Telephone apparatus for radio communication with an adaptor

• US 5,142,573 A
• Filed: 02/04/1991
• Issued: 08/25/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Umezawa, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dwyer, James L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CUMMING, WILLIAM D
• Application Number:
  US07/650,204
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 379/58, 379/61, 379/62, 379/370, 379/433, 379/428, 379/438, 379/440, 379/441, 379/454, 455/89, 455/90
• US Class Current: 379/454
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/06 Hooks; Cradles

Abstract

A telephone apparatus includes a telephone set consisting of a base unit and a handset removably mounted on the base unit. The apparatus also includes a transmitter/receiver, and an adaptor on which the base unit is mounted. The adaptor has an electrical connector which is electrically connected to the transmitter/receiver. The adaptor includes a main body which supports the electrical connector, and a slide member which includes a cover housing. The slide member, including the housing, is mounted on the main body for sliding movement between a first position, in which the connector is exposed for connection to the telephone set, and a second position in which the housing covers the electrical connector to protect it from dust and inadvertent impact. The main body and the slide member jointly support the telephone set with the connector connected to the telephone set, when the slide member is in the first position.

Claims

1. An adaptor for supporting a telephone set and for use in connecting the telephone set to a transmitter/receiver, comprising:

a body having means for supporting a connector which is electrically coupled to the transmitter/receiver; and

a slide member including a housing, said slide member being mounted on said body for sliding movement between a first position in which, with the telephone set mounted on said adaptor, said body and said slide member jointly support the telephone set and the connector is electrically connected to the telephone set, and a second position in which, with the telephone set removed from said adaptor, said housing covers the connector.

2. An adaptor according to claim 1, wherein said slide member has an opening therein shaped to expose the connector therethrough for connection to the telephone set when said slide member is in said first position, said housing receiving the connector therein when said slide member moves to said second position.

3. An adaptor according to claim 2, wherein said body includes a first plate-shaped member having a guide slot means, said slide member including a second plate-shaped member and a pair of runners projecting from said second plate-shaped member and slideably received in said guide slot means, said opening and said housing being formed in said second plate-shaped member.

4. An adaptor according to claim 3, wherein said first plate-shaped member has a first surface and a second surface opposite said first surface, said slot means comprising a pair of parallel slots and a guide-wall associated with each slot, each guide-wall extending along an edge of the associated slot, projecting from said second surface and terminating in a bottom edge, said second plate-shaped member being disposed on said first surface, said runners projecting though said slots and including guide portions which bear against the bottom edges of the guide-walls.

5. An adaptor according to claim 1, wherein said slide member has an opening and said body has a main surface, the connector projecting from the main surface into said opening when said slide member is in said first position, said housing receiving the connector when said slide member moves to said second position.

6. An adaptor according to claim 5, wherein said body includes a first plate-shaped member, said first plate-shaped member having said main surface and a pair of parallel guide slots, said slide member including a second plate-shaped member having a first side facing said plate-shaped member, a second side facing away from said first plate-shaped member and a pair of runners on said first side projecting though said slots, said opening being formed in said second plate-shaped member, said housing projecting from said second side in a direction away from said first plate-shaped member.

7. An adaptor according to claim 1, wherein said slide member is slideable in a given direction to move from said first position to said second position, further comprising a first frame means and second frame means respectively bounding said body and said slide member and, when said slide member is in said first position, together bounding a space defined on said body and said slide member for receiving the telephone set, said second frame means have a stopper means which abuts said body when said slide member is moved in said given direction to said second position, thereby to block further movement of said slide member in said given direction.

12. An adaptor according to claim 1, further comprising lock means for releasably locking said slide member in at least one of said first and second positions, said lock means including

an elastic hook means formed on said slide member;

and

at least one catch means, in said body, for releasably catching said hook means when said slide member is in said at least one of said first and second positions.

8. A telephone apparatus comprising:

a base unit having a first electrical connector;

a handset removably mounted on the base unit;

a transmitter/receiver; and

an adaptor, said base unit being removably mounted to said adaptor, said adaptor including

a second electrical connector removably coupled to said first connector, and

means for protectively covering said second connector when said base unit is removed from said adaptor.

9. A telephone apparatus comprising:

a base unit having a first electrical connector;

a handset removably mounted on the base unit;

a transmitter/receiver; and

an adaptor, said base unit being removably mounted to said adaptor, said adaptor including

a body,

a second electrical connector on said body, said second connector being removably coupled to said first connector, said second connector being electrically connected to said transmitter/receiver, and

a slide member including a housing, said slide member being mounted on said body for sliding movement between a first position in which, with said base unit mounted on said adaptor, said body and said slide member jointly support said base unit and said second connector is connected to said first connector, and a second position in which, with said base unit removed from said adaptor;

said housing covers said second connector.

10. An telephone apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said slide member has an opening shaped to expose said second connector therethrough when said slide member is in said first position, said housing receiving said second connector when said slide member moves to said a second position.

11. A telephone apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said first connector is a female connector, and said second connector is a male connector which projects into said opening when said slide member is in said first position and when said slide member is between said first position and said second position, and which projects into said cover housing when said slide member is in said second position.