Cordless loud speaking telephone

• US 5,138,651 A
• Filed: 10/19/1990
• Issued: 08/11/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Sudo, Yozo
• Primary Examiner(s): Dwyer, James L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BOST, DWAYNE D
• Application Number:
  US07/598,642
• Time in Patent Office: 662 Days
• Field of Search: 379/58, 379/61, 379/387-390, 379/392, 379/419, 379/420, 379/428, 379/432, 379/434, 379/435, 379/440, 455/89, 455/90, 455/128, 343/702, 343/720, 343/741, 343/742, 343/744, 343/858, D14/137, D14/138, D14/140, D14/142, D14/149, D14/150
• US Class Current: 455/462
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6033 for providing handsfree use or a loudspeaker mode in telephone sets arrangements for preventing acoustic echo H04M9/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/62 Constructional arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72502 with one base station connected to a single line

Abstract

A cordless loud-speaking telephone of the present invention is shaped to be placed on a table or desk or to be suspended from a ceiling. Unlike cordless portable telephones of the handy transceiver type, it enables hands-free talking or communication through a receiving speaker and a transmitting microphone located outside a casing. An antenna conductor and counterpoises are projected from the casing, and a microphone is attached to the counterpoises or the antenna conductor such that the microphone is separated as remotely as possible from the speaker in the casing. As a result, howling and echo which disturb talking or communication via the telephone can be suppressed. Further, plural microphones are attached to plural antenna conductors or counterpoises to cancel the sound of the receiving speaker to prevent the voice from again entering the microphones, or the microphones are attached to the counterpoises or the antenna conductors in such a manner that they effectively receive the voice from the mouth of a talking person from a certain direction. This enables hands-free talking or communication to be more effectively and reliably achieved.

Claims

1. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, an antenna conductor projecting from the casing, a transmitting microphone attached to the antenna conductor which serves as a conductor for voice current of the transmitting microphone and also as a transmitting and receiving antenna, and a frequency band separator means arranged at the base of the antenna conductor, wherein the transmitting microphone is isolated from the receiving speaker by the antenna conductor.

2. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, a loop-shaped antenna conductor projecting outside the casing with both its ends fixed to the casing, transmitting microphones attached to the antenna conductor and a band separator means arranged at the base of the antenna conductor to separate voice current from carrier wave, wherein outputs of the microphones are applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit through the band separator means.

3. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, a loop-shaped antenna conductor projecting outside the casing with both its ends fixed to the casing, at least two transmitting microphones attached to the antenna conductor, and a band separator means arranged at the base of the antenna conductor to separate voice current from carrier wave, wherein composed transmitting output of the transmitting microphones is applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit through the band separator means.

4. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, a loop-shaped counterpoise arranged under the casing and microphones attached to the counterpoise.

5. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, a loop-shaped counterpoise arranged under the casing and at least two transmitting microphones attached to the counterpoise, wherein composed transmitting output of the transmitting microphones is applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit.

6. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing shaped to be hung or suspended, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, antenna conductors projecting outside the casing, transmitting microphones attached to the antenna conductors such that they are isolated from the receiving speaker, and a pulling string switch attached to the casing to switch on and off the wiring at the time of transmission and reception.

7. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing shaped to be hung or suspended, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, antenna conductors projecting outside the casing, microphones attached to the antenna conductors such that they are isolated from the receiving speaker, a suspender for accepting the whole load of the casing in which the radio transmitting and receiving circuits and the like are housed, and a pulling string switch for switching on and off every time the casing is pulled down.

8. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, a loop-shaped antenna conductor projecting outside the casing with both its ends fixed to the casing, an auxiliary antenna conductor arranged parallel to the antenna conductor with a certain gap provided from the antenna conductor, transmitting microphones attached to the auxiliary antenna conductor, and a band separator means arranged at the base cf the auxiliary antenna conductor to separate voice current from carrier wave, wherein an output of the microphones is applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit through the band separator means provided on the base of the auxiliary antenna conductor and for separating the voice current from the carrier.

9. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, a loop-shaped antenna conductor projecting outside the casing with both its ends fixed to the casing, a loop-shaped auxiliary antenna conductor arranged parallel to the antenna conductor with a certain gap interposed between them, at least two transmitting microphones attached to the auxiliary antenna conductor, and a band separator means arranged at the base of the auxiliary antenna conductor to separate voice current from carrier wave, wherein composed transmitting output of the transmitting microphones is applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit through the band separator means.

10. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, the dipole antenna conductors projecting outside the casing, and microphones attached to equal-length poles extending from the casing in opposite directions in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the antenna conductors, differential transmitting output of the microphones is applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit.

11. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing, radio transmitting and receiving circuits and a receiving speaker arranged in the casing, an antenna conductor projecting outside from the casing and connected to the radio transmitting and receiving circuits, a transmitting microphone attached substantially to the top of the antenna conductor, and a band separator means for separating voice current from a carrier wave arranged at a current supply section to send the voice current to a transmitting modulator circuit.

12. The cordless loud-speaking telephone according to claim 11 wherein said casing is provided with counterpoises connected to ground terminals of the radio transmitting and receiving circuits.

13. A cordless loud-speaking telephone comprising a casing, radio transmitting and receiving circuits, a receiving speaker, antenna conductors and counterpoises projecting outside the casing, and transmitting microphones attached substantially to the tops of the counterpoises.

14. The cordless loud-speaking telephone according to claim 13 wherein the counterpoises are plural in number, the microphones are attached substantially to the tops of the counterpoises which are projected from the casing such that each of the microphones is separated from the receiving speaker by the same distance, and the outputs of the microphones are applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit under polarities that cancel the outputs.

15. The cordless loud-speaking telephone according to claim 13 wherein the antenna conductors are plural in number, the microphones are attached substantially to the tops of these antenna conductors which are projected from the casing such that each of the microphones is separated from the receiving speaker by the same distance, and outputs of the microphones are applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit through the band separator means which is arranged in a current supply section to separate a voice current from a carrier wave, said outputs of the microphones being applied to the radio transmitting circuit in this case under polarities that cancel the outputs.

16. The cordless loud-speaking telephone according to claim 15 wherein the plural microphones are attached to the top and the middle of the antenna conductor with a certain gap interposed between them, and outputs of the plural microphones are composed and applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit through a band separator means which is arranged at the current supply section to separate a voice current from a carrier wave.

17. The cordless loud-speaking telephone according to claim 15 wherein the plural microphones are attached to the top and the middle of the counterpoise with a certain gap interposed between them, and the outputs of the plural microphones are composed and this composed output is applied, as modulated input, to the radio transmitting circuit.