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Self-locking clip mechanism and mobile device holder incorporating the same

  • US 10,422,474 B2
  • Filed: 12/21/2017
  • Issued: 09/24/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A clip for coupling a portable computing device to a shopping cart, the clip comprising:

  • an inner sleeve, wherein the inner sleeve partially encircles and applies a force to a tubular element of the shopping cart; and

    an outer sleeve coupled to the inner sleeve, wherein the outer sleeve partially encircles the inner sleeve and couples the inner sleeve to the tubular element of the shopping cart, wherein one of the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve includes a protrusion that mates with a groove in the other of the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve for locking the inner sleeve in the outer sleeve, the inner sleeve further including a interlock slide that extends from a region of the inner sleeve not encircled by the outer sleeve for communicating with a mobile device cradle, the portable computing device coupled to the mobile device cradle.

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