Patent ID: 8078241
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: B60R,H04M

Abstract:
1. A universal console connectable to a vehicle's electrical system and operable with different specific portable telephones of which each has a set of electrical connection points in its own grid pattern and each has its own scannable product-specific code that identifies the specific grid pattern of electrical connection points associated with that particular telephone, comprising: a. a holder adapted to receive and hold different ones of said telephones, b. an electronic scanner capable of reading the product-specific code on each of said different portable telephones when it is viewed by said scanner, c. a computer controller electrically coupled to said scanner and having a memory containing data of grid patterns of said different telephones corresponding to said product-specific codes thereon, d. an electrical contact box mounted to said holder, e. a plurality of electrical contacts in said contact box, with selected ones of said electrical contacts being positionable between, f. a drive unit controlled by said computer controller that selectively positions said electrical contacts in said contact box into a grid pattern that electrically matches the grid pattern of connection points of said received portable telephone for connection therewith when said portable telephone is inserted into said holder and for operating said portable telephone and console together.