BATTERY FOR EXTENDING MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY

• US 20160013827A1
• Filed: 02/27/2014
• Published: 01/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SMK Corporation
• Original Assignee: SMK Corporation
• Inventors: FLOREK, Miroslav, HUBINAK, Emil
• Application Number:
  US14/770,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20160013827A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/30 Batteries in portable systems, e.g. mobile phone, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3818 Arrangements for facilitating insertion or removal of identification devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0262 for a battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7246 by connection of exchangeable housing parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

The battery (1) of a mobile communication device, especially a mobile phone, has at least one slot (2) for insertion an additional element and has a motion and/or shock sensor (3), and the electric power supply of the slot (2) is connected to the battery (1) via a switch (6) that is activated by a motion and/or shock sensor (3). The switch (6) is timing and connects the slot (2) to voltage for the set time during which the length of the switch (6) closure can be extended by the activity followed by an additional component. The additional element will particularly be the removable memory card (4) of SD or microSD format, or the removable card (5) of SIM format and the slot (2) will have an appropriate interface. The battery can also have a Bluetooth module (7), and the Bluetooth module (7) is adapted to communicate with a host mobile communication device. The removable memory card (4) or the removable card (5) of SIM format can have an antenna to create an additional contactless communication connection, favorably of NFC type. The larger antenna (8) can be wound up directly on the body of the battery (1).

Claims

1. A battery for extending mobile communication device functionality without requiring hardware changes in the mobile communication device, the battery comprising at least one slot adapted to accept an additional element, the slot having a contact interface for connection to the additional element, and a motion and/or shock sensor, an electric power supply of a controller of the slot being connected to the battery via a switch, and the motion and/or shock sensor being adapted to activate the switch, wherein the battery is removable from the mobile communication device.

2. The battery for extending mobile communication device functionality according to claim 1 wherein the switch is a timer switch.

3. The battery for extending mobile communication device functionality according to claim 2 wherein the timer switch is adapted to prolong the time of its power supply with regard to the activity of the additional element or other active element placed within the battery.

4. The battery for extending mobile communication device functionality according to claim 1 wherein the motion and/or shock sensor is directional and is adapted to evaluate a number of actuating gesture motions.

5. The battery for extending mobile communication device functionality according to claim 1 wherein the slot has the format of SD and/or microSD and/or SIM card and/or ISO/IEC 7810 and/or ISO/IEC 7816 and/or ICC card.

6. The battery for extending mobile communication device functionality according to claim 1 wherein the battery comprises a wireless communication module which is connected to the controller of the slot and which is powered by the battery via the switch, and the wireless communication module is adapted to communicate with a host mobile communication device.

7. The battery for extending the mobile communication device functionality according to claim 1 wherein the additional element inserted in the slot is a removable memory card or a removable card of SIM format and has an antenna to create an additional contactless communication link of NFC type.

8. The battery for extending the mobile communication device functionality according to claim 7 wherein the removable memory card or the removable card of SIM format has an SWP interface.

9. The battery for extending the mobile communication device functionality according to the claim 7 wherein the removable memory card or the removable card of SIM format has at least one secure element.

10. The battery for extending the mobile communication device functionality according to claim 1 wherein the mobile communication device has an antenna wound up in threads around a battery body with an axis of threads in a direction of a larger battery dimension, and at least one area of a coil of the antenna is separated from a battery core by a ferrite foil.

11. The battery for extending the mobile communication device functionality according to claim 10 wherein the antenna is connected to the controller of the slot.