Mobile telephone integration system

• US 9,350,839 B2
• Filed: 11/17/2014
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Rast, Oliver, Hartmann, Torsten, Trifunovic, Sinisa, Lachnitt, Jens
• Primary Examiner(s): Vuong, Quochien B
• Application Number:
  US14/542,922
• Publication Number:
  US 20150141087A1
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 455/90.3, 455/556.1, 455/557, 455/575.1, 455/575.9
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers

Abstract

A mobile telephone integration system including an adapter having a main body and a clip which, from an edge of the main body, projects, in a clamping position under prestress in the direction of the bearing surface, over the bearing surface such that a mobile telephone can be pushed into a holding position between a free end of the clip and the bearing surface. A noise-generating means generates a warning noise when the clip is deflected in the opening direction into an overload position by virtue of a rotation process in which the clip is moved out of its release position owing to an increased action of force in the opening direction. The clip pivots back into the release position again by virtue of a return rotation process in which the clip is moved from its overload position owing to an action of force in the closing direction.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone integration system comprising:

a holding apparatus, the holding apparatus being fastened to a vehicle, and

an adapter, the adapter being detachably held on the holding apparatus, the adapter comprising;

a bearing surface, it being possible for a mobile telephone to be placed on the bearing surface,

a main body, and

a clip which, from an edge of the main body, projects, in a clamping position under prestress in the direction of the bearing surface, over the bearing surface in such a way that a mobile telephone can be pushed into a holding position between a free end of the clip and the bearing surface,

the mobile telephone being fixed in the holding position between the clip and the bearing surface by the clip which presses onto the mobile telephone in such a way that said mobile telephone is held in the holding position even when the vehicle is being driven,

the clip being one of arranged in a rotationally fixed manner on the main body and the prestress of the clip being generated by elastic deformation of the clip, and the clip being arranged in a pivotable manner about a rotation axis on the main body and the adapter further comprising a clamping means which is arranged between the main body of the adapter and the clip and generates the prestress,

a noise-generating means generating a warning noise when the clip is deflected in the opening direction into an overload position by virtue of a rotation process in which the clip is moved out of its release position owing to an increased action of force in the opening direction, and

the clip being pivoted back into the release position again by virtue of a return rotation process in which the clip is moved from its overload position owing to an action of force in the closing direction.

2. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of the noise-generating means and a further noise-generating means generates an acknowledgement noise when the clip is turned back, in the case of which the clip is moved from its overload position owing to an action of force in the closing direction.

3. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the clip is at an angle of from 25°

to 50°

in relation to the bearing surface in the release position.

4. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the clip is at an angle of from 25°

to 40°

in relation to the bearing surface in the release position.

5. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the clip is at an angle of from −

10°

to +10°

in relation to the bearing surface in the clamping position.

6. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the clamp is at an angle of more than 40°

in relation to the bearing surface in the overload position.

7. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a latching force, with which the clip engages into and, respectively, out of the overload position, is at least twice as large as a latching force with which the clip is latched into and, respectively, out of the release position.