Mobile phone companion apparatus to provide voice link with land-line house telephone

• US 7,171,167 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2003
• Issued: 01/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kun H.O. Lie, Tahte Shih
• Original Assignee: Kun H.O. Lie, Tahte Shih
• Inventors: Shih, Tahte, Lie, Kun Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost; William
• Assistant Examiner(s): SANTIAGO CORDERO, MARIVELISSE
• Application Number:
  US10/669,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20050070271A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,223 Days
• Field of Search: 455/426.2, 455/74.1, 455/554.1, 379/413.02
• US Class Current: 455/74.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3877 Arrangements for enabling portable transceivers to be used in a fixed position, e.g. cradles or boosters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/021 adapted for Wireless Local Loop operation

Abstract

An apparatus that allows land-line house telephone users to receive mobile telephone incoming call through connection port, e.g., headphone outlet, commonly equipped on mobile telephone or like device. With the aid of this apparatus or called Personal Mobile Companion (PMC), incoming call onto a mobile telephone or like device can be answered on a land-line house telephone set. The apparatus houses several claimed circuitry components and provides needed electrical voltage and currents to activate ring tone on house telephone upon receiving ring signals from mobile telephone or like devices. Voice signal is transmitted between a receiver using land-line house telephone, onto PMC, and through mobile telephone to a caller.

Claims

1. An apparatus for routing a mobile phone incoming call to a connected land-line telephone, the apparatus comprising:

an interface to connect with a headphone outlet of the mobile phone to receive ringer and voice AC signals from said mobile phone as input;

an RJ11 port arranged to be interfaced with a first cable, said first cable being arranged to be coupled to said land-line telephone in order to send a DC voltage sufficient to drive a ringer of said land-line telephone and to output an AC voltage for voice conversation;

an approximately 110V AC power plug arranged to be connected to an approximately 110V AC power supply that is arranged to provide sufficient power to operate said apparatus;

a power supply circuit to convert an approximately 110V AC power to an approximately 11V DC power;

a voltage driver circuit arranged to split the approximately 11V DC power into an approximately 8V DC power and an approximately 11V DC power;

a ring tone generator (RTG) arranged to be interfaced to the headphone outlet of the connected mobile phone which, upon receiving an incoming call, outputs an approximately 3V AC signal, the approximately 3V AC signal being arranged to generate a series of high-low voltage cycles to drive the ringer of said land-line telephone; and

an impedance variation detector (IVD) arranged to, upon detecting a line resistance variation caused by lifting or hanging-up telephone handset from a hook of said land-line telephone, switch the approximately 11V DC power to said RTG to silence the ringer of said land-line telephone or to prepare for the approximately 3V AC signal that is arranged to drive the ringer of said land-line telephone,

wherein said IVD comprises;

a high pass filter circuit that is configured to attenuate substantially low frequency signal in a human voice range, the high pass filter including at least one resistor, at least one induction coil, and at least one capacitor;

a capacitor arrangement arranged to remove high frequency background noise;

a diode arrangement arranged to regulate a current direction and to compensate for a parasitic AC voltage; and

a differential amplifier arranged to drive a mechanical relay unit.

2. The apparatus recited in claim 1, wherein the RTG includes a clock generator and a circuit design, the circuit design being arranged to provide the approximately 11V DC power supply to the clock generator upon detecting the approximately 3V AC signal input from the connected mobile phone, the circuit design comprising:

a ring tone connecting device having an emitter diode and a receiver diode arranged to detect the approximately 3V AC signal input from said mobile phone;

a transistor arranged to compensate for a low frequency analog signal;

a diode arranged to regulate a current direction;

a high frequency filtering capacitor;

the mechanical relay having a default ON state, the mechanical relay being arranged between the IVD and the RTG, the mechanical relay including an inductor and approximately three terminals arranged to switch off the approximately 11VDC power supply when the IVD detects a line resistance variation of said land-line telephone; and

a voltage stabilizing zener diode arrangement and a MOSFET transistor arranged to turn on a connection for the approximately 11V DC power through the mechanical relay to the clock generator.