User interface substrate for handset device having an audio port

• US 8,619,067 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2007
• Issued: 12/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Emmert, Steve C., Boos, John P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kevin M
• Application Number:
  US11/851,673
• Publication Number:
  US 20080019502A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,307 Days
• Field of Search: 345/107, 381/386, 381/388, 455/566, 200/310, 200/61.01
• US Class Current: 345/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/026 Details of the structure or mounting of specific components
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/03 Constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. telephone hand-sets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/035 Improving the acoustic characteristics by means of constructional features of the housing, e.g. ribs, walls, resonating chambers or cavities
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof by improving visibility H04M1/22

Abstract

A substrate (56) for a handset device defines at least a portion of an audio port (274) and may include a keypad contact array (108) on the substrate (56) and a display electrode pattern (604) on the substrate (56). A display (52) is coupled to the substrate and is configured to at least partially surround the audio port portion on the substrate. In addition, in one example, the substrate (56) for a handset device (10) may include a first surface and a second surface. A keypad contact array (108) and a display electrode pattern (604) may be included on the first surface (96) of the substrate (56). The display (52) may be operatively coupled to the display electrode pattern (604).

Claims

1. A substrate for a handset device comprising:

at least a portion of an audio port defined by the substrate and being through the substrate; and

a display operatively coupled to the substrate wherein the display is configured with an opening to at least partially surround the audio port portion on the substrate.

2. The substrate of claim 1 wherein the display is an electrophoretic display.

3. The substrate of claim 1 wherein the portion of the audio port is comprised of a plurality of openings through the substrate.

4. The display of claim 2 wherein the display has at least a portion curved around the audio port.

5. A handset device comprising:

a housing and substrate within the housing comprising;

at least a portion of an audio port defined by the substrate and being through the substrate; and

a display operatively coupled to the substrate wherein the display is configured with an opening to at least partially surround the audio port portion on the substrate.

6. The handset device of claim 5 wherein the display is an electrophoretic display.

7. The handset device of claim 6 comprising a speaker positioned adjacent to the portion of the audio port and wherein the portion of the audio port is comprised of a plurality of openings through the substrate.

8. The handset device of claim 6 wherein the display has at least a portion curved around the audio port.

9. The handset device of claim 7 comprising a keypad contact array operatively coupled on a same side of the substrate as the display.

10. The handset device of claim 9 further comprising a display electrode pattern operatively coupled to the substrate and wherein the electrophoretic display is laminated with the display electropattern.