MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20110242010A1
• Filed: 06/14/2010
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Askey Computer Corporation (ASUSTek Computer, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Askey Computer Corporation (ASUSTek Computer, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chang, Ting-Lin, Hsieh, Ching-Feng
• Application Number:
  US12/815,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20110242010A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/52 Weighing apparatus combined with other objects, e.g. furniture with walking sticks A45B3/08
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 21/22 Weigh pans or other weighing receptacles; Weighing platforms
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 3/13 having piezoelectric or piezoresistive properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/21 Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal device includes a display unit, a sensing unit, a carrier disposed on the display unit and covering the sensing unit, a data processing unit connected with both the sensing unit and the display unit, and a handheld housing for accommodating the aforementioned units therein while exposing the carrier therefrom, wherein the carrier is adapted to carry and convey an external force to the sensing unit such that the data processing unit is enabled to receive and then calculate the magnitude of the external force sensed by the sensing unit and thereby provide an external force sensing function to the device.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal device with a function of sensing an external force, comprising:

a display unit;

a sensing unit for sensing the external force;

a carrier disposed on the display unit and covering the sensing unit for carrying and conveying the external force to the sensing unit;

a data processing unit connected to the sensing unit and the display unit for receiving and calculating a magnitude of the external force sensed by the sensing unit; and

a handheld housing for accommodating and securing the display unit, the sensing unit, the carrier and the data processing unit while exposing the carrier therefrom.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit comprises a plurality of pressure sensors spacingly disposed adjacent to a periphery of the display unit.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the display unit comprises a display panel and a frame disposed around a periphery of the display panel, the sensing unit being disposed on the frame.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit comprises a plurality of pressure sensors.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit comprises a ring-shaped pressure sensor.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit comprises a plurality of pressure sensors spacingly disposed adjacent to a support portion on a periphery of the display unit.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the support portion is a positioning frame inside the handheld housing for laterally positioning the display unit.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the data processing unit comprises an analog-to-digital converter and a processor, the analog-to-digital converter converting a pressure signal related to the external force sensed by the sensing unit into a digital signal and the processor calculating the magnitude of the external force according to the digital signal.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the data processing unit is a microprocessor with an analog-to-digital converting function.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the carrier is a transparent substrate or a touch panel.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the external force comes from an object to be weighed.

12. The device of claim 1, further comprising a height element disposed on the carrier and having a height greater than a height difference between the carrier and a surface of the handheld housing.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the height element is a cylinder body, a tube body, a plate body or a cap.

14. The device of claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the magnitude of the external force calculated by the data processing unit.

15. The device of claim 1, further comprising an audio device for voice broadcasting the magnitude of the external force, wherein the data processing unit generates an audio signal corresponding to the magnitude of the external force so as to enable the audio device to broadcast voice according to the audio signal.