Scanner assembly with removable shock mount

• US 10,248,822 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2017
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Rueblinger, Gregory M., Stang, Jean-Pierre, Charpentier, Anthony Raymond
• Primary Examiner(s): Marshall, Christle I
• Application Number:
  US15/626,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20170286734A1
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1658 related to the mounting of internal components, e.g. disc drive or any other functional module
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/183 Internal mounting support structures, e.g. for printed circuit boards, internal connecting means for buses G06F13/409
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0703 the battery being onboard of a handheld device, e.g. a smart phone or PDA
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10881 constructional details of hand-held scanners
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0017 with operator interface units

Abstract

An indicia scanning assembly having a housing with a shock mount receiving space; and an elastomeric scan engine receiving shock mount positioned in the shock mount receiving space. The scan engine receiving shock mount has a first end with a scan engine receiving space.

Claims

1. An indicia scanning assembly, comprising:

a housing having a shock mount receiving space;

a scan engine receiving shock mount positioned in the shock mount receiving space, and having a first end with a scan engine receiving space, and an opposite second end with a scanning window receiving space; and

a scan engine securing cap, positioned at the first end, covering and sealing the scan engine receiving space.

2. The indicia scanning assembly of claim 1, wherein the scan engine receiving space and the scanning window receiving space together form a passageway having a separating bracket positioned between the scan engine receiving space and the scanning window receiving space.

3. The indicia scanning assembly of claim 1, further comprising a scanning window positioned in the scanning window receiving space at a predetermined angle to the scan engine.

4. The indicia scanning assembly of claim 1, further comprising a scan engine positioned in the scan engine receiving space.

5. The indicia scanning assembly of claim 1, wherein the scan engine receiving shock mount is made of a shock absorbing elastic material.

6. The indicia scanning assembly of claim 1, wherein the scan engine securing cap comprises a connecting cable receiving channel through which a connecting cable extends from a scan engine to a printed circuit board.

7. The indicia scanning assembly of claim 1, wherein the housing includes:

an upper housing; and

a lower housing having an inner surface and an outer surface.

8. The indicia scanning assembly of claim 7, wherein the lower housing includes a battery receiving space positioned on the outer surface or inner surface.

9. The indicia scanning assembly of claim 7, further comprising a printed circuit board positioned between the lower housing and the upper housing, and electrically connecting the battery to the scan engine.

10. The indicia scanning assembly of claim 9, wherein the scan engine securing cap comprises a connecting cable receiving channel through which a connecting cable extends from the scan engine to the printed circuit board.

11. A removable scan engine receiving shock mount, comprising:

an elastomeric body having a first end with a first scan engine receiving space;

an opposite second end having a scanning window receiving space; and

a scan engine securing cap, positioned at the first end, having a second scan engine receiving space, to receive the portion of the scan engine positioned outside the first scan engine receiving space.

12. The removable scan engine receiving shock mount of claim 11, further comprising a scan engine positioned in the first and second scan engine receiving space.

13. The removable scan engine receiving shock mount of claim 12, wherein the scan engine comprises a scan engine printed circuit board.

14. The removable scan engine receiving shock mount of claim 11, wherein the second scan engine receiving space receives at least one of the scan engine printed circuit board, an electrical connector and a connecting cable.

15. The removable scan engine receiving shock mount of claim 11, wherein the scan engine securing cap further comprises a connecting cable receiving channel.

16. The removable scan engine receiving shock mount of claim 11, wherein the elastomeric body is elastomerically biased against the scan engine.

17. The removable scan engine receiving shock mount of claim 11, further comprising a scanning window positioned in the scanning window receiving space at a predetermined angle to the scan engine, and wherein the elastomeric body is elastomerically biased against the scanning window.

18. The removable scan engine receiving shock mount of claim 11, wherein the scan engine receiving space and the scanning window receiving space together form a passageway having a separating bracket positioned between the scan engine receiving space and the scanning window receiving space.

19. The removable scan engine receiving shock mount of claim 15, further comprising a baffle post, the baffle post configured to divide the passageway into an emitter sub-passageway and a receiver sub-passageway.

20. The removable scan engine receiving shock mount of claim 11, wherein the scan engine securing cap is made of a shock absorbing elastic material.