Hands-free handset for a cordless telephone

• US 6,895,260 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2002
• Issued: 05/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ching-Chuan Lee
• Original Assignee: Ching-Chuan Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Ching-Chuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, LANA N
• Application Number:
  US10/051,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20030050101A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,211 Days
• Field of Search: 455/569.1, 455/569.2, 455/557, 455/552.1, 455/553.1, 455/550.1, 455/426.1, 455/90.3, 455/575.1, 455/462
• US Class Current: 455/569.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72502 with one base station connected to a single line

Abstract

In a hands-free handset for a cordless telephone adapted for household use and including a base unit and a handset, the handset includes an automatic receiving and automatic hanging-up control loop, a voice loop and a port switching device. When the user plugs a speaker jack into a speaker socket of the port switching device, the voice loop will switch the voice signal to the automatic receiving and automatic hanging-up control loop, whereby the handset can automatically receive the voice signal or automatically hangs up.

Claims

1. A hands-free handset for a cordless telephone adapted for household use, said cordless telephone including a base unit and a handset, said handset comprising:

an automatic receiving and automatic hanging-up control loop for detecting a ringer signal to control and realize an automatic receiving function, detecting a busy signal to realize a function of automatically hanging up after the other party hangs up, controlling frequencies of reception and transmission circuits so as to avoid interfering channels;

verifying a code of said handset to eliminate error actions; and

detecting use state of a battery;

a voice loop for demodulating a signal received by a medium-frequency loop for conversion back to a voice signal for subsequent amplification and output, amplifying and modulating a voice signal received by a microphone and outputting the same to the medium-frequency loop for amplification and transmission; and

detecting intensity of voices of both parties to realize an automatic gain modulating function and to reduce edge sounds to a certain extend; and

a port switching device for realizing switching between an external speaker and an external microphone, that is, automatically using a speaker and a microphone built in said handset prior to connection of said external speaker and said external microphone to said handset, and automatically cutting off said speaker and said microphone built in said handset and switching to said external speaker and said external microphone after connection of said external speaker and said external microphone to said handset, thereby realizing a hands-free function.

2. The hands-free handset for a cordless telephone according to claim 1, wherein said automatic receiving and automatic hanging-up control loop includes a microprocessor chip under serial number WEN-9420A and other external components.