Illumination – Sound equipment illuminator – Telephone
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-23
2001-05-01
Sember, Thomas M. (Department: 2875)
Illumination
Sound equipment illuminator
Telephone
C362S109000, C362S119000, C362S253000, C362S457000, C362S458000, C343S721000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06224225
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Mobile phones are now very popular among the general consumers to provide convenient communications. The mobile phones even have been classified by differently shaped appearances, such as cute model, streamline model, avant-garde model, etc., to meet the consumers' demands. To meet the diversified appearances of mobile phones, many peripheral equipment and/or parts of mobile phones, such as the antenna thereof, are also uniquely designed.
Some of the commercially available mobile phones are so designed that the antennas thereof are removed and replaced by light-emitting antenna heads A to indicate in-calls by emitting light.
FIG. 1
illustrates an example of such light-emitting antenna head A. As shown, the antenna head A includes a base A
1
on which a light-emitting diode A
4
and a circuit board A
5
are mounted, and a simple cover A
3
in general geometrical shape for housing the base A
1
and the light-emitting diode A
4
and the circuit board A
5
. The base A
1
has an integrally formed lower bolt A
2
for directly screwed onto a mobile phone B. Whereby, when the mobile phone B receives any in-coming call, the antenna head A emits light to indicate an in-call. Such light-emitting antenna head A creates a visual entertainment for users and is widely welcomed by general consumers. And, the covers A
3
originally having only simple geometrical shapes are now changeful in shape to meet different consumer demands.
The differently shaped covers A
3
are fixedly connected to the bases A
1
during manufacture. Consumers select the antenna head A showing their most favorite design and directly screw the antenna head A to the mobile phone B.
A problem found with these differently shaped antenna heads A is the cover A
3
might not be consistent with the mobile phone B in their facing direction after the antenna head A has been fully screwed onto the mobile phone B. Some of the angularly deviated antenna heads A even make the mobile phones B looking ugly. This is because forces applied to screw the antenna heads A to the mobile phones B vary with users. It is therefore tried by the inventor to develop an improved light-emitting in-call indicator to eliminate the drawbacks existing in the conventional antenna heads.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone in-call indicator that does not have the problem of an angularly deviated cover to spoil an integral appearance of the mobile phone.
To achieve the above and other objects, the mobile phone in-call indicator of the present invention mainly includes a lower base having a lower bolt part and an externally threaded head, an upper base screwed to the threaded head of the lower base and having a light-emitting diode and a circuit board mounted thereto, and an ornamental cover rotatably mounted around the upper base in a tight fit manner to cover the upper base. The in-call indicator is mounted on the mobile phone by directly screwing the bolt of the lower base to an antenna of the mobile phone. In case the in-call indicator is mounted onto the mobile phone with the ornamental cover facing toward a direction not exactly the same as that of the mobile phone and therefore resulting in an inconsistent appearance, the ornamental cover may be adjusted in its direction simply by separating the upper base from the lower base and turn the upper base relative to the ornamental cover.
REFERENCES:
patent: 6039459 (2000-03-01), Chang
Negron Ismael
Rosenberg , Klein & Lee
Sember Thomas M.
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