Portable wireless communication device

• US 8,311,595 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2010
• Issued: 11/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takatsuka, Susumu, Taniguchi, Hiroyuki, Takanashi, Shin, Naruse, Tetsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Doan, Phuoc
• Application Number:
  US12/787,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20100311475A1
• Time in Patent Office: 902 Days
• Field of Search: 455/100, 455/575.1, 441/89, 250/370.07
• US Class Current: 455/575.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/18 Telephone sets specially adapted for use in ships, mines, or other places exposed to adverse environment H04M1/19 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/047 Vibrating means for incoming calls
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

A portable wireless communication device includes a case having a waterproof structure and floating on water, an operation portion arranged in a front face of the case; and a wireless communication processing portion arranged inside the case, wherein a position of the center of gravity in the case is shifted to a rear face side opposite to the front face with respect to a center of the case, in a state where all components including the wireless communication processing portion are housed.

Claims

1. A portable wireless communication device comprising:

a case having a waterproof structure and the case capable of floating on water;

an operation portion arranged in a front face of the case; and

a wireless communication processing portion arranged inside the case,

wherein a position of a center of gravity in the case is located on a rear face side opposite to the front face with respect to a center position of the case where all components including the wireless communication processing portion are housed, wherein when the case floats on the water, the rear face side is in the water and the front face side is upward.

2. The portable wireless communication device according to claim 1, further comprising a display portion arranged in the front face of the case.

3. The portable wireless communication device according to claim 1, further comprising an antenna connected to the wireless communication processing portion,

wherein the antenna is placed inside the case at a location higher than a water surface when the case floats on water.

4. The portable wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the rear face side of the case is thicker than the front face side, whereby the position of the center of gravity in the case is shifted to the rear face side with respect to the center of the case.

5. The portable wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the case includes an internal case housing the operation portion and the wireless communication processing portion, and an external case housing the internal case and having a waterproof structure.

6. A portable wireless communication device comprising:

a case having a waterproof structure;

a wireless communication processing portion arranged inside the case;

a control portion setting operation modes of the device to a mode selected of a normal mode and a water activated mode; and

a sensor arranged in the case and detecting if the case is under water or on water,

wherein the control portion sets the water activated mode when the sensor has detected that the case is under water or on water, and the control portion sets the normal mode when the sensor has not detected that the case is under water or on water.

7. The portable wireless communication device according to claim 6, wherein the control portion outputs a ring alert, which notifies of an incoming call or receipt of a message in wireless communication, in a state different from that in the normal mode when the water activated mode is set.

8. The portable wireless communication device according to claim 6, further comprising a vibrator notifying of an incoming call or receipt of a message in wireless communication by vibrating the case,

wherein the control portion enables the vibrator to be vibrated in a state different from that in the normal mode when the water activated mode is set.

9. The portable wireless communication device according to claim 8, wherein predetermined ripples are generated on water by the vibration of the vibrator in the water activated mode.

10. The portable wireless communication device according to claim 8, wherein convex portions or concave portions are continuously arranged on a predetermined face of the case, and

wherein the case floating on water is rotated or progressed in a predetermined direction by vibrating the vibrator in the water activated mode, in a state where the face with the convex portions or the concave portions is towards underwater.

11. The portable wireless communication device according to claim 6, further comprising an illumination portion illuminating a predetermined position of the case,

wherein the control portion changes an illumination state in the normal mode and an illumination state in the water activated mode.