Mobile telephone

• US 9,716,782 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2016
• Issued: 07/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Finewell Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Finewell Co., Ltd., ROHM Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hosoi, Hiroshi, Hosoi, Yoji, Morimoto, Masashi, Tanaka, Masahide
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzalez, Amancio
• Application Number:
  US15/054,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20160205233A1
• Time in Patent Office: 515 Days
• Field of Search: 4555756
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0281 for providing single handed use or left/right hand conversion
• 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 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72478 for hearing-impaired users

Abstract

A mobile telephone includes a cartilage conduction unit for making contact with the ear cartilage. The cartilage conduction unit is provided to at least one of two corner parts at an upper side of the mobile telephone. The mobile telephone can include a surface of an outer wall and a cartilage conduction vibration source arranged inward from the surface of the outer wall, the vibration of the cartilage conduction vibration source being transmitted to the surface of the outer wall, wherein when the surface of the outer wall is brought into contact with at least a part of the ear cartilage around the entrance part to the external auditory meatus without making contact with the auricular helix, the sound pressure inside the external auditory meatus at about 1 cm from the entrance part of the external auditory meatus has an at least 10 dB increase compared to the non-contact state.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone comprising a cartilage conduction unit for making contact with ear cartilage, the cartilage conduction unit being provided to at least one of two corner parts at an upper side of the mobile telephone, wherein a corner part of a chassis of the mobile telephone is the cartilage conduction unit, and vibration of the cartilage conduction vibration source is transmitted to the corner part by having one part of a cartilage conduction vibration source supported on the inside of the chassis in the vicinity of the corner part, and by causing another part thereof to vibrate unrestrictedly.

2. The mobile telephone according to claim 1 wherein a respective cartilage conduction unit is provided to each of the two corner parts at the upper side of the mobile telephone.

3. The mobile telephone according to claim 1 wherein the cartilage conduction vibration source is supported by the cartilage conduction unit so that a primary vibration direction of the cartilage conduction vibration source is perpendicular to any one of an upper surface, side surface, or front surface of the chassis of the mobile telephone.

4. The mobile telephone according to claim 1 wherein a circuit for the cartilage conduction vibration source is supported inside the chassis as a vibration unit integrated with the cartilage conduction vibration source.

5. The mobile telephone according to claim 1 wherein a part of the cartilage conduction vibration source to which an electrical terminal is not provided is supported inside the chassis, and another part to which the electrical terminal is provided is made to vibrate unrestrictedly.

6. A mobile telephone comprising a cartilage conduction unit for making contact with ear cartilage, the cartilage conduction unit being provided to at least one of two corner parts at an upper side of the mobile telephone, wherein a part of a cartilage conduction vibration source is supported inside an elastic body, and an exterior of the elastic body is arranged at a corner part of a chassis of the mobile telephone as the cartilage conduction unit.

7. A mobile telephone comprising a cartilage conduction unit for making contact with ear cartilage, the cartilage conduction unit being provided to at least one of two corner parts at an upper side of the mobile telephone, wherein the cartilage conduction unit is provided to each of the two corner parts at the upper side of the mobile telephone, and wherein each of two end parts of a cartilage conduction vibration source is respectively supported inside a pair of elastic bodies, and an exterior of each of the pair of elastic bodies is respectively arranged at two corner parts at the upper side of the mobile telephone as the cartilage conduction units.

8. The mobile telephone according to claim 7 wherein an elastic body is arranged at each of two corner parts at the lower side of the mobile telephone and are configured, together with the pair of elastic bodies arranged at the two corner parts at the upper side of the mobile telephone, so as to attenuate a collision from an external unit with the four corners of the mobile telephone.

9. The mobile telephone according to claim 7 wherein the cartilage conduction vibration source is supported so that a primary vibration direction thereof is orthogonal to any one of a front surface or an upper surface of the chassis.