Environmentally-friendly mobile phone

• US 20070099682A1
• Filed: 06/28/2006
• Published: 05/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chen, Ga-Lane
• Application Number:
  US11/478,411
• Publication Number:
  US 20070099682A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• 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

Abstract

An exemplary environmentally-friendly mobile phone includes a main body and a housing enclosing the main body therein. The housing is made of bamboo. The housing has an outer surface and a coating containing nanoparticles is formed on the outer surface thereof The environmentally-friendly multifunctional mobile phone is friendly to environment and users due to having functions such as sterilizing, deodorizing, antifouling and self-cleaning, internet browsing, listening to MP3, taking photographs, infrared and bluetooth transmission, wireless 3G communication, having microdrive, storing changes and so on.

Claims

1. An environmentally-friendly mobile phone, comprising:

a main body, and

a housing enclosing the main body therein, the housing being comprised of bamboo, the housing having an outer surface and a coating comprised nanoparticles formed on the outer surface thereof.

3. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, wherein a thickness of the coating is in a range from 10 nanometers to 1000 nanometers.

4. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 3, wherein a thickness of the coating is in a range from 20 nanometers to 500 nanometers.

5. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bamboo of the housing is pretreated by gamma rays.

6. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a transflective display.

7. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a camera module having an image sensor.

8. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 7, wherein a resolution of the image sensor is in a range from 0.3 megapixels to 8 megapixels.

9. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a transmission interface.

10. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 9, wherein the transmission interface is selected from a group consisting of infrared data interface and blue tooth interface.

11. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an emergency switch configured for transmitting a signal to an intended receiver in case of an emergency.

12. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of connector interfaces arranged in the housing.

13. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 12, wherein the connector interfaces comprise an MP3 interface, a CD/DVD interface, and a hard disk interface.

14. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a cavity defined inside the housing configured for accommodating coins therein and an opening defined in a sidewall of the housing in communication with the cavity.

2. The environmentally-friendly mobile phone as claimed in claim 2, wherein the nanoparticles are selected from a group consisting of titanium dioxide, siliver, zincum dioxide and any combination thereof.