Onboard cell phone automatic dialing device

• US 7,187,944 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2004
• Issued: 03/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fu-Chang Liao
• Original Assignee: Fu-Chang Liao
• Inventors: Liao, Fu-Chang
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson; Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pham; Tuan
• Application Number:
  US10/975,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20050101361A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575.1, 455/556.1, 455/550.1, 455/90.3, 455/66.1
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/677 Preventing the dialling or sending of predetermined telephone numbers or selected types of telephone numbers, e.g. long distance numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6775 by providing access to preprogrammed keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72421 with automatic activation of emergency service functions, e.g. upon sensing an alarm

Abstract

An onboard automatic cell phone dialing device includes a magnet received in a casing and selectively energized by a control circuit, a dialing finger selectively movable relative to a bracket which is adjustably sandwiched between two crossbars inside the casing and a spacer sandwiched between the two crossbars and pivotally connected to opposed inner sides inside the casing to drive the dialing finger downward to engage with the dialing button on the cell phone under the influence of the energized magnet.

Claims

1. An onboard automatic cell phone dialing device comprising:

a casing adapted to be embedded inside the vehicle and provided with one open end, a baffle formed inside the casing to divide an interior of the casing into a first receiving room for receiving therein a cell phone and a second receiving room to receive therein an induced magnet adapted to be operably connected to a control circuit, the induced magnet having a bar movably connected to the induced magnet and multiple threaded bolts extending through the casing for positioning the cell phone in the first receiving room in the casing;

two crossbars respectively provided to two opposed inner sides inside the casing, each crossbar having a first end and a second end;

a spacer sandwiched between the two crossbars and having two ends securely connected to the two first ends of the two crossbars and pivotally connected to the two inner sides of the casing and a connection plate securely connected to the second ends of the two crossbars and a free end of the bar to allow the two crossbars to move according to the movement of the bar;

a bracket selectively and slidably mounted between the two crossbars and having an elongated slot defined through the bracket; and

two securing plates respectively and movably mounted on two opposed sides of the bracket, each securing plate having multiple threaded holes aligned with the elongated slot of the bracket to allow extension of two positioning bolts to secure a position of the two securing plates relative to the bracket and a dialing finger which is sandwiched between the two positioning bolts for alignment with a dialing button on the cell phone such that after the induced magnet is energized, the bar is able to move toward the induced magnet so that the connection plate and the two crossbars are driven by the bar to move toward the induced magnet, which enables the dialing finger to engage with the dialing button to activate the cell phone to send out a radio signal.