Appeal No. 2000-0807
Application No. 08/971,647
1. A wrist-borne radiotelephone set comprising:
A. a case coupled to a strap adapted to engage the
wrist on a hand of a user whereby the strip then overlies an
inner side of the wrist and the case an outer side thereof;
B. a miniature microwave transceiver housed in the
case having an audio input and an audio output to provide two-way
mobile telephone communications;
C. a microphone mounted on the strap and connected to
said audio input whereby when the hand is raised to a position at
which the microphone on the strap engaging the wrist is then
adjacent the mouth of the user, voice messages from the user may
then be transmitted; and
D. an earphone mounted within a finger thimble and
connected by a cable that is retractable within the case to said
audio-output, the microphone reproducing telephone voice messages
received by the transceiver; said cable when retracted in the
case then retaining said thimble against a side of the case
whereby to operate the radiotelephone, the thimble is pulled away
from the side of the case and fitted onto a finger of the hand,
the hand then being raised to a position at which the thimble
carrying the earphone can be inserted by the finger in an ear of
the user, at which position the microphone is adjacent the mouth
whereby the user can speak into the microphone and listen through
the earphone, said finger thimble having the earphone mounted
therein being dimensioned to be insertable into the ear to
effectively shield the ear from extraneous sounds whereby what
the ear hears is only sound from the earphone, said finger of the
hand being an index finger, and said finger thimble being
dimensioned to conform to the index finger so that it is
insertable into the ear of the user.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Blonder 5,239,521 Aug. 24, 1993
Saksa 5,659,611 Aug. 19, 1997
Claims 1 through 12 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Saksa in view of Blonder.
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