CAR TELEPHONE SYSTEM

• US 20070142095A1
• Filed: 06/20/2006
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BURY Spzoo, Bentley Motors Limited (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: BURY Spzoo, Bentley Motors Limited (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Wilson, Trevor, Bollmann, Eckhard
• Granted Patent: US 7,702,312 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/569.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface

Abstract

A car telephone system having a telephone module (3) which has a telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5), can be connected to a transmitting and receiving antenna (7), can be connected to a central control bus (1) of the vehicle and can be controlled by a central controller (2) via the control bus (1) enables telephone operation, via the telephone module (3), using user-specific data from a mobile telephone (9) by virtue of the fact that the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5) is provided with a wireless data and signal transmission unit (6) which can be used to transmit user-specific data from a mobile telephone (9) to the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5), and by virtue of the fact that the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5) is also connected to a separate card reader (11) for a memory card which contains the user-specific data from the mobile telephone (9).

Claims

1. Car telephone system having a telephone module (3) which has a telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5), can be connected to a transmitting and receiving antenna (7), can be connected to a central control bus (1) of the vehicle and can be controlled by a central controller (2) via the control bus (1), characterized in that the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5) is provided with a wireless data and signal transmission unit (6) which can be used to transmit user-specific data from a mobile telephone (9) to the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5), and in that the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5) is also connected to a separate card reader (11) for a memory card which contains the user-specific data from the mobile telephone (9).

2. Car telephone system according to claim 1, characterized in that the card reader (11) is arranged at a distance of >

1 m from the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5).

3. Car telephone system according to claim 1, characterized in that the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5) is arranged in the region of a rear window of the vehicle.

4. Car telephone system according to claim 1, characterized in that the separate card reader (11) is arranged within the vehicle driver'"'"'s reach.

5. Car telephone system according to claim 4, characterized in that the separate card reader (11) is arranged in the region of a center console between front seats of the vehicle.

6. Car telephone system according to claim 1, characterized by a separate control unit (10) which is directly connected to the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5) and is intended to organize wireless communication between the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5) and the mobile telephone (9).

7. Car telephone system according to claim 5, characterized in that the separate control unit is provided with the separate card reader.