Device for generating calling vibrations or calling sounds in cellular or pager phones

• US 5,956,622 A
• Filed: 09/24/1997
• Issued: 09/21/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shinwoo Audio Co., Ltd
• Original Assignee: Shinwoo Audio Co., Ltd
• Inventors: Lee, Jong Bae
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vuong, Quochien B.
• Application Number:
  US08/936,524
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 455/38.2, 455/90, 455/351, 455/550, 455/567, 455/575, 455/31.1, 455/31.2, 455/31.3, 340/825.44, 340/825.46, 340/407.1, 379/383, 379/374, 379/375, 379/428, 379/433, 381/396, 381/412
• US Class Current: 340/7.6
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/03 Constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. telephone hand-sets
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/00 Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones

Abstract

An integrated device for selectively generating calling vibrations or calling sounds in cellular or pager phones is disclosed. In the device, two vibration members are set in the upper and lower portions of a casing, respectively. The two vibration members respectively respond to low and high frequencies applied from the PCB of a phone to the coil of an electromagnet, thus generating calling vibrations and calling sounds. The device thus selectively generates calling vibrations or calling sounds in accordance with a selected mode. The device of this invention has a simple construction with a reduced number of elements, thus simplifying the production process and reducing the production cost of cellular or pager phones. The device also accomplishes the recent trend of compactness, thinness and lightness of such phones.

Claims

1. A device for selectively generating calling vibrations or calling sounds in cellular or pager phones, comprising:

a thin cylindrical casing having top and bottom annular steps at its both ends, said casing also having two PCB terminals at its bottom end;

an electromagnet comprised of;

a yoke provided with both an annular magnet seat at its bottom edge and a depressed seat at its top center;

an annular magnet attached to said magnet seat of the yoke from the bottom to the top; and

an annular coil connected to said PCB terminals of the casing at its both ends and positioned relative to the annular magnet so as to selectively form an electromagnetic field between the coil and the magnet;

a holder seated into said depressed seat of the yoke;

a first vibration member provided with a symmetrically and geometrically-shaped vibration rib and adapted for selectively generating calling vibrations, said first vibration member being seated on the top of said holder and integrated with the yoke and holder by an eyelet into an integrated body, said integrated body being set into the casing from the top to the bottom with the first vibration member being seated on the top step of the casing at the outside edge of the vibration rib;

a second vibration member adapted for selectively generating calling sounds, said second vibration member concentrically holding the coil of said electromagnet at its top center and being set into the casing from the bottom to the top, thus being seated on the bottom step of the casing at its outside edge; and

two rings fitted into both ends of the casing, thus holding the first and second vibration members seated on the top and bottom steps of the casing.