Terminal for a telecommunications switching system having an additional keyboard and/or visual display

US4782522A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Telenorma Telefonbau und Normalzeit GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Kramer · Lindlar, DE
• Gerhard Sussner · Meerholz, DE
• Wolfgang Girscher · Scheinfeld, DE
• Karl-Heinz Niederhofer · Frankfurt, DE
• Werner Beck · Weyhe, DE
• Bernd Ogorczyk · Karben, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 23, 1987
• Grant date: Nov 1, 1988
• Expiry date: Jan 23, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04M1/0237
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A terminal of a telephone switchboard installation with one dialing and one service and/or input keyboard and one or more indicator device(s) and a cradle for the hand set. The terminal includes, on the upper side of the terminal a sliding part, which is formed by the upper side which accommodates the keyboards and sometimes includes an indicator device. In one position, the sliding part operationalizes an additional keyboard or indicator device which is located beneath it. This additional keyboard may be designed as a targeted dialing key set, an alpha-numerical input keyboard, etc., and in addition, the keyboard may be replaced with a bank of lamps indicating lines in use.