Holder for recharging a wireless microphone

• US 6,548,987 B1
• Filed: 02/04/2002
• Issued: 04/15/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sabine, Inc. (Clearone Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Sabine, Inc. (Clearone Incorporated)
• Inventors: Miller, Gary, Oster, Doran
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Edward H.
• Application Number:
  US10/061,317
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 320/107, 320/112, 320/113, 320/114, 320/115, 381/334, 381/91, 381/361, 381/366
• US Class Current: 320/114
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0045 concerning the insertion or the connection of the batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/08 Mouthpieces; Microphones; Attachments therefor

Abstract

A holder for a wireless microphone includes a pair of terminals electrically connected to a power supply and mounted in a recess of a holder member for engaging corresponding terminals on an elongated handle body of the wireless microphone. In one embodiment, the holder includes an axially offset opening, a rib, a groove or other orienting provision form mating with a corresponding axially offset protrusion, a groove, a rib or other mating orienting provision on the microphone handle body to ensure engagement of the microphone terminals with the holder terminals. In another embodiment, first terminals of the microphone and holder terminals are axially centered and second terminals of the microphone and holder terminals are offset from the axis with one of the second terminals being annular.

Claims

1. A holder for a wireless microphone having an elongated handle body extending from a sound receiver and having a battery charging circuit with a pair of microphone terminals mounted on the handle body and connected to the battery charging circuit, the holder comprising:

a holder member mounted on a stand;

said holder member having a recess configured to receive the handle body of the microphone;

a pair of holder terminals mounted in the recess and adapted to engage the respective microphone terminals; and

a power supply connected to the pair of holder terminals.

2. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said holder recess is open at one end and along an upper side portion to form wings;

said wings being designed to frictionally grip the handle body of the microphone.

3. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 2 wherein the pair of holder terminals are mounted in the closed end of the recess for engaging microphone terminals on an end of the microphone handle body.

4. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said recess of said holder member includes orienting means for mating with orienting means on the handle body of the microphone to ensure engagement of the microphone terminals with the holder terminals.

5. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 4 wherein the holder orienting means comprises an opening in a wall at the closed end of the recess and offset from an axis of the recess for receiving an orienting protrusion extending from the microphone handle body offset from the axis of the handle body.

6. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 5 wherein the holder orienting opening is square for receiving the microphone orienting protrusion which has a tapered square cross-section and extends parallel the axis of the microphone handle body.

7. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

an electrical socket having a pair of electrical contact members and being mounted in the holder member;

a pair of electrical conductors connecting the pair of socket electrical contact members to the corresponding holder terminals;

an electrical plug for removably mating with the electrical socket and having a pair of electrical contact members for engaging the corresponding socket electrical contact members; and

a cable having a pair of wires connecting the power supply to the holder terminals.

8. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 7 further comprising a stand having a base and a vertical tubular support mounted on the base and pivotally supporting the holder member wherein the cable is threaded through the vertical tubular support and the base.

9. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 7 wherein said holder recess is open at one end and along an upper side portion to form wings;

said wings being resilient and formed to frictionally grip the handle body of the microphone.

10. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 9 wherein the pair of holder terminals are mounted in the closed end of the recess for engaging microphone terminals on an end of the microphone handle body.

11. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 10 wherein the holder orienting means comprises an opening in a wall at the closed end of the holder recess and offset from an axis of the holder recess for receiving an orienting protrusion extending from the microphone handle body offset from the axis of the handle body.

12. A holder for a wireless microphone as claimed in claim 11 wherein the holder orienting opening is square for receiving the microphone orienting protrusion which has a tapered square cross-section and extends parallel the axis of the microphone handle body.

13. A holder as claimed in claim 1 wherein the pair of holder terminals are mounted on a printed circuit member secured in a closed end of the holder recess for engaging the microphone terminals on an end of the microphone handle body.

14. A holder as claimed in claim 7 wherein the pair of holder terminals are mounted on a printed circuit member secured in a closed end of the holder recess for engaging the microphone terminals on an end of the microphone handle body, and the pair of electrical conductors connecting the pair of socket electrical contact members to the corresponding holder terminals included printed circuit paths on the printed circuit member.