Station for the accommodation of a chargeable cordless telephone

• US 4,634,810 A
• Filed: 11/23/1984
• Issued: 01/06/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Grassl, Erwin, Waechtler, Rudolf
• Primary Examiner(s): Lev, Robert G.
• Application Number:
  US06/674,339
• Time in Patent Office: 774 Days
• Field of Search: 179/2 E, 179/2 EA, 179/2 EB, 179/2 BC, 179/2 EC, 455/89, 455/127, 455/343, 320/13, 340/711
• US Class Current: 455/462
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0262 for a battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/06 Hooks; Cradles

Abstract

A station for accommodation of a chargeable, cordless telephone is provided with a hollow for receiving the cordless telephone. The cordless telephone contains a cassette provided with chargeable batteries which serve to supply the current and which are charged by a corresponding charging system of the station when the telephone is inserted into the hollow. For the accommodation of a separate cassette which also contains chargeable batteries, the station is provided with a further recess in which the charging system also has access to the batteries. A separate cassette can be accommodated in the further recess of the station and kept connected to the charging system in an uninterrupted fashion, independently of use intervals and charging intervals of the cordless telephone. Thus the separate cassette is at all times available for rapid exchange with the cassette contained in the cordless telephone.

Claims

1. A cordless telephone system, comprising:

a base station means for communication with a location-independent cordless telephone;

the base station means having a trough-like hollow having a shape matched or corresponding to that of the telephone;

the cordless telephone having a cassette provided with a chargeable battery connected to feed power to the telephone;

charging means in the base station means for charging the batteries when the telephone is inserted into the hollow;

the base station means being provided with a trough-like recess means for accommodating a separate additional cassette with chargeable batteries having a shape the same as the cassette in the telephone, the recess means having a shape corresponding to contours of the separate cassette; and

means associated with the troughlike recess means for charging the batteries in the cassette from the base station charging system.

2. A system according to claim 1 wherein the recess means for the additional cassette is designed as a part of the hollow which accommodates the telephone.

3. A system according to claim 1 wherein the base station means is provided with an elastic rib which abuts against a peripheral portion of the cordless telephone when it is inserted into the hollow of the base station means.

4. A system according to claim 3 wherein the elastic rib has a nose which engages into a peripheral partition of the cordless telephone.

5. A cordless telephone system, comprising:

a base station having transmitting and receiving means for communicating with a location independent cordless telephone;

the cordless telephone having a chargeable battery cassette detachably connected thereto so as to provide electrical power for operation of the cordless telephone;

charging means associated with the base station for charging the cassette attached to the telephone when the telephone is resting on a surface at the base station;

an additional chargeable battery cassette having a same shape as the battery cassette in the telephone; and

means in said base station for receiving the additional cassette and making electrical contact therewith for charging the same when it is resting at the base station and such that it can be simultaneously charged while the cassette in the telephone is also being charged at the base station.

6. A system according to claim 5 wherein a trough-like hollow is provided at the base station within which the cordless telephone rests and beneath a floor portion of said hollow a recess is provided for receiving the additional cassette.