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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Junji Hatamura, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 9/00 ;
Abstract
In a facsimile machine when the speakerphone key is depressed (S YES) and a call signal from some other telephone is not arriving to the facsimile machine (S NO), a speaker is made ON and the microphone M is made OFF (S ). When at least one key of a dial key group is depressed (S YES) and the telephone line is connected to a telephone of the other end (S YES), the microphone M is made ON while the speaker is maintained as being ON (S ).