memory 21 which holds information to respond to an incoming call by opening the folding cellular phone 1, and a control unit 17 which, if an incoming call is detected when the folding cellular phone is in the folded status, in a case where information on the incoming call is stored in the memory, responds to the incoming call if the status detection unit 20 detects that the folding cellular phone has moved to the opened status.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A cellular phone, comprising:

an acceleration sensor that detects a pre-programmed particular external force; and

a control unit that permits responding to an incoming call when said acceleration sensor detects said pre-programmed external force.

22. The cellular phone of claim 21 further comprising:

a housing which can be moved between an opened status and a closed status;

a status detection unit which detects whether said housing is in said opened status or said closed status; and

wherein said control unit only permits responding to said incoming call when said status detection unit detects said housing is in said opened status.

23. The cellular phone of claim 22 wherein said control unit allows for responding automatically.

24. The cellular phone of claim 22 further comprising an operation unit that is configured to be operated by a user,

wherein said control unit responds to said incoming call upon operation of said operation unit if said status detection unit detects said housing is in said opened status.

25. The cellular phone of claim 22 wherein said acceleration sensor detects at least one of whether said cellular phone is shaken, whether a period of time is elapsed between movements of said cellular phone and a reception of said incoming call, or whether said housing is moved to an open status at a pre-determined speed.

26. The cellular phone of claim 22 wherein said housing is configured for a foldable cellular phone.

27. The cellular phone of claim 22 wherein said housing is configured for a slidable cellular phone.