JPH0222585B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to a car telephone.

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, automobile telephones, which can be used to make calls in the same way as regular telephones, are becoming popular. This car phone is usually fixed at a fixed location inside the car and cannot be easily moved. This is because it is necessary to prevent the car telephone from falling from its installation location due to vibrations caused by starting, accelerating, or stopping the car, or by road conditions, or by shocks caused by an accident.

Figure 1 is a schematic plan view showing the general installation locations of car telephones in the interior of a car, where 1 is the driver's seat, 2 is the steering wheel, 3 is the passenger seat, 4 is the rear seat, and the car phone is installed in the central dashboard. It is often fixedly installed at position A on the bottom, position B on the central arm, or position C on the armrest.

By the way, in many cases, the driver himself/herself dials a car phone and makes a call while driving, so the driver must concentrate on the dial button especially when dialing. It is necessary to pay attention to this, and therefore the driver must drive safely and operate the dial accurately at the same time, which puts a heavy burden on the driver.

Therefore, in order to reduce the burden on the driver, it has been considered to improve operability by making the dial operation part for performing dial operations independent of the main body of the car phone, which performs voice calls and displays incoming calls.

Figure 2 is a plan view showing an example of a car telephone in which the dial operation part is independent from the telephone body.
6 is a telephone main body, and 6 is a dial operation section.The telephone main body 5 is equipped with a telephone handset 7 and a speaker (not shown) for indicating an incoming call.The dial operation section 6 has a dial button 8, a dial number display 9, and a function button. 10 and function display button 11
etc.

Therefore, according to this configuration, by attaching the dial operating section 6 at a position near the driver's seat where the driver can easily operate the dial, it is possible to improve the dial operating efficiency for the driver.

However, in this case, although it is easy for the driver to operate the dial, it is difficult for people in the passenger seat or the rear seat to operate the dial, so in some cases they may have to ask the driver to operate the dial. This brings about the inconvenience of not having to do so.

Therefore, in order to eliminate this inconvenience, for example,
It is possible to install one car phone in a position that can be operated by a person in the passenger seat or rear seat, but it is very uneconomical to install multiple expensive car phones, and moreover, multiple cars Installing a commercial telephone set is often difficult in terms of securing an installation location and construction work such as cable wiring.

The purpose of the present invention is to solve these drawbacks, and for this purpose, two dial operation units are provided independently and connected in parallel to one telephone body, and the telephone body is mounted on the central hump. The driver and other passengers can each This allows easy dial operation.

To explain the following with reference to the drawings, FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view showing a state in which a car telephone according to an embodiment of the present invention is installed in a car interior, and 1 is a driver's seat;
2 is a steering wheel, 3 is a passenger seat, and 4 is a rear seat. The car phone of this embodiment has a phone main body 5.
The telephone body 5 is fixed on the central hump between the driver's seat 1 and the passenger seat 3, and one dial operating section 6a is installed at a position in front of the left side of the driver's seat 1, and the other dial operation section 6b is installed at a position behind the passenger seat 3, for example.

Therefore, according to this configuration, the driver can easily operate the dial using the dial operating section 6a, and the person in the rear seat 4 can easily operate the dial using the dial operating section 6a.
dial operation can be easily performed using the dial 5, and telephone calls can be made using the handset 7 of the telephone main body 5.

As explained above, the present invention improves the ease of dial operation for both the driver and other vehicle occupants by comprising one telephone main body and two dial operation sections connected in parallel. Therefore, compared to, for example, installing two car phones, there is no need to install an additional phone unit with a handset, incoming speaker, etc., which is cheaper, and requires less space and wiring. This has the effect of being advantageous in terms of construction work, etc.

In addition, car telephones have only been in use for a short period of time, and therefore there are many aspects that are still unknown as to which mode of use is most suitable for each user. This is very advantageous and will help popularize car telephones.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a schematic plan view showing a general installation location of a car phone in a car interior, Fig. 2 is a plan view showing an example of a car phone, and Fig. 3 is a car phone according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view showing a state in which the vehicle is installed in a vehicle interior. 1...driver's seat, 3...passenger seat, 4...rear seat, 5...
Telephone body, 6... dial operation section, 7... dial button.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a car phone consisting of a telephone main body equipped with a handset and a dial operating section that is independent of and electrically connected to the telephone main body, the number of dial operating sections is two, and both dial operations are performed. are connected in parallel to the telephone main body, and the telephone main body is fixed on the center hump between the driver's seat and the passenger seat in the automobile, and one dial operation section is placed in a position in front of the left side of the driver's seat, and A car telephone characterized in that the other dial operation part is installed behind the driver's seat or passenger seat.