Communication apparatus

• US 20080233987A1
• Filed: 03/12/2008
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kitagawa, Isamu
• Application Number:
  US12/073,957
• Publication Number:
  US 20080233987A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/501
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72502 with one base station connected to a single line

Abstract

A communication apparatus including: a main device having a rest portion and communicable with an external device; and a wireless device which is permitted to be placed on the rest portion and is communicable with the main device through a wireless communication so as to be communicable with the external device via the main device, wherein the communication apparatus is configured to establish a wired connection between the wireless device and the main device when the wireless device is placed on the rest portion of the main device.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a main device having a rest portion and communicable with an external device; and

a wireless device which is permitted to be placed on the rest portion and is communicable with the main device through a wireless communication so as to be communicable with the external device via the main device,

wherein the communication apparatus is configured to establish a wired connection between the wireless device and the main device when the wireless device is placed on the rest portion of the main device.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, configured to establish the wired connection between the wireless device and the main device such that the wireless device and the main device are communicable with each other through a wired communication, when the wireless device is placed on the rest portion of the main device.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, configured such that the wireless device is communicable with the external device via the main device through the wired connection between the wireless device and the main device instead of the wireless communication therebetween when the wireless device is placed on the rest portion of the main device.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, configured to be communicable with the external device through a voice communication.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the main device and the wireless device are a base unit and a handset, respectively.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the communication apparatus is a wireless phone.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, configured such that the main device and the wireless device are communicable with each other through the wireless communication in a plurality of frequency bands.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising (a) a radio wave intensity measuring section configured to measure intensity of radio waves around the communication apparatus in each of the plurality of frequency bands and (b) a frequency band selecting section configured to select, on the basis of a result of the measurement of the radio wave intensity measuring section, one of the plurality of frequency bands in which the wireless device and the main device are to communicate with each other through the wireless communication.

9. The communication apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the frequency band selecting section is configured to select one of the plurality of frequency bands in which the intensity of the radio waves is the lowest, as the frequency band in which the wireless device and the main device are to communicate with each other through the wireless communication.

10. The communication apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the radio wave intensity measuring section is configured to measure the intensity of the radio waves around the communication apparatus in each of the plurality of frequency bands on condition that the wireless device is being placed on the rest portion of the main device.

11. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, configured to be communicable, via a wireless LAN, with another external device different from the external device.