STAND FOR WIRELESS PHONE

• US 20120149444A1
• Filed: 04/11/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YUAN, HUI, YANG, ZHI-GANG, YU, PING
• Application Number:
  US13/084,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20120149444A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0225 Rotatable telephones, i.e. the body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis perpendicular to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• 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

Abstract

A stand for a wireless phone having a wireless emitter is provided. The stand includes a base, a wireless receiver for communicating with the wireless emitter, a control circuit, a rotatable body, and a driving mechanism. The base includes a wireless receiver communicating with the wireless emitter, and a control circuit. The rotatable body is rotatably connected to the base and includes an indicator. The driving mechanism is received in the base, to drive the rotatable body to rotate. The control circuit is to activate the driving mechanism in response to the signals received by the wireless receiver from the wireless emitter to drive the rotatable body to rotate, until the indicator indicates a direction of the wireless phone that is away from the stand.

Claims

1. A stand for a wireless phone having a wireless emitter, the stand comprising:

a base;

a wireless receiver for communicating with the wireless emitter;

a control circuit;

a rotatable body rotatably connected to the base and comprising an indicator; and

a driving mechanism received in the base, to drive the rotatable body to rotate;

wherein the control circuit is to actuate the driving mechanism in response to the signals received by the wireless receiver from the wireless emitter to drive the rotatable body to rotate, until the indicator indicates a direction of the wireless phone that is away from the stand.

2. The stand as described in claim 1, wherein the rotatable body includes a bottom received in the base and defining a cavity, and a receiving portion protruding from the bottom and defining a space;

the driving mechanism comprises a rotary joint and a motor connected to the rotary joint and fixed in the base, the rotary joint comprises a chassis defining an axle hole, and a supporting element protruding from the chassis and received in the cavity to engage with the rotatable body; and

a driving shaft of the motor is received in the axle hole.

3. The stand as described in claim 2, wherein the bottom further defines two receiving grooves extending through the bottom both communicating with the space, the rotatable body further comprises an elastic element movably received in the two receiving grooves and the space, and when the wireless phone is placed on the stand, the elastic element is pressed by the wireless phone to move through the two receiving grooves.

4. The stand as described in claim 3, wherein two arms of the elastic element are movably received in the two receiving grooves correspondingly.

5. The stand as described in claim 4, wherein the base defines a receiving space in the top, the size of the receiving space is slightly larger than that of the bottom of the rotatable body, and the bottom is received in the receiving space.

6. The stand as described in claim 5, wherein an inner sidewall of the receiving space defines two recesses to receive two ends of the two arms of the elastic element correspondingly when the elastic element is pressed to cause the two ends of the two arms of the elastic element to move out of the bottom via the two receiving grooves.

7. The stand as described in claim 2, wherein the cavity defines a plurality of recesses, and the supporting element comprises a plurality of protrusions to engage in the plurality of recesses correspondingly.

8. The stand as described in claim 2, wherein the bottom is hemispherical.

9. The stand as described in claim 2, wherein the rotatable body further comprises two walls protruding from the top of the receiving portion and bounding the space.

10. The stand as described in claim 2, wherein the indicator is allocated on an outer sidewall of the receiving portion.