Car telephone system

• US 7,702,312 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2006
• Issued: 04/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: BURY Spzoo, Bentley Motors Limited (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: BURY Spzoo, Bentley Motors Limited (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Bollmann, Eckhard, Wilson, Trevor
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming; William D
• Application Number:
  US11/425,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20070142095A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,400 Days
• Field of Search: 455/406, 455/552.1, 343/13, 343/137, 235/380, 701/1
• US Class Current: 455/406
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface

Abstract

A car telephone system having a telephone module (3) which has a telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5), can be connected to a transmitting and receiving antenna (7), can be connected to a central control bus (1) of the vehicle and can be controlled by a central controller (2) via the control bus (1) enables telephone operation, via the telephone module (3), using user-specific data from a mobile telephone (9) by virtue of the fact that the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5) is provided with a wireless data and signal transmission unit (6) which can be used to transmit user-specific data from a mobile telephone (9) to the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5), and by virtue of the fact that the telephone transmitting and receiving unit (5) is also connected to a separate card reader (11) for a memory card which contains the user-specific data from the mobile telephone (9).

Claims

1. Car telephone system, comprising:

a telephone module which has a telephone transmitting and receiving unit which has a connection to a transmitting and receiving antenna and to a central bus of the vehicle;

a central controller controlling said telephone module through said control bus, wherein

a wireless data and signal transmission unit in said telephone transmitting and receiving unit is provided by which the telephone transmitting and receiving unit receives user-specific data from a mobile telephone so as to perform a mobile telephone communication through a mobile radio network using the access data of said mobile telephone; and

a separate card reader reads user-specific data from a memory card of the mobile telephone inserted into the card reader in order to perform a mobile telephone communication by means of the telephone module through the mobile radio network using the access data of said mobile telephone.

2. Car telephone system according to claim 1, wherein said separate card reader is arranged at a distance of >

1 m from said telephone transmitting and receiving unit.

3. Car telephone system according to claim 1, wherein said telephone transmitting and receiving unit is arranged in a region of a rear window of a vehicle.

4. Car telephone system according to claim 1, wherein said separate card reader is arranged within a vehicle driver'"'"'s reach.

5. Car telephone system according to claim 4, wherein said separate card reader is arranged in a region of a center console between front seats of a vehicle.

6. Car telephone system according to claim 1, wherein a separate control unit is directly connected to said telephone transmitting and receiving unit and organizes wireless communication between said telephone transmitting and receiving unit and said mobile telephone.

7. Car telephone system according to claim 6, wherein said separate control unit is provided with said separate card reader.