HANDHELD TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER

• US 20090161893A1
• Filed: 11/16/2006
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Young Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Young Company Limited
• Inventors: Nagayama, Futoru, Hironaka, Yasuhiro, Adachi, Senji
• Application Number:
  US12/094,150
• Publication Number:
  US 20090161893A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/151
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/08 Mouthpieces; Microphones; Attachments therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/10 Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones H04R1/28 takes precedence; stereophonic headphones H04R5/033
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1041 Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements switches in general H01H
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1058 Manufacture or assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2460/13 Hearing devices using bone conduction transducers

Abstract

It is intended to provide a handset that can communicate clear conversations and that is superior in serviceability, even in work environments where wearing a helmet is required or in conditions where wearing a helmet or mask is required, such as when riding a two-wheel vehicle, performing construction work, or the like, and that includes a bone conduction speaker and a laryngophone that are detachable. The handset includes a bone conduction speaker 1 that uses a ceramic piezo element for transmitting a voice by utilizing a bone conduction sound, a laryngophone 2 that uses a ceramic piezo element for picking up voice vibrations around a throat, and connecting equipment 10n that detachably connects said bone conduction speaker and said laryngophone that processes signals, and that is provided with a transmission line that transmits signals sent and received for calls.

Claims

1. A handset, comprising,

a bone conduction speaker that uses a ceramic piezo element for transmitting a voice by utilizing bone conduction sound;

a laryngophone that uses a ceramic piezo element for picking up voice vibrations around a user'"'"'s throat; and

connecting equipment that detachably connects said bone conduction speaker and said laryngophone, processes signals, and that includes a transmission line that transmits signals that are sent and received for calls.

2. The handset according to claim 1, wherein said bone conduction speaker and said laryngophone use PZT (piezo element) ceramic material and have a waterproof structure that satisfies either the International Protection Code (IP Code) waterproof standard as set forth in JIS C0920 (Degrees of protection provided by enclosures) or the standard of IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) 529 (Degrees of protection by enclosures).

3. The handset according to claim 1, wherein said connecting equipment comprises,

a sound-level control unit (circuit) that amplifies and adjusts the level of signals of said laryngophone;

a frequency-compensation circuit that defines the transmission-frequency characteristics of signals,

an output buffer amplifier that connects with the voice-input unit of a communication system that has external connections;

an input buffer amplifier that connects with the voice-output unit of said communication system;

an impedance-matching reproduction circuit that achieves impedance matching by outputting by reproducing voice signals to said bone conduction speaker; and

a feedback-control circuit that detects the level of voice signals so as to obtain the appropriate signal level.

4. The handset according to claim 1, wherein said bone conduction speaker is detachably contained in a sack-like portion that is in the inner cap of a helmet and that is mounted between the head of a user and the inner wall of the helmet or is detachably mounted on an inner protection band of the helmet by a fastener provided on said bone conduction speaker, and

said laryngophone is detachably contained in a sack-like portion on the support belt of the helmet or is detachably mounted on said support belt by a fastener that is on said laryngophone.

5. The handset according to claim 3, wherein the sending and receiving of signals between said connecting equipment and said communication system are executed by wireless communications that use light-wave transmission by infrared communication or that use electromagnetic waves.

6. The handset according to claim 3, wherein said connecting equipment is integrally incorporated into said communication system.

7. The handset according to claim 3, wherein said connecting equipment is provided with a rechargeable secondary battery that supplies power to an internal circuit of said connecting equipment, and that is rechargeable by a power source that supplies power through a transmission cable that is connected to said communication system, or by a power source that is supplied from externally connected charging equipment.

8. The handset according to claim 4, wherein said support belt is provided with a foam buffer sheet that blocks or attenuates acoustic transmission between said helmet and the aforementioned sack-like portion that contains said laryngophone.

9. The handset according to claim 1, wherein said bone conduction speaker is attached to a display panel and is used as a speaker to vibrate said display panel.