Mobile telephone apparatus

• US 7,577,452 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2002
• Issued: 08/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Noda, Koji, Kimura, Yasuhisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung; Nay A
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG
• Application Number:
  US10/497,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20050014520A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,441 Days
• Field of Search: 455/82, 455/83, 455/560, 455/562.1, 455/101, 455/272, 455/277.1, 455/277.2, 455/279.1, 455/450, 455/452.1, 455/452.2, 455/502, 455/575.7, 375/299, 375/347, 370/350
• US Class Current: 455/502
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/00 Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field H04B10/00, H04B15/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0822 according to predefined selection scheme
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/283 Power depending on the position of the mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/287 when the channel is in stand-by

Abstract

The invention provides a cell phone which shows good receiving sensitivity even in a state where synchronization with a base station is not provided, such as power-on and detection of a dead space.

The invention alternately switches between a plurality of antennas a predetermined number of times per fixed time predetermined in accordance with the number of perch channels in a state where synchronization with a base station is not provided, and sets an antenna whose mean value of the receiving level of each of these antennas is the highest as an antenna to be used subsequently, that is, an antenna to open a control channel.

Claims

1. A cell phone comprising:

a first antenna that receives radio waves from a base station;

a second antenna that receives radio waves from the base station;

a receiving circuit that acquires receiving levels of channels via the antennas;

a switch circuit that switches the antennas; and

a controller for selecting the channel that has the highest receiving level and that controls switching the antennas before selecting one of the antennas, wherein, when synchronization with the base station is not provided, the controller alternately switches the antennas a predetermined number of times during a predetermined fixed time that is calculated by the controller based on a total number of perch channels and a perch channel detection time, such that the switching is not in synchronization with any channel received from the base station, and

wherein the controller alternately switches between the antennas with a predetermined timing in synchronization with the selected channel when synchronization with the base station is provided.

2. The cell phone according to claim 1, wherein, in a state where synchronization with the base station is not provided at power-on, said predetermined fixed time is sufficiently longer than the period where said controller alternately switches between the antennas in a state where synchronization with the base station is provided.

3. The cell phone according to claim 1, wherein, in a state where synchronization with the base station is not provided on detection of a dead space, said predetermined fixed time is sufficiently longer than the period where said controller alternately switches between the antennas in a state where synchronization with the base station is provided.