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US 8,014,836 B2Granted
Telephone apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsToshiharu Konomi, Yoshikazu Okada
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Abstract
Telephone apparatus in that a front cover 3 and a rear cover 4 are combined with each other to form a main body 2, and various components are provided in the main body 2. The front cover 3 includes a transmitter 5, an operating unit 6, a display unit 7, and a receiver 8 from the bottom of the main body 2. In the front cover 3, a main tone hole 85 is provided in the vicinity of a speaker 82, and a sub-tone hole 86 is provided below the speaker 82.
Claims13
A telephone apparatus comprising:
- a transmitter to which a voice spoken by a caller is input;
- a receiver to be placed close to an ear of the caller;
- a speaker that is provided in the telephone apparatus, a front face of the speaker being opposed to said receiver, and a sound being output from the front face of the speaker;
- a first tone hole that is provided in said receiver, and allows the sound output from the front face of the speaker to be emitted to the outside of the telephone apparatus;
- a first path that guides the sound output from the front face of the speaker to the first tone hole;
- a second tone hole that is provided at a position separated from the first tone hole;
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- a second path that guides the sound output from the front face of the speaker to the second tone hole extending along the first path;
- wherein the first path and the second path have a common region, and
- wherein the second tone hole is separated from the position of the speaker in the direction of the transmitter.
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A telephone apparatus comprising:
- a case which is a housing of the telephone apparatus,
- wherein the case includes:
- a transmitter to which a voice spoken by a caller is input;
- a receiver to be placed close to an ear of the caller;
- a speaker that is provided on the rear side of the receiver such that a front face of the speaker is opposed to a rear side of the receiver through a first predetermined chamber interposed therebetween;
- a main tone hole that passes through the case from the first chamber to the receiver;
- a sub-tone hole that is formed in the case at a position separated from the main tone hole;
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- a propagative second chamber formed inside the case, that communicates with the sub-tone hole extending from the first chamber, and
- wherein a sound output from the front face of the speaker is emitted to the outside of the telephone apparatus through the main tone hole and the sub-tone hole, and
- wherein a path from the speaker to the main tone hole and a path from the speaker to the sub-tone hole have a portion of the first chamber as a common region, and
- wherein the sub-tone hole is separated from the position of the speaker in the direction of the transmitter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.