A telephone system on a vehicle

Abstract

Abstract A telephone system on the vehicle comprises a detachable handset (13) including a microphone (26) and speakers (28), a pad (12) positioned near a vehicle driver for containing the detachable handset, an amplifiers for amplifying a voice signal from the microphone (31), a position detector for detecting a distance between the handset and the pad, and, a gain controller for controlling a gain of the amplifiers in response to the distance detected by the position detector. When the handset is contained in the pad, the position detector detects that the handset is positioned near the pad. At this time, the gain controller increases the gain of the amplifiers, and consequently, the voices from the vehicle driver is clearly received. Therefore, a vehicle passenger especially the driver can use the telephone system under grasping a steering wheel with both hands. When the handset is put off from the pad, the position detector detects that the hand set is positioned remotely from the pad. At this time, the gain controller decreases the gain of the amplifiers, and consequently, the vehicle passenger except for the driver can use the telephone system as same as a telephone system in a home.

Inventors

• 👤 Katsuo Suzuki
• 👤 Kazuyuki Umebayashi

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