Hand-free apparatus
AssigneeHosiden Corporation
InventorsTomohiko Kamimura, Satoru Fujiwara, Koji Nasu, Shingo Sato
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Abstract
A hand-free apparatus having improved portability is disclosed. The apparatus includes an apparatus body including a transmitter and a receiver, an input/output cable connected with the transmitter and the receiver and extending outside from the apparatus body, a cable case incorporating a cable spool capable of taking up the cable and a retaining member capable of detachably retaining the apparatus body on the cable case. The apparatus body when retained by the retaining member extends along a peripheral face of the cable spool.
Claims13
A portable hand-free apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus body including, a transmitter and a receiver, the apparatus body further including an arm member having a longitudinal direction, with the transmitter being disposed at one end and the receiver at the other end of the longitudinal direction;
- an input/output cable connected with the transmitter and the receiver and extending outside from the apparatus body;
- a cable case, the cable case incorporating a cable spool rotatable in a first direction about an axis thereof for taking up the cable and rotatable in a second direction contrary to the first direction for feeding the cable out of the cable case, the cable case further incorporating an urging mechanism for urging the cable spool to be rotated in the first direction;
- wherein the cable case comprises a front face, a rear face and right and left lateral faces with a smaller width than the front and rear faces, and wherein a retaining portion is provided on one of the right and left lateral faces for detachably retaining the apparatus body, the retaining portion being dimensioned so that the width of the arm member is coexistent within the width of the retaining portion when the apparatus body is retained by the retaining portion;
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- an attaching device disposed on the rear face of the cable case for detachably securing the cable case to a user.
A portable hand-free apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus body comprising an elongated arm member having first and second ends, the body comprising a transmitter disposed in the first end and a receiver disposed in the second end;
- an input/output cable connected with the transmitter and the receiver and extending outside from the apparatus body;
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- a cable case, the cable case comprising;
- spaced apart front and rear faces, the front and rear faces coupled to at least first and second opposing lateral faces, the first and second lateral faces having a width that is smaller than a width of the front and rear faces;
- a retaining portion on one of the first and second lateral faces, the retaining portion adapted for detachably retaining the apparatus body and being dimensioned so that the width of the arm member is coexistent within the width of the retaining portion when the apparatus body is retained by the retaining portion;
- a cable spool rotatable in a first direction about an axis thereof for taking up the cable and rotatable in a second direction opposite to the first direction for feeding the cable out of the cable case;
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- an urging mechanism for urging the cable spool to be rotated in the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.