Bluetooth hands-free car kit

• US 7,907,903 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2008
• Issued: 03/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wen Hong Shen
• Original Assignee: Wen Hong Shen
• Inventors: Shen, Wen Hong
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao; Minh D
• Application Number:
  US12/215,895
• Publication Number:
  US 20100003919A1
• Time in Patent Office: 987 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/569.1, 455/569.2, 455/575.1, 455/90.3, 455/99, 455/345, 345/163, 345/164
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface

Abstract

A bluetooth hands-free car kit includes a hands-free cell phone/PDA holder electrically connected to the internal electric circuit of a car for receiving and amplifying sound, a bluetooth adapter insertable into the hands-free cell phone/PDA holder for wireless communication with a cell phone/PDA through a bluetooth communication technique, and an audio transmitter receiver device insertable into the bluetooth adapter for receiving and transmitting audio signals. The bluetooth adapter has a pivoted clip biased by a spring member for engaging a retaining notch on one lateral side of the audio transmitter receiver device to lock the audio transmitter receiver device to the bluetooth adapter upon insertion of the audio transmitter receiver device into the bluetooth adapter.

Claims

1. A bluetooth hands-free car kit, comprising a hands-free cell phone/PDA holder electrically connected to the internal electric circuit of a car for receiving and amplifying sound, a bluetooth adapter insertable into said hands-free cell phone/PDA holder for wireless communication with a cell phone/PDA through a bluetooth communication technique, and an audio transmitter receiver device insertable into said bluetooth adapter for receiving and transmitting audio signals, wherein:

said bluetooth adapter comprises a receptacle, a hole disposed in communication with said receptacle at one lateral side, an electrical connector disposed at an inner side of said receptacle, a clip, said clip having a middle part pivotally connected to one lateral side of said bluetooth adapter, a front end terminating in a hooked portion and inserted into said hole and movable in and out of said receptacle, and a rear end provided with a button, and a spring member supporting the rear end of said clip on a part of said bluetooth adapter and adapted for providing a biasing force to said clip to force the hooked portion of said clip into said receptacle;

said audio transmitter receiver device comprises an insert insertable into said receptacle, a retaining notch disposed at one lateral side of said insert for engagement with said hooked portion of said clip, and an electrical connector disposed at a front side of said insert and electrically connectable to the electrical connector of said bluetooth adapter.