Integated electronic communication device and clip

• US 5,835,852 A
• Filed: 08/13/1997
• Issued: 11/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Plantronics, Inc. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Plantronics, Inc. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Bundgardt, Gabriele
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bhattacharya, Sam
• Application Number:
  US08/910,804
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575, 455/90, 455/128, 455/129, 455/347, 455/348, 455/349, 455/351, 379/428, 379/430
• US Class Current: 455/575.6
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3833 Hand-held transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235

Abstract

A communication device is disclosed having a first housing member and a second housing member, each with an inner surface. The housing members are rotatably coupled together so that the inner surface of the first housing member is biased towards the inner surface of the second housing member. Each housing member includes an electronic circuit portion that is also coupled together. In addition, the mass of the first housing member is substantially equivalent to the mass of the second housing member so that when the communication device is attached to an object, it remains balanced about the object.

Claims

1. A voice communication system, comprising:

a headset for receiving and transmitting voice signals; and

a communication clip, including a headset port for electrically coupling the headset to a communication circuit, the communication clip further comprising;

a first housing member substantially encasing a first portion of the communication circuit, the first housing member having a first mass, a first inner surface having a first end and a second end, and a first part of a hinge section located proximate to the first end of the first inner surface, the communication circuit for wirelessly transferring voice signals between the headset and a telecommunication system; and

a second housing member substantially encasing a second portion of the communication circuit coupled to the first portion of the electronic circuit, the second housing member having a second mass substantially equivalent to the first mass, a second inner surface having a first end and a second end, and a second part of the hinge section located proximate to the first end of the second inner surface, the second part of the hinge section movably coupled to the first part of the hinge section for the second end of the first inner surface and the second end of the second inner surface to releasably grasp an object between the first inner surface and the second inner surface during operation of the communication clip.

2. The voice communication system of claim 1, further comprising a base unit for coupling to the telecommunication system, the base unit remotely coupled to the communication clip for transferring the voice signals between the telecommunication system and the communication clip.

3. The voice communication system of claim 1, wherein the second portion of the communication circuit of the communication clip includes an electrical power source circuit for providing power to the communication circuit of the communication clip.

4. The voice communication system of claim 1, the communication clip further comprising a tension spring located between the first and the second housing members and coupling the first portion of the communication circuit to the second portion of the communication circuit for transmitting electrical signals therebetween and for urging the first housing member toward the second housing member to releasably grasp an object between the first inner surface and the second inner surface.

5. The voice communication system of claim 1, wherein communication clip further comprises having a difference between the first mass and the second mass of the communication clip no greater than fifty percent.