Mobile radio facility

• US 4,905,304 A
• Filed: 06/23/1988
• Issued: 02/27/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Macher, Ernst, Bardon, Hermann
• Primary Examiner(s): Griffin, Robert L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): KUNTZ, CURTIS A
• Application Number:
  US07/210,267
• Time in Patent Office: 614 Days
• Field of Search: 455/89, 455/90, 455/345, 455/346, 455/348, 455/349, 455/4-7, 310/825.5
• US Class Current: 455/575.9
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A mobile radio facility for installation in a motor vehicle which already includes a junction cable extending from a location in the trunk to a location in the passenger compartment, terminating at each end in a plug connector. The facility includes a radio unit which can be installed in the trunk and plug connected to the vehicular cable, and one or more peripheral units in the passenger compartment such as a micro-telephone, control panel and/or portable telephone. Each peripheral unit has at least a pair of identical plug-in terminals providing identical connections thereto. The facility also includes a plurality of additional junction cables, one of which is plug-connected at one end to the vehicular cable and at the other end to a plug-in terminal of one of the peripheral units. Each of the remaining cables is plug-connected at each end to a plug-in terminal of different peripheral units so as to establish a sequential order of interconnection of all such units to the vehicular cable. This permits selection of an optimum interconnection sequence for any combination of peripheral equipments included in the mobile radio facility.

Claims

1. A mobile radio facility for installation in a motor vehicle which includes as a part thereof a junction cable extending from the passenger compartment to another compartment of the vehicle and having a plug connector at each end thereof;

said facility comprising a radio unit and one or more peripheral units, the radio unit being for installation in said other compartment and for plug-connection to said vehicular cable, the peripheral units being for installation in said passenger compartment;

said facility being characterized in that;

each peripheral unit has at least a pair of identical plug-in terminals providing identical connections thereto;

another junction cable is plug-connected at opposite ends thereof respectively to said vehicular cable and to a plug-in terminal of any one of said peripheral units; and

one or more additional junction cables are respectively plug-connected at opposite ends thereof to plug-in terminals of different ones of said peripheral units so as to establish a sequential order of interconnection of all of said peripheral units with said vehicular cable;

whereby said interconnection sequence can be optimized for whatever combination of peripheral equipments is comprised in said mobile radio facility.

2. A mobile radio facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein each peripheral unit has a single pair of identical plug-in terminals.

3. A mobile radio facility as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of said peripheral units is a micro-telephone and a second of said peripheral units is a control panel therefor, the micro-telephone having a telephone cradle.

4. A mobile radio facility as claimed in claim 3, wherein another of said peripheral units is a portable telephone also having a telephone cradle.

5. A mobile radio facility as claimed in claim 4, wherein the plug-in terminals of said micro-telephone are on a first printed circuit board connected to its telephone cradle, and the plug-in terminals of said portable telephone are on a second printed circuit board connected to its telephone cradle.