USER INTERFACE SUBSTRATE FOR HANDSET DEVICE

• US 20080037769A1
• Filed: 07/24/2006
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Boos, John P., Emmert, Steve C.
• Application Number:
  US11/459,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20080037769A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/433.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/026 Details of the structure or mounting of specific components
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/03 Constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. telephone hand-sets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/035 Improving the acoustic characteristics by means of constructional features of the housing, e.g. ribs, walls, resonating chambers or cavities
• 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 substrate (56) for a handset device (10) includes a keypad contact array (108) on the substrate (56) and a display electrode pattern (604) on the substrate (56). In addition, in one example, the substrate (56) for a handset device (10) may include a first surface and a second surface. A keypad contact array (108) and a display electrode pattern (604) may be included on the first surface (96) of the substrate (56). A display (52) may be operatively coupled to the display electrode pattern (604). A portion of the substrate (56) may define at least a portion of an audio port (274).

Claims

1. A substrate for a handset device comprising:

a keypad contact array on the substrate; and

a display electrode pattern on the substrate.

2. The substrate of claim 1 further comprising a first surface and an opposing second surface wherein the keypad contact array and the display electrode pattern are both on the first surface.

3. The substrate of claim 1 wherein the keypad contact array and the display electrode pattern comprise a conductive material.

4. The substrate of claim 1 further comprising a connector operatively coupled to the substrate.

5. The substrate of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of interconnect electrical contact pads on the second surface substrate.

6. The substrate of claim 1 wherein a portion of the substrate defines at least a portion of an audio port.

7. A substrate for a handset device comprising:

a first surface and a second surface;

a keypad contact array on the first surface of the substrate wherein a portion of the substrate defines at least a portion of an audio port;

a display electrode pattern on the first surface of the substrate; and

a display operatively coupled to the display electrode pattern.

8. The substrate of claim 7 wherein the display is configured to at least partly surround the audio port portion on the substrate.

9. The substrate of claim 8 wherein the display is an electrophoretic display.

10. The substrate of claim 8 further comprising a connector operatively coupled to the second surface of the substrate and a plurality of electrical contact pads on the second surface.

11. The substrate of claim 8 further comprising at least one integrated circuit operatively coupled to the bottom surface of the substrate.